Blog archive: Museullaneous
-
Museullaneous
WeDigBio – a four-day, worldwide transcription blitz
How DigiVol is encouraging citizen scientists to participate in digitising natural history collections.
-
Museullaneous
baya-ngara: read/speak knowledge
Native Legends is considered the earliest published piece of writing by an Aboriginal author.
-
Museullaneous
AMplify ep 38: Michael Mel
West Pacific Collection Manager Michael Mel takes Kim McKay back to his homeland in the Eastern Highlands of Papua New Guinea.
-
Museullaneous
In our hands
The new year is always a good time to revisit past goals and realise that it's up to us to make the change we'd like to see around us.
-
Museullaneous
The story of baby Lyuba
How did Lyuba, a 42,000 year-old baby mammoth journey from the Siberian Ice Age to her current location on display at the Australian Museum?
-
Museullaneous
Sculptor of the dead
Not for the faint of heart, Preparator Katrina McCormick talks taxidermy and skeleton prep at the Australian Museum.
-
Museullaneous
Growing food to building exhibitions – a colorful journey
The Museum's magnificent heritage streetscape easily detracts from the triangular shaped brick building behind the Yurong Street wall.
-
Museullaneous
AMplify episode 37: Live at the AM – Journeying to Jordan
Journey to the ancient Middle Eastern cities of Pella, Petra and Jerash with a seasoned archaeologist as your guide.
-
Museullaneous
The 2000s - Mr Blobby and the Information Superhighway
With a face only a mother could love.
-
Museullaneous
1990s: Museum scientists are always on the lookout for interesting new discoveries
The first step towards successful conservation is to know the creature exists.
-
Museullaneous
1980s: Repatriation - a significant step towards the future
In 1981 Anthropologists celebrated the ‘return to Vanuatu of an important ceremonial slit drum … one of only five surviving in the world’.
-
Museullaneous
1970s: Reaching Out
What's got four wheels, is stuffed with life and provides an important service to the community?
-
Museullaneous
1960s: The Times They Are A Changing
Bob Dylan’s famous anthem ‘The times they are a changin’ recorded in 1963 – wasn’t about the Australian Museum but it could have been.
-
Museullaneous
Facelift for the Future
Conservators, designers and historians prepare for the opening of 200 Treasures of the Australian Museum in the Westpac Long Gallery.
-
Museullaneous
AMplify Episode 34: Laura McBride - Creative Producer, Indigenous Programs
CEO Kim McKay catches up with Laura McBride, AM's Creative Producer - Indigenous Programs during NAIDOC Week 2017.
