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Museum Lectures: 2018

Details and recordings from our Museum Lectures series.

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Woman & Two Men standing next to a Television Set, 1958

14 November 2018

Television and Cultural Diversity

Migration, Television and Cultural Diversity in Australia since 1956

Four people looking at collection objects

10 October 2018

Pacific Gallery Redevelopment

Bring Our People With Us: A Safe Place to Stand

Delicate orange soft corals

09 October 2018

Climate Sea Change

What do we know? When did we know it? What do we do?

Promotional shot of museum staff presenting a lecture.

05 September 2018

Making Futures: A Slam Event

Grey car with orange wheels and red figure in driving seat.

22 August 2018

The Problem with Plastics

Female Superb Fairy-wren with it beak open singing.

15 August 2018

Citizen Science

People-Power Building Knowledge of Nature

Neck ornament

08 August 2018

Reframing Colonial Histories

Re-contextualising collections through contemporary art

Museums Victoria Curator Kimberley Moulton giving a tour.

18 July 2018

The Intersection of Art & Historical Collections

First Peoples Women, Creative Practice and the Museum

04 July 2018

The Human Motor

The life of famed Australian Cyclist, Sir Hubert ‘Oppy’ Opperman

Green and Golden Bell Frog, sitting on reeds.

20 June 2018

From the Bog to the Biobank

A Quest to Understand Victoria's Endangered Frogs

Interior view of engine house showing mining pumping equipment.

13 June 2018

A Million Pounds and Not a Penny Return

A Victorian Gold Mining Saga

Melanie Mackenzie holding a marine invertebrate known as a Sea Pig during an Antarctic research voyage.

05 June 2018

Antarctic marine life: What lurks below?

Moss forest

16 May 2018

Expedition Sulawesi

Discovering New Species in Indonesia's Mountain Forests

The Orbweavers

09 May 2018

Weaving Magic: The Orbweavers Live!

Aerial view of the Royal Exhibition Building

18 April 2018

If Walls Could Talk

Stories from the Royal Exhibition Building

Thylacinus cyanocephalus, Thylacine, pup. Registration number C 5755.

20 March 2018

The Tasmanian Tiger Lecture

Secrets From Beyond Extinction

Needlework Specimen Book - Anne Trotter, 1840.

14 March 2018

A Stitch in Time

Anne Trotter's needlework specimen book, 1840

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