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What was it like: a perspective on history in museums
Brian Crozier, Crozier Schutt Associates
Collections 2009 series, 27 March 2009
Museum consultant Brian Crozier considers how material culture might be interpreted by museums for popular rather than academic audiences. He examines the cultural contributions that museums may make in the study of history.
Collections 2009 series
- From collections to exhibitions – welcome and keynote addressProfessor Howard Morphy, Australian National University and Dr Peter Stanley, National Museum of Australia
- What was it like: a perspective on history in museumsBrian Crozier, Crozier Schutt Associates
- A load of old rubbish: displaying archaeology of the modern cityDr Charlotte Smith, Museum Victoria
- No presence in the case: looking for Tahiti in world museumsDr Jenny Newell, National Museum of Australia
- Dead museum animals: from ‘order of nature’ to chaos of cultureDr Libby Robin, National Museum of Australia
- A cast of thousands: redevelopment of CircaBronwyn Dowdall, Dr Martha Sear and Jennifer Wilson
- Objects to stories: using thematic studies to develop exhibitions at volunteer museums in the Port Macquarie-Hastings regionLiz Gillroy, Port Macquarie-Hastings Council
- Flora Pell: Australia’s first domestic goddessAlison Wishart, National Museum of Australia
- From flat things big things grow!Elspeth Wishart, Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery
- Into the lightNicola Smith, National Museum of Australia
- Victoria Police Museum: collecting crimeLiz Marsden, Victoria Police Museum
- Online exhibitionsMary-Elizabeth Andrews
- Before the badges, before the T-shirts, before the flagDr Jay Arthur, National Museum of Australia
- Review of the National Museum of Australia’s Australian Journeys galleryDr Michael Cathcart, University of Melbourne and Dr Martha Sear, National Museum of Australia
