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19 February 2020

Immigration Museum announces Becoming You: An incomplete guide

Top Design 2020 exhibit - Youth by Nicolai Yu.

17 February 2020

Top Designs 2020: creatively answering life's questions with innovative design

Woman standing with her back to the camera wearing a cream dress view a large exhibition panel.

11 February 2020

Museum visitors spit for science, revealing how lifestyle and diet impacts our microbes

School student with light projected over their face

05 February 2020

An immersive next generation digital experience is coming to Melbourne Museum

05 February 2020

Two Strong Sisters Connected

Two Strong Sisters Connected takes you on a journey through the stories of the artists, sharing matriarchal cultural knowledge, passed down from mothers and grandmothers for thousands of generations.

Director Research and Collections, Nurin Veis, and Director and CEO, Lynley Crosswell, inspecting the Entomology collection.

03 February 2020

Statement from Australia's natural history museum Directors

Impact of fires on biodiversity on a scale not seen since species records were first kept. Loss is in the ‘trillions’ of animals due to climate change crisis.