Preserving the Near Future
On the 28 July 2018, ACMI held a day-long symposium in Melbourne looking at the challenges of preservation in the digital...
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Consultancy opportunities in heritage
Lake Macquarie City Council is pleased to offer for interested Heritage Professionals, two consultancy opportunities aimed at providing practical...
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The Collection Environment
In 2008 a Commonwealth project, involving multiple national collecting institutions, prepared the report Protecting Collections & Saving the Earth. The...
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Accessing the Digital
I recently had the chance to sit in on the Digital Access workshop held by Glam Peak in Newcastle....
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Nuclear Techniques for Cultural Heritage Workshop
The Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organisation (ANSTO) and the Australian Institute of Nuclear Science and Engineering (AINSE) have announced the Nuclear...
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MAAS Regional Program
The Museum of Applied Art & Sciences have announced their Regional Programs for 2018. The Regional Programs are designed to...
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Help save Australia’s frogs with your mobile phone
Australia’s first national frog count is underway and everyone can join in, to help save one of the most...
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We’re searching for the oldest museum or gallery in regional NSW
Recently M&G NSW received an enquiry asking us if we knew which organisation was the oldest regional museum in New...
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Interview – Samantha Friend, President, Bathurst District Historical Society Museum
While in Bathurst to deliver the Access to Funding workshop, we dropped into the Bathurst District Historical Society Museum to...
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Talking Machines launch
With my own childhood memories of old farm machinery and more recent part inheritance of a circa 1970’s Ford tractor,...
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MAAS releases a new online collection website
Over the last six months, a project team at the Museum of Applied Arts and Sciences (MAAS) has been hard...
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Trove Roadshow in NSW
Join the Trove team as they help you find out more about making your organisation’s content available in Trove,...
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MAAS Regional Program
The Regional Program run by the Museum of Applied Art & Sciences engages with regional NSW communities, reaching audiences...
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Museum of the South East website launches
Museum of the South East (MoSE) is an online collection of significant artefacts from the collections and museums of...
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Collaborative collections project to launch in Albury
We live in a world where everything can be photo-shopped to impossible perfection. The Sum of Us is our chance...
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Art Gallery of New South Wales announces new Deputy Director and Director of Collections
The Art Gallery of New South Wales has announced the appointment of Maud Page to the position of Deputy...
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A giant T Rex gifted to the Australian Museum
A life-size Tyrannosaurus rex model will find a new home at the Australian Museum, thanks to the support of National...
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Museums Discovery Centre opens up the states great collections
For the first time, the diverse and rich collections of three of Australia’s leading museums will be housed in one facility...
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Gould League of Bird Lovers
NSW Gould League of Bird Lovers was founded in 1910. Initially membership was considered to be for life and...
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MayDay for Museums
The MayDay call was originated in 1923 by Frederick Stanley Mockford (1897–1962). As senior radio officer at Croydon Airport in...
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