Australian Museum Archive

Sydney’s favourite prehistoric party, Jurassic Lounge, will return from extinction at the Australian Museum to celebrate the Mexican holiday Day of the Dead on November 1. Programming consultant Lupita Feint explains that the festival traditionally gathers family and friends to remember those …

It is a challenge to the non-Aboriginal Australian to consider that inanimate material objects can hold cultural memory. Even though we seem to spend the majority of our time chasing material possessions, we rarely, if ever, look beyond an object’s practical use …

Most Sydneysiders have fond memories of visiting the Australian Museum on school excursions, exploring the wonders of nature and the ancient world. Now many of them are coming back for a totally new experience. For the fifth year now the Museum has …