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The Australian Museum Giving Day Exceeds Target

Following its inaugural Giving Day, the Australian Museum (AM) is pleased to announce it received over 880 donations and raised more than $1 million, exceeding the $750,000 target by over 30 per cent.  The funds raised will be used to support the wide range of access and education initiatives, including the A Day at the…

Thin Ice VR Experience

Thin Ice VR opens at the Australian Museum (AM) on 6 July, taking visitors on one of the world’s greatest against-all-odds adventures following in Sir Ernest Shackleton’s footsteps on the ill-fated Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition. Shackleton’s ship, the Endurance, was trapped in Antarctic ice and had to be abandoned by the crew; what followed is regarded…

Australian Museum Short Documentary Selected For International Film Festivals

No Distance Between Us, a short documentary (11 minutes) about the discovery of the world’s largest collection of ancient human footprints in Mungo National Park has been selected to screen at three international film festivals, Global Impact Film Festival (Washington), Antenna International Documentary Film Festival (Sydney) and Female Eye Film Festival (Toronto). Commissioned by the…