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
Body and spirit: Australian horse welfare
Date recorded: 16 October 2014.
Curator Jennifer Wilson on the history of horse health and welfare in Australia in conversation with Karen Hood, president of the Heavy Horse Heaven rescue organisat…
Sun 23 Nov 2014
Spirited: behind the scenes
Date recorded: 18 September 2014.
Senior curator Martha Sear shared behind the scenes about the two years' work in the making of the National Museum exhibition Spirited: Australia's Horse Story.
00:58:11 |
Sun 23 Nov 2014
Landmark women: Alex Sloan
Date recorded: 26 September 2014.
Popular 666 ABC radio host Alex Sloan reflects on growing up in the country, her work at the national broadcaster and her life in the Canberra region.
00:58:54 |
Thu 20 Nov 2014
Landmark women: Susie Beaver
Date recorded: 18 July 2014.
Susie Beaver has worked in the arts with various community organisations across the country. Susie and her husband Martin run Beaver Galleries, Canberra's largest comme…
00:37:17 |
Thu 20 Nov 2014
Introduction and Welcome to Country
Date recorded: 30 September 2014.
A Welcome to Country by Aunty Susan and introduction by Mat, who invites people to reflect on the Aboriginal artists and their work that inspired Andrew's book Abo…
00:08:41 |
Thu 16 Oct 2014
Landmark women: Elizabeth Truswell
Date recorded: 15 August 2014.
Geologist Dr Truswell has combined her love of botany and geology with the study of palynology (the study of fossil and living pollen grains and plant spores). Her in…
00:52:41 |
Thu 04 Sep 2014
Landmark women: Julia Newton-Howes
Date recorded: 27 June 2014.
Julia discusses her life and work around themes of poverty, aid and development, gender equality and women's empowerment, and her pursuit of data and evidence as a trai…
00:52:24 |
Wed 09 Jul 2014
Individual inspiration and social connection in western Arnhem Land
Date recorded: 5 June 2014.
Anthropologist and author Luke Taylor examines how the different schools of bark painting in western Arnhem Land on show in the Old Masters exhibition transformed the wa…
00:56:02 |
Wed 02 Jul 2014
Landmark women: Mary-Jane Mountain
Date recorded: 16 May 2014.
Mary-Jane talks about her 57 years as an archaeologist covering her experiences both teaching at universities in the United Kingdom, Papua New Guinea and Australia and c…
Thu 05 Jun 2014
Landmark women: Kaarin Anstey
Date recorded: 11 April 2014.
Kaarin talks about her research into ageing and the prevention of cognitive decline and dementia, and how personal experience influenced her career.
00:58:44 |
Sun 01 Jun 2014
Landmark women: Carolyn Forster
Date recorded: 28 March 2014.
Carolyn Forster talks about her work in the Federal Parliament, and with organisations the Children's Medical Research Institute, ACT Heritage Festival and Friends of …
00:44:40 |
Wed 07 May 2014
Meaning in Yolngu bark paintings
Date recorded: 3 April 2014.
Anthropologist Howard Morphy explores the cultural patterns and multi-layered meanings behind the bark paintings on show in Old Masters.
00:57:41 |
Wed 30 Apr 2014
'Seeing barks'
Date recorded: 5 March 2014.
Indigenous art expert Wally Caruana explores the visual language of the bark paintings on show in the exhibition Old Masters: Australia's Great Bark Artists, and provid…
Thu 03 Apr 2014
Landmark women: Catherine Carter
Date recorded: 14 February 2014.
Catherine talks about running the ACT Property Council's operations, policy development and public affairs, and working with people from bureaucrats to builders in …
Sun 30 Mar 2014
Australians dream of speed
Date recorded: 5 December 2013.
Can you imagine a city where the car isn't the dominant mode of transport? Listen to a challenging talk about how to re-imagine our cities in ways that use bicycles …
00:47:26 |
Sun 05 Jan 2014
Door to store: Caring for your watercolours and paintings
Date recorded: 15 November 2013.
Vicki Humphrey, Head of Conservation at the National Museum of Australia, shares best practice techniques in working with and handling watercolour and oil-based pai…
00:47:54 |
Wed 18 Dec 2013
Landmark Women: Ruth Pearce
Date recorded: 15 November 2013.
Ruth speaks about her diverse and challenging international life as an Australian diplomat that included postings as Australian ambassador to the Solomon Islands, R…
Wed 04 Dec 2013
Award-winning urban farmers
Date recorded: 10 October 2013.
To coincide with Floriade, three award-winning urban farmers give advice on how to grow award-winning produce. They explore ways in which contemporary gardeners unde…
00:55:42 |
Thu 14 Nov 2013
One River artists' talks facilitated by Dr George Main
Date recorded: 25 August 2013.
George Main, a senior curator in the Museum's People and the Environment team, facilitates a second session of talks given by artists who participated in the One Rive…
Sun 10 Nov 2013
One River artists' talks facilitated by Barbara Paulson
Date recorded: 25 August 2013.
Barbara Paulson, an assistant curator with the Museum’s Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Program, facilitates this session of talks given by artists who particip…
Thu 07 Nov 2013
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