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How would you design an exhibit? Meeting Part 1
https://australian.museum/learn/news/blog/how-would-you-design-an-exhibit-meeting-part-1/

Two schools recently joined the Australian Museum in helping design the up and coming exhibition Birds of Paradise. This was the first day we met with the schools, and being new myself, I was excited to see what the students thought about the coming workshop.

Published 13 May 2011
BBC Life - Flyingfish footage
https://australian.museum/learn/news/blog/bbc-life-flyingfish-footage/

If you are a fish, one of the most effective ways to avoid a predator must be to leave the water. Fishes have evolved different strategies to do just that, but few manage to do so as spectacularly as the flyingfishes. It is not uncommon to see a fish glide up to 200 m.

Published 18 August 2010

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BBC Life - Sailfish feeding
https://australian.museum/learn/news/blog/bbc-life-sailfish-feeding/

This amazing underwater footage shows an aggregation of Sailfish, Istiophorus platypterus, feeding on a school of baitfish.

Published 10 February 2014

Ichthyology blog fish
Oil Spills and Plastic
https://australian.museum/learn/news/blog/oil-spills-and-plastic/

12 connections between oil spills and plastics

Published 16 August 2010
Deepsea trench research trip
https://australian.museum/learn/news/blog/deepsea-trench-research-trip/

Australian Museum Senior Fellow, Dr John Paxton will soon be taking part in an expedition to explore the depths of the Peru-Chile Trench.

Published 27 October 2010
Pacific Cultures Consultation June 2009: Emerging themes
https://australian.museum/learn/news/blog/pacific-cultures-consultation-june-2009-emerging-themes/

As part of the front-end planning for a Pacific Cultures exhibition, four separate consultations with Pacific Island communities were conducted in June 2009 to inform the development of the concept brief. These were comprised of two workshops with secondary school students; one with primary schoo

Published 10 August 2010
More news from Pelagos
https://australian.museum/learn/news/blog/more-news-from-pelagos/

Three new links from Pelagos. Thank you Adrian!

Published 03 August 2010
Gidday Plastiki and Welcome to Australia!
https://australian.museum/learn/news/blog/gidday-plastiki-and-welcome-to-australia/

After months at sea and dealing with all sorts of weather conditions the Plastiki and her crew arrived on our shores, in QLD, yesterday.

Published 20 July 2010
NAIDOC Week 2010 Celebrations!
https://australian.museum/learn/news/blog/naidoc-week-2010-celebrations/

The Australian Museums NAIDOC Week 2010 Celebrations were exciting and colourful!!!

Published 15 August 2011
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

Published 02 April 2019

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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, <i>Machu Picchu and the Golden Empires of Peru</i> and add-on VR experience.

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Tails from the Coasts

Presented with the National Museum of Singapore, this culturally significant collection of watercolours brings to life extraordinary species and captivating stories.

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Wild Planet

Welcome to life on Earth. Every one of Earth’s millions of species is unique, but they are all connected through evolution. Come and see life in all its glorious diversity – over 400 animals under one roof!

Permanent exhibition
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Minerals

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

Permanent exhibition
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