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of a truncated stepped pyramid set on a square podium with upper and lower terraces. The two north and south facing porticos each incorporate eight Greek Doric columns supporting a pediment with allegorical sculpture in the tympana. The external walls and steps are a light grey granite from Tynong, the internal walls are a light beige sandstone from Redesdale and the sixteen black marble monolithic columns of the Ionic order in the sanctuary were quarried at Buchan.

    English sculptor Paul Raphael Montford designed the four external corner buttress groups of the statuary and the two external tympana; the twelve frieze panels in the sanctuary are the work of Australian sculptor Lyndon Dadswell.

    High up inside the Sanctuary is a small opening contrived so that at the eleventh hour on the eleventh day of the eleventh month of each year, a ray of sunlight strikes through to the Stone of Remembrance set into the floor of the Sanctuary.

 In addition to the main structure, the Shrine also includes the North Forecourt, the Man with the Donkey statue, the Water Trough Memorial and the Macpherson-Robertson Fountain.

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 The act of building memorials as sites of collective mourning has taken place across towns and cities in Australia since the Sudan War in 1885. The first monumental memorials were proposed after World War I, with notable examples appearing in the city centres of major capital cities. The ANZAC Memorial in Hyde Park, Sydney, and the Shrine of Remembrance in the Domain Parklands, Melbourne, are comparable examples to the Memorial in Canberra in terms of architectural grandeur and presence in the landscape.

 AWM is comparable to the ANZAC Memorial in Hyde Park in that it was designed to serve both symbolic and functional purposes. However, it is distinguished by the breadth and scale of the AWM collection and exhibitions, and the mission to represent the experiences and sacrifice of all Australians who served.

  National Institutions in Canberra

 Australia's cultural institutions serve to preserve and promote Australian national culture and sense of identity.

 Canberra is the designated location for the nation's many cultural institutions.

        National Museum of Australia

   Figure 3.53 National Museum of Australia at Acton Peninsula. (Source: Department of Communication and the Arts)

   The National Museum of Australia (NMA) is located on an 11-hectare site on Acton Peninsula in central Canberra. The museum was established through the National Museum of Australia Act 1980 (Cth) and its role is to develop and maintain the National Historical Collection for the benefit of the nation.15 The collection consists of objects acquired by transfer from other government agencies, through donation, bequest, and by purchase, and encompasses Australian historical material including the world's largest collection of bark paintings and the