Corporate Body
National Museum of Australia (1980 - )
- From
- 3 November 1980
Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia - Functions
- Collection management, History of Australian Engineering, History of Australian Science and History of Australian Technology
- Website
- http://www.nma.gov.au/
- Reference No
- CA 4435
- Legal Status
- Agency of the Commonwealth of Australia
- Location
- Canberra, Australian Capital Territory
Summary
The National Museum of Australia was established in November 1980, under the National Museum of Australia Act, 1980. From their Web site, January 2002: "The National Museum of Australia is a statutory body within the Communications, Information technology and the Arts portfolio. The Director of the National Museum reports to the Council of the National Museum and is responsible to the Minister for Communications, Information technology and the Arts for the overall management of the museum and its programs."
Related entries
Archival resources
The University of Melbourne Archives
- Department of Otolaryngology - Bionic Ear Records, 1949 - 2000, 2004.0043 at U77/46-55; The University of Melbourne Archives. Details
Published resources
Books
- National Museum of Australia, Land, Nation, People: Stories from the National Museum of Australia (Canberra: National Museum of Australia Press, 2004), 144 pp. Details
Journal Articles
- Kaus, David, 'It is a Treat at Any Time to Study Nature: an Introduction to the Collections of Herbert Basedow', Australian Systematic Botany Society Newsletter, 138 (2009), 7-18 . Details
- Robin, Libby, 'Collections and the Nation: Science, History and the National Museum of Australia', Historical Records of Australian Science, 14 (3) (2003), 251-289. https://doi.org/10.1071/HR02013. Details
- Schaffarczyk, Sylvia, 'Australia's official Papuan collection: Sir Hubert Murray and the how and why of a colonial collection', reCollections: a journal of museums and collections, 1 (1) (2006). http://recollections.nma.gov.au/issues/vol_1_no_1/papers/the_papuan_collection. Details
- Shephard, Denis, 'Geophysical Instruments in the National Historical Collection', Preview, 163 (2013), 21-7. Details
- Smith, Mike, 'Environmental History in the National Museum of Australia', Public History Review (2000), 27-43. Details
Resources
- Wikidata, http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q1967496. Details
- VIAF - Virtual International Authority File, OCLC, https://viaf.org/viaf/122516150. Details
- Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009, https://nla.gov.au/nla.party-783640. Details
Resource Sections
- 'Primary description of agency CA 4435; National Museum of Australia. Registration of entity: 2 November 1987', in RecordSearch, National Archives of Australia, 2002, https://RecordSearch.naa.gov.au/scripts/AutoSearch.asp?Number=CA%204435. Details
Reviews
- National Museum of Australia, Land, Nation, People: Stories from the National Museum of Australia (2004)
Sherratt, Tim, Historical Records of Australian Science, 16 (1), (2005), 122-124. https://doi.org/10.1071/HR05006. Details
See also
- Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering, Technology in Australia 1788-1988, Online edn, Australian Science and Technology Heritage Centre, Melbourne, 3 May 2000, http://www.austehc.unimelb.edu.au/tia/index_n.html. Details
- Hamby, Louise, 'The Reluctant Collector: Lloyd Warner' in The Makers and Making of Indigenous Australian Museum Collections, Peterson, Nicolas, Allen, Lindy and Hamby, Louise, eds (Carlton: Melbourne University Press, 2008), pp. 355-82. Details
Ailie Smith
Created: 17 August 2001, Last modified: 17 June 2010
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