The collection includes over 600 images of a land and its flora and fauna, some of which were completely new to the British and to western science in the late 1700s. Together with specimens and ...

Ferdinand Bauer's platypus watercolour, based on sketches he made while on the HMS Investigator voyage in the early 1800s, was among the first attempts by a European artist to record Australian flora ...

Art that had been produced for thousands of years in a ceremonial context, on the body and the ground, would now be seen by the outside world. By the 1980s Australian museums began to take ...

Australia has one of the world's highest rates of extinctions with about 100 species of flora and fauna lost since European colonisation. There were 42 new additions to the national list of ...

Emily Kame Kngwarreye was an influential Australian artist associated with Indigenous Australian art. She was born in 1910 in Alhalkere, Australia and passed away in 1996 in Alice Springs, Northern ...