Corporate Body

Queensland Museum

From
Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
Functions
Collection management, History of Australian Engineering, History of Australian Science and History of Australian Technology
Website
http://www.qm.qld.gov.au/

Summary

The Queensland Museum has six campuses throughout Queensland with its main site located at South Bank, Brisbane.

Related Awards

Related People

Published resources

Books

  • Mather, Patricia, A Time for a Museum: a History of the Queensland Museum (Brisbane: Queensland Museum, 1986), 365 pp. Details
  • Monteith, Geoff, The Dodd Collection of Butterfly and Insect Cases (Brisbane: Queensland Museum, 2010), 30 pp. Details

Book Sections

  • Robins, R., 'The legacy of a lazy character: Walter Roth's contribution to the ethnography collection of the Queensland Museum' in The Roth family, anthropology and colonial administration, McDougall, R. and Davidson, I., eds (Walnut Creek, California: Left Coast Press, 2008), pp. 171-80. Details
  • Turner, S.; and Wade, M.J., 'The Records in the Rocks' in A Time for a Museum. The History of the Queensland Museum 1862-1986, Mather, P., ed. (Brisbane: Queensland Museum, 1986). Details

Journal Articles

  • Angus, B. M.; Cannon, L. G. R.; and Adlard, R. D., 'Parasitology and the Queensland Museum, with Biographical Notes on Collectors', Memoirs of the Queensland Museum: Nature, 53 (2007), 1-156. Details
  • Brady, L. M.; Delaney, W.; and Robins, R., 'The Queensland Museum expedition to Ngiangu (Booby Island): rock art, archaeology and inter-regional interaction in south-west Torres Strait', Queensland archaeological research, 16 (2013), 93-120. Details
  • Burden, Gemmia, '"A Centre of Scientific Work": Ronald Hamlyn-Harris and Ethnography at the Queensland Museum 1910-17', Journal of Australian Studies, 38 (2014), 87-102. Details
  • Byrne, Dianne F.; and Lambkin, Kevin J., 'Anthony Alder (1838-1915), Queensland Taxidermist and Bird Painter', Archives of Natural History, 37 (2010), 58-73. Details
  • Davies, Susan M., 'Andrew Goldie: His Ethnological Collecting and Collections', Memoirs of the Queensland Museum: Culture, 6 (2012), 129-61. Details
  • Davies, Susan M., 'Catalogue of Papuan Artefacts Associated with Andrew Goldie in the Queensland Museum and the Museum of the Cumbraes, Millport, Scotland', Memoirs of the Queensland Museum: Culture, 6 (2012), 163-208. Details
  • Mack, George, 'The Queensland Museum, 1855-1955', Memoirs of the Queensland Museum, 13 (2) (1956), 107-24. Details
  • Price, Sophie; Allen, Lindy; and Knowles, Chantal, '"The (not-so) sacred ibis": Archibald Meston, the colonial collector, and the Queensland Museum', Memoirs of the Queensland Museum: culture, 12 (2021), 73-121, https://doi.org/10.17082 /j.2205-3239.12.1.2021.2021-04. Details
  • Rowlands, S., 'Entangled frontiers: collection, display and the Queensland Museum, 1874 - 1914', Journal of Australian colonial history, 13 (2011), 183-206. Details
  • Turnbull, Paul, ' Australian museums, Aboriginal skeletal remains, and the imagining of human evolutionary history', Museum & society, 13 (1) (2015), 72-87. https://doi.org/10.29311/mas.v13i1.318. Details
  • Turner, Susan, 'Heber Albert Longman (1880-1954), Queensland Museum scientist: a new bibliography', Memoirs of the Queensland Museum, 51 (1) (2005), 237-257. Details
  • Westaway, Michael C., 'Sydney B. J. Skertchly and the early Pleistocene archaeology at the Queensland Museum', Bulletin of the History of Archaeology, 22 (1) (2012), 14-8. Details

Resources

Theses

  • Burden, Gemmia, 'From dispossession to display: authenticity, aboriginality and the Queensland Museum, c. 1862 - 1917', PhD thesis, University of Queensland, 2017. Details

See also

  • Angus, B. M., 'The study of turbellarians (Platyhelminthes) at the Queensland Museum', Memoirs of the Queensland Museum, 53 (1) (2007), 157-85. Details
  • Anon, 'Private collections donated to the Queensland Museum', Entomological Society of Queensland news bulletin, 41 (7) (2013), 114-6. Details
  • Davie, Peter J. F., 'In Memoriam: Patricia Mather (Née Kott) (1925-2012)', Memoirs of the Queensland Museum: Nature, 56 (2012), 235-53. Details
  • Davis, William E.; Boles, Walter E.; and Recher, Harry F. eds, Contributions to the history of Australasian ornithology, volume IV (Cambridge, Massachusetts: Nuttall Ornithological Club, 2018), 608 pp. Details
  • O'Gorman Perusco, Anne, 'Only Sticks and Bark: Ursula McConnel - Her Collecting and Collection' in The Makers and Making of Indigenous Australian Museum Collections, Peterson, Nicolas, Allen, Lindy and Hamby, Louise, eds (Carlton: Melbourne University Press, 2008), pp. 419-42. Details

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