Megafauna and Deep Time at Queensland Museum: The Prehistoric Queensland Story
Queensland's fossil record reaches back 250 million years. Queensland Museum has been its custodian since 1862 — holding the bones of giants that define what this land once was.
Queensland's Human Story at the Museum: Settlement, Industry and Social History
Queensland Museum holds not just specimens and fossils but the material record of a society in formation — the tools, photographs, garments and machines through which a colony became a state.
Queensland Museum: 160 Years Holding the State's Natural and Human Heritage
Since 20 January 1862, Queensland Museum has served as the state's primary keeper of natural and human memory — a civic institution whose depth of collection defines how Queensland understands itself.
Queensland Museum on the Cultural Precinct: The Museum in the Heart of Brisbane
The Queensland Museum's home on the South Bank Cultural Precinct is not incidental to its identity — it is constitutive of it. Place and institution have shaped each other across nearly four decades.
First Nations Collections at Queensland Museum: Custodianship, Repatriation and Responsibility
Queensland Museum holds more than 22,000 Aboriginal cultural objects and approximately 1,394 ancestral remains. What it does with them defines what kind of institution — and state — Queensland chooses to be.
Repatriation at Queensland Museum: Returning Objects to Country
For more than fifty years, Queensland Museum has worked to return ancestral remains and sacred objects to First Nations communities — a slow, deliberate reckoning with the colonial logic that built its collections.
Queensland Museum Network: Taking the State's Heritage Beyond South Brisbane
The Queensland Museum has never been only a South Bank institution. Across four campuses and a state-wide development program, it holds the civic ambition of a state too large for one building.
Living Creatures of Queensland: The Museum's Natural History Research Programs
Queensland Museum's natural history research programs do more than catalogue species — they build the living scientific record of one of Earth's most biodiverse places, one specimen at a time.
What Queensland Museum Holds: The Collections That Record the State's Natural Identity
Queensland Museum holds more than 15 million items in trust for the state — a physical record of natural life, deep time, and ecological identity that no other institution in Queensland can replicate.
The Science at Queensland Museum: Research That Serves Conservation and Understanding
Queensland Museum is not merely a repository of the past — it is an active scientific institution whose research into taxonomy, coral, and deep time directly informs how we protect the living world.
Queensland Museum as Public Space: Education, Exhibitions and the Democratic Museum
More than a repository of objects, Queensland Museum has spent 160 years constructing a genuinely democratic civic space — one that insists knowledge belongs to everyone.