Revolutions: Records and Rebels
Revolutions: Records and Rebels looks at the late 1960s as a moment when youth culture drove optimistic idealism, motivating people to come together and question the establishment across every area of society.
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Miḏawarr: Harvest
Miḏawarr means 'harvest' in the Yolηu matha (language); it is the season when rich plant life on Yolηu country is ready to be collected and prepared.
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Talking About A Revolution with Ecca Vandal
A series of intimate evenings of music and conversation, inspired by our latest blockbuster exhibition, Revolutions: Records to Rebels.
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Nocturnal x NAIDOC Week
Nocturnal proudly celebrates NAIDOC Week with a Bad Apples Music takeover featuring: Briggs, Alice Skye and Soju-Gang
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Gut Feelings
Microbes in your gut talk to your brain and body. Your microbes are beautiful. Be immersed. Be curious. Love your guts.
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Refugees, Museums and the Digital Diaspora
Discover how social media is connecting refugees - and learn about its impact on Museums Victoria’s engagement with refugee culture and collections.
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The History of Money: Part 3 The Welfare State
Join us for the final talk of our discovery debate series Money, Trade and the Human Experience.
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Top Designs 2019
Glimpse into the future of Australian design when Melbourne Museum showcases the work of outstanding VCE and VET design students.
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River of Language
ngulu wurneet, galada-al wurrung-u, parniwaru tyalingi, waran woorroong-ee, barringgi dyaling.
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School holiday activities
Celebrate NAIDOC Week during the Winter School Holidays at Bunjilaka Aboriginal Centre, Melbourne Museum.
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Sunday Family Program: Kaleidoscope Gems
Be inspired by the Dynamic Earth exhibition and make your very own kaleidoscope to take home.
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Meet the Museum Experts: Palaeontology
Ever wondered what do Museum staff do? Ever pondered what's behind closed doors?
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Museum Lectures
Come on a journey of discovery with a program of talks.
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Museum Playdates
Come and play in our newest program for 3 to 5 year olds.
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Music, Sex & Politics: The Revolution Continues
You say you want one, but did we have one? (A local revolution that is.)
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First Peoples Tour
Enjoy a guided tour of the Bunjilaka Aboriginal Cultural Centre at Melbourne Museum and experience the vibrant cultures of Indigenous Australia
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Children's Gallery
A wondrous place for babies to 5-year-olds to explore, play and learn.
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Hello Possums Story Time
Join your friends for Hello Possums Story Time in the Pauline Gandel Children's Gallery at Melbourne Museum.
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Members Back of House Tours
Get behind the locked doors and meet our inspiring staff and get closer to our collection.
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Children's Palaeontology Tour
On this tour you will discover all things dinosaur at the Palaeontology Store these school holidays.
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Children's Live Exhibits Tour
Ever wondered who looks after all the live plant and animal displays at Melbourne Museum?
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Sunday Family Program: The Great Gut Microbe Hunt
We're going on a Microbe Hunt!
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First Peoples
Celebrating the history, culture, achievements and survival of Victoria’s Aboriginal people.
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Melbourne Rare Book Week
Join us for a series of expert talks as Melbourne Rare Book Week celebrates it's eighth year.
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Ten Enemies of Books
Join conservator Alice Cannon for a contemplation on how books can be lost, destroyed, damaged and saved.
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The Birdman and the Museum
This show-and-tell offers a unique insight into the relationship between Museums Victoria and the renowned ornithologist and publisher, John Gould, through rarely seen items from the library and archives.
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Theft from Collecting Institutions
Join one of our experts to hear about astonishing histories of thefts from major Australian cultural institutions that have occurred across their histories, including thefts of valuable rare books.
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Road to Zero experience
The world’s first immersive experience that explores a future free from deaths and serious injuries on our roads.
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Promoting Rare Books & Special Collections
Three library experts discuss their experiences in marketing and promotion of rare books.
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Milarri Garden trail
Explore Bunjilaka's beautiful Indigenous garden.
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Direct Your Own TV Ad
This school holidays, create your own road safety commercial
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Young Blak Professionals Working in GLAM Industries
Join us as our speakers explores what it means to be young and Blak working in the GLAM Sector
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National Science Week
From the human mouth to the deep sea, we explore life in some unlikely places.
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National Science Week Public Launch: Science at the Extreme
Join us for the public launch of National Science Week 2019 at Melbourne Museum.
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Museum Stories
Immerse yourself in an interactive story time, then join us on an adventure to explore a museum gallery or space, with a different museum theme every day.
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Lost in Translation
Discover this amazing story of cross-cultural knowledge exchange between the museum and the Yaghan community in South America.
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Wurreka
An etched zinc wall that spans the north wall of Birrarung Gallery and surrounds the entry to First Peoples.
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White Night 2019
As the city comes alive with a three night celebration of culture and creativity, start your family adventuring early in your favourite Melbourne Museum spaces.
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IMAX Melbourne
The most immersive cinematic experience in the world.
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Before Hours Tour
Join an early morning, small group tour of Melbourne Museum before it opens
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Wild
Over 600 birds, reptiles, mammals and amphibians from around the world.
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Dinosaur Walk
Walk among skeletons of prehistoric animals.
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The Melbourne Story
An exhibition packed with icons of the city's past and present.
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Eel feeding
Watch a writhing mass of hungry eels gobble up their lunch!
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Forest Secrets
Walk through a stand of Victoria's mountain forests in the middle of the city.
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Bugs Alive!
The amazing world of insects and spiders!
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Melbourne Museum Tours
Enrich your visit to Melbourne Museum with a small group guided tour.
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Curious?
A place for visitors to meet staff and find answers relating to the research, collections and the work of Museums Victoria.
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600 Million Years
The origin and evolution of life in Victoria.
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Darwin to DNA
The processes and mechanisms of evolution.
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Highlights tour
Introduction to the museum's displays.
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The Mind
Think about the workings of your own mind and the minds of others.
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Phar Lap
Australia's greatest racehorse.
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Royal Exhibition Building Tours
Discover the history and beauty of this magnificently restored building.
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Te Vainui O Pasifika
Watercraft and other objects from nearly every Pacific Island nation.
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Dynamic Earth
A brilliant, immersive exhibition about our ever-changing Earth.
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Marine Life
Dramatic underwater footage, vivid photographs and rare specimens bring Victoria’s marine animals to life.
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Museum Market Pop-Up Restaurant
Enjoy a glass of wine, coffee and lunch at Melbourne Museum’s Pop-Up Restaurant in May, overlooking the stunning Royal Exhibition Building.
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Australian Academy of Science Boden Research Conference
This two-and-a-half-day symposium will bring together top Australian and international scientists, students, and early career researchers to explore the techniques for reconstructing evolutionary transformations in vertebrate history.
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