Blog archive: August 2010
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How would you design an exhibit? Meeting Part 2 - the day
The second post about designing an exhibit. Twenty students and their teachers arrived on 23 August to help the Museum design their up and coming Birds of Paradise exhibit. What a wonderful day for all of us! Read on to find out what happened during the workshop.
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How would you design an exhibit? Meeting Part 1
Two schools recently joined the Australian Museum in helping design the up and coming exhibition Birds of Paradise. This was the first day we met with the schools, and being new myself, I was excited to see what the students thought about the coming workshop.
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Ask a curator...1 September 2010
Wednesday 1 September is not only the beginning of Spring (or Fall if you're in the wrong end of the hemisphere), it's international "Ask a curator..." day!
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Life and Death Under the Pharaohs 1998 Evaluation
Here's a summary of findings from the Life and Death Under the Pharaohs 1998 exhibition evaluation
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Life Beyond the Tomb Exhibition Evaluation 2005
Here's a summary of findings from the Life Beyond the Tomb 2005 exhibition evaluation
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Science
Frill Shark in Japan
The Frill Shark normally lives in oceanic waters at depths from 120 m to 1500 m. This fish was filmed alive (although most likely moribund) by Japanese divers.
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Fantastic fish feeding footage
After adding the BBC Life footage of Sailfish feeding to the site last week, Tom Rayner suggested that I look at 'The Last Sardine'.
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Science
BBC Life - Convict Fish footage
Convict Fish dig extensive tunnel networks from which huge numbers of striped juveniles emerge. This spectacular footage from the BBC Life series showcases the species.
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Science
BBC Life - Flyingfish footage
If you are a fish, one of the most effective ways to avoid a predator must be to leave the water. Fishes have evolved different strategies to do just that, but few manage to do so as spectacularly as the flyingfishes. It is not uncommon to see a fish glide up to 200 m.
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Science
BBC Life - Sailfish feeding
This amazing underwater footage shows an aggregation of Sailfish, Istiophorus platypterus, feeding on a school of baitfish.
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BBC Life - Common Seadragon footage
The 'Fish' episode of the BBC Life series aired on television last night. The Common Seadragon footage is simply stunning!
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Deepsea trench research trip
Australian Museum Senior Fellow, Dr John Paxton will soon be taking part in an expedition to explore the depths of the Peru-Chile Trench.
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Pacific Cultures Consultation June 2009: Emerging themes
As part of the front-end planning for a Pacific Cultures exhibition, four separate consultations with Pacific Island communities were conducted in June 2009 to inform the development of the concept brief. These were comprised of two workshops with secondary school students; one with primary schoo
