Living with natural disasters
Of ragged mountain ranges, of droughts and flooding rains."My Country" by Dorothea Mackellar
Expert videos
Liza Dale-Hallett Senior Curator, Sustainable Futures, Museums Victoria
Michael Cathcart Lecturer, Historical and Philosophical Studies, University of Melbourne
Museums Victoria resources
Small Object Big Story: a guide and range of tools to facilitate research and presentation.
Natural Disasters in Museums Victoria Collections: research the theme of natural disasters in Museums Victoria’s collections online to discover related images, objects, documents and more.
Other resources
Black Saturday Gallery: the 2009 Victorian Bushfires Royal Commission established this gallery to connect with the community.
Floods through fire: digital storytelling project by Lyndall Code at the Australian Centre of the Moving Image.
Going going still here: Digital storytelling project by Gary Hammer at the Australian Centre of the Moving Image.
Extract from 1956 Flood: Culture Victoria presents a film that explores the impact of the 1956 floods along the Murray and Darling Rivers.