Author: Rebecca Lush
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I cannot believe that tomorrow I leave for the Open Palace Programme in the United Kingdom! I had to distract myself today to stop the excitement building to dangerous levels. Mum came down to visit so we headed off to the Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera exhibition currently on at the Art Gallery of New…
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I have been a dinosaur addict since I was about 10 years old. I remember having my 10th birthday party at the Queensland Museum complete with a dinosaur cake. Fast forward eleven years and there I am celebrating my 21st in the same museum with, yes, another dinosaur cake. I can’t really tell you why…
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Today I returned to the Geoffrey Kaye Museum to visit my supervisor and see the new exhibition – From Snake Oil to Science: the Development and Labelling of Pharmaceuticals for the Treatment of Pain. It was such a fantastic day filled with much needed catch ups and some work! I am going to dedicate this…
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After Degas, I walked across the Yarra River to Federation Square and the NGV Australia. This was the first time I had visited the second location of the NGV! Although I didn’t have time to walk around and see the permanent collection, I did see 200 Years of Australian Fashion. Unlike Degas, I had been…
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After quite an intense semester (to say the least) I was ready for a short vacation. The next three days in Melbourne will be packed with visiting exhibitions and seeing my supervisor again at Geoffrey Kaye! I am also excited to experience a few days of very cold weather and heated museums. The first exhibition…
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Another day, another excursion. I think I have started a blog post like this before, but, it so perfectly summarizes how wonderfully excursion-filled this semester has been. Even coming down with quite a terrible flu did not ruin the day! I will begin by saying this was my first visit to the Art Gallery of…
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~ International Museum Day! ~ It was wonderful to spend today with fellow museum-studiers at the Hyde Park Barracks! It was, above all, a very fun afternoon. We started the visit with a talk from a representative of Sydney Living Museums (SLM). Although we didn’t touch too much on how SLM engage audiences, we did…
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Today our museums and the digital subject introduced us to some interesting concepts. We started this morning with a wonderful lecture by Madeleine Borthwick, a designer who works for the company Kiss the Frog. They are a Netherlands-based company that has worked on some very interesting digital projects around the world. Check them out here.…
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Despite the fact that this week is National Volunteer’s Week, I would like to think that museums (and other institutions) around the world support and appreciate their volunteers every week. I’m using this week as an opportunity to say thank you to all the wonderful supervisors I’ve had over the past six years. The opportunities…
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I love getting out of the classroom and experiencing the heritage and museums that Sydney has to offer! For our ‘engaging audiences’ class today we spent an hour at the Big Dig archaeology site and at Susannah Place Museum. For those, like me, still working out the geography of Sydney, both sites are located in…
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