The Queensland Museum is the state museum of Queensland, Australia. The museum currently operates from the headquarters and public museum in South Brisbane with a specialist museum located at Woolloongabba in Brisbane, Ipswich North in Ipswich, East Toowoomba in Toowoomba, and Townsville City in Townsville.
The museum is funded by the Queensland Government.
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History
The Queensland Museum was founded by the Queensland Philosophical Society on January 20, 1862, one of the main founders of Charles Coxen, and has several temporary houses in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. The temporary houses include: The Old Windmill (1862-1869), Parliament House (1869-1873) and General Post Office (1873-1879).
The Queensland government built houses for museums on William Street (later called John Oxley State Library), with the Queensland Museum moved there in 1879. The museum occupies William Street location for 20 years.
In 1899, the Queensland Museum moved to the Exhibition Hall (now called the Old Museum), at Gregory Terrace in the city of Bowen Hills, Brisbane, remaining there for 86 years.
In 1986, the Queensland Museum moved to the Queensland Cultural Center in South Bank, where the museum is adjacent to the Queensland Art Gallery.
Receivers and directors
- 1872 - Karl Theodor Staiger (first professional curator)
- 1910 - Ronald Hamlyn-Harris (former science teacher at Toowoomba Grammar School)
- 1918-1945 - Albert Heber Longman
- 19 ?? - 1969 - Jack Tunstall Woods
- 1969 - c. 1989 - Dr Alan Bartholomai, AM
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Museum Network
The Queensland Museum now operates in a number of locations.
Museum of Queensland & amp; Sciencentre
Museum of Queensland & amp; Sciencentre is located in South Brisbane at Queensland Cultural Center alongside Queensland State Library, Queensland Art Gallery, Gallery of Modern Art and Queensland Performing Arts Center.
The Queensland Museum connects visitors to Queensland, its people and their stories about the past, present and future.
Popular exhibits include audiences from Australia and around the world as well as stunning exhibits revealing the Queensland story, including its extraordinary prehistoric past, the culture of the Queensland Aboriginal Society and Torres Strait Island and the exhibits that reveal Queensland's unique biodiversity.
The museum is also a world-class research facility in the fields of biodiversity, geosciences, and cultural history.
The Queensland Museum is home to Sciencentre, which offers instant interactive activities for children and adults who reveal the science behind our daily lives.
World Science Festival Brisbane
The Queensland Museum Network holds an exclusive license to host the World Science Festival in the Asia Pacific region, strengthening Australia's position as a knowledge economy and sparking new and challenging discussions in and about Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM). The inauguration of the Brisbane World Science Festival takes place in 2016. The festival will continue in March each year and is based in Brisbane, with regional satellite events taking place in Toowoomba, Townsville and Chinchilla.
Museum Rail Workshop
Museum Rail Workshop was opened in August 2002 and housed at the Ipswich North Railway Workshop. The collection includes 15 rolling stock items and thousands of smaller items. Some of the operational steam locomotives of the Queensland Rail Heritage Fleet are often on display in the museum when not required for main line use.
Cobb & amp; Co Museum
In 1987, when the Queensland Museum needed more space to showcase wagons and horse-drawn carriages, the museum opened Cobb & amp; Campus Co Museum in Toowoomba, Queensland.
Cobb Co Museum is home to the National Carriage Collection. The museum collections include examples of various vehicles from the era of horses, from farm carts and delivery carts to the Rolls Royce of Carriages, landau.
Cobb Co Museum runs an inheritance workshop program. Workshops include blacksmith, silver, leadlighting and leather.
Queensland Tropical Museum
Museum of Tropical Queensland is situated in Townsville. The star attraction is the HMS Pandora gallery. Sent to capture the famous HMS Bounty and its rebellious crew, Pandora sank off the coast of Cape York in 1791. Hundreds of artefacts have been recovered from ship wreckage and on display.
The most popular area for children is MindZone, an interactive science center. Other galleries celebrate rainforests, corals and sea creatures from the deep ocean and fossils of the past.
New Exhibition and Future
- Afghanistan: The Hidden Objects of the National Museum, Kabul is the premier tour exhibition held on 5 September 2013 - 27 January 2014, which showcases 230 invaluable objects from the year 2200 BC and 200 AD. The exhibit provides a glimpse into the world of ancient Silk Road and some of the most remarkable archaeological discoveries throughout Central Asia. Included in the exhibition are jewelry, sculpture and gold work.
- Mummy: Secrets of the Tomb is a large exhibition of four Egyptian mummies and more than 100 pieces from the British Museum, London, held from April 19 to October 21, 2012.
Queensland Museum Medal
The first Queensland Museum Medal was awarded in 1987. The Queensland Museum Medal recipients for research include:
- 1987 - Professor Mike Archer
- 1988 - Mr. Jack Woods, ISO - Mr. F.S. Colliver, OBE - Emeritus Prof. Syd Prentice - Mr. Jack Woods, ISO - Mr. Terry Tebble - Mr. Don Vernon - Dr. Valerie Davis
- 1989 - Mr. Leonard J. Taylor
- 1990 - Mr. J.C.H. Gill, AM MBE - Mr. I.G. Morris CMG
- 1991 - Dr. Patricia Mather AO
- 1992 - Mr. R.I. (Sam) Harrison MBE - Mr. Doug Traves OBE - Professor Colin Dobson
- 1993 - Dr. Robert Paterson
- 1995 - Dr. Elwyn Hegarty - Professor Don Nicklin
- 1996 - Dr. Mary Wade
- 1997 - Mr. John Lyons
- 1999 - Mr. Ian Venables
- 2000 - Keith McDonald - Dr Alan Bartholomai
- 2003 - Ms. Jeanette Covacevich AM - Mr Steve Irwin
- 2004 - Dr. Lester Cannon - Dr. Dan Robinson - Dr. Robert Anderson OAM
- 2005 - Ny. Nerolie Withnall - Ny. Rae Sheridan - Mr. Bruce Campbell
- 2006 - Elliott's family - Mr. Bill O'Brien OBE OAM
- 2007 - Mr. Bill Kitson - Dr Geoff Monteith
- 2008 - Dr. Steve Van Dyck - Mr. Vince O'Rourke AM
- 2009 - Ms. Anne Jones - Dr Carden Wallace - Mr. Michael Quinnell
- 2010 - Sir David Attenborough - Dr John Hooper
- 2011 - Professor Peter Andrews AO - Dr John Stanisic
- 2012 - Professor Ronald J. Quinn, AM
Links to Queensland and Busway Performing Arts Center
Both the tunnels and pedestrian bridges connect the museum and the Art Gallery building with the Queensland Performing Arts Center. Three elevators were added to the bridge in 2004 to provide access to the bus station platform of the Cultural Center. There is a large Cicada statue in front of the central elevator, probably because the busway station Cultural Center is the bus stop for the museum.
See also
- Steve Van Dyck, senior vertebrate curator
- Scott Hocknull, senior curator of geology
- Historical Museum of North Stradbroke Island
- List of museums in Queensland
References
External links
- Queensland Museum
- The Queensland Museum - Find Out About
- The Queensland Museum - Popular Publications
- Museum of Queensland South Bank - Queensland Museum campus in Brisbane (South East Queensland)
- Workshop Rail Museum - Queensland Museum campus in Ipswich (South East Queensland)
- Cobb Co Museum - Queensland Museum campus in Toowoomba (South East Queensland)
- Queensland Tropical Museum - Queensland Museum campus in Townsville (North Queensland)
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