Australian Museum
News Stories

Australian Museum CEO and Executive Director Kim McKay in conversation with the AM's Aboriginal Heritage Project Officer.

Fortieth anniversary of returning to her land (and water)

Could some aspects of the urban environment actually benefit plants and animals?

Honiara is gateway to almost 1,000 islands and a melting pot of people from across the Solomon Archipelago.

The AM's Digital Collections and Citizen Science manager speaks about the world-leading digitisation project, DigiVol.

Specialised tools made of obsidian were used for tattooing c.3000 years ago by early Pacific societies.

This years award goes to Professor Frank Talbot AM.

Last week sixty Year 4 students from Putney Public School came along to the Australian Museum to be part of the Big History Project.

An evening with celebrated explorer, scientist, communicator and former Australian of the Year.

Hitchhiking on turtles and ship hulls, some species of Podocerus know how to travel while others have gone unsampled for 150 years.

Are pieces of broken clay pots good for anything?

Celebrating half a century of polychaete research at the Australian Museum.

Could the odour emitted from a sample of a rhinoceros horn be enough to identify the species that it came from?

To the Collection Manager of the fourth largest type collection of fishes in the world, Sydney Harbour is a marine jewel.

Kate Brandis, along with ANSTO and UNSW, are protecting our wetlands, by X-raying one feather at a time.