Museums Listings

Cover of Museums Listings
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Meet Lisa Walker in her workshop: VR in the museum
Feature
Justine Olsen and Prue Donald

Published 01 December 2018
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Eugenie Lee's Seeing is Believing: VR in pain management
Feature
Dylan DeLosAngeles

Published 01 December 2018
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Artificial imagination: Deepfakes from latent space
Feature
Sean Dockray

Published 01 December 2018
Dan McCabe
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Brenda Laurel's Placeholder: In dreams everybody flies their own way
Feature
Claire L. Evans

Published 01 December 2018
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The distributed virtual: Jill Scott's Eskin4 and other electronic environments
Feature
Rob La Frenais

Published 01 December 2018
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Against realism: The badly rendered potential of VR
Feature
Ian Haig

Published 01 December 2018
Axolotl
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The virtuous politics of Alejandro Iñárritu's Carne y Arena
Feature
Vince Dziekan

Published 01 December 2018
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Metascape, memory and spacetime: The museum in VR
Feature
Andrew Yip

Published 01 December 2018

Selected list of museums and art galleries around Australia.

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Some Thoughts on Museum Futures
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A Virtue of Necessity: Deaccessioning Without Guilt
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De-accessioning is too often characterised as an ill-wind, blowing through the vast and mostly undisturbed reaches of our cultural store-houses capriciously violating the integrity of our collections.

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CAMA Conference: An Overview
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Susan Tonkin

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

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Sources of Synergy: Museums for Design
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The Zandra Rhodes costume in Sydney's Powerhouse Museum holds unique significance within the design collection.

Published March 1992
Repatriation of Papua New Guinea's Cultural Heritage
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Jim Specht of the Australian Museum Sydney, has written that "public and private collections of archaeological and ethnographic specimens around the world contain tens of millions of specimens yet only a minute fraction of this total is actually held in its countries of origin" ; most of this material he says, was acquired through colonial or military occupation.

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To Have and To Hold: Art Museum Departments
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Alison Carroll

One of the things which continues to fascinate me about museums is how, despite the vast amount of talk about displaying material culture, the often personal, often idiosyncratic, often haphazard decisions about departments are very rarely mentioned. Yet these decisions are central to much of the museum's collection, display, exhibitions and research programme.

Published March 1992
Australian Art Museums and Public Galleries Directory
Book Review
Naomi Cass

Book review Australian Art Museums and Public Galleries Directory published by the Art Museums Association of Australia Inc and the National Centre for Australian Studies Monash University 1991.

Published March 1992
Exhibiting Conflict - Who Dares?
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Viv Szekeres

Museum exhibitions tend not to challenge visitors with critical perspectives, contradictory points of view or subject matter which is controversial. I would like to explore different ways that conflict might be included in exhibitions and used to further our understanding of the past.

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Whams and Whimms: An Exercise in Classification and Meaning
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Dale Spender

Interview with Louise Dauth about issues of gender. Dale Spender is a foundation member of the Women Heritage and Museums Group.

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Aboriginal People and Museums: Restricting Access to Increase It
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Christopher Anderson

The South Australian Museum has the world's largest and most comprehensive collection of Australian Aboriginal material culture. It also has a vast archive of information about that material and about other aspects of Aboriginal life in the form of photographs, films, audio tapes, diaries and other records.

Published March 1992
Heritage Collections not Museums
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Daniel Thomas

In 1975 the Whitlam Government's Committee of Inquiry on Museums and National Collections (the Piggott Committee, after its chairman P H Piggott) unsuccessfully recommended setting up of a Museum's Commission.

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