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Museum staff reading lists
https://australian.museum/inside-out/reading-list/Find out our staff recommendations to read in isolation, and learn the story of the Australian Museum.
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Controversy in museums: a timeline
https://australian.museum/about/history/timelines/controversy-in-museums-a-timeline/This timeline first appeared in the Journal of Museum Education, Volume 23, No 3, 1998 and was co-edited by Maureen McConnell and Honee Hess. It is reproduced here with kind permission of the authors.
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Unsettled: Primary unit
https://australian.museum/learn/teachers/first-nations-learning-resources/unsettled-primary/Follow our unit to engage with the Australian Museum’s exhibition Unsettled and explore the ways we understand, remember and acknowledge our shared past in Australia.
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Investigating objects
https://australian.museum/learn/teachers/first-nations-learning-resources/investigating-objects/Make predictions about archeological sites and objects based on no historical context, and question your understanding and presumptions about our shared history.
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“Plague is present in Sydney” – How the 1900 bubonic plague outbreak compares to COVID-19
https://australian.museum/learn/news/blog/plague-in-sydney/A small pamphlet from the Australian Museum Research Library reveals the public health response to the 1900 bubonic plague outbreak in Sydney.
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A century plus of marineinvertivol
https://australian.museum/learn/news/blog/marineinvertivol/The year was 1994, Nelson Mandela was elected President of South Africa, Paul Keating was Australian Prime Minister and a remarkable association began in the Australian Museum Marine Invertebrates section.
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That's the spirit: a short history of wet specimen storage at the Australian Museum
https://australian.museum/learn/news/blog/wet-specimen-storage-spirit-house/Glass jars containing translucent creatures are a common sight at any natural history museum. But the highly flammable ethanol that preserves the specimens inside must be carefully stored to prevent the collections going up in flames.
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A Collection in search of a home
https://australian.museum/about/history/a-collection-in-search-of-a-home/The Museum occupied five different buildings before it finally came home to its current site.
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History of the Palaeontology Department
https://australian.museum/about/history/collections/history-of-the-palaeontology-department/The palaeontology collection is one of the oldest in the Museum and contains some of its greatest treasures.
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Historical artefacts collection
https://australian.museum/learn/collections/museum-archives-library/historical-artefacts-collection/Our collection of historical objects, memorabilia and artefacts help tell the story of the history and development of the Australian Museum.
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