Library Museum and Gallery

• Railway museum forced to sell historic train carriages

  ABC Radio Canberra

  By Hannah Walmsley

  Posted July 13, 2017 14:46:39

  Canberra's historic railway museum has been forced into liquidation, with many historic train carriages set to go to auction next month.

  Topics: library-museum-and-gallery, history, world-war-2, world-war-1, volunteers, canberra-2600

• Outback Queensland fossil dig unearths ancient marine reptile

  ABC North West Qld

  By Zara Margolis

  Posted July 13, 2017 07:56:55 | Updated July 13, 2017 09:17:57

  A group of paying tourists, volunteers and scientists have banded together to unearth a 100-million-year-old marine fossil from a dusty paddock in outback Queensland.

  Topics: fossils, dinosaurs, science-and-technology, palaeontology, human-interest, library-museum-and-gallery, travel-and-tourism, richmond-4822

• 'Wiki club' revives forgotten Northern Territory history

  By Stephanie Zillman

  Posted July 08, 2017 15:48:38

  A Darwin-based club says it is rectifying a "massive shortfall" in Wikipedia articles about Northern Territory history, which has a fraction of the number of pages compared to other states.

  Topics: history, historians, community-and-society, education, indigenous-aboriginal-and-torres-strait-islander, library-museum-and-gallery, darwin-0800

• 'It's never too late': Library fines amnesty prompts flood of overdue returns

  By Riley Stuart

  Posted July 07, 2017 15:05:37

  City of Sydney Library's decision to give fines the flick prompts a flood of almost 70,000 overdue returns, including one book that had been "borrowed" for more than a decade.

  Topics: arts-and-entertainment, library-museum-and-gallery, local-government, community-and-society, community-organisations, sydney-2000

• Cairns Museum - external 1 image

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  ABC News

  Posted July 07, 2017 10:30:00

  Topics: arts-and-entertainment, library-museum-and-gallery, history, cairns-4870

• Cairns Museum Hong Kong students image

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  ABC News

  Posted July 07, 2017 10:30:00

  Topics: history, library-museum-and-gallery, cairns-4870

• Cairns Museum Manager Suzanne Gibson image

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  ABC News

  Posted July 07, 2017 10:30:00

  Topics: library-museum-and-gallery, history, cairns-4870

• Cairns Museum set to re-open after two-year hiatus

  ABC Far North

  By Brendan Mounter and Emilia Terzon

  Posted July 07, 2017 10:30:00

  The Cairns Museum is preparing to re-open its doors for the first time in two years following a $10million renovation to the School of Arts, the far north city's oldest public building.

  Topics: library-museum-and-gallery, community-and-society, local-government, cairns-4870

• MONA boss on legacy, thinking outside the box and taking risks

  By Aneeta Bhole

  Posted July 07, 2017 08:03:26 | Updated July 07, 2017 13:43:23

  Tasmania's Museum of Old and New Art boss David Walsh spruiks his legacy, vision and the upside of taking risks to business and tourism leaders.

  Topics: library-museum-and-gallery, urban-development-and-planning, tas

• Coding workshops help Indigenous girls learn a new language (audio)

  ABC Radio Brisbane

  By Jessica Hinchliffe

  Posted July 05, 2017 13:09:18 | Updated July 05, 2017 15:54:19

  Young Indigenous girls are taught how to write code to help close a digital divide as part of NAIDOC Week celebrations.

  Topics: indigenous-aboriginal-and-torres-strait-islander, information-technology, computers-and-technology, education, mathematics-education, internet-culture, library-museum-and-gallery, brisbane-4000

• Aboriginal art examines what's changed in 50 years since referendum

  ABC Radio Perth

  By Emma Wynne

  Posted July 05, 2017 11:53:54 | Updated July 05, 2017 13:58:48

  Aboriginal artists from across Western Australia produce artworks that reflect on what has changed and what hasn't since the 1967 referendum.

  Topics: indigenous-aboriginal-and-torres-strait-islander, library-museum-and-gallery, visual-art, indigenous-culture, aboriginal, perth-6000

• Treasure Trove: Arthur Streeton's Golden Summer, Eaglemont Audio

  Audio
  ABC News

  6min 47sec

  Posted July 04, 2017 13:10:56

  Arthur Streeton's 1889 masterpiece Golden Summer, Eaglemont is a key work in the National Gallery of Australia's collection of 19th century Australian art.

  Topics: visual-art, library-museum-and-gallery, canberra-2600

• Streeton's golden masterpiece is back at the NGA (audio)

  ABC Radio Canberra

  By Louise Maher

  Posted July 04, 2017 13:10:56

  Arthur Streeton's masterpiece Golden Summer, Eaglemont is back at the National Gallery after going on show in London.

  Topics: visual-art, library-museum-and-gallery, 20th-century, canberra-2600

• Arthur Streeton, Golden Summer, Eaglemont 1889, oil on canvas, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, purchased 1995 image

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  ABC News

  Posted July 04, 2017 13:10:56

  Topics: visual-art, library-museum-and-gallery, canberra-2600

• WestConnex protesters turn salvaged items into art

  ABC Radio Sydney

  By Amanda Hoh

  Posted June 28, 2017 12:12:30 | Updated June 28, 2017 12:56:56

  Local residents protesting against WestConnex turn their activism into art, with an exhibition showcasing heritage items salvaged from homes acquired and destroyed during construction.

  Topics: contemporary-art, urban-development-and-planning, arts-and-entertainment, library-museum-and-gallery, government-and-politics, sydney-2000

• Australia's largest display of whale skeletons grows

  ABC Great Southern

  By Lisa Morrison

  Posted June 27, 2017 16:12:27

  Whale skeletons are being exhumed and reassembled to go on show at Albany's Historic Whaling Station.

  Topics: mammals---whales, whaling, library-museum-and-gallery, albany-6330

• Sperm whale 1978 image

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  ABC News

  Posted June 27, 2017 16:12:27

  Topics: mammals---whales, whaling, library-museum-and-gallery, albany-6330

• Katelyn and skeleton image

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  ABC News

  Posted June 27, 2017 16:12:27

  Topics: mammals---whales, whaling, library-museum-and-gallery, albany-6330

• Sperm whale 1980 image

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  ABC News

  Posted June 27, 2017 16:12:27

  Topics: mammals---whales, whaling, library-museum-and-gallery, albany-6330

• Whale exhumation image

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  ABC News

  Posted June 27, 2017 16:12:27

  Topics: mammals---whales, library-museum-and-gallery, whaling, albany-6330

• Pygmy blue whale and humpback whale image

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  ABC News

  Posted June 27, 2017 16:12:27

  Topics: mammals---whales, whaling, library-museum-and-gallery, albany-6330

• Roaches turned into zombies and other freaky insect facts

  ABC Radio Melbourne

  By Simon Leo Brown

  Posted June 25, 2017 07:00:46 | Updated June 25, 2017 14:35:55

  Did you know dragonflies can out-hunt lions or that jewel wasps can turn cockroaches into zombies? These freaky insects are put under the microscope as part of a new exhibition in Melbourne.

  Topics: invertebrates---insects-and-arachnids, library-museum-and-gallery, entomology, science-and-technology, offbeat, human-interest, melbourne-3000, carlton-3053

• The bugs are coming to Australia! But don't be alarmed, it's for art and fun Video

  Video
  ABC News

  6min 38sec

  Posted June 23, 2017 14:33:50

  The creative genius and co-founder behind the Weta Workshop, Sir Richard Taylor, is bringing his latest creation to Australia. The Bug Lab exhibition will open at Melbourne Museum and feature giant replicas of all things buzzing and crawling.

  Topics: library-museum-and-gallery, arts-and-entertainment, film-movies, australia

• From Hobbits to giant bees: Inside a special effects powerhouse

  ABC News Breakfast

  By Patrick Wood

  Posted June 23, 2017 14:33:50 | Updated June 23, 2017 15:20:56

  It's the prop-making, jaw-dropping special effects powerhouse behind films like The Lord Of The Rings, and now Weta is bringing its latest creation to Australia.

  Topics: arts-and-entertainment, library-museum-and-gallery, film-movies, australia

• Spiny leaf insect image

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  ABC News

  Posted June 23, 2017 09:40:53

  Topics: invertebrates---insects-and-arachnids, library-museum-and-gallery, cairns-4870

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