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The Archives has launched an Australian Museum channel on Historypin to showcase our historic photo collections.

Edward Deas Thomson - the ideal public servant.

Imagine a mindless killing machine half the size of Botany Bay. It's not science fiction but reality for some places in the Torres Strait.

The day had started normally enough, sitting around the artists table at the Erub Erwer Meta art centre on Darnley Island...

As an intern with the Archives, I have been privileged to discover the amazing life and career of Marine Biologist, Isobel Bennett.

An office wall says a lot about the occupant and the organisation, especially if that occupant is the Director of the Australian Museum.

Our collection managers can't know everything, but part of their job is knowing who to ask when they don't have the answer.

After a successful week of sampling blennies on Moorea, we gathered our gear and boarded the ferry bound for the island of Tahiti.

Satellite transmitters will reveal the inner-city eateries and vacation escapes of Ibis birds.

A beautiful and expertly-flaked stone tool rescued from a house site opens up a world of meaning for a distant, poorly-known period.

Discovered in the cold, wet forest near the top of Mount Fansipan this little frog may already be in trouble.

Honeybees were introduced shortly after European settlement and now appear to be the only effective pollinators of a native plant species.

Our journey had a rocky start involving 5 airports, 7 busses and a ferry, so we arrived exhausted but relieved on the island of Moorea.

Among the marine invertebrate specimens in our collection are a number of Irukandji jellyfishes, a group of highly venomous sea creatures.

An introduction to the Balinese Calendar.