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Designing with butterflies
https://australian.museum/learn/news/blog/designing-with-butterflies/How do artists and designers draw inspiration from our collections? Fashion designer Donna Sgro tells us about her visits to the Rare Books and Entomology collections to research butterfly specimens for her latest work.
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Guillaume Rondelet (1507-1566), the grandfather of ichthyology who dissected his own son
https://australian.museum/learn/news/blog/guillaume-rondelet/The story of the author of the oldest book in the Australian Museum Research Library.
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Weird whales: the top 6 whale illustrations in the Australian Museum Research Library
https://australian.museum/learn/news/blog/weird-whales/Meet the weirdest whales in the Australian Museum Research Library
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“Plague is present in Sydney” – How the 1900 bubonic plague outbreak compares to COVID-19
https://australian.museum/learn/news/blog/plague-in-sydney/A small pamphlet from the Australian Museum Research Library reveals the public health response to the 1900 bubonic plague outbreak in Sydney.
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Six surprising facts about the Australian Museum Research Library
https://australian.museum/learn/news/blog/6-things-about-the-library/Librarian Adria Castellucci lets us in on some of the Australian Museum Research Library’s best kept secrets.
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On unicorns...
https://australian.museum/learn/news/blog/unicorns/This beautifully preserved book is a scientific examination into unicorns and other horned beasts dating from 1645.
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Portents and prophecies: Conrad Lycosthenes, 1557
https://australian.museum/learn/news/blog/portents/In the wake of the end of the world, Mayan-style, let's look back at the history of humanity's fascination with portents and prophecies.
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Adventure novels in a natural history library?
https://australian.museum/learn/news/blog/adventure-novels/Sometimes, items in a specialist library collection might seem to veer a little off-topic...
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Rare books come up for air
https://australian.museum/learn/news/blog/rare-books-come-up-for-air/When we talk about objects we don't just mean dinosaur skeletons, taxidermied animals or gemstones...
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Cultural Material in the Library's Melbourne Ward Collection
https://australian.museum/learn/collections/museum-archives-library/research-library/guides/cultural-material-mel-ward/Discover Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander cultural material in the Melbourne Ward Collection of the Australian Museum Research Library.
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