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At the Museum
Gerard Krefft: A Saga of Science and Scandal
On the 150th anniversary of his unceremonious ejection from the Australian Museum, Gerard Krefft's legacy is honoured in a fascinating discussion and hosted by renowned journalist and author Peter Fitzsimons.
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At the Museum
Eureka Talks Series: Antarctica
Explore the wonderful diversity of Antarctica and learn how experts are fighting to save this region from the devastating effects of climate change.
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Science
2024 Australian Museum Eureka Prizes finalists
The outstanding 55 finalists for the 2024 Australian Museum Eureka Prizes have been announced today and feature remarkable scientific endeavour and achievement from across the nation.
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AMRI
FrogID dataset 5.0: the largest source of Australian frog data ever released
Close to 800,000 Australian frog records now online and open access for conservation.
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AMRI
Communities on the front line during a frog conservation emergency
During the 2021 winter, frogs across eastern Australia experienced a mass mortality event. While we continue to investigate the cause and impact of these frog deaths, we need your help again this winter to report any sick or dead frogs.
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AMRI
Critical minerals - rare gems
The Australian Museum has recently acquired two examples of rare mineral species faceted as gemstones, Stibiotanatalite, antimony, tantalum, niobium oxide, and Tantalite-(Mn), manganese, tantalum oxide.
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At the Museum
Rare books: the Swainson collection
In 1858 the Australian Museum acquired William Swainson’s collection of books. The story behind the books and the man who collected them can now be explored in a new section of the AM website.
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At the Museum
The Talbot Oration: Taking Climate to the World’s Highest Court
Renowned Pacific climate champion, Cynthia Houniuhi, tells her story of fighting for change in the world's highest court at Australian Museum’s Talbot Oration.
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AMRI
Museum specimens untangle the confusing genetic patterns seen in north-west Australian rock-wallabies
Evaluation of DNA from historical specimens and modern museum samples has enabled an untangling of the complex evolutionary history of four species of rock-wallabies, which are distributed across the Kimberley and Top End.
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AMRI
What’s in a whistle? Your go-to guide for telling frog whistles apart
Citizen science data from the FrogID project helped document the distribution and advertisement call variability in five species of tree frog.
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At the Museum
Saturday Lecture Series: Battle of Kadesh
Macquarie University’s Associate Professor Boyo Ockinga explores how Ramses II turned a military disaster at the Battle of Kadesh into a public relations.
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At the Museum
Saturday Lecture Series: Monumental Architecture
Macquarie University’s Dr Gillian Smith celebrates the architectural enormity of the Ramesside period with her exploration of Abu Simbel, the Ramesseum & Luxor’s Karnak Temple Complex.
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AMRI
Museum genetics solves 88 year-old tree-kangaroo puzzle
An examination of DNA extracted from tree-kangaroo specimens in the Australian Museum collection has confirmed that the mysterious Dendrolagus deltae, described as a new species from southern New Guinea in 1936, is not a valid species but the result of some erroneous locality information.
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AMRI
Devastating coral bleaching in 2024
The fifth mass bleaching event on the Great Barrier Reef in the past eight years was declared in April 2024.
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At the Museum
Saturday Lecture Series: Ramses Street
Join archaeologist Candace Richards for the fifth of our Saturday Lecture Series, where we explore the entwined histories of Egypt and early modern Australia, in an effort to understand how Egypt’s cultural heritage found its way Down Under.
