An 1827 illustration of an echidna has recently been added to our collection.

Module

This resource is aligned with the Australian Curriculum: Humanities and Social Sciences (Geography), and Science for Year 4, 5 and 6 students.

Dr Adam Sundberg talks about his experience studying the environmental effects of marine bioinvasions through the study of ballast water.

Learn about the treatment work our conservators have recently done on thepattern plates for the supplement to The Birds of Australia by John Gould.

1809 books and serials, published in Australia, Europe and America, relating to gardening, horticulture, botany and agriculture.

Use this guide to help find and access resources in our collection about Australia's climate action protests, anti-mining protests and the Franklin Dam blockade. 

911 water colours by Adam Forster of Australian flowers, painted between 1916 and 1927.

Hear from author Peter Valentine about some of Australia's most stunning sites.

553 books from the 19th to mid-20th century with a particular strength in botany and gardening, among many other subjects.

Over 13,000 negatives, transparencies, and photographs of cattle stations taken between 1951 and 1961, as well as 52 British Hydrographic Office charts and maps of Australia and the Pacific and personal papers of Johnston.

A large number of photographs and negatives taken by Loke Wan Tho on his ornithological expeditions to the Pacific, Asia and Europe in the 1950s and early 1960s, as well as papers, books and maps.