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
Footprints in the sand: Banks' Maori collection, Cook's first voyage 1768-1771
Date recorded: 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 tre…
00:41:09 |
Tue 16 Sep 2008
Showcases II - examples of material culture research in museums
Date recorded: 30 May 2008.
Curators outline examples of material culture research in Australian museums through objects including a wall-hanging crafted in a refugee camp, a military jacket, a woo…
Wed 10 Sep 2008
Looking across the beach -- both ways
Date recorded: 28 July 2006.
Historian Greg Dening examines the cultural achievements of the Sea of Islands or Pacific peoples with a particular focus on Tupaia, a priest of Oro, who joined Captain…
00:41:47 |
Sun 07 Sep 2008
'Why do those fellas paint like me ...?' Emily Kame Kngwarreye symposium welcome and introduction
Date recorded: 22 August 2008.
The National Museum's Margo Neale and Dennis Grant welcome participants to the Emily Kame Kngwarreye symposium, for the exchange of cultural perspectives by Australia…
00:23:45 |
Sun 07 Sep 2008
The impossible modernist: an 'outsider' view
Date recorded: 22 August 2008.
Museum director and Emily Kame Kngwarreye exhibition curator Akira Tatehata explores the ironies of 'the impossible modernist' from another cultural space, as a Japan…
00:20:29 |
Sun 07 Sep 2008
The possible modernist: an 'insider' view
Date recorded: 22 August 2008.
Art historian Ian McLean offers a view based on the Australian post-colonial experience, arguing that Emily Kame Kngwarreye's form of modernism is different from inte…
00:24:47 |
Sun 07 Sep 2008
Encounters with wondrous things: the historical significance of the Cook-Forster Collection
Date recorded: 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.
00:51:17 |
Mon 01 Sep 2008
Discovering Cook: Georg Forster and the image of Captain Cook
Date recorded: 28 July 2006.
Curator Nigel Erskine discusses the official account of Captain James Cook's third Pacific voyage, particularly the introductory essay by German naturalist and fellow v…
00:37:37 |
Mon 01 Sep 2008
Brushed with fame: museological investments in the Cook voyage collections
Date recorded: 28 July 2006.
Historian Lissant Bolton considers the nature of Captain James Cook's fame in a museological context and discusses how difficult it is to present artefacts from the Paci…
00:42:47 |
Mon 01 Sep 2008
To attempt some new discoveries in that vast unknown tract
Date recorded: 28 July 2006.
Anthropologist Adrienne Kaeppler outlines the research that has gone into reconstructing the ethnographic collections from Captain James Cook's three Pacific voyages.
00:43:37 |
Mon 01 Sep 2008
Viewpoints on material culture
Date recorded: 30 May 2008.
Archaeologist Mike Smith, curator Guy Hansen, historian Margaret Anderson and anthropologist Fred Myers reflect on the way their four different disciplines have approach…
Sun 31 Aug 2008
Showcases I - examples of material culture research in museums
Date recorded: 30 May 2008.
Four National Museum of Australia curators provide examples of material culture research into a boomerang, tools used by Hmong gardeners, a dress worn at the opening of …
Sun 31 Aug 2008
Collections used to interpret the past: panel and audience discussion
Date recorded: 30 May 2008.
Leading historians reflect on the ways in which collections can be used to interpret the past, and the issues and problems faced in doing so, in wrapping up the National…
00:49:20 |
Sun 31 Aug 2008
A market for memories: understanding public history at the Mindil Beach site in Darwin
Date recorded: 27 May 2008.
Historian Mickey Dewar talks about her research into Mindil Beach, Darwin and the ways in which a cultural site intersects with a complex community history and memory, a…
00:31:21 |
Thu 31 Jul 2008
All along the line
Date recorded: 25 May 2008.
American writer and scholar William Fox discusses his research into how humans transform land into landscape, terrain into territory, and space into place, during his ti…
Thu 31 Jul 2008
John Gore's telescope
Date recorded: 13 February 2008.
A Dollond achromatic telescope used by Captain John Gore helps to tell remarkable stories about Captain James Cook's Pacific voyages and the development of optics a…
00:39:29 |
Tue 15 Jul 2008
Creating child-friendly cities: lessons from Monstropolis
Date recorded: 27 October 2007.
Geographer Paul Tranter critiques the movie Monsters, Inc. in an entertaining examination of the serious issue of making cities safe, fun and connective for kids. He…
00:44:23 |
Sun 04 May 2008
Collecting Papunya art
Date recorded: 3 February 2008.
Explore the history of the Papunya painting movement and discover the current generation of Papunya artists at a forum held in conjunction with the National Museum's…
Tue 08 Apr 2008
Mutukayi: motor cars and Papunya painting
Date recorded: 2 December 2007.
The sometimes life-changing, occasionally hilarious and always vital role of the mutukayi - or motor car - in the history of the people of Australia's Western Desert…
Mon 07 Apr 2008
Into the desert
Date recorded: 5 September 2007.
Desert archaeologist Mike Smith on his expedition into the remote southern Simpson Desert in South Australia. Mike recalls the thrill of discovering ancient fossil …
00:48:35 |
Sun 30 Mar 2008
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