PRISM Volume 1

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Welcome to the first volume of PRISM

This volume features research exploring the history of astronomy, migration and communications technology in Australia, plus a critical analysis of creating a sense of belonging in exhibition spaces, and insights into Museums Victoria’s archives and collections.

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A bright orange and yellow sunset interspersed with grey clouds.

Two cable samples, not obvious museum ‘heroes’, brownish

Jemimah Widdicombe
A family of three stand outside a car in front of a farm with sheep grazing in the background.

Reflections of a research associate at Museums Victoria

Dzavid Haveric
A teacher speaks to a group of children crouching in a circle around a small wooden chest.

Within living memory: The transfer of Mary Featherston's Children’s Museum Archive

Nik McGrath
A woman in a white lab coat inspects collection items in the collection store.

Honouring ancestors: A Māori approach to the Moana Wansolwara Collection at Museums Victoria

Jade Hadfield
A glass negative of the three-masted barque Acacia, a similar ship to the Dale Park, which brought Anne Trotter to Australia.

Bound for Australia: Anne Trotter’s needlework specimen book, 1840

Laura Jocic
A large group of well-dressed people pose at the opening of the world’s very first opto-mechanical projection planetarium in 1923.

Centuries of stars: The history of astronomical visualisation in and out of museum collections

Martin Bush
The faces of a bearded man and a woman wearing a head covering, hanging on boards suspended from the ceiling as part of the Identity: yours, mine, ours exhibition.

Finding common ground: Engendering a sense of belonging in museum exhibition spaces

Moya McFadzean

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