Michael Pickering
Michael Pickering

Michael Pickering is a senior curatorial fellow at the National Museum of Australia. He has worked as an archaeologist and anthropologist, including for the Central Land Council and then the Northern Land Council. He was the regional officer for the Central Australian region of the Aboriginal Areas Protection Authority in the Northern Territory, and worked as a research officer on native title for Aboriginal Affairs Victoria and as head curator for the Indigenous Cultures program of Museum Victoria, before moving to the National Museum of Australia as the director of the Repatriation program and later taking on the role of head of the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander program. Michael Pickering is a member of the Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies (AIATSIS) and is on the editorial boards of the journals reCollections, Museum Management and Curatorship and Museums and Social Issues. He has published on a diverse range of topics, from political cartoons, material culture, cannibalism, settlement patterns, exhibitions, ethics to repatriation.