This special exhibition held at the Articulate Project Space explores how science and art can work together to share important messages. With artworks created in the beautiful Greater Blue Mountains World Heritage National Park on Gundungurra and Darug lands, artists follow the journey of the water filtered by swamps to bring their artworks to the…
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Science and Heritage in Collaboration: Examining the material of Chinese Toggles Together
The Chau Chak Wing Museum and the Powerhouse Museum partnered with Sydney Analytical, one of the University of Sydney’s core research facilities that provides state-of-the-art instruments and technical expertise for sample characterisation, to study the materiality of many toggles on display in China Gallery’s current exhibition Chinese Toggles: Culture in Miniature. This panel will discuss…
Deadly Entertainment: A museum floor talk
In the 1930’s being a film projectionist in a cinema was a hazardous job. In the USA it was estimated that every 18 days a projectionist died – and this was partly attributed to working with cellulose nitrate film. Cellulose nitrate transparent plastic film was used by photographers and movie filmmakers from its release in…
Lasers: Making Light Work
Join us on Monday 21 August at 6pm for ‘Lasers: Making Light Work‘, the Australian Institute of Physics 2023 Einstein Lecture. Lasers are a ubiquitous technology that were once seen by some as curiosity – a proverbial solution in search of a problem. Built upon concepts first proposed by Einstein 107 years ago and realised…
The Future of Science
Broadwater Public School will be conducting a day full of exciting STEM activities. The day will involve the school breaking into mixed age groups from K-6 to problem solve and think analytically on different STEM problems with a focus on the future. The students will be rethinking the design of paper planes, could hovercrafts be…
Makey Makey Coding for Year 2
We have invited Koroit Primary School’s Year 2 class to our Koroit Library Branch to participate in a Makey Makey creative coding beginner’s session. The session will be facilitated by 2 of our Corangamite Moyne Library Service Officers. We will be using Scratch, free online coding software, and the Makey Makey resources. With Makey Makey…
Mossman State School Science Week Activities
With a range of science experiments, STEM challenges, and play-based activities, students will engage in exciting activities to elicit interest, and explore different aspects of scientific topics. We’ll light it up, build our skills (and bridges), make some amazing reactions and have a ball (and some bubbles).
MicroVision at Wagga Wagga City Library
Join scientist Celia Connor, from Charles Sturt University, and students from the School of Agricultural, Environmental and Veterinary Sciences to discover everyday things that you won’t see every day – without a microscope. Celia Connor is a Lecturer in Environment and Agriculture at the School of Agricultural, Environmental and Veterinary Sciences, Charles Sturt University. No…
Water, Wetlands and Wildlife
National Science Week provides you with a chance to discover a local urban success story. Geography Victoria is conducting a fieldtrip with local restoration and environmental specialists exploring the challenges, successes and opportunities of managing our urban environment. Our three focus areas will be: the community-driven rewilding and transformation of the former Elsternwick golf course in North…
The Myrtle Rust story told thru science, art and music
DNA sonification and Music As a former musician who played drums with The Hummingbirds, Mark Temple (who is now at the School of Science at Western Sydney University) used computer code to make audio from DNA sequences (sonification). This was done by mapping genetic letters and overlapping DNA patterns into layers of computer-generated musical notes….