Author: Collecting a Continent
We congratulate our Sydney project partner and First Nations curator Laura McBride on the recent opening of “Unsettled”, one of the Australian Museum’s most significant exhibitions in its almost 200-year history. This powerful exhibition...
Research assistant Fiona Möhrle has been working on registering Blandowski’s drawings in the internal database of the Historische Arbeitsstelle at the MfN. Here, she reflects on the insights she gained while meticulously examining the...
Our Melbourne project partners Kimberley Moulton, Rebecca Carland and Tim Stranks have long been working with the collections of Prussian naturalists William Blandowski and Gerald Krefft. Here is an insight into the exciting potential...
Research assistant Philip Eybing reflects on his work with the Blandowski papers. William Blandowski was a Prussian naturalist, who arrived in Australia in 1849 and who was appointed government zoologist at Melbourne’s newly founded...
Anna Haebich, one of the participants at our workshop in October 2020, was recently a guest on ABC’s radio programme Late Night Live, talking about her work on German endeavors in Australian colonial natural...
On 6 October 2020, Associate Professor Sandy O’Sullivan (University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland) held a keynote at our workshop on “Collecting a Continent”. They kindly agreed to have their talk on “Strategies for...
Last Tuesday and Wednesday (6-7 October 2020), we held the first of hopefully many workshops to come in order to discuss how to reconstruct and activate the Australian archive in the Museum für Naturkunde,...