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1940s: The Australian Museum - Breaking Out
https://australian.museum/learn/news/blog/1940s-the-australian-museum-breaking-out/"Museum's are not morgues and should expand along modern lines." So commented J.R Kinghorn in the Women's Weekly
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1910s: Allan McCulloch - A New Breed of Scientist for the 20th Century
https://australian.museum/learn/news/blog/1910sallan-mcculloch-a-new-breed-of-scientist-for-the-20th-century/On his recruitment application for war service in 1918 the only address that 32 year-old Allan McCulloch cited was the 'Australian Museum'.
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1890s: Charles Hedley - upstart colonial?
https://australian.museum/learn/news/blog/charles-hedley-upstart-colonial/It could have all gone horribly wrong....
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1880s: Where it all began - AM's long history with Lord Howe Island
https://australian.museum/learn/news/blog/a-natural-history-classic-robert-etheridge-jnr/In 2017, Museum scientists revisted the site where its first scientific field survey was conducted 130 years ago - Lord Howe Island.
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Harry Burrell Glass Plate Negative Collection
https://australian.museum/learn/collections/museum-archives-library/photographic/harry-burrell-glass-plate-negative-collection/Harry (Henry J) Burrell was keen photographer, and this collection documents his wide interest in Australian native fauna.
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Blaschka glass models
https://australian.museum/learn/collections/museum-archives-library/blaschka-glass-models/The 19th century was a time of great scientific endeavour. In 1879 the Australian Museum actively sought to share these wonderful discoveries with the public by ordering specimens and models from Europe so that it could display all the common European vertebrates and invertebrates.
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Lantern slides
https://australian.museum/learn/collections/museum-archives-library/photographic/lantern-slides/Often called 'magic lantern slides' these glass slides designed for projection enchanted and educated audiences at The Australian Museum in the first half of the twentieth century.
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Ric Bolzan: Favourite photographs from the archive
https://australian.museum/learn/collections/museum-archives-library/photographic/ric-bolzan/Former head of the Australian Museum's photography department, Ric Bolzan nominates his top five favourite Australian Museum images and tells us why.
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Ethel King and the lizard skin shoes
https://australian.museum/learn/collections/museum-archives-library/photographic/ethel-king/Talented yet underrated artist Ethel King brings to life the lecture theme of wildlife slaughter in the name of the shoe manufacturing industry.
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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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