INSITE / May - June 2011 / Animals & Museums

This issue of INSITE focuses on Animals & Museums in addition to member and branch news. This page provides supplementary links to the printed edition of INSITE.

Contents

[Cover Image] by Neil Pardington http://www.neilpardington.com/text/the_vault
Land and Marine Mammal Store #5, Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa, 2006.

[Editorial] Additional Links
Pest Management:
http://www.aiccm.org.au
http://www.museumpests.net/prevention.asp
Shifting Taxidermy:
http://recollections.nma.gov.au/issues/vol_4_no_2/papers/dead_museum_animals/
How Animals Feel:
http://museumstudies.si.edu/webcast_012307.html

Linda Peacock, Burke Museum [Page 2]
Natural History at the Burke Museum
http://www.burkemuseum.com.au

John Kean, Independent Producer [Page 3]
Crepuscular: the wild animals of Melbourne
http://www.melbourne.vic.gov.au/citygallery/Pages/CityGallery.aspx

Roisin O'Dwyer, Museums Australia (Victoria) [Page 4]
Animals, Artwork and Museums: an interview: Kate Rohde
http://www.katerohde.com
http://www.kwgallery.com

Dr Elycia Wallis, Museum Victoria [Page 5]
A Field Guide to Victorian Fauna App
http://itunes.apple.com/au/app/field-guide-tovictorian-fauna/id423945031?mt=8
http://museumvictoria.com.au/discoverycentre/mv-field-guide-app/
http://museumvictoria.com.au/about/mv-blog/mar-2011/field-guide-app-out-now/

Sherridan Gray, Sovereign Hill Museums Association [Page 6]
Horses and Risk
http://www.sovereignhill.com.au/

Luke Simpkin, Melbourne Museum [Page 7]
Live at the Museum
http://museumvictoria.com.au/bugs/exhibition/
http://museumvictoria.com.au/about/mv-blog/categories/live-exhibits

Belinda Petersen, Point Nepean National Park [Page 8]
Quarantine Flags Preserved
http://www.nepeanhistoricalsociety.asn.au/quarantine.html

Sharron Dickman, Consultant [Page 8]
Western District Celebrates Sporting History
http://lismore.vic.au/community-groups/dlca-history-group

Dr Helen Light and Erica Sanders [Page 10]
Scoping Multicultural Collections
If you have any information regarding the whereabouts of Victorian migration and settlement objects or about communities that hold their own history, please contact Dr Helen Light at helenlight@netspace.net.au

Peta Knott, Museums Australia (Victoria) [Page 11]
Treasures & Curiosities with Victorian Collections
http://www.victoriancollections.net.au

John Watson, Department of Planning and Community Development [Page 13]
Tourism in a Collecting Organisation Audit: the results are in!
Further information: john.a.watson@dpcd.vic.gov.au

Museum News [Page 14]
Islamic Museum of Australia
Museum Smells at the University of Strathclyde
Dax Centre
NGV Top Ten
Linden Centre for Contemporary Arts

ICOM Red List
Loreto Mandeville Hall, Toorak
MV History & Material Culture Lectures

Laura Miles, Museums Australia (Victoria) [Page 16]
Branch News
MA (Vic) Annual Report
Victorian Museum Awards 2011
MA 2011 National Conference

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