Exhibitions and Events

2012 Disease Discovery Sessions

These monthly sessions are evening events featuring presentations from UNSW experts, doctors and professionals about a range of fascinating medical science topics. They are open to senior students, parents, teachers and the general public to provide an opportunity to learn more about disease processes and research developments from UNSW experts.

These sessions are also designed to offer students an insight into life as a doctor or medical science student. Each evening will focus on a specific theme and will include a presentation of approximately 40 minutes followed by time in the Museum to view related specimens and displays.

For a full list of dates and topics for 2011, please click here.

If you would like to be notified when registrations open for each Disease Discovery Evening, please register your email address with us.

iHeart Jazz @ Jurassic lounge

4 beats to the bar
70 beats in a minute
4 million beats a year
3 billion beats in the average 80 year life

The Australian Museum's Jurassic lounge has invited us to restage our event from Science Week 2011 at their Anti Valentines night on February 14th

1. Have your heart beat turned into experimental music. Thanks to 3M Littmann digital stethescopes we will be recording punters heart beats as they queue to get in and using these for the musicians backing beats.

2. Listen as for one evening renowned Jazz musicians Simon Barker and Carl Dewhurst will improvise their music to the sounds of heart beats. With the support of 3M Littmann stethoscopes and Phillips Lifehealthcare the Museum will offer a musical interpretation of the sounds and sites of our most tenacious organ.

3. Watch as VJ MJ will be using ultra sound to show hearts hard at work.

4. Watch as pathology experts turn the Aus Mus tehatre into a dissection hall demonstrate a pig heart dissection and compare healthy tissue with diseased specimens.

5. Talk museum and medical volunteers will be guiding people through a selection of diseased heart specimens from the Museum.

A heart will beat more than 2 BILLION times in a lifetime – mostly those beats will all be ignored. Maybe you will notice the beats as you fall in love, or stand at the edge of the bungy bridge. Maybe you will listen when the cardiologist explains why you need to be careful with what you eat.
But mostly we never give them a second thought those vital heart beats. That’s why we at the Museum decided to make it easy to think about your heart beat.

Thanks to Jurassic Lounge for the invitation