Blog archive:
December 2013

One of our Research Library's greatest treasures is a sketchbook containing original drawings by 18th century English artist Sarah Stone.

Will new technology allow accurate, rapid, and cost efficient observations of the marine environment?

Books, digital content and the future of libraries.

Productivity and interesting conversation between volunteers and colleagues go hand in hand in the DigiVol lab.

Earlier this year, we presented our first two Pacific Youth at the Museum events.

This is a great time of year to explore the diversity of spiders in your backyard.

Pollination in Australia's subtropical rainforests seems to be carried out primarily by much smaller critters than bees, birds or bats.

Public education and the origin of a book in antiquity.

Our amazing new ghost net sculptures, Dauma and Garom, are now on display in our Indigenous Australians gallery.

Sacred textiles of Tenganan Village in Bali.

Festive season follies from all of us here at Australia's oldest Museum. Happy Sciencemas!

Is it a bat? Is it a plane? If you are an air traveller, you probably have more to do with museums, especially ours, than you think!

Was fish ever on the Australian Museum Curator's breakfast menu?

Tadpoles lure researcher Ronald Altig from Mississippi to the Australian Museum.

Only two marine fan worms from the genus Branchiomma are known from Australia, but new molecular data reveals many more.