The Museum and its staff are involved with a variety of Discovery and Linkage grant projects funded by the Australian Research Council.
The culture of weeds [LP120200473]
The culture of weeds: invasion biology, identity and the aesthetics in Australia
Mike Smith and Libby Robin from the Museum together with Cameron Muir from the Australian National University, Joslin Moore and Dave Kendal from the University of Melbourne partner with the Royal Botanic Gardens and National Herbarium of Victoria.
Weeds are a significant threat to Australia's biodiversity - but when does a plant become one? Defining plants and landscapes as weedy reflects not only ecological values, but also economics, aesthetics and national identity. The question of how and why weeds spread reveals cultural values that inform the management of all invasive species.
Modern Human Origins [DP110102864]
Modern Human Origins and Early Behaviour Complexity in Australia and South East Asia
Mike Smith, together with Christopher Clarkson from the University of Queensland, and Richard Fullagar from the University of Wollongong
Three new archaeological excavations will contribute to our understanding of how and when did humans first cross from Southeast Asia into Australia.
Alive with the Dreaming! [LP110200742]
Alive with the Dreaming! Songlines of the Western Desert
Mike Smith, Margo Neale and Libby Robin from the Museum, together with Howard Morphy from the Australian National University and June Ross from the University of New England
To engage with the elders and artists of the Western Desert to share an understanding of the significance in terms of scale, spiritual and environmental aspects of the iconic songlines that map the Australian continent. The project will include performances, books, films and a major exhibition at the Museum.
Engaging Objects [LP100100623]
Engaging Objects: Indigenous Communities, museum collections and the representation of Indigenous Histories
Ian Coates and Mike Pickering from the Museum, together with Howard Morphy and Maria Nugent from the ANU and Lissant Bolton from the British Museum
Examines the research process leading up to a major exhibition at the NMA of the British Museum’s Australian Indigenous collections.
Pintupi Dialogues [LP100200359]
Pintupi Dialogues: Reconstructing memories of art, land and community through the visual record
Peter Thorley from the Museum together with Nicolas Peterson and Philippa Deveson from the ANU, Fred Myers from New York University and Papunya Tula artists
Using archival footage, this project will provide an opportunity for Pintupi people to comment on a significant period in their lives as they moved away from the institutionalised settlement of Papunya and established the new community of Yayayi in the mid 1970s.
Anzac Day at Home and Abroad [LP110100264]
Anzac Day at Home and Abroad: a centenary history of Australia’s national day
Peter Stanley from the Museum, together with Bruce Scates from Monash University and many others.
Examining Anzac Day’s complex and contested history using archival research, novels, public history, and private and collective memories.
Previous ARC grants with Museum involvement
British Pacific Rim Settler Societies: Conciliation narratives and the historical imagination in British Pacific Rim Settler Societies
(2008-2011) LP0776803
Contact Michael Pickering
Indigenous participation in the Australian colonial economy: an anthropological and historical investigation
(2007-2009) LP0775392
Contact: Michael Pickering
Outcome: Indigenous participation in Australian Economies conference held 9-10 November 2009 at the National Museum of Australia
Cultural collections, creators and copyright: museums, galleries, libraries and archives and Australia’s digital heritage
(2006-2008) LP 0669566
Contact: Karen Leary
Increasing visitor frequency: an approach to understanding and forecasting how cultural-attraction visitors respond to various incentives to increase visitation rates
(2004 -2008) LP0455321
Contact: Susan Tonkin
New literacy, new audiences: a model for cost-effective Australian content generation and multiplatform publishing via co-creation and multi-site distribution
(2006-2008)LP0562264
Contact: Adam Blackshaw
The Australian Dictionary of Biography Online and Emerging National Information Systems: Networking Research Capability
(2006) LP0668026
Contact: Mat Trinca
Migration Memories: An analysis of representations of Australian migration histories
(2005-2007) LP0455051
Contact: Martha Sear
Migration memories exhibition September-November 2007
Collaborating for Indigenous Rights: A fifty year retrospective exploring the history of black and white Australian activism 1957–1972
(2004-2006) LP0454062
Contact: Michael Pickering
Outcome: Collaborating for Indigenous Rights 1957-1973 website
Australian Indigenous Collectors and Collections
(2004-2006) LP0455562
Contact: Margo Neale
Studies in the degradation of dyes and pigments in ink on paper, in photographic media and on painted surfaces
(2004-2006) LP0453482
Contacts: Eric Archer and David Hallam
Asia’s first people: the role of East Asia in human evolution during the past half million years
(2004 – 2006) DP0450837
Contact: Mike Smith
With Alan Thorne and Geoff Hope, Archaeology and Natural History, Australian National University; Paul Tacon, Griffith University; and Colin Pardoe and Darren Curnoe, University of New South Wales.
Art and Human Rights in the Asia-Pacific: The limits of tolerance in the twenty-first century
(2004-2006) DP0452961
Contact: Margo Neale
Unsettling Histories: Australian Indigenous modes of historical practice
(2004-2007) DP0451720
Contact: Margo Neale
Bronze Age textiles from Dong Son coffins in Vietnam
(2004-2007) LP0453881
Contact: Eric Archer
Activating and maintaining community participation in natural and cultural resources – initiatives in Murray-Darling Basin
(2003-2005) LP0211420
Contact: Ian Coates
Outcome: Basin Bytes - Murray Darling Basin community projects
Anthropological perspectives on ethnographic collecting by Australian colonial administrators in Papua New Guinea and their contribution to museum collections
Partners: Australian National University
(2002-2004) LP0218849
Contact: Mike Smith
Managing the Volunteer Workforce: Flexible structures and strategies to integrate volunteers and paid workers
(2002-2004) LP0219578
Contacts: Maciej Dunski/Lisa O’Brien
The Human Elements: A Cultural History of Weather in Australia
(2003-2005) LP0347384
Contact: Dr Mike Smith
The Human Elements: Climate and Culture in Australia, with industry partners the Bureau of Meteorology and the National Museum of Australia and Tom Griffiths, Tim Sherratt and Kirsty Douglas, Research School of Social Sciences, Australian National University; and Libby Robin, Centre for Resource and Environmental Studies, Australian National University.
Aliens and others: representing citizenship and internships in Australia during World War II
(2002-2004) LP0210398
Contact: Mat Trinca
Copyright and Cultural Institutions: Digitising Collections in Public Museums, Galleries and Libraries
(2004-2005) LP0348534
Contact: Lisa White/ Mark Wright
The Other Within: Visual Culture through Indigenous, Tribal, Minority, ‘Subaltern’ and Multicultural Displays in Asia-Pacific Museums today
(2002-2003) LP0214963
Contact: Margo Neale
