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About

We're the National Film and Sound Archive of Australia.
We are Australia's 'living' archive – the custodian of over 2.3 million audiovisual items that we collect, preserve, and share in many diverse ways.

Story

The NFSA is open Monday to Friday 9:00 am – 5:00 pm. We are also open Friday nights, weekends and public holidays for advertised events. See Events for details. Our Library is open Wednesday 2:30–4:30 pm.

We are Australia's 'living' archive – the custodian of over 2.3 million items that we not only collect, but preserve for future generations and share in many diverse ways.

The NFSA collection holds more than 2.3 million works, including films, television and radio programs, videos, audio tapes, records, compact discs, phonograph cylinders and wire recordings. It also encompasses documents and artefacts such as photographs, posters, lobby cards, publicity items, scripts, costumes, props, memorabilia, oral histories, and vintage equipment.

NFSA online community guidelines, legal and take down notices: https://www.nfsa.gov.au/corporate-information/legal-notices

Mission

The NFSA’s vision is to be Australia’s ‘living’ archive —relevant, engaging and accessible to the world.
Our reason for being is to develop, preserve and share Australia’s national audiovisual collection and to make it available to audiences worldwide for enjoyment, learning, insight and creativity.
Read more: https://www.nfsa.gov.au/about/corporate-information/publications/strategic-plan-2016-2020