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Museullaneous
Agile development for museums
We've been thinking lots about agile / rapid development models as we begin to delve into the wonderful world of apps. But, what is it and what does it mean for museums?
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Science
Rare books come up for air
When we talk about objects we don't just mean dinosaur skeletons, taxidermied animals or gemstones...
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At the Museum
Jurassic Lounge tweets
At the final Jurassic Lounge for the season last night there were an amazing array of tweets. Here's some of them.
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Science
Whale Shark in Botany Bay - April 2011
A friend just called me to say that she had heard that a Whale Shark was swimming in Botany Bay. "No way" was my initial reaction. Apparently members of the Abyss Scuba Diving encountered the fish this morning and have posted images on their Facebook account.
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Museullaneous
Short notes from Transformations Conference
Here are my quick notes from this conference held in Melbourne on 14-15 April.
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Museullaneous
Linkasaurus #6
'Curated' for you: the latest museum, web and tech news from across the net
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Museullaneous
Lord Howe Island connections
This week I have been bringing together some research on the Museum's scientific links with Lord Howe Island.
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Museullaneous
Asparagus fern on Lord Howe Island
The earliest known photo showing the noxious weed Asparagus fern growing on Lord Howe Island in 1923.
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At the Museum
App ideas
Yesterday’s Jurassic Lounge was –yet again a great night out. You guys enjoyed the music, explored the exhibitions, got Birds-of-Paradise-face paintings... and... Gave us some great feedback! If the museum would develop a Jurassic Lounge app.. What information would it cont
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Science
Fin forensics and the fish collection
The Australian Museum's Dr Rebecca Johnson appeared in the Catalyst Fin Forensics story on 7 April 2011. The show focused on the the practice of shark finning and highlighted how the museum's Genetics Unit were instrumental in a successful legal prosecution. The Australian Museum's 'fishos
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Museullaneous
Plunging the depths of the deep ocean
Asking questions is what we do in Audience Research. We do it for lots of reasons, and all of them deepen or broaden our understanding of what we are researching. How fitting then that we recently conducted research about the deep ocean.
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At the Museum
What you had to say about the deep ocean
In the recent deep ocean frontend survey people were asked the two questions below. Variety is the spice of life!
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Museullaneous
Mysterious? Adventurous? Muddy?
To prepare for an exhibition next year we recently conducted a frontend survey about the topic “deep ocean”. This research was conducted using Survey Monkey, an online survey tool, and after two weeks 792 people had responded.
