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As part of the 2010 International Year of Biodiversity180 students from 11 high schools gave oral presentations about their biodiversity learning projects in the theatre at the Australian Museum.

Well, probably yes which is why I've been asked to run a mini-workshop on this stuff at the Museum Shops Association 2010 Conference on 9 September. If I was a museum shop manager what would I need to know about social media and Web 2.0? Find some answers and other resources on this page

Here's what one of our Australian Museum Members had to say about their Dinosnore experience.

In 2009, colleagues at the University of Washington, created quite a stir when they described a new species of frogfish from Indonesia.  The fish goes by the scientific name Histiophryne psychedelica.  When you watch the movie you'll probably agree that psychedelica is

Someone asked me about the difference between common and standard names. The video covers this topic and more.

Ichthyology Collection Manager, Mark McGrouther, talks about deepsea anglerfishes.

For the most part, coporate/museum Facebook pages are pretty much the same: conversations among visitors or inserted opinons. However, there are those out there that are coming up with clever ways of engaging with their audience, you just have to do a lot of sifting. How could we apply these idea

Notes from a talk given for students studying digital heritage at the University of Western Sydney.

The second post about designing an exhibit. Twenty students and their teachers arrived on 23 August to help the Museum design their up and coming Birds of Paradise exhibit. What a wonderful day for all of us! Read on to find out what happened during the workshop.

Two schools recently joined the Australian Museum in helping design the up and coming exhibition Birds of Paradise. This was the first day we met with the schools, and being new myself, I was excited to see what the students thought about the coming workshop.

Wednesday 1 September is not only the beginning of Spring (or Fall if you're in the wrong end of the hemisphere), it's international "Ask a curator..." day!

Here's a summary of findings from the Life and Death Under the Pharaohs 1998 exhibition evaluation

Here's a summary of findings from the Life Beyond the Tomb 2005 exhibition evaluation

The Frill Shark normally lives in oceanic waters at depths from 120 m to 1500 m. This fish was filmed alive (although most likely moribund) by Japanese divers.

The movie shows an underwater encounter with a rare Megamouth Shark.