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  • Echidna research in the Mammalogy collection
    https://australian.museum/learn/teachers/classroom-activities/echidna-research/

    Watch a video about how echidnas in the Australian Museum's Mammalogy collection are used in research.

    Published 17 November 2020
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  • John Gould - the age of collecting
    https://australian.museum/learn/collections/museum-archives-library/john-gould/the-age-of-collecting/

    Learn more about how historical context shaped Gould's success in the field of natural history.

    Published 10 November 2009
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  • New in the collection: Tasmanian shell necklaces
    https://australian.museum/learn/news/blog/new-in-the-collection-tasmanian-shell-necklaces/

    We recently acquired two stunning shell necklaces by Lola Greeno, which are now on display in our Indigenous Australians Gallery.

    Published 24 July 2014
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  • Collections matter!
    https://australian.museum/learn/news/blog/collections-matter/

    Museum natural history collections can help answer many questions, but how do we ensure they continue to be relevant?

    Published 04 April 2014
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  • Australian Museum Research Institute Collections and Climate Change Seminar
    https://australian.museum/learn/news/blog/amri-collections-climate-seminar/

    Our first Australian Museum Research Institute (AMRI) seminar: "What can museum collections reveal about climate change?"

    Published 27 May 2014
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  • Tanks Everybody!
    https://australian.museum/learn/news/blog/tanks-everybody/

    Have you ever wondered how large fish specimens are stored here in the Australian Museum collections?

    Published 27 April 2016
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  • Australian Museum collections
    https://australian.museum/learn/collections/

    The Australian Museum has spent more than 190 years building a vast collection of over 21.9 million objects and specimens alongside an enviable reputation for world-leading science.

    Published 11 October 2018
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  • Museum Archives and Research Library
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    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.

    Published 11 October 2018
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  • Museum Archives
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    The Museum Archives cares for the Museum’s institutional memory.

    Published 26 February 2020
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  • The Scott sisters collection
    https://australian.museum/learn/collections/museum-archives-library/scott-sisters/

    With their collecting boxes, notebooks and paintbrushes, Harriet and Helena Scott entered the masculine world of science and became two of 19th-century Australia’s most prominent natural history illustrators.

    Published 01 November 2018
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  • Jurassic World by Brickman

    Kmart presents <i>Jurassic World</i> by Brickman<sup>®</sup> at the Australian Museum until 17 July.

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    Open until 29 May.

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  • 200 Treasures of the Australian Museum

    The Westpac Long Gallery showcases 100 treasures from our collections alongside the stories of the 100 people who’ve helped shape Australia.

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The Australian Museum respects and acknowledges the Gadigal people as the First Peoples and Traditional Custodians of the land and waterways on which the Museum stands.

Image credit: gadigal yilimung (shield) made by Uncle Charles Chicka Madden