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The world is getting smaller – and so are our computers. What does this mean?  

Dr Sandy Ingelby, Manager of Mammalogy, shares how the Museum will be involved in the collection and disposal of the sperm whale specimen recently found on the rocks of Sydney’s Newport Beach.

A couple of weeks ago, I spent some time in Search & Discover, talking to family's about our upcoming exhibition on deep oceans...

So says the latest research from Google - "The Constantly Connected Consumer"

What's the point of a museum website? Or a museum wikipedia page? Or a museum truck?

I attended the Transformations in Cultural Communictaion Conference the other week. The aim of this year's conference was to “... draw together leading researchers and professionals to explore the tangible ways in which social media can engage culturally diverse audiences”. Here's

Next week we begin a project to conserve and re-interpret the heritage crocodile case and its contents on Level 2.

Land alienation is a problem not just in Papua New Guinea but across Melanesia, and it has the potential to have a catastrophic affect on Melanesian society, according to one of the region's most experienced anthropologists, Museum Research Associate Kirk Huffman.

We've been thinking lots about agile / rapid development models as we begin to delve into the wonderful world of apps. But, what is it and what does it mean for museums?

Here are my quick notes from this conference held in Melbourne on 14-15 April.

Behind the doors of the old Spirit House.

'Curated' for you: the latest museum, web and tech news from across the net

This week I have been bringing together some research on the Museum's scientific links with Lord Howe Island.

The earliest known photo showing the noxious weed Asparagus fern growing on Lord Howe Island in 1923.

Asking questions is what we do in Audience Research. We do it for lots of reasons, and all of them deepen or broaden our understanding of what we are researching. How fitting then that we recently conducted research about the deep ocean.