Megafauna
This event has finished
Megafauna ended on Sunday 6 August 2023.
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Current events
![A Walk in the Bush exhibition](/botanic-gardens/files/cache/exhibitions/PorcelainArtistsExhibitionTile-170x170.jpg)
A Walk in the Bush
4 to 29 September 2024, 9.30 am - 4.30 pm — Visitor Centre
Featuring works by ACT Porcelain Artists, A Walk in the Bush celebrates the Australian Bush and the beauty and diversity within.
![Botanica: Spirits & Food Festival](/botanic-gardens/files/cache/do/ANBG-botanics-tile-170x170.png)
Botanica: Spirits & Food Festival
Sat 7 & Sun 8 September 2024
The festival showcases producers focusing on using Australia’s diverse native flora.
![Fuzz Berry by Amy Jones, Erindale College 2018, Year 7-12, Secondary Colour](/botanic-gardens/files/cache/Fuzz-Berry-Amy-Jones-Tile-170x170.jpg)
Schools Photographic Competition 2024
Until Friday 30 August 2024
Friends ANBG Photographic Competition is open to students attending Australian schools or colleges.
See ancient creatures come to life in the Gardens with visual theatre masterminds Dead Puppet Society.
Following their migratory route to seasonal feeding grounds, three ancient diprotodons have become lost in the city and have found their way to the Australian National Botanic Gardens. As they try to make their way in the altered landscape, these visitors from a forgotten time created by visual theatre masterminds Dead Puppet Society provoke a reflection on how humans have changed this island and its creatures, and the importance of the Gardens for plant and animal conservation.
Megafauna will take up residence in a prehistoric installation in the Visitor Centre when not roving through the Gardens.
From 1 – 7 July they will rove the Gardens near the Friends Lawn and Pollen Café.
- Saturday 1 July – 10.00am, 11.15am, 12.30pm
- Sunday 2 July – 10.00am, 11.15am, 12.30pm
- Tuesday 4 July – 10.00am, 11.15am, 12.30pm, 1.45pm, 2.30pm, 3.15pm
- Wednesday 5 July – 10.00am, 11.15am, 12.30pm
- Thursday 6 July – 10.00am, 11.15am, 12.30pm
- Friday 7 July – 1.30pm, 2.15pm, 3.30pm
They will be roving during the night at all MEGAfauna afterDARK sessions. Bookings essential.
Dead Puppet Society is an Australian based production and design house creating deeply imaginative visual theatre, public art, and sculpture, combining timeless craftsmanship with cutting edge technology.
Supported by ACT Government, Friends of the Australian National Botanic Gardens and Ovolo Nishi.
Wheelchair accessible.
Ovolo Nishi Fun Unconventional and Never Boring at Ovolo Nishi
Book and travel until 30 July 2023. Use promo code ‘Megafauna23’ to receive 15% off accommodation. T&Cs apply. Subject to availability. Book here.
When
1 July – 6 August 2023, 9:30am – 4:30pm
Where
Australian National Botanic Gardens