Blog archive: March 2010
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Science
Exciting new ways of exploring biodiversity
The Museum is developing new ways to explore and interpret images of biodiversity.
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Museullaneous
Australian Museum Visitors: hobbies and interests
What other interests, hobbies, group memberships etc do our visitors have?
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At the Museum
What did visitors' say about the Body Art exhibition?
The Museum developed and hosted the Body Art exhibition in 2000 and 2002. We undertook several visitor surveys and here’s some of what visitors' had to say.
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Museullaneous
Museums and Web 2.0
Notes and links for a Masterclass I'm teaching on March 24, 2010, for University of Technology students.
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Science
Integrating taxonomy
Entomologist Dr Andrew Mitchell is looking to combine morphological and genetic approaches to taxonomy.
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Science
Sand paintings from Enga
Traditional culture meets modernism in new artworks from the highlands of Papua New Guinea, writes Dr Robin Torrence.
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Science
Trawling Antarctica for answers
An 8-week trip to Antarctica has returned excellent collections of bottom-dwelling invertebrate communities and valuable insights for sustainable fishing and conservation management of this vulnerable ecosystem, writes Museum Technical Officer Roger Springthorpe.
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Education
What's in the Box - 45 years on
Museum in a Box was developed 45 years ago and is the corner stone of the Australian Museum outreach program.
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Science
Plastiki heads to Oz
Early this morning our time the Plastiki Expedition left San Francisco on its journey to Sydney.
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Museullaneous
Visitors to the Australian Museum use social media
According to our latest visitor research conducted in January 2010, 57% of people that visited the Museum used a social networking site in the previous six months.
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Science
Barramundi mystery solved
The case of the mysterious appearance of Barramundi in Sydney Harbour has been solved.