These colour booklets are designed to engage young children aged 6-12 with selected objects and images in the Gallery’s exhibitions and permanent galleries. They combine looking and interpreting, drawing and writing activities to enable children to explore key themes and ideas while in front of artworks. Extension ideas for activities at home and in the classroom are also included to extend children’s experience beyond the Gallery and to encourage and develop a love of art.

• Picasso

  Discover the genius of Picasso and his art. Go on a journey through Picasso: masterpieces from the Musée National Picasso, Paris. Look, draw and have fun.

• Contemporary galleries

  Have fun exploring contemporary art in the collection and make some art of your own.

• The First Emperor

  Go on a journey through the exhibition The First Emperor: China’s entombed warriors. Look, discover and have fun.

• Chinese collection

  Have fun exploring Chinese art in the collection and make some art of your own

• art + soul

  Go on a journey through the Yiribana Gallery of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander art and discover the artworks in the art + soul exhibition

• Grand Courts

  Have fun exploring the European, Australian and Aboriginal art in our 19th-century Grand Courts and make some art of your own.

• Rupert Bunny

  Discover the people, fashion, stories and colours painted by Rupert Bunny (1864–1947).

• Paths to abstraction

  Explore how artists changed our way of seeing the world through abstract colour, mood and shape.