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Written by Dr Peter Cowman, Principal Scientist and Curator, Biosystematics “I always wanted to be a marine biologist!” is the refrain I get when I…
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Since early 2020, Queensland Museum’s social history team has been collecting objects and stories from the SARS-Cov2 pandemic. As we enter the fourth year since…
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There are real-world links to almost all the exhibits in SparkLab! Here are some of our favourites. Alligator water dance When a male alligator is…
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Insect Investigators – Scientists and schools, coming together to discover, document and describe Australia’s biodiversity.
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School holidays have arrived, and curious young minds are already making the most out of their break at SparkLab, exploring the wonder of science and…
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Queensland Museum holds a very important ethno-musical instrument collection donated by Charles and Kati Marson in 2002. The museum, in partnership with Griffith University, Conservatorium…
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Glass was the perfect packaging for medicine during the 19th and early 20th century – stable and strong, and built for ease of branding and…
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“How should we categorise this?” we wondered after reading stories of farmer debates, tales of woe and the occasional exploding animal.
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“What are you working on today?” This is a fairly usual question amongst collection staff at Queensland Museum.
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As a young animator in Australia, Marie Hambleton (nee Sampson) could only dream to one day be among the likes of renowned Walt Disney Animation…
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For the second installment in this two-part series we take a look at some of innovations that have come from the Walt Disney Animation Studios.…
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In this two-part series we take a look at some of innovations that have come from the Walt Disney Animation Studios. These innovations in technology…
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How we can use virtual displays to learn about our collections Written by Sophie Price, Assistant Curator, Anthropology Townsville Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Cultural…
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By Paul Oliver At first sight a Spiny Knob-tailed Gecko looks more like a Pokemon character than a lizard! Not only do they have perhaps…
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Celebrating International Music Day – 1st October Photos and text by Karen Kindt, Collection Manager, First Nations Cultures I start my day off listening to…
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Written by Patrick Couper, Senior Curator of Reptiles and Amphibians, Queensland Museum The beginning of the Plastic Age Large-scale plastic production began in the 1940s.…
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Dr Sarah Hamylton, President of the Australian Coral Reef Society explains why the dive helmet used on the 1928-29 Great Barrier Reef Expedition brought the…
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Karen Kindt, Collection Manager, First Nations Cultures Today is World Rhino Day. In acknowledgement of the importance of these amazing creatures and the demise of…
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Written by Karen Kindt, Collection Manager First Nations Cultures Queensland Museum’s collection is built upon over a hundred years of sourcing and documenting items from…
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Wednesday 7 September is Indigenous Literacy Day – a national day to raise awareness and funds to support literacy in remote Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Communities.…
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