![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.](/media/6068/inside_out_4_cropped.jpg?anchor=center&mode=crop&width=768&height=432&rnd=131584158706500000&bgcolor:fff)
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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.](/media/6068/inside_out_4_cropped.jpg?anchor=center&mode=crop&width=768&height=432&rnd=131584158706500000&bgcolor:fff)
![Three women in front of a red suitcase in a museum exhibition](/media/6052/cuc-lams-suitcase-media-release.jpg?anchor=center&mode=crop&width=768&height=432&rnd=131582640931700000&bgcolor:fff)
![Fashion model wearing a fur-lined coat and knee-high boots, standing on two white chairs in a conservatory.](/media/6024/000285324_trimmed.jpg?anchor=center&mode=crop&width=768&height=432&rnd=131577185281870000&bgcolor:fff)
![Inside children's gallery Ground Up: Building Big Ideas, Together at Scienceworks.](/media/6504/sr_groundup_fparker-24.jpg?anchor=center&mode=crop&width=768&height=432&rnd=131659526812930000&bgcolor:fff)
![Two men and two women looking in a shop window](/media/4715/britishmigrantsopeningwe-000274521.jpg?center=0.5,0.42465753424657532&mode=crop&width=768&height=432&rnd=132373867637770000&bgcolor:fff)
![Portrait of two people](/media/5820/penny-whetton-and-janet-rice.jpg?anchor=center&mode=crop&width=768&height=432&rnd=131552233719900000&bgcolor:fff)
![Concept design for Ground Up: Building Big Ideas Together.](/media/5449/concept_design_ground_up_-_building_big_ideas2c_together.jpg?anchor=center&mode=crop&width=768&height=432&rnd=131534947375000000&bgcolor:fff)
![Two men with a whale skill](/media/5306/marx-fitzgerald-pgymy-right-whale-specimen.jpg?center=0.14710743801652892,0.48311688311688311&mode=crop&width=768&height=432&rnd=131520145455170000&bgcolor:fff)
![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.](/media/4768/lynley_marshall_ceo_museums_victoria_and_jo_white_of_ballet_lab_museum_inside_out_credit_ben_healley.jpg?anchor=center&mode=crop&width=768&height=432&rnd=131499471251800000&bgcolor:fff)
![Four men with a fossil skull and tooth model](/media/4667/janjucetus_skull_and_3d_tooth_model.jpg?anchor=center&mode=crop&width=768&height=432&rnd=131485600958330000&bgcolor:fff)
![Norm Smith Medallist Jason Johannisen, Western Bulldogs Football Club.](/media/3571/game-changers.jpg?anchor=center&mode=crop&width=768&height=432&rnd=131406978652800000&bgcolor:fff)
![Detail of LightTime installation](/media/3558/skunk-control.jpg?anchor=center&mode=crop&width=768&height=432&rnd=131402800013770000&bgcolor:fff)
![The "faceless" fish](/media/3772/faceless_fish_credit_rob_zugaro-1.jpg?anchor=center&mode=crop&width=768&height=432&rnd=131629970566470000&bgcolor:fff)
![Bill Onus, President of the Victorian Aborigines' Advancement League, May 1967](/media/3531/bill_onus_president_of_the_victorian_aborigines-_advancement_league.jpg?anchor=center&mode=crop&width=768&height=432&rnd=131395799668700000&bgcolor:fff)
![Museums Victoria scientist Tim O'Hara stands in front of the Marine National Facility research vessel <i>Investigator</i>.](/media/3509/tim_ohara_marine_biodiversity_hub_-_csiro.jpg?anchor=center&mode=crop&width=768&height=432&rnd=131424475682170000&bgcolor:fff)
![A close-up of a dragonfly](/media/3514/dragonfly_exhibit_in_bug_lab_3_credit_joel_checkley.jpg?anchor=center&mode=crop&width=768&height=432&rnd=131424475154630000&bgcolor:fff)
![Behrouz Boochani](/media/6170/1_behrouz_boochani_photo_by_michael_green.jpg?anchor=center&mode=crop&width=768&height=432&rnd=131608422330770000&bgcolor:fff)
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](/media/3094/travis_park_with_a_fossil_ear_bone_of_an_early_toothed_mysticete_credit_ben_healley_9-2-17.jpg?anchor=center&mode=crop&width=768&height=432&rnd=131364723609270000&bgcolor:fff)