Issue 25, December 2019

Issue 25, December 2019

Cover and contents

Introduction Julie Willis

The Japanese Room: A pedagogical treasure in a time capsule Naomi Mullumby, Andrew Middleton and Sophie Garrett

Unlocking the VCA Film and Television Archive: Ten ways to bring new life to a historical audiovisual collection
Donna Lyon

Exploding the Lake Torrens horseshoe myth: Benjamin Herschel Babbage’s map of
Lake Gregory and Hermit Hill
Rod Tucker

Sacrifice to Priapus and the mystery of Jacopo de’ Barbari Carly Richardson

The reappearing oeuvre: Women’s art in the Germaine Greer Archive Lachlan Glanville

Giving voice to Melbourne’s radical past: Paul Ormonde’s audio archive about Jim Cairns Melinda Barrie

‘All life and usefulness’: Girls and needlework in 19th-century Victoria Catherine Gay

Karen Holten: A Danish influence in the life of Percy Grainger Regitze Pihl

‘Not man, but man-like’: Early 20th-century anthropological plaster casts in the Harry Brookes Allen Museum of Anatomy and Pathology
Rohan Long

Using Bab edh-Dhra’ artefacts to involve students in Near Eastern archaeology Gemma Lee

International Museums and Collections Award 2019 Erin Holder

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