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Web 2.U

A blog about all things web (and occasional museum stuff too).

Visitor Voices

Find out what our visitors say about us.

Teacher Talk

Share ideas, opinions and experiences, find out about programs and services.

Search & Discover

What’s happening in our information and resource centre?

Science Bytes

Read about recent highlights of our research at the Australian Museum.

Peoples' Place

Behind the scenes of the cultural collections.

Nature + Culture

The Director of the Australian Museum, Frank Howarth, on science, society, culture and collections.

Museum 2 You

A resource rich, science-based community environmental education program

Life at Lizard

What's going on at Lizard Island Research Station?

From the Floor

News, updates and information about activities and events held at the Museum’s College St site.

Fish Bits

Photos, visitors, weird and wonderful specimens, news from the field.

Exhibit A

Inside our exhibitions - from an idea to museum floor, join the discussion and share ideas.

Editorials and Opinions

Climate change, cultural heritage, living communities, evolution, sustainability - Join in the conversation.

Cut the Carbon

Parrys Raines on climate change and simple ways to make a difference.

BugWise Backchat

Help us be Bugwise, report findings, ask questions and share stories.

Audience Research

Join discussions about museum evaluation and audience research.

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Latest posts

Calling on Tongan Traditions: Ngatu

09 Feb 2012 Peoples' Place

Lady Tunakaimanu Feilakepa is renowned and greatly respected for her traditional cultural knowledge in Tonga and across the Pacific. Here she kindly shares her knowledge on the creation and use of tapa cloth.

The Power of X-rays

09 Feb 2012 Fish Bits

Colleagues at the Smithsonian have just added a fantastic new online exhibition to their website. Called 'What You See When You Turn a Fish Inside Out' gives users the chance to strip away the exterior of a fish and take an x-ray peek at its insides. Great stuff!

Southern Garfish, Hyporhamphus melanochir

03 Feb 2012 Fish Bits

I was recently emailed about his footage of Southern Garfish feeding in the shallows in Port Phillip Bay, Victoria. The videographer reported that the garfish "were breaking off strands of eelgrass and apparently stripping small invertebrates off the grass as well."

This week in Fish: First specimen of Denise's Pygmy Seahorse

02 Feb 2012 Fish Bits

It was a week of images, punctuated by another of Amanda's blog posts from Lizard Island. Ed Roberts kindly supplied an image of the first Denise's Pygmy Seahorse known from Australian waters. The larval Barred Soapfish image is spectacular and John Harris' images of Cox's Gudgeon climbing Penrith Weir are pretty impressive. Thanks to everyone who contributed.

Liquid gold: save urine, save the planet?

02 Feb 2012 Museum 2 You

Ancient cultures, from Greece to Asia, have used urine as a fertiliser to provide nutrients to their crops. Is recycling our urine a radical solution to global food security and saving our waterways?

Caring for Alfred North's original pictorial material

02 Feb 2012 Rare and Curious

Archives volunteer, Ada Klinkhamer writes of her experience rehousing and documenting photographs and illustrations prepared for use in publications by Australian Museum ornithologist, Alfred John North.

Point and shoot #1 - Seeing is Believing

06 Feb 2012 From the Floor

Museum photographers Carl Bento and James King on the power and practice of photography. This week, seeing is believing...

Lizard Fish - The best part of every day

02 Feb 2012 Life at Lizard

Marine biologist Amanda Hay is on beautiful Lizard Island where she is conducting research into behaviour of larval fishes. Today, she writes about the daily highlights.

This week in Fish: More from the field

27 Jan 2012 Fish Bits

This week Amanda Hay reports again from Lizard Island where she is doing fieldwork. As usual, there are plenty of new images, a movie of a Whiptail with a parasitic problem and we welcome our new volunteer Morgan Crowcroft-Brown.

Lizard Fish - Baitfish and a large shark

02 Feb 2012 Life at Lizard

Marine biologist Amanda Hay is on beautiful Lizard Island where she is conducting research into behaviour of larval fishes. Today, she writes about her encounter with a large shark.