National Museum of Australia – Audio on demand program
Forums, talks, symposiums, conferences and other events held at the National Museum of Australia, exploring Australia's land, nation and people.
- Update frequency
- every 9 days
- Average duration
- 32 minutes
- Episodes
- 468
- Years Active
- 2006 - 2025
Guna Kinne and Carmelo Mirabelli's stories
Date recorded: 31 January 2009.
Guna Kinne and Carmelo Mirabelli's stories feature in the National Museum's Australian Journeys gallery. They join curator Karen Schamberger and broadcaster Sylvie S…
00:32:04 |
Sun 10 May 2009
What was it like: a perspective on history in museums
Date recorded: 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 con…
00:17:19 |
Sun 10 May 2009
From flat things big things grow!
Date recorded: 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 …
00:12:04 |
Sun 10 May 2009
'Never enough grass' and Bowen Downs
Date recorded: 8 April 2009.
The development of the Australian pastoral industry at Bowen Downs in central Queensland, one of four places to be featured in the 'Never enough grass' module of the Na…
00:57:08 |
Tue 05 May 2009
Into the light
Date recorded: 27 March 2009.
Conservator Nicola Smith examines the management of exhibition light levels at the National Museum of Australia. She addresses display periods, object replacement and …
00:16:08 |
Tue 05 May 2009
Review of the National Museum of Australia's Australian Journeys gallery
Date recorded: 27 March 2009.
Historian Michael Cathcart critiques the new Australian Journeys gallery, which traces Australia's interconnections with the world. Exhibition curator Martha Sear resp…
Tue 05 May 2009
A cast of thousands: redevelopment of Circa
Date recorded: 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 narr…
00:44:03 |
Tue 05 May 2009
Conversation with Peter Cundall
Date recorded: 3 April 2009.
Horticulturalist and television personality Peter Cundall shares his unexpected life story, his passion for gardening and his thoughts on life, love and the environment…
Tue 05 May 2009
Introduction to the Creating a Country gallery
Date recorded: 11 March 2009.
Curator Kirsten Wehner outlines the themes of the new National Museum of Australia gallery, Creating a Country (now Landmarks). It will look broadly at the history of…
00:53:10 |
Tue 05 May 2009
Flora Pell: Australia's first domestic goddess
Date recorded: 27 March 2009.
Alison Wishart examines the challenges of displaying rare cookery books in museums. She focuses on Flora Pell's Our Cookery Book, published in 1916, and suggests displ…
00:12:08 |
Sun 03 May 2009
Food and space: the Australian nation in the British Empire
Date recorded: 6 April 2009.
Historian Adele Wessell uses cookbooks to draw conclusions about Australian political and social life at the turn of the century, examining British diet and food prefer…
Sun 03 May 2009
Victoria Police Museum: collecting crime
Date recorded: 27 March 2009.
Collections manager Liz Marsden outlines the objectives of the Victoria Police Museum, examines its exhibitions and how the presentation of stories can create challeng…
00:15:19 |
Sun 03 May 2009
Rugged Beyond Imagination: Stories from an Australian mountain region
Date recorded: 15 April 2009.
Curator Matthew Higgins talks about his book Rugged Beyond Imagination, which explores how people including stockmen, skiers, scientists and surveyors have shaped and …
00:53:41 |
Sun 03 May 2009
A load of old rubbish: displaying archaeology of the modern city
Date recorded: 27 March 2009.
Curator Charlotte Smith outlines the development of an exhibition at Museum Victoria based on urban archaeology. She discusses the challenges in interpreting the 'rubb…
00:19:05 |
Sun 03 May 2009
Dead museum animals: from 'order of nature' to chaos of culture
Date recorded: 27 March 2009.
Libby Robin looks at the use of dead animal collections in museums. She examines the scientific precedents behind these collections and how they are evolving from repr…
00:16:49 |
Sun 03 May 2009
Online exhibitions
Date recorded: 27 March 2009.
Mary-Elizabeth Andrews examines an online exhibition about war brides at the Australian National Maritime Museum. She considers the use of objects, access, technical a…
00:11:25 |
Sun 03 May 2009
Social reactions to Origin
Date recorded: 26 February 2009.
Historian Barry Butcher explores the work of four Australians who contributed to the growing corpus of Darwinian science from the 1860s to the 1890s: William Edward…
00:18:38 |
Wed 29 Apr 2009
Charles Darwin symposium closing address
Date recorded: 26 February 2009.
Science journalist and broadcaster Robyn Williams presents a humorous summary of proceedings from the Charles Darwin symposium.
00:12:15 |
Wed 29 Apr 2009
Charles Darwin symposium welcome and introduction
Date recorded: 26 February 2009.
Museum director Craddock Morton launches a symposium for examining and understanding the life and times of Charles Darwin, the impact of his published work and his …
00:11:32 |
Wed 29 Apr 2009
A lunatic idea: British science and evolution on the eve of Darwin's Origin of Species
Date recorded: 26 February 2009.
Historian Iain McCalman explores the dominant scientific attitudes to ideas of evolution in Britain in the years before Darwin's Origin is published. He explains wh…
00:26:05 |
Wed 29 Apr 2009
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