Nicholas Hadnutt

I am the Archaeology curator in the Cultures and Histories Program, responsible for researching, curating and sharing the Queensland Museum’s archaeology collections. I joined the Museum’s Cultures and Histories program as a volunteer and became a fulltime Assistant Collection Manager in 2008, after completing a Bachelor of Arts (Archaeology double major) with the University of Queensland. After completing my Honours degree, I worked for a number of years as the Collection Manager before joining the Archaeology program as a Curator in 2015. During my 10 years with the Museum, I have experienced a broad range of work opportunities including exhibition development and delivery, large-scale gallery and storage refurbishments, iternational exhibition installations and public programming.

My research specialisation is historical archaeology and my interests include the changing role of museums since their inception, 19^th and 20^th century material culture and how it reflects Queensland’s changing cultural landscape and museum collection development. I am currently investigating and documenting the development of the Museum’s historical archaeology collection. In addition, I have recently spent multiple field seasons excavating and analysing finds from a central Queensland gold mining town in order to better understand the choices people made when living in frontier town at the turn of the 20^th century.

Projects

• Archaeological assessment of the Burke and Wills Plant Camp - Research project to investigate claims that a remote, western Central Queensland archaeological site is Burke and Wills Camp 46R, the 'Plant Camp'.
• Burnett River Rock Engravings repatriation project
• Ravenswood Mining Landscape and Chinese Settlement Area Historical Archaeology project

Exhibitions

Major Touring Exhibitions

Queensland Museum Exhibition