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Queensland Museum

The Queensland Museum is the state museum of Queensland, dedicated to natural history, cultural heritage, science and human achievement. The museum currently operates from its headquarters and general museum in South Brisbane with specialist museums located in North Ipswich in Ipswich, East Toowoomba in Toowoomba, and in Townsville City in Townsville.[2]

Queensland Museum
Queensland Museum at South Brisbane
Established20 January 1862; 161 years ago (1862-01-20)
LocationSouth Brisbane
Coordinates27°28′24″S 153°01′06″E / 27.473412°S 153.018420°E / -27.473412; 153.018420Coordinates: 27°28′24″S 153°01′06″E / 27.473412°S 153.018420°E / -27.473412; 153.018420
Collection size1,000,000+
Visitors2,000,000+[1]
Websitewww.qm.qld.gov.au

The museum is funded by the Queensland Government.

History

 
Queensland Museum — 1862–1869 — The Old Windmill in Wickham Terrace (Queensland Museum's first home)
 
Queensland Museum — 1879–1899
cnr. William Street and Elizabeth Street, Brisbane — (opposite Queens Gardens)
 
Queensland Museum — 1899–1986
the Old Museum Building in Gregory Terrace, Bowen Hills
 
Queensland Museum (1986–present), a part of the Queensland Cultural Centre. A pedestrian bridge, linking the museum and the Queensland Art Gallery to the Queensland Performing Arts Centre, and also to lifts to platforms at the Cultural Centre Busway Station, can be seen on the right.

The Queensland Museum was founded by the Queensland Philosophical Society on 20 January 1862,[3] one of the principal founders being Charles Coxen, and had several temporary homes in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. The temporary homes included: The Old Windmill (1862–1869),[3] Parliament House (1869–1873)[3] and the General Post Office (1873–1879).[3]

The Queensland Government built a home for the museum in William Street (later called the John Oxley State Library), with Queensland Museum moving there in 1879. The museum occupied the William Street location for 20 years.[3]

In 1899, the Queensland Museum moved into the Exhibition Hall (now called the Old Museum), on Gregory Terrace in the Brisbane suburb of Bowen Hills, remaining there for 86 years.[3]

In 1986, the Queensland Museum moved to the Queensland Cultural Centre at South Bank, where the museum is adjacent to the Queensland Art Gallery.[3] Both a tunnel and pedestrian bridge connect the Museum and Art Gallery buildings with the Queensland Performing Arts Centre. Three lifts were added to the bridge in 2004 to provide access to the platforms of the Cultural Centre busway station. There is a large sculpture of a Cicada in front of the centre lift.[citation needed]

Curators and directors

Museum Network

The Queensland Museum Network now operates at a number of locations.

Queensland Museum

Queensland Museum is located at South Brisbane in the Queensland Cultural Centre alongside the State Library of Queensland, the Queensland Art Gallery, the Gallery of Modern Art and the Queensland Performing Arts Centre.

Queensland Museum connects visitors to Queensland, its people and their stories of the past, present and future.

Popular exhibitions include travelling shows from Australia and around the world as well as fascinating exhibitions revealing the story of Queensland, including its incredible prehistoric past, the cultures of Queensland's Aboriginal Peoples and Torres Strait Islanders and exhibitions revealing Queensland's unique biodiversity.

The museum is also a world-class research facility in the fields of biodiversity, geoscience and cultural history.

Queensland Museum is home to SparkLab, which offers hands-on, interactive activities for kids and grown-ups alike that reveal the science behind our everyday lives.

Museum of Lands, Mapping and Surveying

The Museum of Lands, Mapping and Surveying opened in 1982 and is at 317 Edward Street, Brisbane.[8][9]

Workshops Rail Museum

The Workshops Rail Museum opened in August 2002 and is housed in the North Ipswich Railway Workshops. The collection includes 15 items of rolling stock and thousands of smaller items. Some operational steam locomotives from the Queensland Rail Heritage Fleet are often placed on display within the museum when not required for main line use.

Cobb & Co Museum

In 1987, when the Queensland Museum required more room to display its horse-drawn coaches and carriages, the museum opened its Cobb & Co Museum campus in Toowoomba, Queensland.

Cobb+Co Museum is home to the National Carriage Collection. The museum's collection includes examples of a vast range of vehicles from the horse-drawn era, from farm wagons and delivery carts to the Rolls-Royce of Carriages, the landau.

Cobb+Co Museum run a heritage workshops program. Workshops include blacksmithing, silversmithing, leadlighting and leatherwork.

Museum of Tropical Queensland

The Museum of Tropical Queensland is located in Townsville. The star attraction is the HMS Pandora gallery. Sent to catch the famous HMS Bounty and her mutinous crew, the Pandora sank off the coast of Cape York in 1791. Hundreds of artefacts have been recovered from the wreck and are on display.

The most popular area for kids is the MindZone, an interactive science centre. Other galleries celebrate the rainforest, corals and marine creatures from the deep sea and fossil past.

World Science Festival Brisbane

The Queensland Museum Network holds exclusive licence to host the World Science Festival in the Asia Pacific region.[10] The inaugural World Science Festival Brisbane was held in 2016. The festival runs in March each year, based in Brisbane, with regional satellite events taking place in Toowoomba, Townsville and Chinchilla, Queensland.[citation needed]

Recent and Future Exhibitions

  • Afghanistan: Hidden Treasures from the National Museum, Kabul was a major touring exhibition held 5 September 2013 - 27 January 2014, which showcased 230 priceless objects from between 2200 BC and AD 200. The exhibition provided a glimpse into the world of the ancient Silk Road and some of the most remarkable archaeological finds in all of Central Asia. Included in the exhibition were jewellery, sculpture and gold work.[11]
  • Mummy: Secrets of the Tomb was a major exhibition of four Egyptian mummies and over 100 pieces from the British Museum, London, held from 19 April - 21 October 2012.[12]

Queensland Museum Medal

The first Queensland Museum Medal was awarded in 1987. Recipients of the Queensland Museum Medal 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 — Mrs Nerolie Withnall — Mrs Rae Sheridan — Mr Bruce Campbell
  • 2006 — The Elliott 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 AttenboroughDr John Hooper
  • 2011 — Professor Peter Andrews AO — Dr John Stanisic
  • 2012 — Professor Ronald J. Quinn, AM[13]

Repatriation of human remains and objects

The Museum's program of returning and reburying ancestral remains and cultural property belonging to Indigenous Australians, which had been collected by the museum between 1870 and 1970, has been under way since the 1970s.[14] As of November 2018, the museum had the remains of 660 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people stored in their "secret sacred room" on the fifth floor.[15]

See also

References

  1. ^ "QUEENSLAND MUSEUM ANNUAL REPORT 2018–19". 22 August 2019. from the original on 10 March 2019. Retrieved 2 January 2020.
  2. ^ "About us". Queensland Museum Network. Queensland Museum. from the original on 7 November 2017. Retrieved 12 November 2017.
  3. ^ a b c d e f g "A Time for a Museum — The History of the Queensland Museum — 1862 to 1986", — Patricia Mather, published by the Queensland Museum, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia, 2001 (originally published as "Volume 24" of "The Memoirs of the Queensland Museum")
  4. ^ "WEEKLY EPITOME". The Telegraph. No. 53. Queensland, Australia. 30 November 1872. p. 2. Retrieved 24 April 2017 – via National Library of Australia.
  5. ^ "DEPARTURE OF DR. HAMLYN-HARRIS". Darling Downs Gazette. Vol. LIII, no. 9130. Queensland, Australia. 30 September 1910. p. 4. Retrieved 24 April 2017 – via National Library of Australia.
  6. ^ "Director of the Museum". The Brisbane Courier. No. 16, 449. Queensland, Australia. 30 September 1910. p. 4. Retrieved 24 April 2017 – via National Library of Australia.
  7. ^ Gill JCH (1986). 'Longman, Albert Heber (1880–1954)'. In: Australian Dictionary of Biography, vol.10. Canberra: National Centre of Biography, Australian National University. from the original on 16 May 2018. Retrieved 15 May 2018.
  8. ^ "History". Queensland Museum. from the original on 3 October 2018. Retrieved 3 October 2018.
  9. ^ "Museum of Lands, Mapping and Surveying". www.qld.gov.au. from the original on 24 June 2019. Retrieved 2 January 2020.
  10. ^ "World Science Festival Brisbane". World Science Festival. from the original on 20 July 2017. Retrieved 31 July 2017.
  11. ^ . Queensland Museum. Archived from the original on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 20 February 2016.
  12. ^ "Brisbane hosts Egyptian mummy exhibition". Tony Moore. Brisbane Times. 3 October 2011. from the original on 24 November 2011. Retrieved 25 November 2011.
  13. ^ . Archived from the original on 25 January 2013. Retrieved 5 February 2013.
  14. ^ "Repatriation of Aboriginal Peoples & Torres Strait Islanders ancestral remains". Queensland Museum. from the original on 6 May 2019. Retrieved 6 May 2019.
  15. ^ Stockwell, Stephen (14 November 2018). "The quest to remove Aboriginal remains from museums". Australian Broadcasting Corporation. Triple J Hack. from the original on 2 June 2019. Retrieved 6 May 2019.

Bibliography

  • Prins, François (Winter 1993). "Brisbane's Heritage". Air Enthusiast. No. 52. pp. 26–27. ISSN 0143-5450.

External links

  • Queensland Museum
  • Queensland Museum — Find Out About
  • Queensland Museum — Popular Publications
  • Queensland Museum South Bank - Queensland Museum campus in Brisbane (South East Queensland)
  • The Workshops Rail Museum - Queensland Museum campus in Ipswich (South East Queensland)
  • Cobb+Co Museum - Queensland Museum campus in Toowoomba (South East Queensland)
  • Museum of Tropical Queensland — a Queensland Museum campus in Townsville (North Queensland)
  • Queensland Museum Discover Queensland Buildings website

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The Queensland Museum is the state museum of Queensland dedicated to natural history cultural heritage science and human achievement The museum currently operates from its headquarters and general museum in South Brisbane with specialist museums located in North Ipswich in Ipswich East Toowoomba in Toowoomba and in Townsville City in Townsville 2 Queensland MuseumQueensland Museum at South BrisbaneEstablished20 January 1862 161 years ago 1862 01 20 LocationSouth BrisbaneCoordinates27 28 24 S 153 01 06 E 27 473412 S 153 018420 E 27 473412 153 018420 Coordinates 27 28 24 S 153 01 06 E 27 473412 S 153 018420 E 27 473412 153 018420Collection size1 000 000 Visitors2 000 000 1 Websitewww wbr qm wbr qld wbr gov wbr auThe museum is funded by the Queensland Government Contents 1 History 1 1 Curators and directors 2 Museum Network 2 1 Queensland Museum 2 2 Museum of Lands Mapping and Surveying 2 3 Workshops Rail Museum 2 4 Cobb amp Co Museum 2 5 Museum of Tropical Queensland 3 World Science Festival Brisbane 4 Recent and Future Exhibitions 5 Queensland Museum Medal 6 Repatriation of human remains and objects 7 See also 8 References 9 Bibliography 10 External linksHistory Edit Queensland Museum 1862 1869 The Old Windmill in Wickham Terrace Queensland Museum s first home Queensland Museum 1879 1899 cnr William Street and Elizabeth Street Brisbane opposite Queens Gardens Queensland Museum 1899 1986 the Old Museum Building in Gregory Terrace Bowen Hills Queensland Museum 1986 present a part of the Queensland Cultural Centre A pedestrian bridge linking the museum and the Queensland Art Gallery to the Queensland Performing Arts Centre and also to lifts to platforms at the Cultural Centre Busway Station can be seen on the right The Queensland Museum was founded by the Queensland Philosophical Society on 20 January 1862 3 one of the principal founders being Charles Coxen and had several temporary homes in Brisbane Queensland Australia The temporary homes included The Old Windmill 1862 1869 3 Parliament House 1869 1873 3 and the General Post Office 1873 1879 3 The Queensland Government built a home for the museum in William Street later called the John Oxley State Library with Queensland Museum moving there in 1879 The museum occupied the William Street location for 20 years 3 In 1899 the Queensland Museum moved into the Exhibition Hall now called the Old Museum on Gregory Terrace in the Brisbane suburb of Bowen Hills remaining there for 86 years 3 In 1986 the Queensland Museum moved to the Queensland Cultural Centre at South Bank where the museum is adjacent to the Queensland Art Gallery 3 Both a tunnel and pedestrian bridge connect the Museum and Art Gallery buildings with the Queensland Performing Arts Centre Three lifts were added to the bridge in 2004 to provide access to the platforms of the Cultural Centre busway station There is a large sculpture of a Cicada in front of the centre lift citation needed Curators and directors Edit 1872 Karl Theodor Staiger first professional curator 4 1910 Ronald Hamlyn Harris former science teacher at Toowoomba Grammar School 5 6 1918 1945 Albert Heber Longman 7 19 1969 Jack Tunstall Woods 1969 c 1989 Dr Alan Bartholomai AMMuseum Network EditThis section needs additional citations for verification Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources in this section Unsourced material may be challenged and removed Find sources Queensland Museum news newspapers books scholar JSTOR May 2019 Learn how and when to remove this template message The Queensland Museum Network now operates at a number of locations Queensland Museum Edit Queensland Museum is located at South Brisbane in the Queensland Cultural Centre alongside the State Library of Queensland the Queensland Art Gallery the Gallery of Modern Art and the Queensland Performing Arts Centre Queensland Museum connects visitors to Queensland its people and their stories of the past present and future Popular exhibitions include travelling shows from Australia and around the world as well as fascinating exhibitions revealing the story of Queensland including its incredible prehistoric past the cultures of Queensland s Aboriginal Peoples and Torres Strait Islanders and exhibitions revealing Queensland s unique biodiversity The museum is also a world class research facility in the fields of biodiversity geoscience and cultural history Queensland Museum is home to SparkLab which offers hands on interactive activities for kids and grown ups alike that reveal the science behind our everyday lives Museum of Lands Mapping and Surveying Edit The Museum of Lands Mapping and Surveying opened in 1982 and is at 317 Edward Street Brisbane 8 9 Workshops Rail Museum Edit The Workshops Rail Museum opened in August 2002 and is housed in the North Ipswich Railway Workshops The collection includes 15 items of rolling stock and thousands of smaller items Some operational steam locomotives from the Queensland Rail Heritage Fleet are often placed on display within the museum when not required for main line use Cobb amp Co Museum Edit In 1987 when the Queensland Museum required more room to display its horse drawn coaches and carriages the museum opened its Cobb amp Co Museum campus in Toowoomba Queensland Cobb Co Museum is home to the National Carriage Collection The museum s collection includes examples of a vast range of vehicles from the horse drawn era from farm wagons and delivery carts to the Rolls Royce of Carriages the landau Cobb Co Museum run a heritage workshops program Workshops include blacksmithing silversmithing leadlighting and leatherwork Museum of Tropical Queensland Edit The Museum of Tropical Queensland is located in Townsville The star attraction is the HMS Pandora gallery Sent to catch the famous HMS Bounty and her mutinous crew the Pandora sank off the coast of Cape York in 1791 Hundreds of artefacts have been recovered from the wreck and are on display The most popular area for kids is the MindZone an interactive science centre Other galleries celebrate the rainforest corals and marine creatures from the deep sea and fossil past World Science Festival Brisbane EditThe Queensland Museum Network holds exclusive licence to host the World Science Festival in the Asia Pacific region 10 The inaugural World Science Festival Brisbane was held in 2016 The festival runs in March each year based in Brisbane with regional satellite events taking place in Toowoomba Townsville and Chinchilla Queensland citation needed Recent and Future Exhibitions EditAfghanistan Hidden Treasures from the National Museum Kabul was a major touring exhibition held 5 September 2013 27 January 2014 which showcased 230 priceless objects from between 2200 BC and AD 200 The exhibition provided a glimpse into the world of the ancient Silk Road and some of the most remarkable archaeological finds in all of Central Asia Included in the exhibition were jewellery sculpture and gold work 11 Mummy Secrets of the Tomb was a major exhibition of four Egyptian mummies and over 100 pieces from the British Museum London held from 19 April 21 October 2012 12 Queensland Museum Medal EditThe first Queensland Museum Medal was awarded in 1987 Recipients of the Queensland Museum Medal 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 Mrs Nerolie Withnall Mrs Rae Sheridan Mr Bruce Campbell 2006 The Elliott 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 13 Repatriation of human remains and objects EditThe Museum s program of returning and reburying ancestral remains and cultural property belonging to Indigenous Australians which had been collected by the museum between 1870 and 1970 has been under way since the 1970s 14 As of November 2018 the museum had the remains of 660 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people stored in their secret sacred room on the fifth floor 15 See also Edit Queensland portalList of museums in Queensland North Stradbroke Island Historical Museum Repatriation of human remains Australia Steve Van Dyck senior curator of vertebrates Scott Hocknull senior curator of geologyReferences Edit QUEENSLAND MUSEUM ANNUAL REPORT 2018 19 22 August 2019 Archived from the original on 10 March 2019 Retrieved 2 January 2020 About us Queensland Museum Network Queensland Museum Archived from the original on 7 November 2017 Retrieved 12 November 2017 a b c d e f g A Time for a Museum The History of the Queensland Museum 1862 to 1986 Patricia Mather published by the Queensland Museum Brisbane Queensland Australia 2001 originally published as Volume 24 of The Memoirs of the Queensland Museum WEEKLY EPITOME The Telegraph No 53 Queensland Australia 30 November 1872 p 2 Retrieved 24 April 2017 via National Library of Australia DEPARTURE OF DR HAMLYN HARRIS Darling Downs Gazette Vol LIII no 9130 Queensland Australia 30 September 1910 p 4 Retrieved 24 April 2017 via National Library of Australia Director of the Museum The Brisbane Courier No 16 449 Queensland Australia 30 September 1910 p 4 Retrieved 24 April 2017 via National Library of Australia Gill JCH 1986 Longman Albert Heber 1880 1954 In Australian Dictionary of Biography vol 10 Canberra National Centre of Biography Australian National University Archived from the original on 16 May 2018 Retrieved 15 May 2018 History Queensland Museum Archived from the original on 3 October 2018 Retrieved 3 October 2018 Museum of Lands Mapping and Surveying www qld gov au Archived from the original on 24 June 2019 Retrieved 2 January 2020 World Science Festival Brisbane World Science Festival Archived from the original on 20 July 2017 Retrieved 31 July 2017 Afghanistan Hidden Treasures Queensland Museum Archived from the original on 4 March 2016 Retrieved 20 February 2016 Brisbane hosts Egyptian mummy exhibition Tony Moore Brisbane Times 3 October 2011 Archived from the original on 24 November 2011 Retrieved 25 November 2011 2012 Queensland Museum Medal Archived from the original on 25 January 2013 Retrieved 5 February 2013 Repatriation of Aboriginal Peoples amp Torres Strait Islanders ancestral remains Queensland Museum Archived from the original on 6 May 2019 Retrieved 6 May 2019 Stockwell Stephen 14 November 2018 The quest to remove Aboriginal remains from museums Australian Broadcasting Corporation Triple J Hack Archived from the original on 2 June 2019 Retrieved 6 May 2019 Bibliography EditPrins Francois Winter 1993 Brisbane s Heritage Air Enthusiast No 52 pp 26 27 ISSN 0143 5450 External links Edit Wikimedia Commons has media related to Queensland Museum Queensland Museum Queensland Museum Find Out About Queensland Museum Popular Publications Queensland Museum South Bank Queensland Museum campus in Brisbane South East Queensland The Workshops Rail Museum Queensland Museum campus in Ipswich South East Queensland Cobb Co Museum Queensland Museum campus in Toowoomba South East Queensland Museum of Tropical Queensland a Queensland Museum campus in Townsville North Queensland Queensland Museum Discover Queensland Buildings website Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Queensland Museum amp oldid 1137182933, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, 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