• An Ode to the Scott Sisters

    The Museum's multi-talented Ukulele Group perform their ode to the art of scientific illustration...

    At the Museum
    scott
  • Tech changes museums?

    What's the latest from Mashable on museums and technology?

    Museullaneous
    Using Beacons at the Museum
  • DigiVol: Our first blog post

    The Rapid Digitisation Project (RDP), funded by the Atlas of Living Australia (ALA), makes label data accessible without needing to go to the physical collection.

    Science
    Achilus flammeus
  • Welcome to the Jungle - Day 6

    Mountains, monsoons and mosquitoes: highlights from amphibian biologist Dr Jodi Rowley's diary of her recent field trip to Central Vietnam.

    Science
  • Welcome to the Jungle - Day 5

    Mountains, monsoons and mosquitoes: highlights from amphibian biologist Dr Jodi Rowley's diary of her recent field trip to Central Vietnam. 

    Science
  • Unmasking Materials Conservation

    Our crack squad of conservators are busy preparing an amazing variety of masks for our upcoming display, Spirit Faces...

    At the Museum
    Sheldon Teare
  • Welcome to the Jungle - Day 4

    Mountains, monsoons and mosquitoes: highlights from amphibian biologist Dr Jodi Rowley's diary of her recent field trip to Central Vietnam. 

    Science
  • Coral Biodiversity Expedition #1

    Monitoring the relationship between coral and fish biodiversity is the focus of Dr Zoe Richards latest expedition to beautiful Lizard Island.

    Science
    Coral diversity, Great Barrier Reef
  • Welcome to the Jungle - Day 3

    Mountains, monsoons and mosquitoes: highlights from amphibian biologist Dr Jodi Rowley's diary of her recent field trip to Central Vietnam.

    Science
  • Welcome to the Jungle - Day 2

    Mountains, monsoons and mosquitoes: highlights from amphibian biologist Dr Jodi Rowley's diary of her recent field trip to Central Vietnam.

    Science
  • Welcome to the Jungle - Day 1

    Mountains, monsoons and mosquitos: Highlights from amphibian biologist Dr Jodi Rowley's diary of her recent field trip to Central Vietnam.

    Science
    Vietnam Field Trip 2011 #1b
  • Eureka! Triumph for Carbon Neutral Events

    Events, whether large or small, impact the environment; they consume a lot of resources and produce excessive waste. You can make any event carbon neutral by measuring its footprint and offsetting the impact of this through the purchase of carbon offsets.

    Education
    Charlie Prell - Sheep Grazier and Energy Farmer
  • The Scott Sisters' Notebooks Revealed #1

    Read selected extracts from the notebooks of the most famous natural history illustrators working in Sydney in the last decades of the 19th century...

    Museullaneous
    Scott notebook 1, pages 51 to 53 and pages 76 and 77
  • Scott sisters exhibition is now open

    Spring has come to Sydney, and the Scott sisters and their delicate, detailed, extraordinary butterfly and moth paintings are on show at the Australian Museum.

    Museullaneous
    Scott Sisters Exhibition Documentation 2017
  • QR Codes in 2011

    Where are we now with QR Codes in museum interpretation?

    Museullaneous
    Scan a QR code screen on the Whale Trail game