Museums

The Australian Museum has put together this guide as a starting point to find out about archaeological investigation of Aboriginal Sydney and New South Wales, and has highlights from the collection here.

You can search the collections held at the Chau Chak Wing Museum at the University of Sydney, and listen to a selection of previous talks and lectures. Object Matters is the museum’s monthly podcast.

Deep Dive is the Australian National Maritime Museum’s centre for maritime archaeology, your place to enjoy discovering the museum’s maritime archaeology research. Find it here.

Museums Victoria has recorded the Afghanistan: Hidden Treasures lecture series and the Wonders of Ancient Mesopotamia lecture series.

The online Museum of Stone Tools has a mission is to promote stone artefact research to students and life-long learners. The Museum hosts a diverse collection of high-quality open-access 3D models of stone artefacts from all over the world. Start exploring here.

The National Museum of Australia includes an introduction to the archaeological Evidence of First Peoples in their Defining Moments series, and has produced a special page on Lake Mungo for kids. A series of lectures presented by the Museum Friends in conjunction with the Canberra Archaeological Society can be found here. Lectures from a symposium for the pioneering desert archaeologist Mike Smith are available to listen to here and watch here.

Start at the Queensland Museum archaeology page for an overview of their research and collections, and links to explore further.

The Western Australian Museum has a wealth of resources to investigate their Anthropology and Archaeology collections and research, and Maritime Archaeology collections and research. They also have a range of short videos on their YouTube channel, with a focus on maritime archaeology.