The Conversation

New funding for the Australian Museum – but is it sustainable?

The Australian Museum has received new funding in a difficult time for the sector. Paul Hocksenar The Australian Museum has joined the chorus of cultural institutions that have recently announced ...
Hyperallergic

Australian Millionaire's Museum Tries Something New (And Old)

A view of Australia's Museum of New and Old Art from the ferry (photos via MONA, all MONA photography by Leigh Carmichael, Sean Fennessy and Peter White) In 1999, the National Gallery of Australia ...
The Guardian

‘It’s like looking at ghosts’: inside the Australian Museum’s extinction cabinets

The remains of a pig-footed bandicoot (Chaeropus ecaudatus) in Sydney’s Australia Museum, one of the 39 mammal species wiped out since Europeans invaded Australia. Photograph: Mike Bowers/The Guardian ...
BroadwayWorld

Australian Museum Of Performing Arts To Open DIVA, A New Blockbuster Exhibition

The Australian Museum of Performing Arts (AMPA) will open DIVA, its inaugural large-scale exhibition, featuring more than 250 objects drawn from the Victoria and Albert Museum, the Australian ...
Australian Broadcasting Corporation

Australian museums are storing almost 600 ancestral remains from Pacific Island nations

In short: Inquiries have revealed two major Australian institutions are in possession of almost 600 ancestral remains from the Pacific region. The discovery includes the ancestral remains of almost ...