Immigration Museum

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A world of museum experiences at home

Explore Victoria’s diversity and culture from the couch! Whilst the Immigration Museum is closed, we've curated our best online content for you to enjoy from home.

Top picks

Virtual showcase

Collecting the Curve

Capturing Victorian experiences of the Covid-19 pandemic.

Ramadan

Celebrate the Spirit of Ramadan

Join us as we explore this holy month and its many traditions.

Activity

Make a card

While we’re in isolation we thought it was the perfect time for sending a personal, handmade card to someone you care about!

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Play

Prepare to get your creative juices flowing through fun facts, project ideas and videos.

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Learn

Curriculum-linked resources for remote classrooms or home-based learning.

One of the exhibition spaces at Immigration Museum

Virtual tours

Explore Immigration Museum through mini-websites and virtual tours on Google Maps.

Online jigsaw puzzles

We’ve turned some of our much loved collection items and galleries into online puzzles.

Stories

A young couple who look happy and in love.

Read

An underground affair

An anti-Vietnam war love story.

Black and white image of a group of men wearing large face masks.

Read

10 peculiar and splendid masks

Masks might come to symbolise 2020. But they have a rich and often strange history.

Watch

Amrita Hepi Dances in the Long Room at the Immigration Museum

A crowd of people on top of a wall with a gate of stone columns behind them.

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Fall of the Berlin Wall

Dr Rolf Schmidt on witnessing history unfold.

Watch

Connected Bodies

Paul Stillen and Miso talk about their collaboration on the Documenting the Body exhibition at the Immigration Museum.

Shop educational gifts and toys at Museums Victoria Store

Keep little hands busy at home with museum puzzles, toys and activities.

Build a solar system, excavate for dinosaurs, learn about the human body, or discover the secrets of the natural world in your own backyard. And for the big kids, we’ve got everything from slow puzzles to conversation menus to keep brains busy.

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Museum Members

You won't miss a day at your museums!

All active and new memberships will be extended for the period that the museum remains closed.

In addition to Museum at Home content you'll get access to our exclusive Just for Members area featuring live Zoom events, experts Q&As, activities, puzzles, downloadable Zoom backgrounds and more.

Explore our collections online

At Museums Victoria, we have been building and researching our collections 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 creating a sense of wonder and awe in visitors for generations.

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Melbourne Museum at Home

While the dinosaurs doze, the learning never stops! Take a virtual visit to Melbourne Museum and explore our exhibitions from the comfort of home.

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Scienceworks at Home

If you're feeling like a star without its galaxy at the moment, take a virtual visit to Scienceworks and get your STEM fix from the couch!