The National Museum of Australia stands on Acton Peninsula on Lake Burley Griffin in Canberra. Howard Raggatt was design architect, working for Ashton Raggatt McDougall. The federal government funds and runs it under a 1980 act. Bovis Lend Lease completed the building, and it opened on March 11, 2001. The article says it shows some Deconstructivist traits and fits Charles Jencks's new paradigm.
The exterior is covered in anodized aluminum panels, many with braille text. Its concept is a knotted rope of intertwined Australian stories. The Uluru Axis walkway aligns with Uluru. A 2013 administration wing is clad in colored tiles in a QR code pattern. The article records plagiarism claims over the zigzag plan, which Raggatt called a quotation.
The collection holds over 210,000 objects, including Phar Lap's heart. The article gives no hours.
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