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Museum in a box - Freshwater

What's in the Box - Freshwater

After a year of planning and development the new Freshwater Box is finished and is heading out to NSW schools. The Freshwater box was developed in partnership Sydney Water and is the second box in a new style that includes scientific equipment to assist student in monitoring their local environment.

By: Karen Player, Category: Lifelong Learning, Date: 04 Mar 2010

Veggie Garden - Parrys Raines

School Veggie Garden

How to support the less fortunate in our communities by growing fresh veggies for them.

By: Parrys Raines, Category: Science, Date: 23 Feb 2010

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ANZ Public Sector Summit 2010

Attending this two-day conference with a bunch of government folks to discuss all tings open government, Web 2.0 and innovation. It is being co-hosted by CISCO and the Centre for Social Impact. Here’s my notes from today’s session.

By: Dr Lynda Kelly, Category: Museullaneous, Date: 18 Feb 2010

Plastiki

Plastiki – A solution to waste

One man’s environmental dream becomes a reality and he is educating the planet to consider waste as a resource. The Plastiki is history in the making!

By: Parrys Raines, Category: Science, Date: 18 Feb 2010

Museum in a Box - Evolution of Australian Biota

What's in the Box - 45 years on

Museum in a Box® was developed 45 years ago and is the corner stone of the Australian Museum outreach program.

By: Karen Player, Category: Lifelong Learning, Date: 17 Feb 2010

Museum in a Box - Bush Tucker

What's in the Box - a busy beginning

It's only February and there are already 330 Museum in a Boxes booked for 2010.  With all of the refurbishment and program planning it has been a busy beginning to the year.

By: Karen Player, Category: Lifelong Learning, Date: 16 Feb 2010

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Statement on Climate Change

In its role as a leading scientific institution, the Australian Museum recognizes that climate change poses a serious environmental, economic and social threat to our current way of life and to the security of future generations across the globe.

By: Frank Howarth, Dr Robin Torrence, Category: Museullaneous, Date: 16 Feb 2010

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Wave Energy Conversion

Renewable energy has to be part of the solution in combating climate change and wave energy conversion is a fantastic technology using waves to produce clean electricity.

By: Parrys Raines, Category: Science, Date: 14 Feb 2010

Web to Classroom Workshop

Web 2.0 for small and volunteer museums

I've been asked to speak at the 2010 Australian Maritime Museums Annual Conference on the topic of Web 2.0 for small and volunteer-run museums. On this page you can find my PowerPoint slides and various other relevant links.

By: Dr Lynda Kelly, Category: Museullaneous, Date: 14 Feb 2010

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Choosing our exhibtions

We've recently had an enquiry about how we go about choosing the temporary exhibitions that we show here. As you can imagine, there are lots of factors take into consideration when selecting them. Here are a few of them.

By: Michael Harvey , Category: At The Museum, Date: 12 Feb 2010