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DesGriffin.com - Museums in Australia for us: The Pigott Report 1975 to 1996 A National Museum opened in Canberra on March 11 2001, the centenary of Australia's Federation: proposed in the 1902, its establishment was again recommended in 1975 in one of the best reports on museums of the twentieth century. The national capital is the kind of place in any country to establish a national museum to explore the nation's history and ideas (possibly even beliefs and understandings), its culture, its past, witness Washington DC, Ottawa, Copenhagen, Madrid, Mexico City, Paris, London. Museums should classify and arrange their exhibits with boldness and caution, conscious that a way of arranging knowledge can be illuminating in one area and stultifying in another era. www.desgriffin.com /publications/museums-1996.htm   (3953 words)

European Network for Indigenous Australian Rights: news Finally, a long-vacant peninsula by the lake in Canberra, the capital that Australia began building for itself in the 1920s, has been filled with the National Museum of Australia, hurriedly constructed in time for Australia's centenary of federation celebrations this year. The National Museum's director, Dawn Casey, is Aboriginal, and she believes the museum offers "a completely new approach to museology". Given Australia's middle-aged status, it is peculiar that its politicians have taken so long to build a national museum. www.eniar.org /news/museum.html   (898 words)

CongressCATH 2004: A Site of Sacrifice and Mimesis: The National Museum of Australia The National Museum of Australia (NMA), the result of almost three decades of bureaucratic and legislative processes, is the first national museum in the country that is supposed to reflect the concept of national identity in a non-military context. The NMA is a museum of social history and its mandate is to reflect 'the nation's stories'. The NMA is an inherently fragmented structure that introduces pieces of "the puzzle" of national identity and is open to multiple interpretations. www.leeds.ac.uk /cath/congress/2004/programme/abs/107.shtml   (286 words)

AA - Australian Baroque - March/April 2001 One of the new genre of “social and cultural history” museums, the NMA is itself a problematic and uncertain enterprise. The NMA attempts to present Australia as an unfinished project and an unresolved concept — a nation in which an appropriate level of faith and affection balance a paucity of agreed beliefs and doctrine. The architectural approach is close to the ideology of the museum. www2.selector.com /aa/aaissue.php?issueid=200103&article=10&typeon=2   (3477 words)

The Courier-Mail: National culture fights to recapture audience [14nov05] Figures released in the annual report show 150,000 fewer people visited the National Museum of Australia in the last financial year, compared with the previous year, representing a drop of nearly 20 per cent. The museum plans to host a show of highlights from the past 20 years, and also an exhibition to coincide with the centenary of the surf lifesaving movement, which will tour coastal Australia. "Quite a few of the museums and galleries are moving away from blockbuster-style exhibitions. www.thecouriermail.news.com.au /common/story_page/0,5936,17235052^7642,00.html   (555 words)

Call and Post National News OUTGOING National Museum of Australia director Dawn Casey was a victim of racism and sexism, Aboriginal leader Mick Dodson claimed yesterday. "The difficulty for the National Museum of Australia is it`s developed at a time when there has been a debate happening, called the `history wars`. Museum chairman Tony Staley would not be drawn on Professor Dodson`s comments, but said Ms Casey left with great goodwill from the council. www.callandpost.com /national/default_article.asp?id=724   (473 words)

Scope - News National Museum curator Sophie Jensen is working with former Miss Australia titleholders, community groups, spastic centres, cerebral palsy associations and Scope to document the history of the quest as part of a National Museum targeted collecting project. The crown awarded to three decades of Miss Australia Quest winners was recently presented to the National Museum of Australia in Canberra by the Miss Australia Company. Vici Funnell, who is also chief executive officer of Scope, said she was pleased the Miss Australia crown, along with a collection of other Miss Australia Quest memorabilia, had found a home at the National Museum. www.scopevic.org.au /news_macrown030605.html   (367 words)

Non-government Links  ScreenSound Australia, the National Screen and Sound Archive, is a Commonwealth Government organisation and one of Australia's premier cultural institutions. The National Portrait Gallery aims to increase the understanding of the Australian people – their identity, history, creativity and culture – through portraiture. The Australia Council is a service organisation enriching the life of the nation by supporting and promoting the arts. www.studyinaustralia.gov.au /Sia/en/Links/NonGovernmentLinks.htm   (340 words)

Travel Downunder - National Wool Museum The National Wool Museum is Australia's only comprehensive museum of wool, showcasing wool's enduring impact on Australia's social and economic life. Appropriately located in a century old (1872) refurbished bluestone wool store, the museum uses unique objects and innovative displays to tell the story of the Australian wool industry from early settlement to the present day. The museum acquires, preserves and exhibits objects and materials which reflect significant developments in the Australian wool industry. www.traveldownunder.com.au /victoria/Melbourne/National_Wool_Museum.asp   (240 words)

Holidays with Kids: National Museum of Australia Visitors get a unique chance to explore what it means to be Australian at the National Museum of Australia and join the millions who have already experienced it. The Museum's permanent exhibitions examine themes of land, nation and people and are as much about the future of Australia as it is about the past. The National Museum in Canberra is the first in the country devoted to exploring the key issues, events and people that have shaped the nation. www.holidayswithkids.com.au /?p=286   (225 words)

National Museum of Australia purchase builds national breastplate collection The purchase of 15 Aboriginal breastplates at auction today means the National Museum of Australia now holds one of the most significant collections in the world. National Museum of Australia purchase builds national breastplate collection One of the National Museum's existing breastplates belonged to Charley York, a 'chief' of the Cooma region, who is not mentioned in any written local histories. www.abc.net.au/cgi-bin/common/printfriendly.pl?http://www.abc.net.au/message/news/stories/s1163531.htm   (407 words)

ANU - DISCOVER ANU - ABOUT ANU - ABOUT CANBERRA Canberra is also the cultural heart of Australia, with the Australian War Memorial, the National Gallery of Australia, the High Court of Australia and the National Museum of Australia all a short distance from the city centre. The Australian National University commands a magnificent position between lake and mountain in the centre of the nation's capital, Canberra. It is the political apex of Australia, housing the Federal Parliament. info.anu.edu.au /Discover_ANU/About_ANU/About_Canberra/index.asp   (214 words)

Carleton University hosts Lecture Series on Museums and National Identity Canada's experience is not unique, however, as demonstrated by the recent creation of the Museum of Scotland and the National Museum of Australia (Canberra), which were both established amidst controversy over how the cultural memory of its constituents was represented. Distinguished scholars and curators from Canada, Australia, and Scotland have been invited to reflect on their experiences and to analyze how cultural institutions interact with and shape national identities and our sense of self. The Making of the Museum of Scotland: A Museum of National Memories or Nationalism? www.carleton.ca /duc/newsreleases/jul_dec_2003/shannon03.html   (351 words)

MuseumWrkShop.doc National Museum of Australia Broadcast Studio 9.00am — 1.00pm Monday 30 September — Friday 4 October Cost: $100 per person; $75 for Friends of the Museum For bookings and further information, please call Daina Harvey on 6208 5139. National Institute of Dramatic Art and Australian National University trained technicians, Adam Breau and Damian Harris, will run modules covering the use of video cameras, video editing, and sound and audio visual design, to give you practical experience in the production of a news program. Training will take place in the National Museum’s state of the art broadcast studio. activated.det.act.gov.au /Word/MuseumWrkShop.doc   (600 words)

Australian Immigration Minister - Media Release: Australia 2030 National Youth Challenge - Immigration Media Release 139/2001 The students' visions for the future of Australia will be placed on the website www.australia2030.gov.au, which will be presented as a gift to the nation during the webcast in this year celebrating the Centenary of Federation, as well as becoming a part of a permanent interactive display at the National Museum of Australia. Winners from each State and Territory will take part in the National Youth Challenge, which will be webcast live from the National Museum of Australia in Canberra on 14 September. Students in years 9 -11 from around Australia were asked for their vision of the future of Australia as part of the Australia 2030: Investigating the FACTS of Immigration project, which was distributed to all schools earlier this year. www.minister.immi.gov.au /media_releases/ruddock_media01/r01139.htm   (398 words)

Smithsonian Education - Talk Back Classroom Developed as a collaboration between the Smithsonian Institution, the National Museum of Australia, and the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, Talkback Classroom gives your students an opportunity to express their opinions, interact with their peers and public figures around the world, and broaden their understanding of history and contemporary events. Talkback Classroom was initiated as a collaboration between the National Museum of Australia and the Australian Broadcasting Corporation.  In 2003, the Smithsonian Institution collaborated on the first international program on the topic “The World After September 11th,” with American and Australian students interviewing the Prime Minister of Australia.  Prior to the April broadcast, teachers and students will have the opportunity to receive Smithsonian resource materials, to participate in person and/or electronically in a series of workshops with Smithsonian museum curators and educators, and to take part in online chats focusing on the rights and responsibilities of citizenship. www.smithsonianeducation.org /educators/resource_library/talkback/2004/talkback_about.html   (218 words)

Australia : Introduction : The Best Museums Frommers.com National Museum of Australia (ACT): Using state-of-the-art technology and hands-on exhibits, Australia's newest and most impressive museum concentrates on Australian society and its history since 1788, the interaction of people with the Australian environment, and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander cultures and histories. Western Australian Maritime Museum and the adjacent Shipwrecks Museum (Perth, WA): Housed in the historic port precinct of Fremantle, Perth, this museum tells tales of the harsh Western Australian coastline since the Dutch first bumped into it and abandoned it as useless in the 1600s. This museum is one of the best of its type we've ever seen." Learn about Dreamtime myths and daily life of Aboriginal people in Kakadu. www.frommers.com /destinations/australia/0212020809.html   (499 words)

caravan park, tourist parks and accommodation directory australia - Go See Australia Directory The Propert is a great fit for the Australian National Museum of Australia which since it opened in 2001 has worked to tell the stories of Australia and Australians. Australia’s love affair with caravans is a feature exhibit at the National Museum of Australia in Canberra. The museum already has a former showroom model of the Propert, Bondwood caravan in an interesting exhibit on the travelling habits of Australians at the magnificent museum in Lawson Cres, on the Acton Peninsula. www.goseeaustralia.net.au /ViewEditorial.asp?EdID=72   (1013 words)

WWW Virtual Library: Museums around the world The age of enlightenment in the paintings of France's national museums on-line exhibition. The National Museum of Ethnography and Natural History of the Republic of Moldova, Chisinau. Union of the French national museum photographs catalogue: 200,000 images from national and main regional museums. icom.museum /vlmp/world.html   (1076 words)

National Museum of Australia - Australian Science at Work Corporate entry The National Museum of Australia was established in November 1980, under the National Museum of Australia Act, 1980. From their Web site, January 2002: "The National Museum of Australia is a statutory body within the Communications, Information Technology and the Arts portfolio. 'Primary description of agency CA 4435; National Museum of Australia. www.austehc.unimelb.edu.au /asaw/biogs/A001277b.htm   (179 words)

Elaine Heumann Gurian Included in this are – The National Museum of Australia, Te Papa: the National Museum of New Zealand, The National Museum of the American Indian, the African-American Museum of Art and History, Detroit; and CIRMA: the National Archives of Guatemala. Teacher and lecturer for in-service and graduate museum education including the University of Victoria, the University of Gothenburg, Sweden and the Ministry of Culture, Argentina. Cirma, National Archives of Guatemala, Antigua, Guatemala, 1999-present. www.museumgroup.com /Gurian   (951 words)

Northern Territory University The National Museum of Australia Library website address is http://library.nma.gov.au/history.html the library is an excellent resource. Semester 1 -2002 - The National Museum of Australia Recently I visited the National Museum of Australia. www.ntu.edu.au /discus/messages/13/732.html?1018215172   (444 words)

Page 3 The National Museum of Australia doesn't look like a museum and it certainly doesn't feel like a museum. The new museum uses state-of-the-art technology and hands-on interactive exhibitions so visitors can actually experience the stories of Australia. Parliament House belongs to the people of Australia and is open for everyone to see and experience. www.atebe.com.au /3.htm   (252 words)

Review of national museum 'is politically motivated' - smh.com.au The establishment of a review of the National Museum of Australia's activities has sparked fears that it is the latest salvo in the ideological war over the embattled institution. The museum underwent a review before it opened in March last year following criticism by Mr Barnett that its presentation of Australian history was unbalanced. Review of national museum 'is politically motivated' - smh.com.au www.smh.com.au /articles/2002/12/15/1039656296860.html   (326 words)

CongressCATH 2004: Writing the Space of the Past: The National Museum of Australia and the Philosophy We Never Knew We Had. The National Museum of Australia (NMA) was opened in March 2001. Of particular concern to the conservative government was ARM's (Ashton Raggatt McDougall's) direct 'quotation' of Libeskind's Berlin Museum in the structure of the Gallery of Aboriginal Australia at the NMA, a clear statement by the architects, it was said, that treatment of Aboriginals in Australia was genocidal. The Museum exemplifies the playful appropriation said to be typical of postmodern textual practices. www.leeds.ac.uk /cath/congress/2004/programme/abs/126.shtml   (254 words)

National Museum of Australia Home The National Museum of Australia is an Australian Government Agency. >New: Exhibitions at the National Museum and beyond www.nma.gov.au   (18 words)

Women's History Month Prior to her appointment as Director of the National Museum of Australia in 1999 Ms Casey was Chief General Manager of the Acton Peninsula Project Task Force, the body responsible for the construction of the new National Museum. She has provided policy advice on issues associated with Australia's national cultural institutions and served as Chair of the Heritage Collections Committee, the body with responsibility for implementing specific programs to address issues of collection management, preservation and conservation, research and documentation, and access. Ms Casey has received three Commonwealth Public Service Australia Day Medals for work of outstanding achievement and has also recently been awarded a Centenary of the Australian Public Service Medal for having made a superior contribution to the Australian Public Service. www.trivium.net /womenshistorymonth/bios/casey.htm   (188 words)

Directory - Reference: Museums: History: Oceania National Museum of Australia  · iweb · cached · Featuring three themes: Australian society and history; aboriginal Australia; and, people's interaction with the environment. Landsborough Historical Museum  · Includes over 10,000 items in its collection and specializes in the social and cultural history of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland, Australia. Auckland War Memorial Museum  · iweb · cached · Features collections of natural, social, military history and culture related to New Zealand and the South Pacific. www.incywincy.com /default?p=1173369   (126 words)

Return of Indigenous Remains and Cultural Artefacts from Sweden to Australia Today the National Museum of Australia has invited us to this welcoming reception before these ancestral remains and cultural artefacts are finally returned to their local custodians. The remains are with the National Museum of Australia where the necessary work is underway for their return. The National Museum of Australia provided advice and is now playing an important part in facilitating the final journey to local communities. www.atsia.gov.au /media/speeches/7_10_2004_return.htm   (1384 words)

Australian Museum Online - November Edition The Australian Museum has an exciting range of exhibitions, events, tours and holiday programs on our What's on calendar. Information for general vistors, education groups, and 5s and under can be found on Visiting the Museum. See also: address, opening times and admission, enquiries and feedback. www.austmus.gov.au   (165 words)

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