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Whilst the Australian Museum had considered the needs of young children when designing interactive areas for some time, it was not until the late 1990's that we had a designated area for pre-schoolers.

Celebrating our nations' volunteers this week - let's celebrate the Museum's first official volunteer - 20 year-old Hereward Kesteven.

On 12 May, we celebrate Edward Lear's 200th birthday. Best known for 'The Owl and The Pussycat' he was also a natural history artist.

Julie, Louise and Ron are experienced volunteers who provide insight into why they devote their valuable time, knowledge and skills volunteering weekly on this project. Currently, we have over 60 committed volunteers who digitise valuable entomology specimens/labels, malacology specimens

The introduction of plant and animal species around the world has lead to the destabilisation and even collapse of some ecosystems. But are all the effects of introduced species negative?

In 1864 The Australian Museum was the venue chosen for a reception for the visit of H.R.H. the Duke of Edinburgh. Why wasn't it held?

Some of the aims of our annual Fashion Less Waste design competition are revealed...

For our Deep Oceans exhibition Tina Mansson is painting the formations of the ocean floor onto the Museum’s ‘Globe’...

The stunning video below, shows large leptocephali filmed by divers at three locations within the Indonesian Archipelago from 2009 to 2011. 

What a great way to end the week, just finished a shoreline survey at Horseshoe Bay in Bermagui.

Everything came together today for the Bermagui Bioblitz, 5 school joined forces to survey 3 coastal ecosystems.

The second stop on my south coast journey was Tathra Public school where I visited with year 5 and 6 students.

A beautiful but mysterious notebook has been transferred to Archives from the Fish section.

Roger Lee from the Diving Organisation of University of Technology Sydney (DOUTS) captured this terrific footage of Coffin Rays mating.

Yet another piece of the deep oceans puzzle is coming together at the Australian Museum.