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Sharing Australia’s Science Heritage
Dr Elycia WallisManager, Online CollectionsMuseum Victoria
@elyw
http://museumvictoria.com.au/collections/items/705595/microscope-with-box-watson-routine-circa-1910
Introduction
The familiar part of museums: exhibitionsIt’s not what you can see: researchData deluge, local and global
Eastern Pygmy PossumImage: David Paul
Source: Museum Victoria
Part 1.The familiar part of
museums
Australia’s largest public museum organisation550 EFT staff17 million collection items in 20,000m² storage2.5 million visitors / 460,000 education visitors annually6+ million online visitors (Google analytics)
Collections Research Exhibitions Programs
Elephant exhibition at Museum für Naturkunde, BerlinImage: Ely Wallis
Sue the T. Rex at the Field Museum, ChicagoImage: Ely Wallis
Wild at Melbourne Museum
World Wide Animal Viewers in Wild at Melbourne Museum
World Wide Animal Viewers in Wild at Melbourne Museum
Dynamic Earth at Melbourne Museum
3-d immersive theatre in Dynamic Earth
Education program: http://museumvictoria.com.au/melbournemuseum/education/education-programs/rock-camera-action/
http://museumvictoria.com.au/melbournemuseum/discoverycentre/dynamic-earth/
http://museumvictoria.com.au/melbournemuseum/whatson/current-exhibitions/600-million-years-victoria-evolves/
Education program: http://museumvictoria.com.au/melbournemuseum/education/education-programs/600-million-years-victoria-evolves/
600 million years in 60 seconds
The education program movie-making kit.Image: Jon Augier Source: Museum Victoria
Read about it: http://museumvictoria.com.au/about/mv-blog/dec-2011/active-science-education/
Education program: http://museumvictoria.com.au/melbournemuseum/education/education-programs/600-million-years-in-60-seconds/
Social media
Part 2.It’s not what you can see
but what you can’t
Source: http://www.flickr.com/photos/thematthewblack/6950586208/
42,000 objects on display
From a collection of 7 million objects
That’s 0.006 of their collection
Wet collections at Museum für NaturkundeImage: Ely Wallis
Read about it:http://seedmagazine.com/content/article/the_awe_of_natural_history_collections/http://seedmagazine.com/Saved_By_Science/sbs_slideshow.html
“The Waiting Room,” from the Saved by Science series by Justine Cooper.
Read about it:http://www.niwa.co.nz/news/%E2%80%98supergiant%E2%80%99-amphipods-discovered-7-kilometres-deep
Supergiant amphipod caught in the Kermadec Trench off New Zealand. Sources: Photo copyright of Oceanlab, University of Aberdeen, UK
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-14616161http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/08/110823180459.htm
Read about it: http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/notrocketscience/2012/11/19/%E2%80%9Cnew%E2%80%9D-species-gather-dust-on-museum-shelves-for-21-years-before-being-described/#.UL2DYuSTx2B
“New” species gather dust on museum shelves for 21 years before being described
Ed Yong, November 19,
Discover Magazine
http://museumvictoria.com.au/about/mv-blog/nov-2012/gallery-of-the-grampians-survey/http://museumvictoria.com.au/about/mv-blog/nov-2012/secret-diary-of-a-field-trip/
Grampians Bioscan, November 2012Parks Victoria and Museum Victoria
Filming a fluorescing scorpionImage: Heath Warwick
Mammal Curator Kevin Rowe with endangered heath mouseImage: Mark Norman
Herpetologist and geneticist Jo Sumner with a stumpy tailImage: Steve Wright
Invertebrate zoologists Richard Marchant and Ryan Duffy examining a collection trayImage: Mark Norman
http://museumvictoria.com.au/collections/items/1267787/photograph-camp-at-trousers-point-flinders-island-1893
http://biodiversitysnapshots.net.au/
Education program: http://museumvictoria.com.au/education/education-kits/biodiversity-snapshots/
Read about it:http://museumvictoria.com.au/discoverycentre/mv-field-guide-app/
Read about it:http://museumvictoria.com.au/discoverycentre/mv-bunurong-app/
http://www.climatewatch.org.au/
http://www.redmap.org.au/
https://www.zooniverse.org/
Read about it:http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2012/10/15/amateur-planet-hunters-find-a-world-with-a-four-star-rating/#.UL3xYuSTx2A
TV watching/listening was found to be the activity which took up most people's leisure time. On a daily basis 87% of Australians watched or listened to TV for an average of just under 3 hours (179 minutes), down slightly from the 1997 figure of 182 minutes. This means that in 2006, Australians aged 15 years and over spent a total of 42 million hours watching or listening to TV each day.
Read about it:http://www.abs.gov.au/Ausstats/ABS@.nsf/0/32049C1F6913E595CA257968000CB4B2?opendocument
From the Australian Bureau of Statistics
Part 3.The data deluge –
local and global
Example screen from collection database
Red kangaroo specimens in Museum Victoria’s collections
Red kangaroo specimens in all Australian museums collections
Heat map of Red kangaroo specimens in museum collections and including observations
http://www.ozcam.org.au/
All museum specimens from OZCAM
http://avh.ala.org.au/
http://ala.org.au/
Atlas of Living Australia concept diagram
http://bie.ala.org.au/species/Callocephalon+fimbriatum
http://biocache.ala.org.au/explore/your-area
http://www.ala.org.au/get-involved/
http://volunteer.ala.org.au/
Wet specimens held at the Natural History Museum in LondonImages: Ely Wallis
Platypus and echidna specimens in the Natural History Museum collections in London
http://bhl.ala.org.auhttp://biodiversitylibrary.org/
Image: Joe ColemanSource: Museum Victoria
Book scanning and rare books in MV library
Image: Jon AugierSource: Museum Victoria
http://www.flickr.com/photos/biodivlibrary/sets/
Atlas of Living Australia concept diagram
http://gbif.org
http://eol.org
…imagine for a moment that all the diversity of the world were finally revealed and then described, say one page to a species. (E.O. Wilson, 1992)
http://museumvictoria.com.au/collections/items/1788301/photograph-hope-macpherson-working-in-shell-bay-national-museum-of-victoria-melbourne-1948-damaged
http://museumvictoria.com.au/collections/items/260683/dust-silty-wood-dust-bag-of-circa-1990
Thank-you
Dr Elycia WallisManager, Online CollectionsMuseum Victoria
@elyw
http://museumvictoria.com.au/collections/items/705595/microscope-with-box-watson-routine-circa-1910
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