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Weird and wonderful: the first objects of the National Historical Collection
Dr Libby Robin, Australian National University
Collections 2006 series, 21 March 2006
Libby Robin tells the story of the zoological specimens, collected by Sir Colin MacKenzie, that were among the first objects in the National Museum of Australia’s National Historical Collection.
Collections 2006 series
- A sum of many parts: the history of the National Historical CollectionGuy Hansen, National Museum of Australia
- Weird and wonderful: the first objects of the National Historical CollectionDr Libby Robin, Australian National University
- Professionals and amateurs: different histories of collecting in the National Ethnographic collectionDavid Kaus, National Museum of Australia
- Australia’s Official Papuan collection: Sir Hubert Murray and the how and why of a colonial collectionSylvia Schaffarczyk, Australian National University
- Life and art? Relocating Aboriginal art and culture in the museumAngela Philp, Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies
- Singular or plural? Social history and national collectionsIan McShane, Swinburne University of Technology
- Collecting for the future: a collections development plan for the National Historical CollectionMathew Trinca, National Museum of Australia
- Springfield transformed: family collection into national treasureCarol Cooper, National Museum of Australia
- Reflections on the history of the National Historical CollectionDr Richard Baker, Dr Don McMichael, Professor John Mulvaney, Peter Pigott, Andrew Reeves and Dr Luke Taylor
