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The Museum Lectures and talks series looks to share new perspectives on the world, drawing on our own collections and expertise and the work of our partner researchers and communities. We explore the unique natural and cultural heritage of Victoria and share perspectives from people who are reshaping our understandings of this complex place we call home.

Lectures

The Orbweavers

Weaving Magic: The Orbweavers Live!

Local musicians, The Orbweavers, perform songs connected to the Museum’s collections, followed by a Q & A.
Aerial view of the Royal Exhibition Building

If walls could talk

The world's oldest remaining Great Hall has seen a thing or two in its 138 years.
Melanie Mackenzie holding a marine invertebrate known as a Sea Pig during an Antarctic research voyage.

Antarctic marine life: What lurks below?

On World Environment Day Melanie Mackenzie describes the trials and triumphs of a recent Antarctic research voyage.
Lena Hejll

Vikings lecture

Who were the Vikings? Were they helmet-wearing vagabonds, seafarers and traders, rapers and pilagers, farmers and craftspeople. All of those and more?
Group of people in high-vis vests standing by a large telescope

What Makes a Telescope “Great”?

The Great Melbourne Telescope was built in Dublin by Thomas Grubb & Son and installed at Melbourne Observatory in 1869.
Beach with storm clouds

"In the Beginning was the Ocean"

"In the beginning was the ocean" is the opening line of the Tongan creation story.
Group of First Peoples demonstrating on the steps of parliament house

Fight for Survival

Fight for Survival was a community-developed exhibition hosted by Melbourne Museum in Bunjilaka Cultural Centre in 2022.

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