Explore Magazine

The Australian Museum's biannual Members' magazine continues a 90-year tradition of publishing behind-the-scenes news and features at Australia’s first museum.

Updated

24/07/20

Current issue

Explore – Autumn 2019

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Records of the Australian Museum

Issues of the Records of the Australian Museum are published three times a year and circulated to 84 countries. All that is published in print is, soon afterwards, also freely available online.

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Australian Museum Annual Reports

You can access Australian Museum Annual Reports from 1853 online.

Australian Museum magazines

There are issues of the Australian Museum Magazine from 1921.

Australian Natural History magazines

The issues of the Australian Museum Natural History magazines from 1962 are available.

Selected stories

Capturing Nature Australian Museum Archival Photographs

When photography came to the Museum

Curator Vanessa Finney describes how Capturing Nature reveals the pioneering art and science of photography at the Australian Museum

Andrew Trevor-Jones, citizen scientist for Australasian Fishes

Citizens rise!

The Australian Museum's citizen science projects are helping change the world for the better.

Dream weaver: a new collection of Maori Kete

Dream weavers: a new collection of contemporary Maori kete (baskets) acquired by the Australian Museum.

Rituals of Seduction: Birds of Paradise

This exhibition featured a selection of the Museum’s collections from the Southern Highlands, Eastern Highlands and Western Highlands, including a variety of human hair wigs, feathered headdress, judge wigs, shells woven aprons and shell forehead ornaments.

Past exhibition

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