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Australian Institute of Anatomy.16 The museum hosts permanent, temporary and travelling exhibitions, and provides education programs and classroom resources. In addition to housing the museum's collection, the NMA is also a popular event venue.

   In 1997, architects Ashton Raggatt McDougall and Robert Peck von Hartel Trethowan won the international design competition for the construction of the new museum. It was opened in 2001. As a postmodern structure, the museum sharply contrasts with most of Canberra's other, older national cultural institutions.

   The NMA is not included in any statutory heritage lists or registers.

National Archives of Australia

 Figure 3.54 National Archives of Australia. (Source: Abode Hotels)

 The National Archives of Australia (NAA) was established through the Archives Act 1983 (Cth) to preserve Australia's most valuable government records and encourage their use by the public, and to promote good records management by Australian Government agencies.17 The NAA is responsible for caring for the most significant records of the Australian Government, including those relating to Indigenous Australians, immigration and military service. The collection contains more than 40 million items—the biggest single body of records documenting the history of Australia.18

 The NAA is located in the East Block building in Canberra's National Triangle. The building was designed by government architect John Smith Murdoch as the Secretariat Building No. 1 (supporting the Provisional Parliament House) and constructed in 1925/1926. The NAA is one of the building's several tenants and has occupied the site since 1998.

 East Block is included in the CHL (Place ID: 105349) as a significant component of the Parliament House Secretariat Group and the National Triangle. The NAA's role is not a contributing factor in the place's significance.

  National Library of Australia

   Figure 3.55 National Library of Australia. (Source: NLA)

   The National Library of Australia (NLA) was established through the National Library of Australia Act 1960 (Cth), which sought to ensure that documentary resources of national significance relating to Australia and Australian people, as well as significant non-Australian library materials, are collected, preserved and made accessible.19 Currently, the NLA is the largest reference library in Australia and houses approximately 1 million collection items.

   The building is located in the National Triangle in central Canberra, on the southern shores of Lake Burley Griffin. The purpose-built library was constructed in 1968 in the Late Twentieth-Century Stripped Classical style using traditional materials such as marble, granite, bronze, slate and copper. The building was designed by Walter Bunning of the architectural firm Bunning and Madden, in association with T.E. O'Mahony.

   It is both a national landmark and a popular attraction.

National Film and Sound Archive

 Figure 3.56 Main entrance to the National Film and Sound Archive. (Source: NFSA)

 The National Film and Sound Archive (NFSA) was