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History & ideas

Research and museology

Researcher examining the ground in the desert.

Research and scholarship are central to the National Museum of Australia's collection, exhibitions, publications and other activities. This research includes Australian history, care of its collection and museological areas including audience, evaluation and outreach.

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Audio on demand

Podcasts of conferences, seminars and programs covering a diverse range of historical and museological topics.

 

Exhibition and feature websites

Many of our exhibitions have extensive feature websites, some with enhanced online-only content. We also have feature websites developed as collaborations with other museums, community groups or students.

Explore Australian history through collection objects

Customised camping gear used by the Dunphy family on bushwalks in the Blue Mountains in the 1930s.
A 1950s Holden Special Sedan owned by one woman for 25 years.
A tuckerbox and wharfies' hook from Aboriginal activist and waterside worker Joe McGuiness.
A Concord coach used in northern New South Wales in the 1880s, and later in several films.
A trophy linked to the early days of rugby league and star player Dally Messenger.
Wimbledon trophies and racquets belonging to Evonne Goolagong Cawley.
A mother's gift to her daughter, complete with miniature furnishings and figurines.
Recovered from the Great Barrier Reef 200 years after it was jettisoned from Cook's 'Endeavour'.
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