Audio 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!
Nocturnal Worlds
Prepare to descend into a world of sonic wonder with Nocturnal Worlds: journeys through nature for sleep and relaxation, an Audiocraft original podcast created with the Australian Museum.
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Live at the AM
Listen to recent audio recordings of lectures, talks and conversational events held at the Australian Museum.
Learn about Five Things
Five Things is a series of talks by Australian ecology experts that offers real-world steps you can take to boost biodiversity and to make your community a haven for native plants and wildlife.
Listen to these fascinating Live at the AM recordings!
Explore podcast
A new podcast from the Australian Museum that takes you behind the scenes of expeditions, exhibitions and the lab to show you the world of Australia’s first museum. Discover how our scientists are using the collection’s 22 million objects and specimens to safeguard the extraordinarily rich biodiversity of our planet.
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.
Lunchtime Conversation Series
The Australian Museum Lunchtime Conversation Series is an illuminating program of talks with some of Australia's best-known innovators, revolutionaries and underdogs.
Guests are selected from the 100 people of the 200 Treasures of the Australian Museum exhibition in the Westpac Long Gallery. Some have now passed, and some continue to challenge the status quo – all embody a peculiarly Australian spirit and drive to make a difference despite adversity.
2021 series
2019 series
2018 series
HumanNature Lecture Series
HumanNature is a landmark lecture series at the Australian Museum that offers a range of talks by leading Australian and international scholars in the Environmental Humanities. Drawing on insights from history, literature, philosophy, anthropology and related disciplines, it explores the role that the humanities can play in addressing the most pressing environmental challenges of our day.
HumanNature is jointly funded and coordinated by the University of New South Wales, Macquarie University, Western Sydney University, the University of Sydney and the Australian Museum.
HumanNature 2019
HumanNature 2018
AMplify podcast
AMplify brings you up close and personal with the life and work of the Australian Museum’s scientists and cultural experts, in conversation with Director and CEO Kim McKay.
Live at the AM offers you a front row seat at presentations by leading scientists, explorers, writers and thinkers.
Listen to the AMplify podcast on Soundcloud or subscribe on iTunes.
