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Museullaneous
Australian Museum Visitors: hobbies and interests
What other interests, hobbies, group memberships etc do our visitors have?
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At the Museum
What did visitors' say about the Body Art exhibition?
The Museum developed and hosted the Body Art exhibition in 2000 and 2002. We undertook several visitor surveys and here’s some of what visitors' had to say.
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Museullaneous
Museums and Web 2.0
Notes and links for a Masterclass I'm teaching on March 24, 2010, for University of Technology students.
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Science
Integrating taxonomy
Entomologist Dr Andrew Mitchell is looking to combine morphological and genetic approaches to taxonomy.
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Science
Sand paintings from Enga
Traditional culture meets modernism in new artworks from the highlands of Papua New Guinea, writes Dr Robin Torrence.
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Science
Trawling Antarctica for answers
An 8-week trip to Antarctica has returned excellent collections of bottom-dwelling invertebrate communities and valuable insights for sustainable fishing and conservation management of this vulnerable ecosystem, writes Museum Technical Officer Roger Springthorpe.
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Education
What's in the Box - 45 years on
Museum in a Box was developed 45 years ago and is the corner stone of the Australian Museum outreach program.
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Science
Plastiki heads to Oz
Early this morning our time the Plastiki Expedition left San Francisco on its journey to Sydney.
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Museullaneous
Visitors to the Australian Museum use social media
According to our latest visitor research conducted in January 2010, 57% of people that visited the Museum used a social networking site in the previous six months.
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Science
Barramundi mystery solved
The case of the mysterious appearance of Barramundi in Sydney Harbour has been solved.
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Science
School Veggie Garden
How to support the less fortunate in our communities by growing fresh veggies for them.
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Museullaneous
Web 2.0 for small and volunteer museums
I've been asked to speak at the 2010 Australian Maritime Museums Annual Conference on the topic of Web 2.0 for small and volunteer-run museums. On this page you can find my PowerPoint slides and various other relevant links.
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Museullaneous
ANZ Public Sector Summit 2010
Attending this two-day conference with a bunch of government folks to discuss all tings open government, Web 2.0 and innovation. It is being co-hosted by CISCO and the Centre for Social Impact. Here’s my notes from today’s session.
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Science
Plastiki – A solution to waste
One man’s environmental dream becomes a reality and he is educating the planet to consider waste as a resource. The Plastiki is history in the making!
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Museullaneous
Statement on Climate Change
In its role as a leading scientific institution, the Australian Museum recognizes that climate change poses a serious environmental, economic and social threat to our current way of life and to the security of future generations across the globe.
