Innovation talk, austerity walk: Aus science

– failing policy & drifting research agenda
SAM’s 70,000 visitor ticketed event success

Treasures of the Viking Age: Galloway Hoard
QM, HMS Pandora & collns help illuminate

personal interests, cultural exchange & empire
WAM’s Alec Coles on VOC Vergulde Draeck

survivor camp discovery near Ledge Point
NZ artform markets 3yr report sees museums #1

nb 2.8m engaged in past 3 cf 4.0m in previous 3
Tūhura OM wins Marketing Team of the Year

& places Dunedin in global conversations
Tūhura OM’s Gallery Gang’s Big Adventure

– creativity & imagination as tools for life
What to do if you find a meteorite

Museums Victoria Research Institute
Benin’s Museum of West African Art

delays opening due to protests
ABS updates ASCCEG – Aus Std Classification

Cultural & Ethnic Gps & notes design constraints