• What is From the Floor?

    From the Floor is a blog all about the programs we run at the Museum's College Street site.

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  • In the news - December

    A couple of interesting news stories have raised the interest of the exhibitions and web teams over the last few days - Dinosaurs, and Drop Bears.

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    Winton trackway
  • Museum Mystery of the Week!

    Can you guess what our obscure looking museum exhibit is in 'Museum Mystery of the Week'?

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  • Live Exhibit updates in Exhibit A

    Welcome to Exhibit A: inside our exhibitions.  

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  • A Sticky Situation

    On a street post in Darlinghurst a young female Titan Stick Insect, measuring 21cm in total, was found and taken to the Australian Museum. The insect must have become separated from its gumtree, unable to fly it wandered to the nearest structure and climbed to the top.

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    Stick insect, feeding.
  • Sticky Situation

    On a street post in Darlinghurst a young female Titan Stick Insect, measuring 21cm in total, was found and taken to the Australian Museum. The insect must have become separated from its gumtree, unable to fly it wandered to the nearest structure and climbed to the top. This is a tail I

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  • Mount Merapi: it’s Australia’s ‘fault’

    Not all exhibitions at the Museum take months or years of planning. Sometimes we have a day!

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  • QR Codes at the Museum

    This week at the Australian Museum we have decided to go down the QR Code lane and place some extra interaction on a few of the Museum's favourite specimens.

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    Squirrel Gluider specimen.
  • Quest for the perfect indoor pinhole camera

    How do you create a pinhole camera that can be used inside a room with no windows or natural light and have the ability to demonstrate its own workings?

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  • Dinosnore Feedback

    Here's what one of our Australian Museum Members had to say about their Dinosnore experience.

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    Dinosnore Promo images
  • Front-end evaluation: Pacific Consultations

    As part of the front-end planning for a Pacific Cultures exhibition, four separate consultations with Pacific Island communities were conducted in June 2009 to inform the development of the concept brief. These were comprised of two workshops with secondary school students.

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    Community Consultation Pacific Galleries Post Cards, 17th June 2009
  • Sustainable Exhibition Design Workshop

    The second Sustainable Exhibition Design Workshop was held in Sydney on Wednesday 21 and Thursday 22 April 2010.The workshop allowed museum exhibition and graphic designers to share sustainable design solutions with an emphasis on practical advice and case studies and including a focus on l

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    Sustainable exhibition design for museums
  • Renovation!

    After nearly a quarter of a century the Museums Mineral Gallery has had a face lift.

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    Minerals
  • Football, Biodiversity and Secrecy

    We have had a very busy week - lots happening - all over the Museum...

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    Biodiversity
  • New Exhibition - Tiwi Footy

    Our next upstairs temporary show looks at something unusual for the Australian Museum - sport.

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