Research and Scholarship

Research and scholarship are central to the National Museum of Australia's collection, exhibitions, publications and other activities.

This research includes Australian history, care of its collection and museological areas including audience, evaluation and outreach.

The establishment of the Centre for Historical Research has consolidated the study of Australian history and museum issues.

> Centre for Historical Research

> Fellowships

> Visitors

> Associates

> Graduate programs and student prize

> Conferences and seminars

> Library

> reCollections

> Research projects

> Staff presentations and papers

Annual collections symposium (audio)

> Caring for collections, 2010

> From collections to exhibitions, 2009

> Material histories: objects as sources, 2008

> Collecting for a Nation: the History of the National Historical Collection and its Collectors, 2006

Online features

> Barks, Birds & Billabongs: Exploring the legacy of the 1948 Arnhem Land Expedition
A five-day international symposium in November 2009 revisited this landmark international venture and explored the vast collections with an emphasis on Indigenous perspectives.

> Violent Ends: The Arts of Environmental Anxiety
Experience a wide range of expressions and interpretations of environmental anxiety through music, film, poetry, visual art, dance and discussion.

> Collaborating for Indigenous Rights - website
Explore the campaigns waged in postwar Australia to overturn discriminatory laws and expose racism.

> Cook's Pacific Encounters - website
Explore more than 300 artefacts collected during James Cook's three voyages to the Pacific.

> Historical Interpretation Series - audio on demand
A series of presentations by Museum's research fellows and director's fellows on their current research projects.

> Into the Simpson desert - audio blog
Listen to archaeologist Dr Mike Smith tell his fascinating story of discovery, comrades and camels.