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Museums Victoria Store's Gems and Minerals collection shines this festive season

19 October 2026

The Future of Scienceworks

13 October 2026

Emma Memma returns to Melbourne Museum for Children’s Week

06 October 2026

A taxidermy horse in a glass case. Behind the case is a display of memorabilia

100 years of Phar Lap: racing legend’s legacy cast in bronze

02 October 2026

Museums Victoria publishing unveils definitive history of the Royal Exhibition Building

24 September 2026

A child wears a hand-made Supermen-like costume and stands on a crushed car and electric pole.

Immigration Museum welcomes On Country: Photography from Australia

22 September 2026

See ROME: Empire, Power, People at Melbourne Museum before it closes 25 October

21 September 2026

A museum visitor looks at a displays showing old gumtrees in ngiyama mirrim baany yulendj | reawakening deep water knowledge exhibition.

Bunjilaka welcomes ngiyama mirrim baany yulendj | reawakening deep water knowledge

18 September 2026

Unveil the mysteries of Melbourne Museum this Halloween

14 September 2026

Getting the story straight: New research paper dispels myths about volcanoes

Science is a Superpower Festival

Museums Victoria research institute launches volume two of PRISM, an open access humanities journal

Experience Phoebe Bridgers’ new album at Melbourne Planetarium before its release

Researcher wearing protective gloves inspecting a preserved specimen in a large container within museum collection storage.

National Science Week 2026

A lake surrounded by bush, with a mountain range in the background. There are clouds in a blue sky.

Ancient stories inform modern understanding of volcanic eruptions

Headshots of two Barbie® dolls

Barbie: The exhibition makes Australian debut at Melbourne Museum

Child using and colour interactive

Get lost in the science of colour, explore belonging in sport and discover the wonders of the world: Winter School Holiday highlights at Museums Victoria

A woman bouncing a football above her head

Football for all – New exhibition at Immigration Museum embraces football fever

National leaders mark 125 years of democracy at Royal Exhibition Building

History, culture and community connect across commemoration weekend at Royal Exhibition Building

For Her Love of Birds: The Extraordinary Untold Story of Jane Ward Tost

Victoria's Ice Age megafauna gets a new member thanks to a 120-year-old museum fossil

Where Ancient Rome meets Melbourne: Museums Victoria Store launches a new artisan retail collection

Come together: The Royal Exhibition Building opens its doors to mark 125 years of democracy, diversity and national identity with a weekend of commemorative events

Treasures of Ancient Rome on display in Melbourne for the first time

Top Designs 2026: Shaping the future, one design at a time

Explore the science of Colour at Scienceworks

Museums Victoria and Swinburne University of Technology announce learning partnership

11 February 2026

New research reveals Australian reptiles challenge established evolutionary theory

13 January 2026

New exhibition explores Papua New Guinean cultural traditions

05 December 2025

The Roman Empire unveiled at Melbourne Museum

01 December 2025

Museums Victoria celebrated in conservation and design awards

17 November 2025

Air Playground Takes Flight

31 October 2025

Melbourne Museum celebrates 25 years at Carlton Gardens

21 October 2025

Order Up - New exhibition highlights the humble docket to celebrate a city fed by many cultures

06 October 2025

Two adults and two children interact with digital touch table and look upwards towards a projected image

Something wondrous is coming to Melbourne

19 September 2025

Galloway Hoard artefacts on display, showing metalwork pieces in display case against a dark background

Treasures of the Viking Age Revealed at Melbourne Museum

World-first deep-sea DNA study reveals global connectivity of marine life

Joy extended due to popular demand at Immigration Museum

Viking age treasures to go on display in Melbourne for the first time

Art as transformation: New exhibition showcases work by Dardi Munwurro healing and leadership program alumni

New Prize to Showcase Contemporary Retellings of Historical Gold Story

A galaxy first - LEGO® Star Wars™: The Exhibition opens at Melbourne Museum on May the fourth

Build, create, explore: Tinkertown opens at Scienceworks this weekend

Two men looking towards the camera each holding a fossils

New Australian dinosaurs and the oldest megaraptorid fossils in the world

20 February 2025

LEGO® Star Wars: the exhibition tickets now on sale!

21 February 2025

Museums Victoria celebrates women and girls in science with season 2 of Science Is a Superpower

11 February 2025

Medieval meets modernity: step inside Notre-Dame at Immigration Museum this summer

06 December 2024

Antopia: A fantastic adventure into one of nature’s greatest marvels

12 December 2024

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Merri-Bek Facility Media Statement

17 November 2024

Discovery of 24 dinosaur tracks reveal polar dinosaurs once roamed

10 September 2024

Near-complete 50,000-year-old skeleton of extinct kangaroo retrieved by Museums Victoria Research Institute

New initiative makes museum accessible to students experiencing disadvantage

New exhibition raises an ‘island of indigenous safety’ to centre the healing mechanisms of Māori culture

Meet the Finest Real T. rex ever seen in Australia

Museums Victoria and Orygen join forces to address climate distress among young people

An immersive exhibition about Notre-Dame is coming to Melbourne!

Re-orienting the colonial past of Customs House

13 February 2024

All we need is Joy – A new exhibition lights up the Immigration Museum

30 January 2024

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

20 December 2023

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

18 December 2023

Selected pieces from the State of Victoria Gold Jewellery Collection

State of Victoria Gold Jewellery Collection shines at Museums Victoria

07 December 2023

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

23 November 2023

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

16 November 2023

Lynley Crosswell to step down as Museums Victoria CEO; Georgina Cox to be appointed interim CEO

30 October 2026

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