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14 Executive Director’s Review Baudin: The French Connection was the first exhibition developed by the Museum to tour Western Australia. Focusing on the historic French scientific exploration of Australia’s coast, this exhibition was received with great enthusiasm by a variety of centres at relevant points around the coastline from Broome to Esperance. MuseumLink, the Museum’s new exhibition program, was developed to provide Perth and other Museum sites with a changing exhibition program. This fast-response, compact touring program allows the Museum to exhibit contemporary issues in a variety of locations including local libraries, shire offices and smaller regional museums. In the past year, six exhibitions were developed and toured through numerous sites around the state. The Museum Assistance Program made regional advisory visits to communities in the Kimberley, Pilbara, Mid West, Wheatbelt, Eastern Goldfields, Great Southern, South West and Peel Harvey regions. The program also provided contract services for Christmas and Cocos island communities through the Commonwealth Department of Communications, Information Technology and the Arts. Other significant achievements in knowledge communication throughout the year were as follows: • The Shipwrecks Gallery at the Western Australian Museum–Geraldton was completed and opened. • A Museum documentary unit was established and launched its first production, Life on the Edge—Down Under, a 48-minute television documentary that follows the work of Museum scientists as they document the marine life of the Dampier Archipelago. • The Western Australian Museum Centre for Ancient Egyptian Studies (WAMCAES) was launched. • Membership of the Alcoa Frog Watch program increased to more than 7,000. • FaunaBase was developed and launched, providing public on-line access to selected information on specimen records in the Museum’s terrestrial vertebrate collections. A map plotting specimens, along with observational records and an image for each species, is available to all users. • The Museum Assistance Program assisted in coordinating the Fifth National Remote and Regional Museums Conference in Kalgoorlie, which saw 140 participants attending. • ‘Cockatoo Care’, a joint initiative between the Water Corporation and the Western Australian Museum, was launched. This program encourages community involvement in recording observations on the three threatened forest cockatoo species. • Specialist conservation and collection management and interpretation workshops were delivered to students through the Edith Cowan–Western Australian Museum Certificate Course in Museum Studies. • The Museum’s Butler Medal was re-instigated this year and awarded to Dr Barbara Main for her lifelong contribution to biological research in Western Australia. Long-standing Honorary Associates Loisette Marsh and George Kendrick were conferred the honorary status of Emeritus Curators. Twenty-two staff members with 25 or more years of service to the Museum were also recognised. • Meteorites: A Journey through Space and Time by Alex Bevan, co-published by University of New South Wales Press and Smithsonian Institution Press, was shortlisted for a Eureka prize, a revision of A Field Guide to Crustaceans of Australian Waters by Diana Jones and Gary Morgan, co-published with Reed New Holland, won a Whitley Award, and Freshwater Fishes of Australia by Gerald Allen, S. H. Midgley and Mark Allen, co-published with CSIRO Publishing, sold more than two and a half thousand copies in the first three months. WESTERN AUSTRALIAN MUSEUM ANNUAL REPORT 2001–2002
Visitors to Western Australian Museum Sites COMPARATIVE ATTENDANCE FIGURES, 2000–2001 AND 2001–2002 Public Perth Site (Western Australian Museum–Science and Culture) School Groups Totals 2001–2002 229,956 22,938 252,894 2000–2001 210,964 28,886 239,850 Maritime Museum and Submarine 2001–2002 210,341 14,668 225,009 2000–2001 209,490 14,457 223,947 Fremantle History Museum and Samson House 2001–2002 40,177 2,361 42,538 2000–2001 41,911 2,692 44,603 Western Australian Museum–Albany 2001–2002 63,356 2,633 65,989 2000–2001 69,109 3,388 72,497 Western Australian Museum–Geraldton 2001–2002 58,047 3,352 61,399 2000–2001 69,439 1,873 71,312 Western Australian Museum–Kalgoorlie-Boulder 2001–2002 100,901 3,065 103,966 2000–2001 97,848 2,191 100,039 Western Australian Museum Annual Totals 2001–2002 702,778 49,017 751,795 2000–2001 698,761 53,487 752,248 MONTHLY VISITORS, 2001–2002 CENTRE Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun TOTAL PERTH 32,973 24,377 19,965 18,339 20,258 16,215 28,144 17,946 18,342 21,017 19,372 15,946 252,894 FREMANTLE 3,501 2,973 2,813 2,933 3,629 3,417 3,702 4,044 3,620 4,863 2,669 3,864 42,028 MAR MUS 20,787 17,061 20,783 21,421 18,512 15,754 24,463 13,631 18,094 20,695 17,210 16,598 225,009 SAMS HSE 65 53 30 38 43 42 32 N/A 29 52 61 65 510 ALBANY 6,443 4,082 5,048 5,198 4,582 3,414 12,956 3,419 5,038 7,722 4,690 3,397 65,989 GERALDTON 4,661 10,310 6,025 7,638 4,287 4,640 5,300 2,537 3,555 4,761 3,788 3,897 61,399 KALGOORLIE 9,619 8,303 11,506 13,582 7,471 7,905 9,606 4,725 7,706 8,441 8,165 6,937 103,966 TOTAL 78,049 67,159 66,170 69,149 58,782 51,387 84,203 46,302 56,384 67,551 55,955 50,704 751,795 15 WESTERN AUSTRALIAN MUSEUM ANNUAL REPORT 2001–2002
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Page 5 and 6: DR KEN MICHAEL AM CitWA 5 Letter to
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Page 9 and 10: 9 Introducing the Western Australia
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Appendices 97 WESTERN AUSTRALIAN MU
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appendix E FELLOWS Mr John Banniste
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