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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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Nancy Adams
https://australian.museum/about/history/people/nancy-adams/Nancy spent her entire working life in the Entomology Department of the Museum.
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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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Edgar Waite Diaries
https://australian.museum/learn/collections/museum-archives-library/edgar-waite-diaries/Edgar Waite was Assistant of Zoology at the Australian Museum from 1893 and was a prolific, knowledgeable and fascinating diarist.
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Australian Museum timeline
https://australian.museum/about/history/timelines/australian-museum-timeline/The Australian Museum has undergone some turbulent times since it was established in 1827.
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Curators and Directors of the Australian Museum
https://australian.museum/about/history/people/curators-and-directors-of-the-australian-museum/Discover the 17 Curators and Directors that have overseen the Australian Museum evolution from a one-person operation to an internationally recognised scientific institution.
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Frank Hurley in Papua
https://australian.museum/learn/cultures/pacific-collection/photographic/frank-hurley-in-papua/Frank Hurley's artistic legacy from a career spanning nearly 60 years places him among the greatest Australian photographers of the twentieth century. His images of Papua from the 1920s are a significant archive of the country's history.
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The drawings of Sarah Stone - pages 46 to 90
https://australian.museum/learn/collections/museum-archives-library/the-sarah-stone-collection/sarah-stone-gallery2/This collection of drawings is one of the treasures of the Australian Museum Research Library. Explore the illustrations of Sarah Stone. Gallery 2 of 3
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Dr George Bennett, Secretary and Curator, 1835-1841
https://australian.museum/about/history/people/george-bennett-curator-1835-1841/Dr George Bennett, Secretary and Curator, 1835-1841
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Gerard Krefft, Curator and Secretary, 1861-1874
https://australian.museum/about/history/people/johann-gerard-krefft/Johann Ludwig Gerard (Louis) Krefft, 1830–1881 was one of the few Australian scientists to accept and propagate Charles Darwin’s theory of evolution.
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Ramses & the Gold of the Pharaohs
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