Sources of Synergy: Museums for Design

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Amala Groom: Cosmic Body of remembrance
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Hannah Donnelly

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imagineNATIVE at 20
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Pauline Clague in conversation with Jason Ryle

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Sydney Elders: Continuing Aboriginal Stories

State Library of NSW

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Jonathan Jones

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ACE Open
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Speaking back to colonial collections: Building living to Aboriginal archives
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Kirsten Thorpe

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Unravelling the past: Barbed wire and campfire learnings
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Ali Cobby Eckermann

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Dark Emu: Thank the Earth
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Bruce Pascoe

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UTS
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Deaths in custody: We've got to give it everything
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Lorena Allum

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Indigenous storytelling: Deconstructing the archetype
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Pauline Clague

Published 01 June 2019

The Zandra Rhodes costume in Sydney's Powerhouse Museum holds unique significance within the design collection.

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Some Thoughts on Museum Futures
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The quintessential purpose of Museums is to encourage and instil the joy of intellectual and aesthetic discovery. Abstracted partly from a public lecture entitled 'Ideas -Heresies even - for Museum Futures' given in Perth for the Western Australian Government Department of the Arts Task Force on Museums in August 1991.

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Spirit of Enquiry Refreshing
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Exhibition review Moet and Chandon Touring Exhibition
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Local Conditions: New Zealand Art
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Headlands: Thinking through New Zealand Art. Exhibition for the Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney from 31st March 1992. Article by the co-curator Robert Leonard.

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A Continuum of Maori Art
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Whatu Aho Rua - Tandanya Aboriginal Cultural Institute Adelaide Festival. The exhibition Whatu Aho Rua 'weaving with two strands' organised by the Sarjeant Gallery in Wanganui, New Zealand, is a departure form exhibitions usually seen in New Zealand Galleries.

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Charging to Disaster: The Introduction of Museum Entry Fees
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Museums are complex social phenomena and valuable resources. There's an ecological analogy there; if you mess with even apparently trivial elements of a complex system, the results can be unpredictable, powerful and are most often catastrophic.

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Here We Go Again
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Life in Cyrus with all its charms and challenges.

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Museums on the Edge
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Louise Dauth

Guest editor for Vol 12 No 1 Museums on the Edge. This edition was founded on a perception of a lack of any quantity of readily available material on the Australian and New Zealand experience of museums.

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European Museums Make an Exhibition of Themselves
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Philip Wright

Report on the 3rd International Salon of Museums and Exhibitions (SIME) at the Grand Palais Paris January 1992

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Urban Regions and the City Centre: A Changing Cultural Relationship
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Marla Guppy

One of the curious things about very large cities is the gulf that exists between the inner city and the outer suburbs or hinterland.

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Towards the Light: The story of One New Age Gallery's Quest for Purpose and Relevance in a Changing World
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John Neylon

On 23 October 2002, yet another Council of Australian Museums Associations (CAMA) ran down. Conferees were already half deep in thought about melting credit cards and distant work site desks stacked high with urgent files. Well Not exactly CAMA...

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If you Can't Measure It, You Can't Manage It!
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Nelson English

I am particularly troubled about debates such as those illustrated by the publications 'What Price Heritage? - Finance 1989' and 'What value Heritage? DASETT 1990' and Professor Donald Horne's article 'Weekend Australian Jan 4-5 1992' on museums, because there is nearly always truth on all sides.

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CAMA Conference: An Overview
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Conference review CAMA Something for Everyone: Access to Museums held at the University of Adelaide October 1991.

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