Linda Young’s new book historicises and complicates the evolution of a species of museum in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, with occasional references to Australian and New Zealand specimens.
Volume 10 number 2 of the National Museum of Australia’s journal has contributions by Jan Brazier (Macleay Museum) and Molly Duggins (National Art School) on the production history and aesthetics
The idea that we as Australians have a special and significant relationship with the horse has been around for a long time. From ‘Banjo’ Paterson’s ‘Man from Snowy River’, to
Alexandra Roginski’s The Hanged Man and the Body Thief: Finding Lives in a Museum Mystery (Monash University Publishing) is a story about phrenology, a biased legal system, the aspirations of
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