Dr Mariko Smith

🖤💛❤ Always Was, Always Will Be Aboriginal Land #NAIDOC2020 #SovereigntyNeverCeded #AustralianMuseum #FirstNationsLanguages #Dhurga #Yuin #SouthCoastNSW 🖤💛❤

1/2 New Publication from Anna Clark Just a matter of time: reviewing temporality in Australian historiography Time is a foundational concept in historical studies, and time itself must be historicised.

Great welcome from Bernard Highins and smoking ceremony by Luke Wighton kicking off this @MuseumRiverina Symposium in Wagga Wagga today! #wiradjuringurambang #RETURN

Currently watching online #RETURN: Reconnecting objects and collections with people and places with @ourANU. Loving that they're taking the online viewers offsite for museum visits!

Last night’s panel; Hidden Histories at the Eureka Centre Ballarat. So thought provoking - well done Kait, Jade, @MarikoCurates and @_museumguy 👏🏼 Seeds planted. @KazMonument

For #NationalHandwritingDay we're sharing an example of a cross-written letter.✍️ Before 1840, letters were charged depending on the number of sheets sent, leading some people to ‘cross-write’ their letters to get around the system. Can you read this?

This is my 4 x yearly alert to Australian parents to remind your kid to empty their lunchbox & bag tonight. Avoid post traumatic mold stress from biohazardous lunch waste in 6 weeks time. Check all pockets. You live with your oversight forever: you cannot un-smell it.

Last night I got to see my first object labels in a museum exhibition! A big thank you to First Nations Curator Courtney Marsh for the opportunity and @MarikoCurates for all her support. The Australian Musem’s new Minerals gallery is a must see!

Okimono in the Form of a Raven, by Myōchin Munesuke, early 18th century

Gallery lighting is tough. 😕 I'm proud that we've moved into a new era of transparency. In addition to this label, we've updated our provenace pages online to discuss issues of antiquities provenance more openly. mfa.org/collections/pr…

procedural light rose unobservant medium pink wannish reddish

Idea: exhibit designers and curators spend a mandatory 1 day a month hanging out in an exhibit space they created - listening to visitors, watching them use things the "wrong" way, breezing past all the text, not understanding the lofty visual metaphor etc.

Shade of the Lotus, Shinobazu Pond, by Kasamatsu Shiro, 1956 #shinhanga

Final year PhD students

💫 Thanks, @unilibrary. You know this one's not so simple! While the wearing of white cotton gloves has long been synonymous with handling rare collection items, in some cases gloves can actually cause damage. Often, clean dry hands are enough. 🔗 blogs.bl.uk/digitisedmanus…

Maple Tree and Small Birds, by Itō Jakuchū, ca. 1765 -1766