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USA Trip 2010: Impressions from a land far far away
https://australian.museum/learn/news/blog/usa-trip-2010-impressions-from-a-land-far-far-away/

Been travelling in the States. First to Washington to present the George Brown Goode Memorial Lecture at the Smithsonian (talk titled How Web 2.0 is Changing the Nature of Museum Work), then to the American Association of Museums Conference in Los Angeles.

Museum visitors and learning identities
https://australian.museum/learn/news/blog/museum-visitors-and-learning-identities/

My thesis investigated adult museum visitors'; learning identities. Here's some of what I concluded in my thesis about identity based on my extensive doctoral research.

Renovation!
https://australian.museum/learn/news/blog/renovation/

After nearly a quarter of a century the Museums Mineral Gallery has had a face lift.

Web2spider at Ermington Public School
https://australian.museum/learn/news/blog/web2spider-at-ermington-public-school/

Despite the cold weather the students found a number of golden orbs, leaf-curl spider, black house spiders (Badumna spp), Araneus species and others.

Football, Biodiversity and Secrecy
https://australian.museum/learn/news/blog/busy-week/

We have had a very busy week - lots happening - all over the Museum...

The breakdown of the world’s water content
https://australian.museum/learn/news/blog/the-breakdown-of-the-worlds-water-content/

Why is water so precious? Because only a small percentage, 0.08% of the world's water can be used for domestic use.

Should we celebrate Australia Day?
https://australian.museum/learn/news/blog/should-we-celebrate-australia-day/

On the 23rd January 2011, at 2.30pm, the Museum will host an Australia Day Debate. You can listen to our speakers, Sam Watson and Nigel Parbury, debate whether the 26th January is the most appropriate date to celebrate our national identity. You will also have the opportunity to ask them your own

A Sticky Situation
https://australian.museum/learn/news/blog/a-sticky-situation/

On a street post in Darlinghurst a young female Titan Stick Insect, measuring 21cm in total, was found and taken to the Australian Museum. The insect must have become separated from its gumtree, unable to fly it wandered to the nearest structure and climbed to the top.

Early coral spawning this year
https://australian.museum/learn/news/blog/early-coral-spawning-this-year/

Most Acropora species at Lizard Island spawned on the night of 25 November this year, the third night after the full moon. On the following night, many goniasterid and favid corals spawned, and on the night after that it was the turn of Porites corals.

Fish Collection tour
https://australian.museum/learn/news/blog/fish-collection-tour/

Join Fish Collection Manager Mark McGrouther on a quick tour through some of the Fish Collection at the Australian Museum.