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And other examples from ingenious Inuit culture.

The Youth Eco Summit (YES) 2016 was held in Sydney Olympic Park Showground

The inaugural Indigenous Youth Summit Murama was held at Sydney Olympic Park16 &18 October 2016

A distinguished panel explore the cultural significance and museum acquisition of Asaro Mud Men Masks.

Check out some of the beautiful images of the AM arachnology slide collection scanned by DigiVol volunteers.

WeDigBio is a 4-day event that engages citizen scientists worldwide to help digitise specimens held in natural history collections.

Powerful genome-based methods open new avenues in land snail systematics.

Local knowledge, kastom and hard work leads to an unexpected find on Bougainville Island.

Live at the AM, award-winning photographer Luke Tsharke discusses the joys and risks of the getting the perfect shot.

Walking through the rooms lived in by her ancestor William Sheridan Wall, delighted 12 year old Imogen Fennessy.

DigiVol has taken digital images of prints of some of the Australian Museum's large collection of glass plate negatives.

In the 19th century natural history museums from around the world worked together to provide eye catching displays.

As the date of the Lord Howe Island rodent eradication draws nearer, we have assessed the status of the islands endangered land snails.

AM Collections Officer Yvonne Carrillo-Huffman takes us high into the Eastern Highlands of Papua New Guinea to meet the Asaro Mud Men.

A green frog with orange hands and feet and purple thighs leaps into the spotlight.