Ian Hutton

Visiting summer birds

In the summer on Lord Howe Island we see several birds visiting from the northern hemisphere.

Twent-five years after the building was constructed, new LED lights have been installed in all the museum rooms and exhibition areas.

Coral spawning is a regular annual event on the island, but this year the mass spawning has come early.

An unusual exhibit in the Environmental Gallery which gets a lot of questions is a tall glass jar containing a Cookie-cutter Shark.

Mushroom Day 2023 – an appropriate day to announce the Citizen Science project to document Lord Howe Island’s fungi species

Author Graham Lines has told the story of convict James Borritt, who passed through Lord Howe Island in March 1842.

Museum staff and volunteers helped usher in the 2023-24 tourist season at the annual Community Open Day.

The KEDJE Foundation has agreed to sponsor the cataloguing of Museum artefacts on eHive.

In May, the Friends of Lord Howe Island helped remove weeds from the Museum grounds, and assisted with several related community projects.

During our winter I went overseas, to the UK, where I had the opportunity to visit many museums – small and large.