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Treasures podcast ep 8: Life in the freezer
https://australian.museum/learn/news/blog/treasures-podcast-ep-8-life-in-the-freezer/In our final episode, Charles and Kim uncover the stories behind objects used in Sir Douglas Mawson's Antarctic expeditions.
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Treasures podcast ep 7: The platypus rug and the lyre bird
https://australian.museum/learn/news/blog/treasures-podcast-ep-7-the-platypus-rug-and-the-lyre-bird/Kim McKay and Charles Wooley ponder the beautiful platypus rug and what it tells us about the changing attitudes towards our native fauna.
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Treasures podcast ep 6: The pestle that changed the world
https://australian.museum/learn/news/blog/treasures-podcast-ep-6-the-pestle-that-changed-the-world/The influence of this simple stone object stretched all the way to the Pacific, where this story takes a sudden, violent twist.
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Treasures podcast ep 5: The last tiger
https://australian.museum/learn/news/blog/treasures-podcast-ep-5/Charles Wooley reveals the tragic tale of the death of the last wild thylacine.
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Treasures podcast ep 4: The strange obsessions of Australia’s greatest crab collector
https://australian.museum/learn/news/blog/treasures-podcast-ep-4the-strange-obsessions-of-australias-greatest-crab-collector/In the 1940s, naturalist Mel Ward created the Gallery of Natural History and Native Art in the Blue Mountains, exhibiting some 25,000 crabs.
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Treasures podcast ep 3: Charles Darwin and the curator’s chair
https://australian.museum/learn/news/blog/treasures-podcast-ep-3-charles-darwin-and-the-curators-chair/In 1874, Museum Curator Gerard Krefft espoused Darwin's theory of evolution. The Board of Trustees were less than impressed.
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Treasures podcast ep 2: The great gold nugget and the cricket stumps
https://australian.museum/learn/news/blog/treasures-podcast-ep-2-the-great-gold-nugget-and-the-cricket-stumps/In the early 1800s, Sydney was the kind of town where you might win and lose your fortune in a single day.
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Treasures podcast ep 1: The first and finest gallery in the land
https://australian.museum/learn/news/blog/treasures-podcast-ep-1-the-first-and-finest-gallery-in-the-land/Step inside the Westpac Long Gallery - home of 200 Treasures of the Australian Museum.
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Facelift for the Future
https://australian.museum/learn/news/blog/facelift-for-the-future/Conservators, designers and historians prepare for the opening of 200 Treasures of the Australian Museum in the Westpac Long Gallery.
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Treasures of Australia and the World Revealed in New Podcast Series Starring Charles Wooley
https://australian.museum/about/organisation/media-centre/treasures-of-australia-and-the-world-revealed-in-new-podcast-series-starring-charles-wooley/The Australian Museum presents new podcast series Treasures that reveals the stories behind treasures of Australia and the world, featuring Charles Wooley.
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