The Virtual Australian Museum of Palaeontology is a project of the Flinders University Palaeontology lab with Flinders Microscopy & Microanalysis.
Our partners include the Museum and Art Gallery of Northern Territory (MAGNT), South Australian Museum (SAM) and West Australian Museum (WAM).
Original start-up funding was awarded by the Flinders University Consortium Research Funding Scheme 2019.
There are many, many people to thank for helping to bring VAMP to life. This project was led by Dr Alice Clement, Dr Aaron Camens, and Mr Jacob van Zoelen (Flinders University Palaeontology) with generous support and guidance from our mentors, staff, volunteers, museum partners, Flinders University and more.
This is by no means an exhaustive list but it wouldn’t be right not to thank Bree Martin, Gavin Prideaux, Vera Weisbecker, Egon Perilli, John Long, Sarah Harmer-Bassell, Diego Garcia-Bellido, Tory Botha, Elen Shute, Aubrey Kiernan, Warren Handley, Isaac Kerr, Diana Fusco, Ellen Mather, Sophie Rapagna, Mary-Anne Binnie, and many other staff from the South Australian Museum, Western Australian Museum, and the Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory.
It really has taken a village to raise this baby!
VAMP was officially launched in June 2023 near Victoria Square / Tarntanyangga in Adelaide, with a public event that featured talks from VAMP leadership Alice Clement, Aaron Camens and Jacob van Zoelen, and supported by Flinders University.
The VAMP Leadership Team, Alice Clement, Jacob van Zoelen and Aaron Camens, presented a poster at the 2023 Conference of Australasian Vertebrate Evolution, Palaeontology and Systematics (CAVEPS) meeting in Melbourne.
Coming soon:
Alice Clement will be presenting “Virtual Australian Museum of Palaeontology (VAMP): scanning, sharing and celebrating 600 million years of Australian fossils in 3D” at the upcoming International Council of Museums Committee for Natural History (NATHIST) Annual Conference and General Meeting from 9–11 November, 2026.