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We've been thinking lots about agile / rapid development models as we begin to delve into the wonderful world of apps. But, what is it and what does it mean for museums?

When we talk about objects we don't just mean dinosaur skeletons, taxidermied animals or gemstones...

At the final Jurassic Lounge for the season last night there were an amazing array of tweets. Here's some of them.

A friend just called me to say that she had heard that a Whale Shark was swimming in Botany Bay.  "No way" was my initial reaction. Apparently members of the Abyss Scuba Diving encountered the fish this morning and have posted images on their Facebook account.

Here are my quick notes from this conference held in Melbourne on 14-15 April.

Behind the doors of the old Spirit House.

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This week I have been bringing together some research on the Museum's scientific links with Lord Howe Island.

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.