Wildlife Photographer of the Year
Australian Museum
The Wildlife Photographer of the Year Competition is an international showcase for the very best photography featuring natural subjects. Each year thousands of entries are received and judged by an expert panel. The winners are announced at an awards ceremony that takes place each October at the Natural History Museum, London. The resulting The Wildlife Photographer of the Year is arranged by category and copies of each photograph are made available to agents around the world. The Australian Museum is the tour organiser in Australia.
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© Luke Marazzi
Image from 2006 Wildlife Photographer of the Year
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Charles Darwin: Evolutionary Thinking
Otago Museum
Commemorating 2009 the year of Darwin
150 years ago, Charles Darwin published a theory so ground-breaking that it challenged everything people believed about life on Earth.
2009 is the year of Darwin and marks a double celebration – not only is it 200 years since the scientist’s birth, but also 150 years since The Origin of Species was first published.
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Charles Darwin aged 31
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Joseph Banks and the flora of the Australian east coast
Australian National Maritime Museum
Coloured engravings of Sydney Parkinson’s original drawings which recorded the coastal plants collected between Sydney and far north Queensland by Sir Joseph Banks and Dr Daniel Carl Solander, on Captain James Cook’s first voyage round the world, 1768 – 1771.
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Banksia serrata
Artist John Frederick Miller
© Natural History Museum, London
ANMM Collection Gift from Dr and Mrs E Schiller
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ANZANG Nature Photography
South Australian Museum
An exhibition of stunning nature photographs from the annual competition managed by the South Australian Museum.
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Space Jellies by Justin Gilligan from 2009 ANZANG Exhibition
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