Other museum and gallery databases

Australia's Fauna
Created by the Online Zoological Collections of Australian Museums (OZCAM), Australia's Fauna is an online distributed network of databases that contain information about the faunal (animal) collections held in Australian museums and other institutions, such as CSIRO. Museums hold vast collections of specimens from the natural world and wish to provide access to these specimens and their associated data. This website provides a way to discover more about Australia's diverse fauna by allowing virtual access to the combined collections of many of Australia's museums.

Australia's Virtual Herbarium
Australia's Virtual Herbarium (AVH) is an on-line botanical information resource accessible via the web. It provides immediate access to the wealth of data associated with scientific plant specimens in each Australian herbarium.

Australian National Shipwreck database
Maintained by Environment Australia, Department of the Environment and Heritage this database consists of 35 fields of information on all known Australian shipwrecks.

Australian Museum collections available online

• FaunaNet
• Fish Collection database (also includes Fish Types and Fish Maps)
  
• The Albert Chapman Mineral Collection database
• Mammal database of the Sydney Region
• Bats in Australia
• Crustacea.net

The National Plant Photographic Index
The Australian National Botanic Gardens manages a large collection of photographic slides of its activities and Australian botany. The bulk of the collection consists of identified Australian plant species, but there is also a large number of environmental and conservation images.

Australian Prints
This database, maintained by the National Gallery of Australia, gives free online access to over 16,000 images and extensive information about prints and printmaking, posters, and book arts. The database includes printed works from Australia, Aboriginal Australia, the Torres Strait Islands, Papua New Guinea, Maori and Pakeha Aotearoa New Zealand and the Pacific region including Nuie, Samoa, Kiribati, and the Solomon Islands. Search the database by artist, subject or print techniques such as etching, woodcut, wood-engraving, linocut, lithograph, screenprint, monotype and other print processes.

Picture Australia
Search pictures of people places and events from collections all over Australia. Maintained by the National Library of Australia.

PlantNET
The Plant Information Network System of  Royal Botanic Gardens Sydney provides access to information on New South Wales plant names, their distribution and their conservation status.

ScreenSound Australia
This database collection contains songs, titles and movie clips spanning over 100 years of Australia's film, television, radio and recorded sound heritage.

Last updated on: 11 June, 2004