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Museullaneous
Co-curation and the Public History of Science Workshop Part 1
Attending this workshop at the Science Museum, London. The aim is to create dialogue and debate and learn from each others' experience of co-curation as the Science Musuem moves into the next phase of gallery redevelopment. Here are my quick notes. There is also more on the workshop wiki:
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At the Museum
QR Codes at the Museum
This week at the Australian Museum we have decided to go down the QR Code lane and place some extra interaction on a few of the Museum's favourite specimens.
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Science
Welcome to the Lizard Island Research Station blog
Life at Lizard Island Research Station is never dull. Fabulous coral reef environment, exciting discoveries, interesting visitors, amazing natural events! This post includes giant clam spawning, just to get you started.
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Science
First terrestrial mammal recorded from Lizard Island
Tracks of a small mammal have been seen on several beaches at Lizard Island beaches since October 2009.
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Science
Grow a backbone!
Can you imagine living without the vertebrae in your neck? Surely no animal on earth has a backbone that doesn't connect with its skull. Think again ...
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Science
Flying foxes on powerlines
Keep an eye out for electrocuted bats on powerlines at this time of year.
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At the Museum
Quest for the perfect indoor pinhole camera
How do you create a pinhole camera that can be used inside a room with no windows or natural light and have the ability to demonstrate its own workings?
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Museullaneous
Developing Educational Strategies - some background stuff
I'm currently attending a workshop on developing educational strategies for museums in a rapidly developing part of the world. Here's some resources for background reading.
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Science
A fish that suckles its young
I just read an amazing web page about a fish that suckles its young while they are still inside the female's body.
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Education
Professor Stephen Heppell: Learning and technology Part 2
My second lot of quick notes from Stephen's parallel session at the Museums Australia 2010 conference. Note these have been cut and pasted from Twitter so are very brief.
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Education
Professor Stephen Heppell: Learning and technology
My quick notes from Stephen talk at the Museums Australia 2010 conference
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Science
What's in a name?
Arggghhhh! Nothing gets my goat more than reading a novel or a report that shows a scientific name with both the genus and species names with upper case letters or neither word in italics.
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Museullaneous
Natural history specimens as social media stars: Mr Blobby
Natural history specimens as social media stars? How (and why) did the Australian Museum get into the social media space and what are we doing there?
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Museullaneous
Kids Teaching Kids - Solutions in the Works
Kids Teaching Kids is an amazing program that places environmental solutions to kids, "our future." One of the founders of this program argued that famous phrase we have all heard when we were young "you are the future" with the question "why can't I be the futur
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Museullaneous
Value Packaging for Families
Families have a lot to consider before making the final decision to go to a museum. How do they make this decision? Why do they make this decision? The current strategy to appeal to an audience is by creating a two-way conversation between museum and visitor; however, this may not necessarily be
