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Rare books come up for air
https://australian.museum/learn/news/blog/rare-books-come-up-for-air/When we talk about objects we don't just mean dinosaur skeletons, taxidermied animals or gemstones...
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Prevention of Plague: Instructions to Householders, issued by the NSW Department of Public Health, 1900
https://australian.museum/learn/collections/museum-archives-library/research-library/prevention-of-plague/Read a historic pamphlet issued during the 1900 bubonic plague outbreak in Sydney
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The Swainson Collection
https://australian.museum/learn/collections/museum-archives-library/rare-books/swainson-collection/Discover the Museum’s first major acquisition of natural history books.
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The early art of Elizabeth Gould
https://australian.museum/learn/collections/museum-archives-library/john-gould/elizabeth-gould-1804-1841/elizabeth-gould-early-art/Learn more about Elizabeth Gould's beginnings as an artist.
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John Gould's documents of extinction
https://australian.museum/learn/collections/museum-archives-library/john-gould/goulds-documents-of-extinction/John Gould wrote many warnings about the potential extinction of Australian species. Ironically his collectors were killing thousands of birds and mammals all over the world to send to him for identification and illustration.
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On unicorns...
https://australian.museum/learn/news/blog/unicorns/This beautifully preserved book is a scientific examination into unicorns and other horned beasts dating from 1645.
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Adventure novels in a natural history library?
https://australian.museum/learn/news/blog/adventure-novels/Sometimes, items in a specialist library collection might seem to veer a little off-topic...
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Weird whales: the top 6 whale illustrations in the Australian Museum Research Library
https://australian.museum/learn/news/blog/weird-whales/Meet the weirdest whales in the Australian Museum Research Library
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Designing with butterflies
https://australian.museum/learn/news/blog/designing-with-butterflies/How do artists and designers draw inspiration from our collections? Fashion designer Donna Sgro tells us about her visits to the Rare Books and Entomology collections to research butterfly specimens for her latest work.
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Museum Archives and Research Library
https://australian.museum/learn/collections/museum-archives-library/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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