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Deaths in custody: What can museums do to effect change?
https://australian.museum/learn/first-nations/deaths-in-custody-what-can-museums-do/

Museums have the power to set the agenda.

Published 10 June 2020

First Nations Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander death
First Nations watercraft culture
https://australian.museum/learn/first-nations/watercraft-culture/

Dr Mariko Smith is a Yuin woman with Japanese heritage, First Nations Collections & Engagement Manager at the Australian Museum, and Honorary Associate at the University of Sydney.

Published 02 October 2020

First Nations Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander canoe
Dark Days photographic series of massacre sites 2018-2020
https://australian.museum/learn/first-nations/unsettled/remembering-massacres/wailwan-grindstone/

Explore Brendan Beirne’s landscapes that illustrate the unquiet places where Aboriginal people have been slaughtered.

Published 09 August 2021

First Nations Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander massacre sites
Map of colonial frontier massacres in Australia 1788-1930
https://australian.museum/learn/first-nations/unsettled/remembering-massacres/map-of-colonial-frontier-massacres/

This map shows documented massacres of the First Nations peoples across Australia, from the early years of the colony to within several decades of living memory.

Published 09 August 2021

First Nations Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander colonial massacres
The Approach to the Warrego Country map, c. 1845
https://australian.museum/learn/first-nations/unsettled/fighting-wars/warrego-country-map/

Discover how parts of New South Wales and Queensland were mapped out for potential land use and to identified as threats from the 'hostile Aborigines'.

Published 13 August 2021

First Nations Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Warrego country
The Sydney wars
https://australian.museum/learn/first-nations/unsettled/fighting-wars/sydney-wars/

Learn how the sustained warfare in Sydney from 1788 to 1817, spread as the colonists intruded further into sovereign Aboriginal lands.

Published 13 August 2021

First Nations Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Sydney wars
Lest we for/get over it
https://australian.museum/learn/first-nations/unsettled/fighting-wars/lest-we-forget-over-it/

Examine two of the most popular phrases said in Australia and learn why healing for First Nations peoples requires truth and proper respect to the fallen and the wronged.

Published 13 August 2021

First Nations Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander war breastplates
Missions, reserves and stations
https://australian.museum/learn/first-nations/unsettled/surviving-genocide/missions-reserves-stations/

Uncover the long history of government control over Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander lives and the policies of segregation and relocation.

Published 23 August 2021

stations reserves missions First Nations Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander
Winhangadurinya
https://australian.museum/learn/first-nations/unsettled/healing-nations/Winhangadurinya/

Winhangadurinya is a Wiradyuri word meaning deep listening/reflecting/meditation. It's an opportunity to spend some time in the cultural practice of deep listening and to reflect upon the effects of invasion and genocide.

Published 27 August 2021

First Nations Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander self determination
Art as resistance
https://australian.museum/learn/first-nations/unsettled/continued-resistance/art-as-resistance/

Through art, First Nations peoples are able to empower and elevate their voices and bring attention to issues of sovereignty, self-determination, and cultural strength.

Published 03 September 2021

First Nations Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander resistance art

Machu Picchu and the Golden Empires of Peru

Come face-to-face with one of the most remarkable gold collections to ever tour the globe in the immersive exhibition, Machu Picchu and the Golden Empires of Peru and add-on VR experience.

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Future Now

Step into Future Now, an Australian Museum exhibition about sustainability and be inspired by practical and innovative ways to build a more sustainable future.

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Burra

Be transported on an immersive journey through the eyes of burra (eel) in the Australian Museum’s learning and play space.

Permanent education space
10am - 4.30pm

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Minerals

Be dazzled by over 1800 spectacular rocks and minerals in our new Minerals Gallery.

Permanent exhibition
Open daily

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Relics

Discover LEGO^® worlds thriving within treasured objects from the past at RELICS. In a LEGO^® exhibition unlike any other, adults and children alike will be mesmerised by these magical, minifigure civilisations.

Special Exhibition
Opens August 2025

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Deaths in custody: What can museums do to effect change?
https://australian.museum/learn/first-nations/deaths-in-custody-what-can-museums-do/

First Nations watercraft culture
https://australian.museum/learn/first-nations/watercraft-culture/

Dark Days photographic series of massacre sites 2018-2020
https://australian.museum/learn/first-nations/unsettled/remembering-massacres/wailwan-grindstone/

Map of colonial frontier massacres in Australia 1788-1930
https://australian.museum/learn/first-nations/unsettled/remembering-massacres/map-of-colonial-frontier-massacres/

The Approach to the Warrego Country map, c. 1845
https://australian.museum/learn/first-nations/unsettled/fighting-wars/warrego-country-map/

The Sydney wars
https://australian.museum/learn/first-nations/unsettled/fighting-wars/sydney-wars/

Lest we for/get over it
https://australian.museum/learn/first-nations/unsettled/fighting-wars/lest-we-forget-over-it/

Missions, reserves and stations
https://australian.museum/learn/first-nations/unsettled/surviving-genocide/missions-reserves-stations/

Winhangadurinya
https://australian.museum/learn/first-nations/unsettled/healing-nations/Winhangadurinya/

Art as resistance
https://australian.museum/learn/first-nations/unsettled/continued-resistance/art-as-resistance/

Machu Picchu and the Golden Empires of Peru

Future Now

Burra

Minerals

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