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It's #MuseumMascot day on Twitter - say whaaat?? 

Read selected extracts from the notebooks of the most famous natural history illustrators working in Sydney in the nineteenth century.

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Read selected extracts from the notebooks of the most famous natural history illustrators working in Sydney in the last decades of the 19th century...

Spring has come to Sydney, and the Scott sisters and their delicate, detailed, extraordinary butterfly and moth paintings are on show at the Australian Museum.

Where are we now with QR Codes in museum interpretation?

In 1864 the Museum employed its first professional female staff member - Jane Tost, taxidermist and business woman extraordinaire.

Director of the Australian Museum Frank Howarth calls for the media to stop giving air to ‘the shrinking number of increasingly shrill climate change deniers’ in this editorial from Explore magazine.

I carry back a glimpse of the future of evaluation in American museums.

They came, they saw, they conversed.

What time of day is best to post new online content to gain maximum exposure?

A chance to reflect on the process, now that it is only three weeks until the Scott sisters exhibition opens on 3rd September.

A trip down memory lane ends up at Space Camp.

44% of UK residents do! 

The case has been flipped over, revealing that it was originally on castors.