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
Australia's Official Papuan collection: Sir Hubert Murray and the how and why of a colonial collection
Date recorded: 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…
00:19:59 |
Wed 12 Sep 2007
Collecting for the future: a collections development plan for the National Historical Collection
Date recorded: 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 …
00:23:14 |
Wed 12 Sep 2007
Life and art? Relocating Aboriginal art and culture in the museum
Date recorded: 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 hist…
00:35:29 |
Wed 12 Sep 2007
Springfield transformed: family collection into national treasure
Date recorded: 21 March 2006.
The history of the Springfield collection, more than 2000 objects from a major rural property near Sydney, is outlined by registrar Carol Cooper. She explores the rema…
00:31:07 |
Wed 12 Sep 2007
A sum of many parts: the history of the National Historical Collection
Date recorded: 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 stor…
00:24:52 |
Wed 12 Sep 2007
Professionals and amateurs: different histories of collecting in the National Ethnographic collection
Date recorded: 21 March 2006.
Curator David Kaus provides an overview of the Aboriginal material in the National Museum of Australia's National Historical Collection.
00:24:40 |
Wed 12 Sep 2007
Singular or plural? Social history and national collections
Date recorded: 21 March 2006.
Historian Ian McShane analyses social history as museum theme and practice from 1981 to 2000.
00:21:37 |
Wed 12 Sep 2007
Cook, his mission and Indigenous Australia: a perspective on consequence
Date recorded: 28 July 2006.
Curator Doreen Mellor examines the life-changing consequences for Australian Indigenous peoples of Captain James Cook's first Pacific journey, and subsequent European s…
00:43:33 |
Fri 01 Sep 2006
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