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A young woman and man, each dressed in vivid colours, standing in front of a picture of a celestial body. She holds a thermos; he, binoculars.

21 December 2017

Melbourne Museum turned Inside Out

Three women in front of a red suitcase in a museum exhibition

20 December 2017

New mayor’s refugee story all in the bag

Fashion model wearing a fur-lined coat and knee-high boots, standing on two white chairs in a conservatory.

14 December 2017

From rule breakers to fashion makers

Inside children's gallery Ground Up: Building Big Ideas, Together at Scienceworks.

03 December 2017

Milestone gallery redevelopment to nurture STEM skills in 0-5 year olds

Two men and two women looking in a shop window

21 November 2017

All kinds of weather for British Migrants

Portrait of two people

15 November 2017

Portraits of LGBTQIA+ life celebrate marriage vote result

Concept design for Ground Up: Building Big Ideas Together.

25 October 2017

Major initiatives for a science-led future

Two men with a whale skill

10 October 2017

Fossil finds reveal plot twist in Australian whale tale

Lynley Marshall, CEO, Museums Victoria and Jo White of BalletLab with objects which will feature in Museum Inside Out, a new exhibition opening at Melbourne Museum in December.

15 September 2017

New era announced at Museums Victoria

Four men with a fossil skull and tooth model

30 August 2017

Palaeontologists discover whales have dark origins as ferocious predators

Norm Smith Medallist Jason Johannisen, Western Bulldogs Football Club.

26 July 2017

AFL kicks goals for diversity

Detail of LightTime installation

01 July 2017

Artists reveal the beauty of science

The "faceless" fish

17 June 2017

Museums Victoria scientists return from voyage of deep sea discovery with astonishing variety of weird and wonderful deep sea creatures

Bill Onus, President of the Victorian Aborigines' Advancement League, May 1967

23 May 2017

Ganbu Yalingbu. Ngulu-Bulok. One Day. Many Voices.

Museums Victoria scientist Tim O'Hara stands in front of the Marine National Facility research vessel <i>Investigator</i>.

15 May 2017

Museums Victoria leads world-first research voyage to uncover life in Australia's eastern abyss

A close-up of a dragonfly

07 May 2017

Announcing the exhibition that will swarm into Melbourne Museum

Behrouz Boochani

17 March 2017

They Cannot Take The Sky: Stories from Detention

A new community exhibition at the Immigration Museum explores stories from people seeking asylum and refuge.

A scientist holds a fossil ear bone of an early toothed mysticete behind a microscope

09 February 2017

New research finds baleen whales had extreme hearing prior to giant body size and filter-feeding

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