I usually try and write my blog posts immediately after visiting a museum/heritage place. Sometimes, that doesn't happen and sometimes you wake up on a Sunday morning at 6 am and realise you still have a blog post pending. This is my final post on Chicago which is now long overdue. I'll be covering the… Continue reading Devil & The White City Tour Chicago
Author: Rebecca Lush
Curator, Integrated Pathology Learning Centre.
Bauhaus: Dessau
Welcome to my second blog post celebrating 100 years of Bauhaus! In this post, we will be travelling to the city of Dessau - about a 2 hour drive/train journey from Berlin. If you remember from my post about Weimar, Dessau was the second location for the Bauhaus School operating there between 1925 to 1932.… Continue reading Bauhaus: Dessau
Queensland Museum: NASA – A Human Adventure
I want to begin this blog post by saying this exhibition, NASA - A Human Adventure, has been created to celebrate 50 years since the Moon Landing. Since then, the historiography of who was involved has been revised exposing those, particularly women, who achieved virtually the impossible to make the event happen. Unfortunately, this exhibition… Continue reading Queensland Museum: NASA – A Human Adventure
Art Gallery of New South Wales: The Archibald Prize
This weekend I had the wonderful opportunity to visit the Art Gallery of New South Wales and see The Archibald Prize finalists for 2019. Although I technically saw finalists from The Archibald, Wynne and Sulman Prizes, I just want to focus on The Archibald. This was my second time visiting an Archibald exhibition. If you're… Continue reading Art Gallery of New South Wales: The Archibald Prize
Frederick C. Robie House
I still have a few blog posts pending from my recent trip to America. One that I am most excited to share is on Frank Lloyd Wright's Frederick C. Robie House. Visits are by guided tour only and are conducted by representatives of the Frank Lloyd Wright Trust. You can see the outside of the… Continue reading Frederick C. Robie House
Australian Museums and Galleries Association Conference Day 5 & Megafauna Central
Conference This morning was the final plenary for the conference, presented by Ben Quilty, and the official handing over of the conference to Canberra for 2020. Quilty touched on something significant that I believe we can all learn. That is, there is no shame in admitting there are things you don't know and that you… Continue reading Australian Museums and Galleries Association Conference Day 5 & Megafauna Central
Australian Museums and Galleries Association Conference Day 4
Well, I think my brain is so full of information it might actually burst. That's a good indication of how today went at the conference. Everything from the first plenary to the last was just filled with important messages and questions to mull over. In this summary, I'm really going to try and do the… Continue reading Australian Museums and Galleries Association Conference Day 4
