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Tattooing - Earliest examples
https://australian.museum/about/history/exhibitions/body-art/tattooing-earliest-examples/Tattooed markings on skin and incised markings in clay provide some of the earliest evidence that humans have long practised a wide range of body art.
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Paint up - Aboriginal Dance
https://australian.museum/about/history/exhibitions/body-art/paint-up-aboriginal-dance/Many Aboriginal communities have been painting their bodies for thousands of years. For these communities, body painting is not necessarily just about visual artistic creativity, it relates to conventions, laws and religion.
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Cosmetic surgery
https://australian.museum/about/history/exhibitions/body-art/cosmetic-surgery/Cosmetic surgery is a type of plastic surgery which changes the normal physical features people are born with. Plastic surgery also includes medical reconstructive surgery which repairs physical damage to the body or genetic abnormalities.
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Contemporary branding and cutting
https://australian.museum/about/history/exhibitions/body-art/contemporary-branding-and-cutting/The process of scarification involves an endurance of pain. This endurance often signifies a rite of passage and is a ritual which is itself highly significant.
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Past exhibitions
https://australian.museum/about/history/exhibitions/The Australian Museum has long been known for its diverse and fascinating exhibitions. Discover our past exhibition resources online.
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Indigenous Australians: Australia’s First Peoples exhibition 1996-2015
https://australian.museum/about/history/exhibitions/indigenous-australians/Learn about the Museum's exhibition Indigenous Australians: Australia’s First People, on display from 1996-2015.
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Rituals of Seduction: Birds of Paradise
https://australian.museum/about/history/exhibitions/birds-of-paradise/This exhibition featured a selection of the Museum’s collections from the Southern Highlands, Eastern Highlands and Western Highlands, including a variety of human hair wigs, feathered headdress, judge wigs, shells woven aprons and shell forehead ornaments.
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Trailblazers: Australia’s 50 Greatest Explorers
https://australian.museum/about/history/exhibitions/trailblazers/Whether they crossed oceans, tackled jungles, traversed mountains, braved the poles or went to space, our nation’s greatest explorers helped forge the intrepid Australian spirit. Discover the stories of 50 Australian Trailblazers highlighted in this exhibition.
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Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras
https://australian.museum/about/history/exhibitions/body-art/sydney-gay-and-lesbian-mardi-gras/The Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras is an annual event centred around a street parade of up to 20,000 participants. Participants hide or reveal their 'true' identities in a flurry of paint, feathers and glitter.
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History
https://australian.museum/about/history/Find out about the history of the Museum’s zoological and anthropological collections, its historic and contemporary buildings and the people who have worked here over nearly two centuries.
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Bilas: Body Adornment from Papua New Guinea
Featuring photographs by Wylda Bayrón.
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Ramses & the Gold of the Pharaohs
Special exhibition opens 18 November 2023
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