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1830s: The Rascally Bird Stuffer
https://australian.museum/learn/news/blog/the-rascally-bird-stuffer/Once 'collector and preserver of specimens', the Museum's early taxidermist decided to branch out.
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A Labour of Love — the Scott Family Collection
https://australian.museum/learn/news/blog/a-labour-of-love-the-scott-family-collection/Sisters Helena and Harriet Scott documented the butterflies and botany of NSW in exquisite detail, but their path was not without struggle.
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That's the spirit: a short history of wet specimen storage at the Australian Museum
https://australian.museum/learn/news/blog/wet-specimen-storage-spirit-house/Glass jars containing translucent creatures are a common sight at any natural history museum. But the highly flammable ethanol that preserves the specimens inside must be carefully stored to prevent the collections going up in flames.
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Ancient Egyptian Lecture Series
https://australian.museum/learn/news/blog/ancient-egypt-lantern-lecture/Our Photographic Archives team have uncovered lantern slides from a 1925 Ancient Egypt Lecture Series delivered by Museum Ethnologist, William Walford Thorpe.
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Lantern slides and platypus diplomacy: David Fleay’s legacy at the Archives
https://australian.museum/learn/news/blog/david-fleay-platypus-diplomacy/Sydney University students are the first to explore conservation pioneer David Fleay’s collections in the Australian Museum’s Archives. In this blog, they describe their project to solve a platypus mystery.
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Imogen walks in her forefather’s footsteps.
https://australian.museum/learn/news/blog/imogen-walks-in-her-forefathers-footsteps/Walking through the rooms lived in by her ancestor William Sheridan Wall, delighted 12 year old Imogen Fennessy.
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DigiVol: From Glass plate negatives to Digital images
https://australian.museum/learn/news/blog/digivol-from-glass-plate-negatives-to-digital-images/DigiVol has taken digital images of prints of some of the Australian Museum's large collection of glass plate negatives.
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Turning on the lights at the Australian Museum
https://australian.museum/learn/news/blog/turning-on-the-lights-at-the-australian-museum/With a flick of a switch visitors can easily see what is on display but what was it like before the lights were turned on?
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A Diploma for ‘Stuffed Fish’, 1883
https://australian.museum/learn/news/blog/a-diploma-for-stuffed-fish-1883/Why is the recently discovered 1883 International Fisheries Exhibition diploma, designed by Linley Sambourne, unique?
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Australian Museum staff who served in World War I
https://australian.museum/learn/news/blog/australian-museum-staff-who-served-in-world-war-i/An honour roll of the eight staff members who fought in The Great War.
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