Performance commentaries output group 1.2

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• Preliminaries
• Part 1 - Director's review of operations
• Part 2 - Performance reports
  • Guiding principles for performance
  • Performance reporting
  • Performance at a glance
  • Performance commentaries output group 1.1
  • Performance commentaries output group 1.2
    • Background
    • Changeover of objects in the Museum's galleries
    • Permanent exhibition galleries
    • Temporary exhibitions
    • Future temporary exhibitions
    • Travelling exhibitions
    • Public programs and events
    • Schools Programs
    • Scholarship and research
    • Friends of the National Museum of Australia
    • Volunteers
    • Communications
    • Information and Communications Technology
    • Visitation numbers and trends
    • Official visitors
• Part 3 - Accountability and management
• Part 4 - Financial statements
• Part 5 - Appendices
• Multimedia
• Annual Report PDF

Output group 1.2: National exhibitions, public programs and events - performance highlights

• Major changeovers of objects occurred in the permanent galleries, including 25 new stories in Eternity.
  
  
• A new exhibition, Paipa, was launched in the First Australians gallery.
  
  
• The pilot exhibition, Melting Pots of Culture, was installed off-site at Reconciliation Place.
  
  
• The Anzac pilgrims appeal was launched.
  
  
• Four major temporary exhibitions were launched and four are in development.
  
  
• The Museum's first international exhibition, Stories from Australia: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples, opened in China.
  
  
• Four travelling exhibitions opened across Australia.
  
  
• The storytelling program for children and adults, at the Museum and outside Canberra, was a great success.
  
  
• Sky Lounge was fully booked out.
  
  
• 60 youth groups across Australia participated in online musters as part of the 2002 Year of the Outback.
  
  
• 113 public lectures, forums, seminars, conferences and workshops were presented.
  
  
• 81,748 students and 1734 schools visited the Museum on booked tours.
  
  
• More than 1000 teachers attended professional development workshops.
  
  
• Nine Talkback Classroom forums were held involving more than 1000 students and nine national and well-known figures.
  
  
• Our Voices teaching resource won a national award for excellence in educational publishing and Australian History Mysteries was shortlisted for a national award.
  
  
• The Museum was contracted to develop content for interactive online curriculum materials for primary schools.
  
  
• The largest conference on desert archaeology ever held in Australia was attended by 90 delegates from 16 countries.
  
  
• Over 100 volunteers dedicated more than 3000 hours of their time to Museum activities.
  
  
• 93 per cent of the media coverage of the Museum was judged by an external consultant as favourable. The level of unfavourable coverage dropped from eight to two per cent.
  
  
• A new sponsorship was launched with APN News and Media Ltd.
  
  
• There was a 55 per cent increase in visits to the Museum's website.
  
  
• The Museum was invited to advise the National Museum of World Cultures in Sweden on the development of information and communication technologies.
  
  
• More than 825,000 people visited the Museum, with increasing numbers attending travelling exhibitions and public programs.
  
  
• 95 per cent of visitors surveyed recorded a satisfied or very satisfied visit; a five per cent increase from last year.