The Conversation

New funding for the Australian Museum – but is it sustainable?

The Australian Museum has received new funding in a difficult time for the sector. Paul Hocksenar The Australian Museum has joined the chorus of cultural institutions that have recently announced ...
Hyperallergic

Australian Millionaire's Museum Tries Something New (And Old)

A view of Australia's Museum of New and Old Art from the ferry (photos via MONA, all MONA photography by Leigh Carmichael, Sean Fennessy and Peter White) In 1999, the National Gallery of Australia ...
The Guardian

‘It’s like looking at ghosts’: inside the Australian Museum’s extinction cabinets

The remains of a pig-footed bandicoot (Chaeropus ecaudatus) in Sydney’s Australia Museum, one of the 39 mammal species wiped out since Europeans invaded Australia. Photograph: Mike Bowers/The Guardian ...
Australian Broadcasting Corporation

Australian museums are storing almost 600 ancestral remains from Pacific Island nations

In short: Inquiries have revealed two major Australian institutions are in possession of almost 600 ancestral remains from the Pacific region. The discovery includes the ancestral remains of almost ...
The Guardian

Mummy dearest: priceless Egyptian treasures go on display at Australian Museum in Sydney

Curated by Egypt’s self-styled Indiana Jones, Ramses & the Gold of the Pharoahs features sarcophagi, mummified crocodiles and a royal coffin that never left Egypt until this year Museum directors ...