Curated for the curious

Be inspired by our expeditions and the Australian Museum’s long history of research and discovery over the decades.

The Australian Museum's Unsettled exhibition

Unsettled is a First Nations-led and informed exhibition. Based on rigorous research, Unsettled gives visitors an insight into the lived experience of First Nations peoples over the last 250 years.

Virtual experience
Exhibition themes
References

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AMRI Seminars and Lectures

Leading Australian Museum scientists, affiliates and associates present their latest research and findings.

Seminars
Lectures
Video recordings

Charlie Prell - Sheep Grazier and Energy Farmer

Climate change solutions

There are technological, nature-based and community-based ways to help slow the progress of climate change and deal with its effects.

Technological solutions
Natural and community solutions

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Lord Howe Island expedition

Explore an island that has been frozen in time through the Lord Howe Island expeditions. Find out more about the research Australian Museum scientists are conducting on this mysterious island.

Lord Howe Island
Balls Pyramid
Research expedition

Asaro Mud Men from Papua New Guinea

Explore the culture surrounding the Mud Men of Asaro, from the Eastern Highlands of Papua New Guinea.

Holosa (ghost) Mud Masks
Performances

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E078218 canoe, bark, Hunter Valley, New South Wales, Australia.

First Nations watercraft culture

Dr Mariko Smith is a Yuin woman with Japanese heritage, First Nations Collections & Engagement Manager at the Australian Museum, and Honorary Associate at the University of Sydney.

By Dr Mariko Smith

Solomon Islands expedition

Travel deep into the cloud-covered forests to find the elusive monkey-faced bats, giant rats, snails, moths, birds and frogs of the Solomon Islands Archipelago.

Solomon Islands
Research expedition

The Scott Sisters Collection

With their collecting boxes, notebooks and paintbrushes, Harriet and Helena Scott entered the masculine world of science and became two of 19th-century Australia’s most prominent natural history illustrators.

History
Art of Science app

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Virtual autopsy

Follow a human autopsy process from start to finish including an external examination, opening the body, viewing internal organs, removing the organs and weighing them, removing the brain, replacing all organs and closing the body.

Step by step demonstration

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Discover our exhibitions online

Listen to the Treasures series

Join veteran journalist Charles Wooley and Australian Museum Director and CEO Kim McKay as they explore the astounding objects and specimens of the 200 Treasures of the Australian Museum exhibition, housed in the nation’s oldest museum gallery, the Westpac Long Gallery.

Treasures podcast ep 1: The first and finest gallery in the land

Step inside the Westpac Long Gallery - home of 200 Treasures of the Australian Museum.

Treasures podcast ep 2: The great gold nugget and the cricket stumps

In the early 1800s, Sydney was the kind of town where you might win and lose your fortune in a single day.

Treasures podcast ep 3: Charles Darwin and the curator’s chair

In 1874, Museum Curator Gerard Krefft espoused Darwin's theory of evolution. The Board of Trustees were less than impressed.

Treasures podcast ep 4: The strange obsessions of Australia’s greatest crab collector

In the 1940s, naturalist Mel Ward created the Gallery of Natural History and Native Art in the Blue Mountains, exhibiting some 25,000 crabs.

Treasures podcast ep 5: The last tiger

Charles Wooley reveals the tragic tale of the death of the last wild thylacine.

Bird-shaped pestle, Western Province, Papua New Guinea

Treasures podcast ep 6: The pestle that changed the world

The influence of this simple stone object stretched all the way to the Pacific, where this story takes a sudden, violent twist.

Treasures podcast ep 7: The platypus rug and the lyre bird

Kim McKay and Charles Wooley ponder the beautiful platypus rug and what it tells us about the changing attitudes towards our native fauna.

Treasures podcast ep 8: Life in the freezer

In our final episode, Charles and Kim uncover the stories behind objects used in Sir Douglas Mawson's Antarctic expeditions.

Hear more of our podcasts

Our podcasts take you behind-the-scenes of our collections, onto the floor in the galleries, and give you a front-row seat at our fascinating live events!

Explore & AMplify
Conversations with experts
Live talks

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