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The Museum's Early Days
https://australian.museum/about/history/the-museums-early-days/Australia's oldest museum was founded in 1827. Under the dedicated curatorship of German emigrant Gerard Krefft in the 1860s, the Museum came to be recognised as a truly 'scientific' establishment.
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Nancy Adams
https://australian.museum/about/history/people/nancy-adams/Nancy spent her entire working life in the Entomology Department of the Museum.
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Australian Museum Archives
https://australian.museum/get-involved/staff-profiles/australian-museum-archives/The Museum Archives and Research Library cares for the Museum’s institutional memory and its historic natural history book and journal collections dating from 1836.
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Edgar Waite Diaries
https://australian.museum/learn/collections/museum-archives-library/edgar-waite-diaries/Edgar Waite was Assistant of Zoology at the Australian Museum from 1893 and was a prolific, knowledgeable and fascinating diarist.
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Australian Museum timeline
https://australian.museum/about/history/timelines/australian-museum-timeline/The Australian Museum has undergone some turbulent times since it was established in 1827.
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Curators and Directors of the Australian Museum
https://australian.museum/about/history/people/curators-and-directors-of-the-australian-museum/Discover the 17 Curators and Directors that have overseen the Australian Museum evolution from a one-person operation to an internationally recognised scientific institution.
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1980s: Repatriation - a significant step towards the future
https://australian.museum/learn/news/blog/1980s-repatriation-a-significant-step-towards-the-future/In 1981 Anthropologists celebrated the ‘return to Vanuatu of an important ceremonial slit drum … one of only five surviving in the world’.
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1970s: Reaching Out
https://australian.museum/learn/news/blog/1970s-reaching-out/What's got four wheels, is stuffed with life and provides an important service to the community?
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1940s: The Australian Museum - Breaking Out
https://australian.museum/learn/news/blog/1940s-the-australian-museum-breaking-out/"Museum's are not morgues and should expand along modern lines." So commented J.R Kinghorn in the Women's Weekly
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1910s: Allan McCulloch - A New Breed of Scientist for the 20th Century
https://australian.museum/learn/news/blog/1910sallan-mcculloch-a-new-breed-of-scientist-for-the-20th-century/On his recruitment application for war service in 1918 the only address that 32 year-old Allan McCulloch cited was the 'Australian Museum'.
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Ramses & the Gold of the Pharaohs
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