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Footprints in the sand: Banks’ Maori collection, Cook’s first voyage 1768-1771
Paul Tapsell, Auckland War Memorial Museum, New Zealand
Captain James Cook series, 28 July 2006
Historian Paul Tapsell discusses how artefacts in Joseph Banks’ collection from Captain James Cook’s first voyage to the Pacific can be viewed as ‘taonga’, or Maori treasured possessions.
Encounters with wondrous things: the historical significance of the Cook-Forster Collection
Professor Paul Turnbull, Griffith University
Captain James Cook series, 28 July 2006
The historical significance of the Cook-Forster ethnographic collection of the University of Göttingen in Germany is examined by historian Paul Turnbull.
Collecting for the future: a collections development plan for the National Historical Collection
Mathew Trinca, National Museum of Australia
Collections 2006 series, 21 March 2006
Collections and Content General Manager Mathew Trinca outlines the National Museum of Australia’s Collections Development Plan, designed to support collecting efforts for five years.
Singular or plural? Social history and national collections
Ian McShane, Swinburne University of Technology
Collections 2006 series, 21 March 2006
Historian Ian McShane analyses social history as museum theme and practice from 1981 to 2000.
Life and art? Relocating Aboriginal art and culture in the museum
Angela Philp, Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies
Collections 2006 series, 21 March 2006
Historian Angela Philp explores Aboriginal art and culture, and the tensions between aesthetics, history and politics that have been critical in the institutional histories of the National Museum of Australia and the National Gallery of Australia.
Australia’s Official Papuan collection: Sir Hubert Murray and the how and why of a colonial collection
Sylvia Schaffarczyk, Australian National University
Collections 2006 series, 21 March 2006
Sylvia Schaffarczyk reconstructs the history of the Official Papuan collection at the National Museum of Australia and examines Australian collecting in Papua during a key period in the development of anthropology and Australia’s colonial interests.
A sum of many parts: the history of the National Historical Collection
Guy Hansen, National Museum of Australia
Collections 2006 series, 21 March 2006
Curator Guy Hansen traces the history of the National Museum’s National Historical Collection. He argues that the collection is eclectic – that there is no single story but many stories, with various collectors bringing different perspectives.
Reflections on the history of the National Historical Collection
Dr Richard Baker, Dr Don McMichael, Professor John Mulvaney, Peter Pigott, Andrew Reeves and Dr Luke Taylor
Collections 2006 series, 21 March 2006
Six expert speakers – each involved with shaping the National Historical Collection over time – reflect on their personal experiences with the National Museum of Australia in a discussion with curator Kirsten Wehner.
