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Museum Revealed
by Queensland Museum Network
We're revealing some of the hidden gems and stories from the Queensland Museum Network Collection.Listen as our expert curators wax lyrical with some amazing tales from the field, hidden surprises from the collection and much more covering topics including biodiversity, cultures and histories, geosciences, science and technology. Did you know more than 1.2 million objects and specimens make up the State Collection that tells the changing story of Queensland, Australia? We’re here to inspire curiosity to connect the the past, make sense of the present and help navigate the future.
Episodes
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Ep 23: Marson Collection Revealed: Part 1 with Dr Kirsty Gillespie
From celebrations to break-ups, good times to sad times, there’s no doubt music is a major part of our lives. Music is a form of self-expression, and something that we as humans can all relate and connect to on an emotional level. Over two episodes we are going to reveal a special “living”...
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Ep 24: Marson Collection Revealed: Part 2 with Karen Kindt
Music is significant to all cultures across history. The breadth of the 830 traditional musical instruments that make up Marson Collection demonstrates the wide diversity of ways in which different cultures have made music. You're listening to part two of Marson Collection Revealed. Discover more...
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Ep 22: Climate change impacts on marine invertebrates with Dr Sue-Ann Watson
Imagine you're a scientist, diving into the freezing cold waters of the Antarctic. You're not there to observe the larger organisms so closely associated with that part of the world - whales, seals and impossibly cute penguins - but the smallest: the marine invertebrates. What is it about these...
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Ep 21: Ants: bioindicators of climate change with Dr Chris Burwell
Because some of them bite, sting or pass on life-threatening diseases, lurk in our kitchens at night, or eat our garden plants, not to mention occasionally decimate our food crops, insects tend to get a bad rap. But that's not really fair. If they didn't exist, nor would we. In fact, because of…
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Ep 20: Building SparkLab: How have Science Centre's changed with Rebekah Collins
We may be biased, but at Queensland Museum Network we reckon we've got one of the best science centre's in Australia! SparkLab, at Queensland Museum, has awesome interactive exhibits, live science experiments and investigations and a Maker Space - but perhaps best of all, learning officers who…
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EP 19: The Workshops Rail Museum with Curator Rob Shiels
Hop aboard the Museum Revealed Podcast Express to the Queensland Museum Network's Ipswich campus: The Workshops Rail Museum. Somewhere amongst the network's biggest and heaviest collection items you'll find Curator, Rob Shiels. Like the museum itself, Rob isn't just about trains, so come along…
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Ep 18: Museum Development across Queensland with Ewen McPhee
Let's start with an undeniable fact: Queensland is a big state. From Texas in the south to the Torres Strait 3000 kilometres to the north, from Fraser Island on the east coast to Camooweal in the far west. How does a state museum make sure that people who'd have to travel by plane or four-wheel...
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Ep 17: Marine Parasites with Dr Terry Miller
Tape worms. Ticks. Head lice. The thought is enough to make you squirm, flinch and scratch. Yes, we're talking about parasites! Most parasites are tiny; you'll need a magnifying glass handy to see them. Dr Terry Miller, parasitologist and Queensland Museum Network's Head of Biodiversity and...
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Ep 16: Lost trades with Andrew MacDonald
There's a good chance that as you listen to this podcast you're sitting on a mass-produced piece of furniture - not that there's anything wrong with that! But what if you could learn the skills to make your own? Andrew MacDonald could teach you. He's the Factory Supervisor at Cobb+Co Museum, our...
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Ep 15: Insights into exhibition design with Alison Ross
There's a group of unsung heroes in the museum world who work harder than anyone to bring the knowledge and vision of the curators and scientists to life in a way that excites and inspires you. We're talking about the designers! Queensland Museum's Senior Exhibition Designer Alison Ross gives us...
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Ep 14: What it's like to be a maritime archaeologist with Dr Maddy McAllister
How did such a large ship and experienced crew come to be wrecked? What is the full story of HMS Pandora that now lies at the bottom of the ocean? These are some of the questions Maritime and underwater archaeologists work to answer. So no, archaeology isn't just digging up old objects from the...
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Ep 13: What does it take to be a palaeontologist with Dr Espen Knutsen
He's travelled from Norway, to the Arctic to the USA and Australia and a few million years into the past to discover ancient life. Dr Espen Knutsen returns to the present day (and the Museum Revealed podcast) to share more tales of life as a palaeontologist. Follow us on social media at…
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Ep 12: Contemporary Collecting during COVID-19 with Judith Hickson
In 2020, we donned our KN-95 face masks, hand sanitised thoroughly for thirty seconds and headed out into the world (subject to travel restrictions, of course) to collect objects that will exemplify our lives during the global pandemic. Judith Hickson, Senior Curator of Social History is here to...
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Ep 11: Snails, Squids and More Molluscs with Collection Manager Darryl Potter
Did you know molluscs are ancient creatures? They've been around for half a billion years! From snails to squids, Collection Manager of Molluscs, Darry Potter takes us through this enormously diverse group of animals.
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Ep 10: Queensland Museum's Whale Collection with Heather Janetzki
Proceeds of crime. Bone boilers. Unicorns of the ocean. And poo. A conversation with Heather Janetzki, Collection Manager of Mammals and Birds at Queensland Museum Network, always reveals something interesting. Don't miss this one - you'll have a whale of a time! Pun intended. Read the show notes...
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Ep 9: Cobb+Co Museum History with Jeff Powell
Museum Revealed takes you on a horse-drawn coach ride up into the Great Dividing Range to talk with Jeff Powell, Curator at Cobb+Co Museum in Toowoomba. Bring a well-padded cushion and keep an eye out for bush rangers! Read the show notes here. Follow us on social media at @qldmuseum. CREDITS…
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Ep 8: Spider Facts with Dr Robert Raven
Dr Robert Raven really knows spiders. You should launch into this faster than a Funnel-web onto a vegetarian millipede. Read the show notes here. Follow us on social media at @qldmuseum. CREDITS Host: Dr Rob Bell Producers: Rebecca Ruhle, Jaclyn McTaggart, Christine Robertson Advertisement voiced...
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Ep 7: I Do! Wedding Stories from Queensland with Carmen Burton
Turn off Married at First Sight: we've got the best real-life wedding stories right here! Sweet and bittersweet tales from couples of all kinds and cultures told through the wedding garments they wore with Assistant Curator of Social History, Carmen Burton. Follow us on social media at…
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Ep 6: Searching for Fossils with Palaeontologist Dr Espen Knutsen
Dr Espen Knutsen is living your childhood dream. Give up your day job for 19 minutes and search for fossilised remains from the ancient past with Espen, Senior Curator of Palaeontology. Read the show notes here. Follow us on social media at @qldmuseum. CREDITS Host: Dr Rob Bell Producers: Rebecca...
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Ep 5: Rare Book Collection with Librarian Shannon Robinson
Sneak past the security doors and into the bookworm's paradise that is the Queensland Museum Network Rare Book Collection with Librarian Shannon Robinson. If you haven't head of John Gould's The Birds of Australia publication, you will have after this! Read the show notes here. CREDITS Host: Dr…
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Ep 4: Fascinating Crustaceans with Dr Marissa McNamara
Did you know that crabs have blue blood? Enjoy nineteen minutes of zoological fascination with Dr Marissa McNamara, Collection Manager of Crustacea on crabs and other (scientifically) delectable crustaceans. You'll want to come back for seconds! Read the show notes here. Follow us on social media...
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Ep 3: The Might and Muscle of Queensland's extensive infrastructure system with Jen High
Meet the metal beasts that helped build Queensland! From crawler tractors to locomotives, Jen High, Senior Curator of Transport, Energy and Science will introduce you to the (very big) stars of the Might and Muscle exhibit at The Workshops Rail Museum in Ipswich. Read the show notes here. CREDITS...
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Ep 2: Mephisto: The Sole Surviving WW1 German Tank with Nick Hadnutt
From a First World War battlefield to Brisbane: hear the story of how the sole surviving German A7V Sturmpanzerwagen tank named Mephisto made a very unexpected journey to the other side of the world from Nick Hadnutt, Curator of Archaeology. Now that the general public are no longer able to climb...
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Ep 1: Carnivorous Sponges and Deep Sea Creatures with Dr Merrick Ekins
CARNIVOROUS. SPONGES. Need we say more!? Dr Merrick Ekins, Collection Manager of Sessile Marine Invertebrates chats about searching for carnivorous sponges deep under the sea, and his Moreton Bay dugong adventures. Read the show notes here. CREDITS Host: Dr Rob Bell Producers: Rebecca Ruhle…
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
We're revealing some of the hidden gems and stories from the Queensland Museum Network Collection.Listen as our expert curators wax lyrical with some amazing tales from the field, hidden surprises from the collection and much more covering topics including biodiversity, cultures and histories, geosciences, science and technology. Did you know more than 1.2 million objects and specimens make up the State Collection that tells the changing story of Queensland, Australia? We’re here to inspire curiosity to connect the the past, make sense of the present and help navigate the future.
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Queensland Museum Network
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