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A Whale of a Story
https://australian.museum/about/history/stories/a-whale-of-a-story/Suspended above the College Street entrance for 100 years, the Museum's largest specimen is hard to miss.
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The Catadon Polka
https://australian.museum/about/history/stories/the-catadon-polka/The polka was the great dance craze of the 1840s. So how did the Australian Museum get its own Catadon (Whale) Polka?
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Year 1836: Captain Cook and Charles Darwin arrived in Sydney
https://australian.museum/about/history/stories/year-1836-captain-cook-and-charles-darwin-arrived-in-sydney/From January to December: a tapestry of events.
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History of the Library
https://australian.museum/about/history/history-of-the-library/The Australian Museum Research Library collections form a major natural history resource in Australia.
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Bathurst's Letter
https://australian.museum/about/history/bathursts-letter/Foundation document for the establishment of the Australian Museum.
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The Museum's Early Days
https://australian.museum/about/history/the-museums-early-days/Australia's oldest museum was founded in 1827. Under the dedicated curatorship of German emigrant Gerard Krefft in the 1860s, the Museum came to be recognised as a truly 'scientific' establishment.
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Two Museums and a Garden Palace
https://australian.museum/about/history/two-museums-and-a-garden-palace/The push for a new technology museum in Sydney was integral to the Museum's involvement with the 1879 Sydney International Exhibition.
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Foundations of Australian Science
https://australian.museum/about/history/foundations-of-australian-science/The beginnings of the Australian Museum as one of the leading museums undertaking research, with its extensive collections, documenting Australia's animal biodiversity and cultural heritage - where Australian natural history was born.
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A Collection in search of a home
https://australian.museum/about/history/a-collection-in-search-of-a-home/The Museum occupied five different buildings before it finally came home to its current site.
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Australian Museum Archives
https://australian.museum/get-involved/staff-profiles/australian-museum-archives/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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