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Written by Assistant Curator, Social History, Lyn Petrie. This year marks the centenary of ANZAC Day. While various local commemorative events had taken place across…
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Written by Senior Curator of Social History, Mark Clayton In 1988 the Queensland Museum was gifted a collection of twenty-eight purple Anzac Day ribbons documenting…
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Written by Senior Curator of Social History, Mark Clayton Dented, damaged and tarnished, there was nothing in the BRISBANE CHARITY CUP’s name or appearance to…
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Written by Senior Curator of Cultural Environments, Mark Clayton. Can you ever imagine sending an email, knowing that there was every reasonable chance it might never…
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Written by Mark Clayton, Senior Curator, Social History, Queensland Museum. You won’t find the name Alfred Warner mentioned in any Australian military history, but as…
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Written by Mark Clayton, Senior Curator, Social History, Queensland Museum. This hand-drawn map of Quinn’s Post, Gallipoli, documents – in great detail – the disposition of…
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Happy International Women’s Day! In the lead up to 8 March 2015, Queensland Science have been busy celebrating International Women’s Day by shining the spotlight…
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By Queensland Museum Curator of Queensland stories, Tracy Ryan. Queensland Museum’s social history collection receives a lot of donation offers each year, and sadly many of…
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Passionate about science? You have 3 minutes, no Powerpoint and no jargon… do you have what it takes? FameLab applications are now open. International FameLab, the…
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Queensland Museum Assistant Collection Manager David Parkhill writes about his personal journey, from being captivated by Museums as a young boy growing up in England to arriving…
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Scott Hocknull (far left), Senior Curator, Vertebrate Palaeontologist was recently invited by BHP Billiton Mitsui Coal (BMC) to speak at an employee engagement event its…
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Queensland Museum Senior Curator, Mark Clayton writes about a toy car that was recently donated to the Museum and sheds some light on the accession process.
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Queensland Museum Collection Manager (Mammals and Birds), Heather Janetzki, talks about some of her favourite items within the Queensland DNA campaign that you have the…
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The Queensland Museum is calling on the public to become involved in preserving the stories within the State Collection. Through the Become a Part of Queensland’s…
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By Maryanne Venables On Saturday 23 August, National Science Week may have been winding down, but here at Queensland Museum, we were cranking up! Twenty…
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Queensland Museum arachnologist Dr Robert Raven travelled to the Central Highlands of Tasmania in February surveying spiders as part of a Bush Blitz survey. And…
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By Dr Christine Lambkin Did you know that during 2012-13, the Queensland Museum had nearly 13,000 enquiries through the Discovery Centre alone, that’s not including…
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Australia recently celebrated National Archaeology Week. During this time, Queensland Museum Curator of Archaeology, Dr Brit Asmussen participated in some Meet the Curator sessions with…
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The Out of the Box Festival is returning to Brisbane tomorrow and bringing along 8 days of fun workshops, musical performances & lively concerts for…
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Written by: Tim Janetzki is a student at Ferny Grove State High School who has taken it upon himself to discover the Queensland Museum and…
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