Museums
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Sciences & Technology
What five thylacine skulls can tell us about extinction
The Tasmanian tiger is extinct. The only specimens are in museums, but it’s amazing what five thylacine skulls can still tell us
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Health & Medicine
One of the most affecting and unsettling things I have ever seen
The Berry Collection was a poorly curated anatomical and anthropological collection that facilitated scientific racism and was dominated by unethically sourced Aboriginal remains
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Sciences & Technology
A biobank freezes Australian species for the future
By freezing the cells of living animals, researchers and museums are working together to safeguard Australia’s wildlife
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Arts & Culture
Digital ‘history machines’ are never politically neutral
As library, museum and other heritage collections go online, we need to consider who is creating these collections and why
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Environment
Lockdown ‘field trip’ reveals whereabouts of Australian grasshoppers
Using old field notes and new technology, researchers used COVID lockdowns to retrace the steps of pioneering Australian insect surveyors, virtually
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Arts & Culture
Bringing a living archive to life
The Living Archive challenges the idea of what an Indigenous museum collection can be and could become
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Arts & Culture
Uncomfortable truths from a town to a nation
The storytelling in Tennant Creek is a microcosm of Australia’s struggle to come to terms with its past
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Arts & Culture
Museums in cyberspace
In the face of COVID-19, museums have moved to engage audiences online. Here are some lessons on what works and what doesn’t
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Arts & Culture
Feather-flowers and photographs
A University of Melbourne collaboration is connecting Australia’s First Peoples’ with museum collections, creating a 'living archive' of Indigenous culture.
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Education
The young and curious: How Science Gallery can break down silos
An innovative longitudinal study will explore and challenge what young people want from their cultural institutions