We have been creating knowledge, entertaining visitors and building the State Collection since 1854. The collection is an invaluable record of Victoria’s environmental and cultural history, and our amazing wealth of over 17 million items has been inspiring a sense of wonder and awe in visitors for generations.
Museums Victoria's current Strategic Plan and all Annual Reports from the year 2000 onward.
Requests for Tenders, Expressions of Interest, Requests for Quotation and Requests for Information are published here.
Governed by the Museums Board of Victoria, and under the leadership of Lynley Marshall, Museums Victoria is operated and supported by talented staff and volunteers.
This scheme provides legal protection for cultural objects on loan from overseas lenders for temporary public exhibition in Australia.
Museum Victoria recognises the rights of Indigenous peoples with respect to their cultural property, and through the Indigenous Repatriation Program gives priority to the return of Ancestral Remains to Australian Indigenous communities.
Museums Victoria has in place an Animal Ethics Committee (AEC) which oversees all research activity involving live animals.
Museums Victoria is committed to the aims and objectives of the Protected Disclosure Act 2012 (Vic.)
Museums Victoria is committed to actively fostering access and increasing understanding of, and respect for, the diversity of the Victorian community.
Museums Victoria Child Safe Policy Statement
