• Museums and Web 2.0

    Notes and links for a Masterclass I'm teaching on March 24, 2010, for University of Technology students.

    Museullaneous
    Museum Facade
  • Integrating taxonomy

    Entomologist Dr Andrew Mitchell is looking to combine morphological and genetic approaches to taxonomy.

    Science
  • Sand paintings from Enga

    Traditional culture meets modernism in new artworks from the highlands of Papua New Guinea, writes Dr Robin Torrence.

    Science
    Sand painting by Joseph Kuri
  • Trawling Antarctica for answers

    An 8-week trip to Antarctica has returned excellent collections of bottom-dwelling invertebrate communities and valuable insights for sustainable fishing and conservation management of this vulnerable ecosystem, writes Museum Technical Officer Roger Springthorpe.

    Science
    Antarctic amphipod
  • What's in the Box - 45 years on

    Museum in a Box was developed 45 years ago and is the corner stone of the Australian Museum outreach program.

    Education
    Museum in a Box
  • Plastiki heads to Oz

    Early this morning our time the Plastiki Expedition left San Francisco on its journey to Sydney.

    Science
  • Visitors to the Australian Museum use social media

    According to our latest visitor research conducted in January 2010, 57% of people that visited the Museum used a social networking site in the previous six months.

    Museullaneous
  • Barramundi mystery solved

    The case of the mysterious appearance of Barramundi in Sydney Harbour has been solved.

    Science
    Barramundi, Lates calcarifer
  • School Veggie Garden

    How to support the less fortunate in our communities by growing fresh veggies for them.

    Science
    Veggie Garden
  • Web 2.0 for small and volunteer museums

    I've been asked to speak at the 2010 Australian Maritime Museums Annual Conference on the topic of Web 2.0 for small and volunteer-run museums. On this page you can find my PowerPoint slides and various other relevant links.

    Museullaneous
  • ANZ Public Sector Summit 2010

    Attending this two-day conference with a bunch of government folks to discuss all tings open government, Web 2.0 and innovation. It is being co-hosted by CISCO and the Centre for Social Impact. Here’s my notes from today’s session.

    Museullaneous
  • Plastiki – A solution to waste

    One man’s environmental dream becomes a reality and he is educating the planet to consider waste as a resource. The Plastiki is history in the making!

    Science
    Plastiki
  • Statement on Climate Change

    In its role as a leading scientific institution, the Australian Museum recognizes that climate change poses a serious environmental, economic and social threat to our current way of life and to the security of future generations across the globe.

    Museullaneous
  • Wave Energy Conversion

    Renewable energy has to be part of the solution in combating climate change and wave energy conversion is a fantastic technology using waves to produce clean electricity.

    Science
    A wave energy converter
  • Choosing our exhibtions

    We've recently had an enquiry about how we go about choosing the temporary exhibitions that we show here. As you can imagine, there are lots of factors take into consideration when selecting them. Here are a few of them.

    At the Museum