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Founded in 1827, the Australian Museum is Australia’s oldest museum. A museum of natural history and anthropology, its collections cover invertebrate and vertebrate zoology, mineralogy and paleontology, and anthropology. The online presence of this museum has enough to keep you busy for hours. This website is divided into four main sections: About the Museum, Research and Collections, Features, and Explore. There is a degree of overlap between each of these sections.In Research and Collections, access mini websites that the museum has fashioned to exhibit and inform about many of their holdings. The main categories are Invertebrates, Vertebrates, Earth Sciences, Environmental Sciences, Anthropology, Research Centres, and Indigenous Programs. Additionally, this section contains links to Online Science. Some of these materials are located on the museum’s website and others link to other places on the Web.Features will also take you to many of the museum’s mini websites. Explore a variety of features including Bats, Body Art, Deathonline.net, Paleontology, and Spiders. These features also include a Sea Slug Forum, Teacher’s Resources, and a virtual tour of the museum.Explore provides hundreds of facts sheets about a wide variety of topics that are related to the museum’s holdings, FAQ’s, and a webliography for additional information.On this website you will find numerous formats for the presentation of images and information, including video, audio, online forums, activities, and games.