Running until 19 February 2012, Activate–Cultivate presents artworks made in Darwin about Darwin. The works, all drawn from the Museum's permanent collection, are posters created between 1997 and 2002 by the local open-access printmaking studio Red Hand Prints.

The posters offer a brief but perceptive take on local issues and local concerns, and provide an historical record of political ideas, social events and artistic concerns in a community known for its transience. Opening on 25 November, the travelling exhibition, Yalangbara: art of the Djang'kawu, presents the mythological, environmental and historical significance of the major site Yalangbara, in north-east Arnhem Land.

This is the first Indigenous art exhibition to focus upon a single clan's ancestral land. It is also the first major survey show for the talented Marika family, one of Australia's foremost artistic dynasties.

'A door is what a dog is perpetually on the wrong side of.'

Ogden Nash