Author: Rebecca Lush
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The following is part 2 of yesterday’s museum adventures. I’ll start by saying we didn’t really plan on visiting the Design Museum. I stumbled across it whilst googling what to see around the Medical Museion. What’s pretty cool is that the Design Museum is housed in part of the former Frederiks Hospital. Its collection includes…
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We have had such an amazing day seeing some of the wonderful sites in the city and, most importantly, museum-hopping. Although we visited the Design Museum first, I am too excited to write about the Medical Museion. Since they are such different places, both deserve their own blog entry. The Medical Museion, founded in 1907,…
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After arriving in Copenhagen at 6.00 am this morning we thought it was absolutely necessary to start our trip with a danish and a visit to Det Kongelige Bibliotek (The Royal Library). Nicknamed “The Black Diamond”, this library is a beautifully designed space seamlessly combining the old and the new. The old section of the…
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Sweet Addiction is the inaugural exhibition of the new Calyx venue in the Royal Botanic Gardens. For a small fee, you can step inside one of the most beautifully curated exhibition spaces to learn the history and art of chocolate. It is a truly aesthetically pleasing and informative space that once you enter, you’ll find…
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In exactly eleven and a half days, (not that I’m counting) I leave for what I hope will be an amazing holiday in Scandinavia. We are starting in Denmark, moving on to Sweden, and finishing in Iceland. My aim is to visit as many museums and heritage sites as possible! I’ve spent the last few…
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It is time for another fantastic guest post! As always, happy reading. Hello! I’m Rachelle, a Museum & Heritage Studies student and long-time floral enthusiast. When I learned that the State Library of New South Wales was combining two of my favourite things and mounting the exhibition ‘Planting Dreams’, I was immediately enthused. I came…
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Last night was an amazing opportunity to experience a museum not only outside normal hours, but, from a whole different perspective. I have visited the Australian Museum prior to the Jurassic Lounge event and can confidently say that people dressed up as zombies and Eleven from Stranger Things don’t normally walk the halls. I will…
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Although I have been working on Cockatoo Island for just over a year now, I’ve never truly taken the time to walk through the Shipyard Stories exhibition. The exhibition is set in a beautiful sandstone structure that was originally the superintendent’s house from 1839 to 1859. Its various rooms have been recently transformed into gallery…
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Today marked the last day of my twenty-day internship at the Trainor/Owen Archives within the Australian and New Zealand College of Radiologists. I am so grateful I had the opportunity to intern with another medical collection! This post is basically going to summarize what I did over the past twenty days/ten weeks. To start, I…
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To kick-start this medical history weekend, I attended a writing medical history masterclass at the Geoffrey Kaye Museum. It was a day filled with reinforcing and refreshing my writing skills as well as learning new techniques. The participants at this workshop were a diverse group ranging from museum professionals to medical practitioners. In saying this,…
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