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Courtenay Smithers, 1925-2011
https://australian.museum/about/history/people/courtenay-smithers/

Entomologist Courtenay Smithers, who died in 2011, leaves a legacy of international recognition for Australian entomology.

Women at the Museum in the 1950s
https://australian.museum/about/history/people/women-at-the-museum-in-the-1950/

The Australian Museum first employed a female scientist in 1920 and has continued to employ women in a wide variety of roles ever since. Here you can catch a glimpse of the women working at the Museum in the 1950s.

Penny Dadswell Zylstra: Volunteer
https://australian.museum/about/history/people/penny-dadswell-zylstra-volunteer/

Multi-Skilled Volunteer and a Friend

Thomas Wall (d. 1848)
https://australian.museum/about/history/people/thomas-wall-d-1848/

Last journey in the service of science and the Australian Museum's collections.

Winifred West
https://australian.museum/about/history/people/winifred-west-biography/

When she first arrived in Australia, the well-known educationalist Winifred West supported herself by teaching privately and drawing shells for Charles Hedley, the Conchologist at the Australian Museum.

The Museum's Early Days
https://australian.museum/about/history/the-museums-early-days/

Australia's oldest museum was founded in 1827. Under the dedicated curatorship of German emigrant Gerard Krefft in the 1860s, the Museum came to be recognised as a truly 'scientific' establishment.

Nancy Adams
https://australian.museum/about/history/people/nancy-adams/

Nancy spent her entire working life in the Entomology Department of the Museum.

Photographic collections
https://australian.museum/learn/cultures/pacific-collection/photographic/

Discover this extensive collection of images taken in the Pacific from 1876 to 1980.

The Sarah Stone Collection
https://australian.museum/learn/collections/museum-archives-library/the-sarah-stone-collection/

A fascinating collection of original watercolours by a talented female natural history artist.

Walter Lawry Waterhouse Photograph Collection
https://australian.museum/learn/collections/museum-archives-library/photographic/walter-lawry-waterhouse-photograph-collection/

A collection of glass plate negatives created by WL Waterhouse during his time with the Methodist Mission School at Davuilevu, Fiji, between 1906 and 1908.