Hidden inside a copper jug, a message from the past.
By: Vanessa Finney, Category: Science, Date: 29 May 2013
Illuminating the Australian Museum's first image library - 30,000 glass lantern slides.
By: Vanessa Finney, Category: Museullaneous, Date: 04 Jan 2013
The lantern slide collection reminds me of the story of Thomas Whitelegge - factory hand, biologist, Darwin correspondent and single father.
By: Vanessa Finney, Category: Museullaneous, Date: 05 Dec 2012
New scans of Frank Hurley's 1920 and 1921 photography from the Torres Strait reveal some magical underwater images.
By: Vanessa Finney, Category: Museullaneous, Date: 09 Nov 2012
A beautiful but mysterious notebook has been transferred to Archives from the Fish section.
By: Vanessa Finney, Category: Museullaneous, Date: 27 Mar 2012
We are about to start a project to digitise and transcribe the Nature Diaries of ornithologist, journalist and environmentalist Michael Sharland.
By: Vanessa Finney, Category: Museullaneous, Date: 20 Dec 2011
The Scott sisters exhibition 'Beauty from Nature' closes next week, on Sunday 27th November.
By: Vanessa Finney, Category: Museullaneous, Date: 18 Nov 2011
'Let me meet you once more! A dear friend by the strange shore.' Captain Nomure, 19/11/1911.
By: Vanessa Finney, Category: Museullaneous, Date: 17 Nov 2011
Read selected extracts from the notebooks of the most famous natural history illustrators working in Sydney in the last decades of the 19th century...
By: Vanessa Finney, Category: Museullaneous, Date: 05 Sep 2011
Read selected extracts from the notebooks of the most famous natural history illustrators working in Sydney in the nineteenth century.
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