A visit to the Australian Museum, Sydney
During our stay in Australia, part of our group had the chance to visit our partners at the Australian Museum (AM) in Sydney. Laura McBride, Mariko Smith and their team, the First Nations Division...
During our stay in Australia, part of our group had the chance to visit our partners at the Australian Museum (AM) in Sydney. Laura McBride, Mariko Smith and their team, the First Nations Division...
Over the last years, our project has worked closely with MfN’s “Transkriptionswerkstatt” (transcription workshop), a group of volunteers transcribing historic handwritten documents from the archive at the Museum für Naturkunde (MfN) (see our in-depth...
We look back on a successful workshop on Country in Euston/ Robinvale VIC on the banks of the Miloo [Murray] River, organised by our project partners at Museums Victoria (Caine Muir, Rebecca Carland, Jessica...
During our May 2024 workshop, the MfN film crew joined us for two days of research and events at MfN Berlin. It was a chance for Uncle Brendan Kennedy and Auntie Glenda Nicholls in...
In the course of the Berlin based workshop which took place for two weeks at the end of August and beginning of September 2023, members of both the Melbourne and Berlin team went to...
Over the last two weeks we had the opportunity to welcome Tati Tati & Wadi Wadi Traditional Owner Uncle Brendan Kennedy, Waddi Waddi, Ngarrindjeri & Yorta Yorta master weaver Auntie Glenda Nicholls, Back to...
Dear friends and colleagues, the provenance research project “Berlin’s Australian Archive”, funded by the German Lost Art Foundation and conducted in collaboration with Humanities of Nature, examines collections and archives in the Berlin Museum...
After I picked up my guest pass at the museum’s employee reception gate, I followed Christiane Funk, the mammal collection manager into the depths of Berlin’s fortress of natural history. I remember passing through...
Our project is looking back on a busy year 2023 – so busy we even fell behind in posting about our work on this blog! We will therefore resume our blog by looking back...
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...