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John Gould’s Australian publications
https://australian.museum/learn/collections/museum-archives-library/john-gould/john-gould-publications/John Gould was an immensely successful publisher. Over the course of his lifetime he produced 21 titles, 15 which were folio sets. In total, with his team of artists, lithographers and colourists, he produced 2999 unique plates.
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That's the spirit: a short history of wet specimen storage at the Australian Museum
https://australian.museum/learn/news/blog/wet-specimen-storage-spirit-house/Glass jars containing translucent creatures are a common sight at any natural history museum. But the highly flammable ethanol that preserves the specimens inside must be carefully stored to prevent the collections going up in flames.
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Ancient Egyptian Lecture Series
https://australian.museum/learn/news/blog/ancient-egypt-lantern-lecture/Our Photographic Archives team have uncovered lantern slides from a 1925 Ancient Egypt Lecture Series delivered by Museum Ethnologist, William Walford Thorpe.
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Lantern slides and platypus diplomacy: David Fleay’s legacy at the Archives
https://australian.museum/learn/news/blog/david-fleay-platypus-diplomacy/Sydney University students are the first to explore conservation pioneer David Fleay’s collections in the Australian Museum’s Archives. In this blog, they describe their project to solve a platypus mystery.
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Imogen walks in her forefather’s footsteps.
https://australian.museum/learn/news/blog/imogen-walks-in-her-forefathers-footsteps/Walking through the rooms lived in by her ancestor William Sheridan Wall, delighted 12 year old Imogen Fennessy.
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DigiVol: From Glass plate negatives to Digital images
https://australian.museum/learn/news/blog/digivol-from-glass-plate-negatives-to-digital-images/DigiVol has taken digital images of prints of some of the Australian Museum's large collection of glass plate negatives.
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Turning on the lights at the Australian Museum
https://australian.museum/learn/news/blog/turning-on-the-lights-at-the-australian-museum/With a flick of a switch visitors can easily see what is on display but what was it like before the lights were turned on?
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A Diploma for ‘Stuffed Fish’, 1883
https://australian.museum/learn/news/blog/a-diploma-for-stuffed-fish-1883/Why is the recently discovered 1883 International Fisheries Exhibition diploma, designed by Linley Sambourne, unique?
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Australian Museum staff who served in World War I
https://australian.museum/learn/news/blog/australian-museum-staff-who-served-in-world-war-i/An honour roll of the eight staff members who fought in The Great War.
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Waite, there’s more...
https://australian.museum/learn/news/blog/waite-theres-more/Australian Mueaxseame? Edgar Waite muses on spelling blunders in 1906.
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