Category: Museum Tales

Collection Management, Museum Tales

Unboxing the mystery of the Tibetan Thangka

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 Australia and around the world, many of which come into our possession through donations. Recently, the museum received a postal delivery containing a thangka (a Tibetan Buddhist painting on silk applique), however the package was missing any information of the … Continue reading Unboxing the mystery of the Tibetan Thangka

qldmuseum
Museum Tales

The role of a museum curator

by Patrick Couper, Senior Curator of Reptiles and Amphibians, Queensland Museum The role of a museum curator is diverse and hugely rewarding with every day offering something new. My primary role is to oversee the museum’s frog and reptile collections, which now number around 86,000 specimens, and I undertake taxonomic research (the branch of science concerned with the classification of organisms – in my case, … Continue reading The role of a museum curator

qldmuseum
Museum Tales

Museum Tales: Journey to becoming a curator with Patrick Couper

I grew up in New Zealand and was always interested in natural history. As a child, I collected many things – shells, feathers and rocks etc. At the time, I belonged to the junior branch of the Forest and Bird Society in Wellington and would attend meetings where members would display the interesting objects they’d found. Continue reading Museum Tales: Journey to becoming a curator with Patrick Couper

qldmuseum1 Comment