Who can access the Australian Museum collections?
Providing access to its collections is one of the Australian Museum's most important functions. You access the collections every time you visit the Museum. Our website, outreach programs and publications also give further access to the vast wealth of information in our collections.
The Museum also has an active loan program with research and educational institutions around the world. We also welcome visiting national and international scientists and students who wish to study specimens and objects in our collections.
Through outreach programs, the Museum provides indigenous communities access to their cultural objects held in its collections. For example many Aboriginal communities are establishing and maintaining their own museums, called 'Cultural Centres' or 'Keeping Places' and developing cultural exhibitions within them. Museum staff work with communities to produce these exhibits using objects from the Australian Museum's collections and local knowledge within the community.
The Museum also undertakes the repatriation of significant cultural objects and ancestral remains to indigenous communities both within Australia and overseas. These objects and remains have immense spiritual and cultural meaning to indigenous communities and the Museum holds these values above any other interests.
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7 comments
Maxine Kauter
4.09 PM, 21 September 2011
Hi people interested in searching the collections online. Here is a link to a first incarnation:
http://collections.australianmuseum.net.au/amweb/pages/am/Query.php
Continuously being developed.
MK
Brooke Carson-Ewart
6.07 PM, 06 July 2010
We had a couple of hiccups with the images in our collection database but I think we are almost there, cross fingers we will have the Australian Museum collections online up by the end of the month.
cogs
2.05 PM, 10 May 2010
Is this any closer to going ahead? Thanks Peter.
Brooke Carson-Ewart
9.02 AM, 08 February 2010
Hi Gus, We are finalising testing of the new collections on line this week so hopefully if all goes well we will be live very soon.
Gus
5.01 AM, 05 January 2010
What is the current status of getting the Australian Museum collections online? Thank you!
Brooke Carson-Ewart
1.11 PM, 03 November 2009
Hi Jonata, We are hoping to launch our new Australian Museum collections online program in the next month or two. This will allow you to search our collection databases directly and access most of our enormous natural science and cultural collections. You can also access our natural science collections right now through the Biomaps site http://www.biomaps.net.au/biomaps2/ .
Jonata
5.11 AM, 03 November 2009
Who can access the Australian Museum collections on line?
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