History and technology books

From 2023 to 2026, the Culture Makers program invited artists from across Victoria to collaborate with Museums Victoria and rethink how stories are told in its galleries.

A vital account of change in Australian museums.

Have you ever wondered why Melbourne is located where it is? Or why it has the shape that it does?

Melbourne: A City of Stories grew out of Melbourne Museum's long-term exhibition, The Melbourne Story.

The Great Melbourne Telescope is one of the great hidden stories of 19th century Australia.

At Spring Plains, Victoria, July 16, 1910, John Robertson Duigan flew his aeroplane twenty feet into the air. A short hop, admittedly, but a significant moment in Australian history.

In November 2010, Museums Victoria and La Trobe University hosted a two-day symposium at Melbourne Museum for museum managers, senior collections staff and regulators with responsibility for archaeological collections.

Visions of Colonial Grandeur explores Melbourne’s international exhibitions through the art collection of 19th-century businessman John Twycross.

Australia’s Museum Victoria celebrates 150 years of public life with a handsome volume highlighting some of its most treasured objects.

Child’s Play re-publishes US scholar Dorothy Howard’s essays on Australian children in the 1950s, alongside contextual essays by international scholars in the fields of history and folklore.