A Virtual Treasure Trove

A collection of Christmas cards donated to the Museum of Australian Democracy traces the prime ministership of Malcolm Fraser.

Treasure Trove: Lantern slides of Aboriginal missions.

A collection of lantern slides from the 1930s offers a rare glimpse into daily life on Aboriginal missions in remote Australia.

A rarely seen tapestry by the great architect and designer Le Corbusier is on public display for the first time at Parliament House.

A near-empty tin of baby powder that consoled prisoners of war working on the Burma-Thailand railway in WWII is believed to be the only object collected for its smell in the vast collection at the Australian War Memorial.

Treasure Trove: Miranda's Dress

An 1859 photograph of Tom Wills, the father of Australian Rules Football, on display at the National Portrait Gallery embodies his "beautiful, but sad" life story.

In August 1946, a 12-year-old boy made international headlines and captured the hearts of Australians after arriving in Darwin, barely alive, as a stowaway in the undercarriage of an aeroplane.

A fish regarded as a pest in Australia is celebrated in a rare Tiffany table lamp on display at the National Gallery in Canberra.

International strongman Eugen Sandow wowed Australian audiences during his 1902 Tivoli tour.

A 19th century scrapbook compiled by Lily Parkes offers an insight into the family life of the Father of Federation Sir Henry Parkes.

The voice of a young Anzac who was killed in France in 1916 lives on in a recorded message he sent his family for Christmas.

A painting at Parliament House salutes the civil rights stand of Australian sprinter Peter Norman at the 1968 Olympics.

A diary kept by student protester Ann Curthoys on the 1965 Freedom Ride is in the collection of the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies.

The National Film and Sound Archive uncovers the story of Stuart Booty, sound recording pioneer and entrepreneur who invented a new style of gramophone.