News
NHM Unlocked Pgm to hold 28m specimens
£201m secured with Univ of Reading
AMRI’s Kris Helgen on ‘one of strangest ways
of being a mammal’ – ‘new’ flying squirrels
QMN, SAM & Griffith describe new tree frogs
Litoria spp in PNG swamps & forests
Socially responsible science – 10 rules
to reflect on social impact of research
Australian Universities Accord submissions
address STEM, SHAPE & IK (eg AAH & CHASS)
QMN on collecting the pandemic
& connecting past & present
Te Papa documents lockdown life of Chinese
New Zealanders in new online comics
AG Productivity Comm reviewing philanthropy
– initial submissions due 5 May 2023
ACMI’s Goddess asks us rethink our gaze
& bias – when we see women on the screen
Museums addressing N Ireland’s troubles
– a shared past without a shared memory
Erdem Moralıoğlu & museum conservators
‘There’s just something in the walls’
Apsar Iyer, antiquities crime investigator
appointed President Harvard Law Review
Hunger, Excess & Sustenance – All Consuming
Art & Food @ Norton Simon Museum, Pasadena
V&A Dundee’s ‘Tartan’ incl first display
peat bog’s Glen Afric – oldest true tartan
Powerhouse’s ‘1001 Remarkable Objects’
major exhibition from collns opens 22-July
AFR on First Nations gallery plans
– where are we going & why?
WA reviewing Maritime Archaeology Act 1973
– consultation to 12-May-23
The Creative Economy in Australia (- incl
museums) – what Census 2021 tells us
AWM & AWMM Anzac Day Dawn Services
& pgms (- NZ ntl svc @ Pukeahu Natl War Mem)
Rijksmuseum’s Vermeer exhibition & scalpers
– sell-out tickets resale online
2022’s top 20 museums on social media
# followers on top 4 English lang platforms
Invercargill’s Australasian design team
selected – AWMM, AAG & ANMM experience
Drivers of Trust in Public Instns
– OECD 2021 Survey & value of qualitative measures
MOTAT explores office revolution: starting
with photocopiers @ 5 mins/pg in 1953
QMN taxidermist acquired Q Fever infection
at work in Australian first, court hears
MV’s materials science & analytical chem
Cosmos on conserving museum objects
ACMI Goddess: Power Glamour Rebellion
opens with Geena Davis
Te Papa gifted Jacinda Ardern’s iconic clothes
notes & memorabilia from term as PM
Australasian museums contributing to 1.1 B
object global database – AFR’s view
Aus cultural instns & efficiency dividends
– looking back at 35 years of cuts