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The Museum's Early Days
https://australian.museum/about/history/the-museums-early-days/Australia's oldest museum was founded in 1827. Under the dedicated curatorship of German emigrant Gerard Krefft in the 1860s, the Museum came to be recognised as a truly 'scientific' establishment.
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Nancy Adams
https://australian.museum/about/history/people/nancy-adams/Nancy spent her entire working life in the Entomology Department of the Museum.
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Historic expeditions
https://australian.museum/learn/collections/museum-archives-library/historic-expeditions/Curiosity and adventure have inspired our field trips since our first organised expedition in 1831.
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The Scott Sisters Collection
https://australian.museum/learn/collections/museum-archives-library/scott-sisters/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.
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Australian Museum Archives
https://australian.museum/get-involved/staff-profiles/australian-museum-archives/The Museum Archives and Research Library cares for the Museum’s institutional memory and its historic natural history book and journal collections dating from 1836.
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The Sarah Stone Collection
https://australian.museum/learn/collections/museum-archives-library/the-sarah-stone-collection/A fascinating collection of original watercolours by a talented female natural history artist.
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Walter Lawry Waterhouse Photograph Collection
https://australian.museum/learn/collections/museum-archives-library/photographic/walter-lawry-waterhouse-photograph-collection/A collection of glass plate negatives created by WL Waterhouse during his time with the Methodist Mission School at Davuilevu, Fiji, between 1906 and 1908.
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Frank Hurley Photograph Collection
https://australian.museum/learn/cultures/pacific-collection/photographic/frank-hurley-photographs/Over 1000 images created by the professional photographer and film maker Frank Hurley in Papua New Guinea from 1921 to 1923.
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Reverend George Brown Pacific Islands Photographs
https://australian.museum/learn/cultures/pacific-collection/photographic/reverend-george-brown-pacific-islands-photographs/Over 900 glass plate negatives taken by George Brown during his work for the Methodist Mission in the Pacific between 1875 and 1905.
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Charles Marshall Papua New Guinea Photographs
https://australian.museum/learn/cultures/pacific-collection/photographic/charles-marshall-papua-new-guinea-photographs/A large collection of exploration and mining images taken by Charles Marshall and Mick Leahy in the Highlands of Papua New Guinea between 1927 and 1936.
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