Blog archive:
January 2011

  • Know your product

    Dr Shane Ahyong is the Museum's go-to guy for crabs (or anything else with ten legs).

    Science

  • The oldest diorama in Australia?

    Recent research on the history of the Lord Howe Island diorama in our Westpac Long Gallery, the only historic diorama remaining in the Museum.

    Museullaneous
    Vanessa Finney
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    Lord Howe Island Diorama

  • Australia Day Debate - Live Broadcast

    In conjunction with the Australia Day Debate today at 2:30pm EST, we are broadcasting the event live on the web.

    At the Museum
    Jen Cork
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  • Wollemi pine on display

    Discovered as recently as 1994, the Wollemi Pine has been referred to as the 'botanical find of the 20th Century' and 'the equivalent of finding a small living dinosaur on Earth'.

    At the Museum
    Wollemi pine leave

  • Nudibranchs in Antarctica

    Meet Dr Nerida Wilson, one of several new recruits who are boosting the Museum's research capability. Nerida specialises in sea slugs and sea snails.

    Science

  • More on Facebook

    Are we too obsessed with Facebook?

    Museullaneous
    Lynda Kelly
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    Social media platforms

  • The Australian Museum website

    Do we need yet another blog about museums and the web? Well, probably not, but this blog will take a weekly look at what’s happening on our website, plus postings of any other items we come across while travelling in the wonderful world of the web. To get us started, here’s some histo

    Museullaneous
    Lynda Kelly
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