Author: Rebecca Lush
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Happy New Year! I am very excited to share with you my first post of 2017. While I was in Brisbane over the Christmas period, I visited the Gallery of Modern Art (GOMA) with some friends. Currently, there is an exhibition titled GOMA Turns 10. A few months ago GOMA ran a poll on Facebook asking…
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What an absolutely intense year this has been. I finished my Masters, became a curator, travelled to America & Scandinavia, participated in the Open Palace Programme in England, and enjoyed another fantastic year exploring museums and heritage in Sydney. Here is a month by month (very short) summary of 2016. January In January this year…
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Enjoy reading! Hi, my name is Ziggy Potts and, as a fellow Museum and Heritage Studies student, Rebecca has kindly allowed me to review the new Egyptian Mummies exhibition currently on at the Powerhouse Museum. Whilst this is, in no ways does this review address all aspects, it reflects some of the things that made…
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The Sydney Observatory is currently running tours to complement the new exhibition at the Powerhouse Museum, Egyptian Mummies: Exploring Ancient Lives. The tour runs for approximately one hour and takes place in the observatory’s planetarium. This review is going to be short purely because the tour was short and I want that to be the…
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Now that I’m no longer studying, I don’t feel guilty leaving the house. I have seen more of Sydney in the past two weeks than I have during my 18 months of study. To kickstart my weekend I visited Old Government House in Parramatta. Before even entering the house I was surprised to see it…
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I briefly mentioned this in a previous post but now that it’s 100% confirmed and I have a nice little piece of paper to prove it, I can officially say that I’ve mastered my masters. I started this blog in mid-2015 with the intention of continuing it throughout my study. According to my first blog post:…
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The second stop on our adventure was Hawkesbury Regional Museum. I finally witnessed the flabbit – a local myth first “sighted” in 1985. There is plenty of flabbit merchandise available for purchase. There were three highlights that I will focus on. Firstly, and without bias at all, was the exhibition curated by Imogen herself! I…
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Now that I’ve finished my Masters (yay!!!!) I am free to explore more of Sydney and its wonderful museums and heritage sites. Today was a particularly fantastic day exploring Rouse Hill House & Farm and Hawkesbury Regional Museum with my amazing friend Imogen. Make sure you check out her guest post on Manly Museum &…
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Tucked inside the Royal Botanic Gardens in Copenhagen is the Geological Museum. Our motivation for visiting was to see the exhibition Flora Danica – a display of hand-drawn and coloured botanical prints. These were showcased alongside contemporary interpretations by Danish artists. It was a very small exhibition, which isn’t a criticism. In fact, it was…
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Whilst we did visit Þingvellir National Park yesterday, I was waiting until after our second visit to write a post. This natural and cultural World Heritage Site is where you can see the North American and Eurasian Plates slowly separating. The result of this process is spectacular. Between 930 and 1798 AD, Þingvellir was home…
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