National Museum of Australia

An evolving collection of recordings of key past and current lectures, forums and symposiums held at the National Museum of Australia - listen to them anywhere, anytime, or subscribe to our podcast service.

Recent programs

> NEW! Behind the Scenes series: From Makassar to Marege' to the Museum - Alison Mercieca

Curator Alison Mercieca tells the story of the Macassan trepang industry, considering the places connected by the Macassan voyages and looks at the archaeological traces left behind by Macassan activities along the Arnhem land coast.

> NEW! A market for memories: understanding public history at the Mindil Beach site in Darwin - Mickey Dewar

National Museum of Australia 2008 Director's Fellow Dr Mickey Dewar talks about her research into the Mindil Beach site in Darwin and discusses the ways in which a cultural site intersects with a complex community history and memory.

> NEW! All Along the Line - Bill Fox

National Museum of Australia 2008 Director's Fellow Bill Fox, an American adventurer, poet and scholar, discusses his research into how humans transform land into landscape, terrain into territory and space into place and in particular his current research.

> Behind the Scenes Series: Guna Kinne and her Latvian national dress - Karen Schamberger

Curator Karen Schamberger tells the story of Mrs Ginne Kinne's Latvian national dress that was assembled over a period of 20 years in Latvia, Germany and Australia and that she donated to the National Museum of Australia in 1989.

> Discovering Cook's collections symposium

Leading speakers explore the significance of the Cook-Forster ethnographic collection acquired during Cook's three Pacific voyages. Hear presentations on the history of the collection, its contemporary importance to the descendants of the objects' makers and its impact on the fields of anthropology, art and museology.

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