Description: Australia's most significant record keeper with files providing understanding about the nation's very beginning to its present. Indoor activity.

Price guide: Free entry

Phone: (02) 6212 3600

The National Archives of Australia is the nation's record keeper that holds millions of files - from paper files to film footage, sound recordings, electronic records, letters, maps and plans that document Australian history and shape its identity. All this sits on 350km of shelf space in its Parkes location in Canberra.

You can find out what's in the collection, find out how to use the archival records and explore a gamet of topics while you a researching Australia's history.

Documentation includes stories about Indigenous Australians, immigration, citizenship, war, sport, the arts, natural disasters, both ordinary and famous identities and public works.

The National Archives is proud of its partnership with Letters of a Nation - Australia's 200 most important letters that provides understanding about the nation's identity - which will be added to its collection.