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The Ball that wasn't
https://australian.museum/learn/news/blog/the-ball-that-wasnt/

In 1864 The Australian Museum was the venue chosen for a reception for the visit of H.R.H. the Duke of Edinburgh. Why wasn't it held?

Why are we running a fashion design competition?
https://australian.museum/learn/news/blog/fashion-design-competition-fashion-less-waste/

Some of the aims of our annual Fashion Less Waste design competition are revealed...

New acquisition in Archives -- Fishing Notes, c1900-1931
https://australian.museum/learn/news/blog/new-acquisitions-in-archives-fishing-notes/

A beautiful but mysterious notebook has been transferred to Archives from the Fish section.

Deep Oceans - Painting ocean formations
https://australian.museum/learn/news/blog/painting-ocean-formations/

For our Deep Oceans exhibition Tina Mansson is painting the formations of the ocean floor onto the Museum’s ‘Globe’...

DigiVol: Thoughts from Vanessa Finney
https://australian.museum/learn/news/blog/digivol-thoughts-from-vanessa-finney/

An interview with Vanessa Finney, Manager Archives and Records who talks about her experiences working with the Digitisation Project.

Point and Shoot #5 - What lens or focal length should I use
https://australian.museum/learn/news/blog/point-and-shoot-5-what-lens-should-i-use/

From the blog series 'Point and Shoot' by Museum photographers Carl Bento and James King

Sawfish saw in action
https://australian.museum/learn/news/blog/sawfish-saw-in-action/

This movie clip shows a sawfish feeding. Sawfishes can slash from side to side with the rostrum to stun, impale or even cut prey fishes in half. The rostrum can also pin fishes to the substrate where they are ingested.

Deep Oceans – Viewed from the 'Globe'
https://australian.museum/learn/news/blog/deep-oceans-viewed-from-the-globe/

While building the Deep Oceans exhibition, we’ve had to come up with ways of effectively demonstrating the vastness, as well as the conditions of the Deep Oceans.

Calling on Tongan Traditions: Ngatu
https://australian.museum/learn/news/blog/calling-on-tongan-traditions-ngatu/

Lady Tunakaimanu Feilakepa is renowned and greatly respected for her traditional cultural knowledge in Tonga and across the Pacific. Here she kindly shares her knowledge on the creation and use of tapa cloth.

Liquid gold: save urine, save the planet?
https://australian.museum/learn/news/blog/liquid-gold-save-urine-save-the-planet/

Ancient cultures, from Greece to Asia, have used urine as a fertiliser to provide nutrients to their crops. Is recycling our urine a radical solution to global food security and saving our waterways?