Scientist for a Day inspires young scientists Scientist for a
Day saw dozens of budding young scientists visit the Australian
Museum for Marine Worlds and Urban Explorer. As the Museum doors
opened on Thursday the 14th and Friday the 15th of January, an
excited group of budding young marine scientists joined us for
‘Scientist for a Day – Marine Worlds’. Together we learnt about
what marine scientists do and then our visitors got to try out
being a marine biologist with a rather smelly squid dissection!
Using some very cool technology, our new marine detectives
investigated a variety of the secret weapons that marine animals
use and experienced being taxonomists by identifying some
Balmain bug species! We also got to see some very special parts
of the marine collection in a behind-the-scenes tour. With the
sun shining down on Monday the 18th, we welcomed some young
entomology enthusiasts for ‘Scientist for a Day – Urban
Explorer’. We investigated the spider community of Hyde Park, by
finding and identifying we