Lincoln Morse

Lincoln Morse is the Assistant Collection Manager for the Archaeology collection at Queensland Museum.

Swiftly approaching his first decade in the industry, he began at the Queensland Museum in 2016 as a collections technical officer involved in large scale storage upgrades. From 2018 to 2022, Lincoln joined the Exhibitions team and since then has been involved in the construction, installation, and maintenance of over 20 permanent and temporary exhibitions. Parallel to his Exhibitions work, Lincoln also took on numerous projects with Conservation and Facilities, mainly dealing with storage maintenance, upgrades, and relocations – most notably, leading the ground team in the 2022 Wet Store Relocation. Lincoln joined the Cultures & Histories team as Assistant Collection Manager in 2023, beginning work on a very large and significant new collection of material from the Native Mounted Police Project, and auditing the museum’s Antiquities collection.

During his time at the Queensland Museum, Lincoln has also worked at the RD Milns Antiquities Museum at the University of Queensland (2015-17) and the Abbey Museum of Art and Archaeology (2015-22) in various collections management and technical roles with a focus on collection storage and rehousing.

Lincoln is an advocate for bringing the behind-the-scenes of the collections into public view and connecting with other institutions to share knowledge and experiences.

Collection management

• Native Mounted Police Project, current
• Disney: The Magic of Animation, 2022–2023

Exhibitions

National & touring

• Dinosaurs of Patagonia, 2023
• Disney: The Magic of Animation, 2022–2023
• Lego: Wonders of the World, 2021
• Sea Monsters: Prehistoric Ocean Predators, 2020–2021
• Spiders: The Exhibition, 2020
• NASA: A Human Adventure, 2019
• Omnipresence, 2019–2020
• Egyptian Mummies: Exploring Ancient Lives, 2018
• Monkeys! A Primate Story, 2018
• Gladiators: Heroes of the Colosseum, 2017
• Medieval Power: Symbols & Splendour, 2016

Queensland Museum

• Dinosaurs Unearthed, 2023–2023
• Lost Creatures, 2018–2023
• Making Waves: A Century of Australian Coral Reef Science, 2022 
• Connections Across the Coral Sea, 2022
• Minerals: Inspirational Treasure From the Earth, 2021
• Island Futures: What Lies ahead For Zenadth Kes, 2021
• Antiquities Revealed, 2020
• I Do: Wedding Stories from Queensland, 2020
• Anzac Legacy Gallery, 2018
• SparkLab, 2018
• Discovery Centre, 2018

Collection services

• Wet store relocation, 2021–2022
• Mould remediation, 2019–2022
• T-House model conservation, Queensland Museum Rail Workshops, 2021
• H&T relocation, Hendra, 2020
• Numismatics rehousing, 2019
• Library and rare books storage update, 2019
• Social History storage upgrade, 2019
• Anthropology storage upgrade, 2016–2017