Blog archive: At the Museum
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Breeding of Fraser's Rainforest Snail
Slightly larger than a Common Garden Snail, Fraser's Rainforest Snail, Sphaerospira fraseri, is a native species of land snail that inhabits wet forested habitat of northern New South Wales and southern Queensland.
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Should we celebrate Australia Day?
On the 23rd January 2011, at 2.30pm, the Museum will host an Australia Day Debate. You can listen to our speakers, Sam Watson and Nigel Parbury, debate whether the 26th January is the most appropriate date to celebrate our national identity. You will also have the opportunity to ask them your own
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What is From the Floor?
From the Floor is a blog all about the programs we run at the Museum's College Street site.
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In the news - December
A couple of interesting news stories have raised the interest of the exhibitions and web teams over the last few days - Dinosaurs, and Drop Bears.
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Museum Mystery of the Week!
Can you guess what our obscure looking museum exhibit is in 'Museum Mystery of the Week'?
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A Sticky Situation
On a street post in Darlinghurst a young female Titan Stick Insect, measuring 21cm in total, was found and taken to the Australian Museum. The insect must have become separated from its gumtree, unable to fly it wandered to the nearest structure and climbed to the top.
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At the Museum
Sticky Situation
On a street post in Darlinghurst a young female Titan Stick Insect, measuring 21cm in total, was found and taken to the Australian Museum. The insect must have become separated from its gumtree, unable to fly it wandered to the nearest structure and climbed to the top. This is a tail I
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Mount Merapi: it’s Australia’s ‘fault’
Not all exhibitions at the Museum take months or years of planning. Sometimes we have a day!
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QR Codes at the Museum
This week at the Australian Museum we have decided to go down the QR Code lane and place some extra interaction on a few of the Museum's favourite specimens.
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Quest for the perfect indoor pinhole camera
How do you create a pinhole camera that can be used inside a room with no windows or natural light and have the ability to demonstrate its own workings?
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Dinosnore Feedback
Here's what one of our Australian Museum Members had to say about their Dinosnore experience.
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Front-end evaluation: Pacific Consultations
As part of the front-end planning for a Pacific Cultures exhibition, four separate consultations with Pacific Island communities were conducted in June 2009 to inform the development of the concept brief. These were comprised of two workshops with secondary school students.
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Sustainable Exhibition Design Workshop
The second Sustainable Exhibition Design Workshop was held in Sydney on Wednesday 21 and Thursday 22 April 2010.The workshop allowed museum exhibition and graphic designers to share sustainable design solutions with an emphasis on practical advice and case studies and including a focus on l
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Renovation!
After nearly a quarter of a century the Museums Mineral Gallery has had a face lift.
