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It’s official – the Australian Museum has more visitors than ever before!

Ever since I became the Australian Museum’s (AM) Director and CEO, I’ve wanted to see the AM full of happy visitors bubbling with life - and it’s brilliant to have some good news to share.

11 August 2022

2022 Australian Museum Eureka Prizes finalists

The Australian Museum has announced the 45 finalists shortlisted for 14 Australian Museum Eureka Prizes.

27 July 2022

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Australian Museum opens Burra: a ground-breaking, interactive learning and play space

Burra brings together First Nations knowledge systems and Western science through fun play spaces that show the importance of caring for Country - opens FREE to the public Saturday 2 July.

1 July 2022

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Brian Sherman AM presented with Lifetime Achievement Award, August 2022

Philanthropist Brian Sherman AM, honoured with Australian Museum award for contribution to scientific research

The 2022 Australian Museum Research Institute (AMRI) Lifetime Achievement Award was presented to Brian Sherman AM at a ceremony at the Australian Museum on Tuesday night.

4 August 2022

State of the Environment Report

The recent release of the State of Environment (SOE) Report by Australian Minister for the Environment and Water, Tanya Plibersek, has highlighted the urgent key issues facing our environment – many of which the Australian Museum (AM) is focussed on.

28 July 2022

Video capture of the Octopus Pair at Lizard Island.

News from LIRS: Octopus pair at Lizard Island

Each month, a selected blog from Lizard Island Reef Research Foundation (LIRRF) is featured at the AM. LIRRF supports scientific research & education at the AM’s Lizard Island Research Station on the Great Barrier Reef. This month, we feature: Octopus pair at Lizard Island.

26 July 2022

Sydney Science Trail on Breakfast with James Valentine ABC Radio Sydney
15 Aug 2022
Eureka Prizes finalists announced for 2022 from an array of our top research minds Australian Farmers Journal
27 Jul 2022
Stockland teams up with the Australian Museum Retailbiz
26 Jul 2022
Thousands of frogs are dying in Australia. Scientists aren’t sure why. The Washington Post
22 Jul 2022
Frog pandemic second wave has experts baffled The Sydney Morning Herald
16 Jul 2022

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Coppery Ring-Tailed Possum - the world's biggest ring-tailed possum.

New Guinean flightless mammals: Overlooked diversity

An international project combines community ecology, phylogenetics & morphology to uncover and describe the cryptic species of Mount Wilhelm, the highest mountain of Papua New Guinea. Hundreds of New Guinean flightless mammals have been sampled – visiting researcher František Vejmělka tells us more.

18 July 2022

Gondwanan Temperate Rainforest is wet, cool, and lush green.

Unravelling the frog diversity of Gondwanan rainforests

Continuing research in rainforests of northern New South Wales and southern Queensland has recently resulted in the scientific description of two unique frog species.

24 June 2022

A green tree frog (Litoria caerulea) being attacked by mosquitos.

It’s CSI – frogs edition and we need you!

Check your frog photos for frog-biting flies and submit them to our study to help us develop a new, DNA based frog detection method.

21 June 2022

A First Nations lens on glass in Australia

As a Waanyi descendant, I am proud to be a part of the longest living cultures in Australia and have had the opportunity to highlight a small part of First Nations knowledges and their place in National Science Week 2022.

By Jesse King

Nights at the Museum 23 June 2022 - Wan Sol Moana (One Ocean) - Pasifika

Youth Reconnection Project 2022

The Australian Museum's Pasifika team have re-trialed the Pacific Youth Reconnection Project to evaluate how we can develop and expand these cultural workshops for Pasifika youth today.

28 July 2022

Kiribati guests standing with the Kiribati body armour displayed in the 200 Treasures of the Australian Museum.

Happy Independence Day Kiribati

The Australian Museum celebrates alongside Kiribati as they celebrate Independence Day on 12 July.

12 July 2022

Dr Rocky de Nys and Sam Elsom from Sea Forest

Explore podcast episode 3: Reasons for hope

Tune in to this episode as we look to science, innovation and First Nations knowledges to learn how one young Australian is detoxifying the ocean and atmosphere, and what the world’s oldest link between humans and the land can teach us about managing the environment.

26 May 2022

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The Talbot Oration: Inspiring Visions for a Climate Solution

Author and social researcher Rebecca Huntley explores how images can hold the solution to a better climate future in the Australian Museum’s Talbot Oration.

Live at the AM
2 June 2022

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