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Chasing shadows – acquiring and managing virtual collections
Poppy Wenham, National Museum of Australia
Collections 2010 series, 14 May 2010
Poppy Wenham looks at some of the issues in adapting museum practice to the challenges of born-digital collection material and asks what we need to do to work effectively with virtual collections.
Curating Australian histories
Dr Kirsten Wehner, National Museum of Australia
31 March 2010
What can objects tell us about the past? Kirsten Wehner talks to history teachers about the nature of exhibitions as histories.
How can museums help history teachers?
Dr Peter Stanley, National Museum of Australia
31 March 2010
Dr Peter Stanley, the head of the National Museum’s Research Centre, asks teachers ‘How can museum historians and curators best support history teachers?’
What is a memory?
Dr Judith Slee, Dr Mike Pickering, Professor Paul Pickering and Dr Peter Stanley
Sites of Memory symposium, 28 August 2009
Historians Mike Pickering, Paul Pickering and Peter Stanley join psychologist Judith Slee in a discussion about memory, how it is defined, measured and understood, and why it is sometimes contested.
Layers of significance – Reconciliation Place and the Acton Peninsula, Canberra
Leanne Dempsey, Mandy Doherty, Anne Faris, Professor Amareswar Galla, Paul House, Andrew Smith and Benita Tunks
Sites of Memory symposium, 28 August 2009
Explores the varying layers of significance of Reconciliation Place and Acton Peninsula in Canberra, both traditional homes of the Ngambri Aboriginal people. The Peninsula was once the site of the Canberra hospital and is now home to the National Museum.
Research in free-choice learning
Dr Lynn Dierking and Dr John Falk
9 July 2009
Museum evaluation and learning theory experts Lynn Dierking and John Falk share insights from two current research projects in free-choice learning in museums, at this seminar for museum and gallery professionals.
Design inspirations behind the Museum building
Sue Dove, Coffey Projects
29 April 2009
Sue Dove provides an insight into the design of the National Museum of Australia, discussing the building’s aim and function, the influence of other international buildings, contentious design aspects, and the expression of major Australian themes.
A cast of thousands: redevelopment of Circa
Bronwyn Dowdall, Dr Martha Sear and Jennifer Wilson
Collections 2009 series, 27 March 2009
National Museum curators and researchers discuss the development of the Museum’s introductory Circa rotating theatre. They examine its function and the use of new narratives to explore the National Historical Collection.
What was it like: a perspective on history in museums
Brian Crozier, Crozier Schutt Associates
Collections 2009 series, 27 March 2009
Museum consultant Brian Crozier considers how material culture might be interpreted by museums for popular rather than academic audiences. He examines the cultural contributions that museums may make in the study of history.
From flat things big things grow!
Elspeth Wishart, Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery
Collections 2009 series, 27 March 2009
Elspeth Wishart outlines the challenges facing the Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery in exhibiting important two-dimensional artefacts. She relates how the museum must balance the needs of visitors with the care of these artefacts, a letter and a flag.
