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20 December 2023

Groundbreaking discovery at Museums Victoria Research Institute rewrites our understanding of whale evolution

18 December 2023

Blockbuster TITANIC: The Artefact Exhibition sails into Melbourne Museum – now open for summer

Selected pieces from the State of Victoria Gold Jewellery Collection

07 December 2023

State of Victoria Gold Jewellery Collection shines at Museums Victoria

A small boy walking up the Grand Staircase in Titanic: The Artefact Exhibition

01 December 2023

Cool adventures await: Museums Victoria serves up summer fun these school holidays

People point up in wonder at the skeleton of Horridus, the triceratops.

29 November 2023

Nocturnal: Museum after dark continues at Melbourne Museum in 2024

22 November 2023

Unfinished Business - Stories from Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander People with Disabilities

16 November 2023

New discovery: earliest evidence that birds set foot near south pole 125 million years ago

26 October 2023

Air Playground soars back into Scienceworks

The shadow of two people standing in a room with the walls illuminated with tree tops

11 October 2023

Double Victory for Museums Victoria at the AMaGA Victorian Museums and Galleries Awards

07 October 2023

Melbourne Museum Presents TITANIC: The Artefact Exhibition – A Titanic Journey Like No Other

01 September 2023

LEGO Minifigures take over Melbourne Museum with the opening of RELICS: A New World Rises

28 August 2023

Spring into fun with Museums Victoria this school holidays

07 August 2023

Destigmatising discussions on race and family at Immigration Museum with Fam by Where are you from? (WAYF)

27 July 2023

Lego masters winners bring their retrofuturistic exhibition to melbourne museum this September

13 June 2023

Ignite your curiosity this Winter school holidays with Museums Victoria

05 June 2023

New exhibition More Than a Tarrang (tree): Memory, Material and Cultural Agency renews the connectedness of rare ancestral belongings

18 May 2023

Experience Fantastic Beasts™: The Wonder of Nature at Melbourne Museum From Tomorrow

Blue exhibition space with textiles hanging on the wall

12 May 2023

Melbourne Museum presents Sutr Santati: Then. Now. Next. Stories of India woven in thread

18 April 2023

Tickets on sale now for Sutr Santati: Then. Now. Next. Stories of India woven in thread

Stylised image of man looking with sunglasses tilted down

29 March 2023

Culture Makers Season One brings vibrant new voices to all three Museums Victoria sites

Child reaches for the mouth of a dinosaur in Gandel Gondwana Garden

28 March 2023

Walk through ancient Victorian landscapes and laugh out loud with museums Victoria this Autumn school holidays

27 March 2023

Queer collection gems revealed throughout year in Rainbow Threads installation at Melbourne Museum

09 March 2023

New exhibition showcases cutting-edge research from Museums Victoria Research Institute

Sita Bhumi Pravesh

08 March 2023

Sutr Santati: Then. Now. Next. Stories of India Woven in Thread

02 March 2023

Unearth the evolution of Victoria’s prehistoric flora and fauna at Melbourne Museum

01 March 2023

New partnership promotes further inclusivity across museum creative programming

22 February 2023

New Museums Victoria Research Institute Gallery to open at Melbourne Museum

20 February 2023

Top Designs 2023: emerging designers champion socially responsive design, showcasing innovative solutions for a better tomorrow

16 February 2023

Nocturnal x The Fashion Edition

Sphenopteris warragulensis (fern) specimen from the Cretaceous period. Found in Koonwarra, Victoria.

07 February 2023

Future Forums brings back critical thinking in 2023

Model of a two-level exhibition space with visitors wandering about. There are lots of trees and two large animal sculptures.

31 January 2023

Travel through prehistoric wilderness at Melbourne Museum this March

Purpose-built to inspire curiosity and awe in young visitors, Gandel Gondwana Garden is a one-of-a-kind palaeontological garden.

Black and white image of Kaiit posing for portrait

10 January 2023

Nocturnal collaborates with Midsumma once again to serve a sassy summer dance floor

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