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Shellfish hooks
https://australian.museum/learn/cultures/atsi-collection/cultural-objects/shellfish-hooks/

Sequence of shellfish hooks manufacture for fishing.

Published 02 October 2012

First Nations Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander fishing
Dr Naomi Mayers OAM
https://australian.museum/learn/first-nations/sydney-elders/naomi-mayers/

Naomi was the CEO of the Aboriginal Medical Service, Redfern where she worked for over 40 years.

Published 05 May 2020

First Nations Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Elders portrait
Sheree Mairamoo
https://australian.museum/learn/first-nations/sydney-elders/sheree-mairamoo/

Sheree is a Birri woman of South Sea descent. She has served her community in both a legal and political capacity.

Published 05 May 2020

First Nations Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Elders portrait
Vic Simms
https://australian.museum/learn/first-nations/sydney-elders/vic-simms/

Vic Simms is a Bidjigal man born on the La Perouse Mission. An international recording artist, Uncle Vic recently celebrated 60 years in show business.

Published 05 May 2020

First Nations Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Elders portrait
Sorry
https://australian.museum/learn/first-nations/sorry/

The painting titled Sorry was created in 2006, six years after Nyree participated in the Reconciliation Bridge Walk on 28th May 2000. Sorry means that you don’t do it again.

Published 08 May 2020

First Nations Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander
Genocide in Australia
https://australian.museum/learn/first-nations/genocide-in-australia/

The term genocide has been previously controversial when being applied to Australian History, so why use the term genocide? We need to use the term genocide so we do not minimise the legacy of the colonisation and how the effects contemporarily manifest themselves.

Published 26 May 2020

First Nations Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander genocide
The Stolen Generation
https://australian.museum/learn/first-nations/stolen-generation/

The phrase Stolen Generation refers to the countless number of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children who were forcibly removed from their families under government policy and direction.

Published 22 June 2020

First Nations Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander stolen generation
Land Rights
https://australian.museum/learn/first-nations/land-rights/

Land Rights refers to the struggle for legal and moral recognition of the ownership of the land and waterways that were home to the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples of this country prior to the colonisation that occurred from 1788.

Published 02 October 2020

First Nations Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander land rights
Native Title
https://australian.museum/learn/first-nations/native-title/

Native Title is the Australian Government response to the land rights movement of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, which progressed to legal agitation in the Australian Courts.

Published 02 October 2020

First Nations Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander native title
Fire management on Country
https://australian.museum/learn/first-nations/fire-management-country/

You do not need to be a scientist to know that the environment is sick. That how we are managing Country is not working and things need to dramatically change.

Published 07 October 2020

First Nations Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Cultural Fire Practices Bushfires

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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Future Now

Step into <i>Future Now</i>, 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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