Blog archive: January 2011
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Science
Know your product
Dr Shane Ahyong is the Museum's go-to guy for crabs (or anything else with ten legs).
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Museullaneous
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.
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At the Museum
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.
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At the Museum
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'.
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Science
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.
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Museullaneous
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