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museum, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
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example of public museum
- In museum: The spread of the European model
…what was to become the Australian Museum in Sydney.
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feature of Sydney
- In Sydney: Cultural life
Other cultural institutions include the Australian Museum (1827), the country’s oldest museum and largest natural history collection, and the Art Gallery of New South Wales (1874), which has a large collection of Aboriginal art.
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role of Flannery
- In Tim Flannery
…scientist in mammalogy at the Australian Museum in Sydney. During this period he explored remote areas of Papua New Guinea, and over the course of many expeditions he discovered 16 species and many subspecies of mammals, including 2 species and 2 subspecies of tree kangaroos. His Chasing Kangaroos (2004) was…
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