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Head of Development – Australian Museum

The Australian Museum is a State Government agency which operates within the NSW Department of Trade and Investment. The Australian Museum provides access, engagement and scientific research to increase our understanding of natural history and culture, particularly of the Australasian region. The Australian Museum’s mission is to inspire exploration, understanding and care for our world […]

Travelling Exhibition Program Manager – Museum Victoria

Position Description • Lead a successful temporary exhibitions programme at Australia’s largest museum • Based at Museum Victoria’s award winning museum, Melbourne Museum, and close to public transport. • Highly successful cultural organisation that places huge emphasis on our collections, people and the community. Museum Victoria is seeking a Travelling Exhibition Program Manager to provide […]

Science Strategy Unveiled

Oliver Milman, ‘Blueprint to address Australia’s lack of science strategy unveiled’, The Guardian, 2 September 2014 Chief scientist makes series of recommendations to improve the country’s skills in science, technology, engineering and maths. Australia’s chief scientist, Ian Chubb, has unveiled a blueprint to address Australia’s lack of a science strategy, with proposals aimed at improving […]

MAGNT staff cutbacks

Felicity James and James Dunlevie, ‘Warning over NT museum staff cutbacks’, ABC Indigenous, 4 Sept 2014 Artworks could be at risk if a lack of staff at the Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory is not addressed, a report has found. The August 2014 Report to the Legislative Assembly found issues with storage […]

Cultural Cities

The following item is from the NDMC Newsletter, September 2014: Cultural cities and productivity: new Nesta report Nesta has published a paper linking the productivity of cities with the amount of culture they offer (this first appeared in longer form last year in National Endowment for the Arts publication). They say that although this link […]

Break up major museums?

Hrag Vartanian, ‘Break up the major museums to save them’, Aljazeera America, 31 August 2014  August institutions should build more outposts rather than cloister themselves in big cities The Louvre in Paris recently told The Art Newspaper that it expects its visitor numbers to rise by a third over the next decade, putting the world’s […]

Search for new Te Papa CEO

Nikki MacDonald, ‘Who will head up Our Place?’, The Dominion Post, 6 September 2014   Te Papa’s recent choice of a foreign chief executive could hardly be described as a conspicuous success. So if his successor has to be a Kiwi, who is in the running? The last time the job of guardian of Our […]