National Museum of Australia – Audio on demand program
Summary: The National Museum of Australia's audio series explores Australia's social history: Indigenous people, their cultures and histories, the nation's history since 1788, and the interaction of Australians with the land and environment. The series includes talks by curators, conservators, historians, environmental scientists and other specialists.
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Podcasts:
The convergence of history and fiction and the power of archives and objects to inform their work on Australian women and the League of Nations is explored by political historian Lenore Coltheart and author Frank Moorhouse.
Sylvia Schaffarczyk reconstructs the history of the Official Papuan collection at the National Museum of Australia and examines Australian collecting in Papua during a key period in the development of anthropology and Australia's colonial interests.
Historian Ian McShane analyses social history as museum theme and practice from 1981 to 2000.
Libby Robin tells the story of the zoological specimens, collected by Sir Colin MacKenzie, that were among the first objects in the National Museum of Australia's National Historical Collection.
Collections and Content General Manager Mathew Trinca outlines the National Museum of Australia's Collections Development Plan, designed to support collecting efforts for five years.
Historian Angela Philp explores Aboriginal art and culture, and the tensions between aesthetics, history and politics that have been critical in the institutional histories of the National Museum of Australia and the National Gallery of Australia.
Curator David Kaus provides an overview of the Aboriginal material in the National Museum of Australia's National Historical Collection.
The history of the Springfield collection, more than 2000 objects from a major rural property near Sydney, is outlined by registrar Carol Cooper. She explores the remarkable family who cared for it and the Museum's work to make this collection available.
Curator Guy Hansen traces the history of the National Museum's National Historical Collection. He argues that the collection is eclectic - that there is no single story but many stories, with various collectors bringing different perspectives.
Curator Doreen Mellor examines the life-changing consequences for Australian Indigenous peoples of Captain James Cook's first Pacific journey, and subsequent European settlement, as the background to the story of the Stolen Generations.
