Blog archive:
April 2011

The earliest known photo showing the noxious weed Asparagus fern growing on Lord Howe Island in 1923.

Yesterday’s Jurassic Lounge was –yet again a great night out. You guys enjoyed the music, explored the exhibitions, got Birds-of-Paradise-face paintings... and... Gave us some great feedback! If the museum would develop a Jurassic Lounge app.. What information would it cont

Found: a young artist in the Birds of Paradise crowd.  

The Australian Museum's Dr Rebecca Johnson appeared in the Catalyst Fin Forensics story on 7 April 2011. The show focused on the the practice of shark finning and highlighted how the museum's Genetics Unit were instrumental in a successful legal prosecution.  The Australian Museum's 'fishos

Asking questions is what we do in Audience Research. We do it for lots of reasons, and all of them deepen or broaden our understanding of what we are researching. How fitting then that we recently conducted research about the deep ocean.

In the recent deep ocean frontend survey people were asked the two questions below. Variety is the spice of life!

To prepare for an exhibition next year we recently conducted a frontend survey about the topic “deep ocean”. This research was conducted using Survey Monkey, an online survey tool, and after two weeks 792 people had responded.

Museum-in-a-car, a behind-the-scenes exhibition, label-free objects and more...

What do online trends mean for the future role of a museum? More from Kristen Purcell, at Museums and the Web 2011.

Here's some notes from the key note address given by Kristen Purcell, Associate Director, Pew Internet Project, at the Museums and the Web annual conference in Philadelphia, PA. 

Today is #whyilovemuseumsday on Twitter. Here are some of our favourite tweets so far...

A discussion can't compete with drums... Huli Dancers from Papua New Guinea had come to meet the media a few days ahead of their first ever performance in Sydney.

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