Discover Magazine: Autumn 2024
Featuring interviews with Museums Victoria's scientists, researchers and curators.
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Featuring interviews with Museums Victoria's scientists, researchers and curators.
Discover Magazine: Spring 2023
Featuring interviews with Museums Victoria's scientists, researchers and curators.
Discover Magazine: Autumn 2023
Featuring interviews with Museums Victoria's scientists, researchers and curators.
Discover Magazine: Summer 2022
Featuring interviews with Museums Victoria's scientists, researchers and curators.
Discover Magazine: Spring 2022
Featuring interviews with Museums Victoria's scientists, researchers and curators.
Discover Magazine: Winter 2022
Featuring interviews with Museums Victoria's scientists, researchers and curators.
Discover Magazine: Autumn 2022
Featuring interviews with Museums Victoria's scientists, researchers and curators.
Discover Magazine: Summer 2021/22
Featuring interviews with Museums Victoria's scientists, researchers and curators.
Discover Magazine: Spring 2021
It’s the changing of the seasons and this edition of Discover will be brought to you digitally.
Ink
If museums help us make sense of the world, ink is a tool that facilitates this process.
Discover Magazine: Winter 2021
Our team of scientists, researchers and curators share highlights of their latest discoveries and activities.
Discover Magazine Autumn 2021: Evolve
We explore evolution, looking at the modern-day descendants of dinosaurs and the different ways that technology has evolved over many decades.
Sleep
We all sleep, and we do it quite a lot. Yet we don't often pay much attention to it. Sometimes we even try to avoid it (right, parents of young children?). Yet while our bodies are switched off, our minds switch on.
Summer reads
It’s summer books season! Reorganise your bookshelf, try birdwatching and read our interview with Hayley Webster, manager of Museums Victoria's Library.
Becoming You: An Incomplete Guide
Our latest exhibition at Immigration Museum explores the surprising and real-life coming of age stories of well-known and everyday Australians.
Halloween
Join the Society and Technology team behind the scenes in the biggest and spookiest museum collection store on All Hallow's Eve.
Royal Exhibition Building
140 years ago Melbourne was gifted it’s grandest landmark, the iconic and beautiful Royal Exhibition Building.
Early learners
Learn how to help out the bees in your neighbourhood and register for our free Dinosaurs webinar for early learners!
Robotics
Meet a 1980's robot from the Collection!
Venom
Poisonous or venomous – what is the difference? Most venomous animals are not harmful to humans. Treat them with respect and you will learn just how special they are.
Phar Lap
By 1931, Phar Lap won virtually every major Australian race, many of them twice. In this episode of Just for Members, we learn more about this national legend.
Live from the collections
Whilst our doors are temporarily closed again, explore our Society & Technology collections from the comfort of your sofa.
Bugs
For what they lack in size, bugs make up in numbers: there are over 150 million insects for every human on Earth. Explore the world of bugs with us!
Astronomy
Get away from the city lights, look up to the stars, and you might just be able to spot something in the sky!
Dinosaurs
When & why did dinosaurs start having feathers? How long could a dinosaur bone or tooth last without turning into a fossil?
Science
This week we are exploring all things science. So Members, are you ready to do some science in your PJs?
First Peoples
Learn about the living culture of Koorie Victoria and the art of possum cloak making and design your very own cloak!
Cooking with the collections
Bake a cake from the 1940s and learn about the ways First Peoples have been cooking for tens of thousands of years.
Explore more content from home
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.
Scienceworks at Home
Take a virtual visit to Scienceworks and get your STEM fix from the couch!
Immigration Museum at Home
Delve deeper into Victoria's immigration history – read personal stories of migration and discover your own origins.
Museum at Home Learning
Explore our curriculum-aligned education resources for school students.