Your search returned 276 results
By Page Type
By Tag
- All
- fish (966)
- blog (700)
- fishes of sydney harbour (400)
- First Nations (276)
- Blog (237)
- AMRI (165)
- archives (157)
- Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander (133)
- insect (126)
- Ichthyology (125)
- geoscience (109)
- minerals (102)
- climate change (99)
- Eureka Prizes (92)
- Fish (91)
- Anthropology (89)
- podcast (85)
- International collections (80)
- wildlife of sydney (78)
- Labridae (77)
- Minerals Gallery (76)
- frog (72)
- staff (72)
- gemstone (70)
- history (62)
- Mollusca (60)
- gem (59)
- Gems (56)
- Indonesia (56)
- photography (55)
- AMplify (54)
- Birds (54)
- people (53)
- shark (53)
- exhibition (51)
- earth sciences (50)
- past exhibitions (50)
- Gobiidae (48)
- sustainability (46)
- Pomacentridae (45)
- bird (45)
- science (45)
- Serranidae (44)
- exhibitions (44)
- death (42)
- lifelong learning (42)
- Syngnathidae (41)
- past exhibition (41)
- staff profile (41)
- Bali (40)
-
Dismantling the Australian pygmy people myth
https://australian.museum/learn/first-nations/debunking-australian-pygmy-people-myth/You may have heard this myth before that there was a race of pygmy people who had been on the land that is now called Australia, who were here for several millennia before Aboriginal people, only to have their land stolen and be completely wiped out by Aboriginal people.
-
Stolen Generations — 21st anniversary of launch of Inquiry, 17 years since report
https://australian.museum/learn/first-nations/stolen-generations/It has been 21 years since the launch of the National Inquiry into the Separation of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Children from Their Families. Incredibly, the forced removal of Aboriginal children from their families continues to this day.
-
Kooriculum: Beyond Terra Nullius
https://australian.museum/learn/first-nations/kooriculum-beyond-terra-nullius/Aboriginal Stories of Country welcome all visitors, ask people to listen and learn from them, to respect their country and in particular respect their sacred sites.
-
Indigenous science goes far beyond boomerangs and spears
https://australian.museum/learn/first-nations/indigenous-science/Indigenous science was critical for Indigenous people in solving any number of problems they faced and to capitalise on beneficial and sustainable opportunities presented by their environments and circumstances.
-
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.
-
Tasmanian Aboriginal shell necklaces: A significant cultural practice
https://australian.museum/learn/first-nations/tasmanian-aboriginal-shell-necklaces/Shell necklace-making is a tradition that has continued uninterrupted by European colonisation.
-
Possum skin cloaks then and now – same same but different
https://australian.museum/learn/first-nations/possum-skin-cloaks-then-and-now/Revitalisation of Possum Cloak knowledges and practices as a living legacy in community, is a notable historically significant cultural regeneration phenomenon of our times.
-
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.
-
Tear It Down
https://australian.museum/learn/first-nations/tear-it-down/How do we deal with false, constructed histories? 2020 is being used to commemorate the “discovery” of Australia by Lieutenant (best known as Captain) James Cook. Aboriginal people engage with what this means for our history.
-
James Cook – man, mariner, myth or monster
https://australian.museum/learn/first-nations/james-cook/2020 marks the two-hundred-and-fifty-year anniversary of James Cook’s epic voyage along the east coast of Australia in 1770. The Australian nation will be torn between Anglo celebrations and Aboriginal mourning over James Cook’s so-called discovery of Australia.
-
Find out more
Sharks
Special exhibition
Extended to 25 April 2023![]()
-
Discover more
Barka: The Forgotten River
Special exhibition
Now on until 23 July 2023![]()
-
Book now
School programs and excursions
Virtual excursions
Educator-led tours -
Discover more
Minerals
Permanent exhibition
![]()
