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CAN - Collections Australia Network
Australian Cultural Heritage Collections Online
"...aims to allow the public to search collection records from libraries, galleries, museums and archives all across Australia through a single search. The search is now live and covers the CAN collection records as well as those from the Powerhouse Museum, Libraries Australia and Picture Australia."

Australian Museum
Australia's oldest natural history museum

• Fish : Australian Museum Fish Site
  Ichthyology at the Australian Museum

Australian Museum Online

• Indigenous Australia - (dead link)
  • Stories of the Dreaming
    "This section features 20 stories from the cultures of Indigenous Australians, collected from all over Australia. They reflect an essential part of the life of Indigenous Australians."

Australian Observer- The Photographs of Harold Cazneaux 1878-1953
Exhibit from the National Library of Australia

Australian War Memorial

Brisbane's Living Heritage
"...a discovery guide, is produced by Brisbane City Council and Brisbane's Living Heritage Network, financially assisted by the Queensland Community Assistance Program of Centenary of Federation Queensland and supported by 4BC Talk Radio.
The web site has handy maps and suggested tours to help visitors get
to the 31 Brisbane museums in the network."

CAN - Collections Australia Network
Australian Cultural Heritage Collections Online
"...aims to allow the public to search collection records from libraries, galleries, museums and archives all across Australia through a single search. The search is now live and covers the CAN collection records as well as those from the Powerhouse Museum, Libraries Australia and Picture Australia."

IMAGES 1 - (dead link)
Online Images from The National Library of Australia's Pictorial Collection
"...contains over 15,000 historical and contemporary images relating to Australia and its place in the world, including paintings, drawings, rare prints, objects and photographs."

Institute of Modern Art

Life on the Goldfields - (dead link)
Online Exhibit from the State Library of Victoria

National Gallery of Australia

• Collection Database Search - (dead link)

National Gallery of Victoria

National Museum of Australia

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Queensland Museum

South Australian Museum

• Australian Aboriginal Cultures Gallery
  "Through the millennia Aboriginal people have developed a unique way of life: creative, innovative and adaptable to the diverse circumstances of the tremendously variable Australian environment. The South Australian Museumís collections tell the story of this way of life and its achievements."
• The Big Canvas - painting Cockatoo Creek
  "At Cockatoo Creek in 1931, anthropologists from this Museum and the University of Adelaide met Warlpiri and Anmatyerre people for the first time.This painting commemorates that meeting."
• Ngurunderi - An Aboriginal Dreaming
  "This exhibition describes the culture of the Ngarrindjeri people of the Lower Murray River and Coorong areas of South Australia. Their environment was rich with animals, plants and aquatic resources and the Ngarrindjeri groups were consequently less nomadic than Aborigines of the inland. A wide range of material culture items - wooden artefacts and basketry in particular - reflected this more sedentary lifestyle."

The Wandering Artist: Augustus Earle's Travels Around the World 1820-29
Online exhibit from the National Library of Australia