Museums Victoria

Australia's largest public museum organisation

Our Bodies, Our Voices, Our Marks

Exploring the art of tattoo, alongside themes of identity, self-expression, culture and community.

Visit Bunjilaka

Manggan – gather, gathers, gathering

Manggan weaves together recent works from the unique and diverse communities of Far North Queensland.

Visit Scienceworks

Beyond Perception: Seeing the Unseen

Discovering imperceptible worlds through science and technology.

Visit Melbourne Museum

The Listies totally serious 100% fact filled guide to the Melbourne Museum

Suitable for humans aged 5 to 500 million (dinosaurs allowed).

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People wearing high vis working on a beach

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The 700

More than 700 individuals whose combined efforts, starting in 1984, have brought to light fossils in what has been dubbed by one of them “The Dinosaur Dreaming Project”.

An apprehensive young woman is about to eat a mouthful of food.

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Fusion, feminism and food

Flavours that flipped Australian kitchens.

An illustrated dragon's head seen from two angles.

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When is a creature extinct?

And does this dragon still exist?

Portrait of a woman in a carpark wrapped in a possum skin cloak.

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The timeless and living art of possum skin cloaks

Possum skin cloak making is flourishing in 2019.

Blue gloved hands holding a grey rock next to a large brown rock on a conservation cushion

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Our Bodies, Our Voices, Our Marks

Manggan – gather, gathers, gathering

Beyond Perception: Seeing the Unseen

The Listies totally serious 100% fact filled guide to the Melbourne Museum

Discover

The 700

Fusion, feminism and food

When is a creature extinct?

The timeless and living art of possum skin cloaks

Meteorite found by gold prospector - The first found in Victoria since 1995 - Comes to Museums Victoria

Discover more

Our Bodies, Our Voices, Our Marks

Manggan – gather, gathers, gathering

Beyond Perception: Seeing the Unseen

The Listies totally serious 100% fact filled guide to the Melbourne Museum

Discover

The 700

Fusion, feminism and food

When is a creature extinct?

The timeless and living art of possum skin cloaks

Meteorite found by gold prospector - The first found in Victoria since 1995 - Comes to Museums Victoria

Discover more

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