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Jurassic Lounge tweets
At the final Jurassic Lounge for the season last night there were an amazing array of tweets. Here's some of them.
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App ideas
Yesterday’s Jurassic Lounge was –yet again a great night out. You guys enjoyed the music, explored the exhibitions, got Birds-of-Paradise-face paintings... and... Gave us some great feedback! If the museum would develop a Jurassic Lounge app.. What information would it cont
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What you had to say about the deep ocean
In the recent deep ocean frontend survey people were asked the two questions below. Variety is the spice of life!
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Meeting Delayed Due to Dancers
A discussion can't compete with drums... Huli Dancers from Papua New Guinea had come to meet the media a few days ahead of their first ever performance in Sydney.
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Wrapped in a Possum Skin Cloak by the Lake exhibition is launched
A cultural revival project and exhibition celebrating Aboriginal cloak-making ran until until 31 July 2011.
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Museum Mystery of the Week - Number Two
Museum mystery number two was found on a beach in Queensland by one of our visitors and caused quite a stir amongst staff!
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Oh my God, I saw a dinosaur...
On the night of last Tuesday's Jurassic Lounge visitors were asked to give their feedback. We put up some feedback forms where people could write their comments on. Also, we asked them specifically what they liked best about Jurassic Lounge. It worked out very well, we got some great feedback
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Planarian Worms
Once the wet weather starts, the Museum often gets inquiries about small, brightly coloured "snakes", invasions of "leeches", unusual "slugs" and similar queries - all relating to an animal which is actually none of these.
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Crested Katydid collected from Queensland
An uncommon species of insect has been collected by staff at the Santos Ballera gas plant in Queensland and sent it to the Australian Museum for identification.
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Up Close and Spineless – The photographers.
Here’s what past entrants had to say in 2009 about Up Close and Spineless. It’s consistent growth since 2002 highlights a real interest in getting up close with invertebrates.
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Weapons and Weaponry
Lately we’ve asked visitors what they would think about an exhibition about weapons. What would they like to see? What would be interesting to show? Are people interested in the technical aspects? Or would they like to discover how the weapons were used during wars and battles?
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Where is the Lounge?
Where is the Lounge? 6 College Street Sydney NSW 2010 - Late night openings at the Australian Museum, Tuesday 5:30pm - 9:30pm.
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'Small' fish make the big time
A leading international science magazine has recently featured the research of a team led by Museum scientist Jeff Leis on how tiny larval fishes survive and find a reef home in the big blue ocean.
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