Blog archive: Museullaneous
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Making land work?
Two pieces of sandalwood from Vanuatu provide a key for understanding the cultural ties between indigenous people and their land.
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Jurassic Lounge: A Case Study
The Jurassic Lounge event can be seen as an ideal model for successfully attracting the young adult audience to museums. A case study was conducted on the event for the audience research study "Engaging Young Adults in Museums".
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The Survey: What young adults want in museums
To determine the needs and wants of young adults in museum visiting for the audience research study; Engaging Young Adults in Museums; a short ten question online survey was created and distributed to young adults aged 18-26 years via social media websites such as Facebook.
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Attempts of museums around the world to capture the young adult audience
What are museums around the world currently doing to capture the young adult audience? The second topic investigated in the audience research study "Engaging Young Adults in Museums".
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The Barriers of Museum Visiting For Young Adults
The key barriers preventing young adults from attending museums was the first topic investigated in the audience research study. Engaging Young Adults in Museums.
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Engaging Young Adults in Museums: Reason for Research
Engaging Young Adults in Museums an audience research study aimed at discovering the reasons why young adults don't visit museums.
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Social Musings: Stories from August
What have we been up to on Facebook and Twitter? Online Producer Michael Hugill cuts out the stats and pastes in the more interesting social media stories (in a picture book format no less).
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Desirable Specimens
Recent work on the papers of William Henry Hargaves conducted by the Museums Rapid Digitisation Project volunteers has highlighted the intriguing life and times of William Henry Hargraves.
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Social Musings: Stories from July
What's been happening on the Museum's Facebook and Twitter accounts? Online Producer Michael Hugill cuts out the stats and pastes in some of our more interesting social media stories (in a picture book format no less).
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Cataloguing the Egyptian Collection before digitisation
For many years Museum scientists have had access to copies (microfiche and more recently digital) of the important specimen and object Collection Registers. What was it like before copies were available?
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Museums Orchestrating Diversities for Harmonious Change
Papers from the Alma S. Wittlin and Stephen E. Weil Memorial Lectures held during the 22nd General Conference of ICOM, 2010 now online.
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E-merging technology & museums: an additional perspective on online producing
As cultural institutions become increasingly aware of their need to extend outreach and communication activities in the digital realm, museums require professionals with more composite profiles, combining mediation abilities and technological competence.
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Transit of Venus
On Wednesday 6 June, 2012, we marvel at an astronomical rarity; the transit of Venus across the face of the sun.
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Remembering The Art of Eric Carle exhibition
Whilst the Australian Museum had considered the needs of young children when designing interactive areas for some time, it was not until the late 1990's that we had a designated area for pre-schoolers.
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Our First Volunteer - Hereward Kesteven
Celebrating our nations' volunteers this week - let's celebrate the Museum's first official volunteer - 20 year-old Hereward Kesteven.
