Museums Victoria professional learning

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Museums Victoria professional learning for teachers

Access Museum Victoria's staff, expertise and resources for your next professional learning opportunity at Melbourne Museum, Scienceworks, Immigration Museum or online. Take advantage of our unique expertise and award-winning exhibitions and facilities.

In person professional learning

Teachers attending Professional Learning for Creative Futures in the Learning Lab Studio at Melbourne Museum.

Creative Futures | Design Education Program

Melbourne Museum | Monday 7 July 2025

This one day, free intensive for Design and Technology teachers nurtures excellence in design education in Victoria.

Children using magnifying glasses to look at insect specimens in resin blocks.

Objects Based Learning in the Classroom

Immigration Museum | Tuesday 26 August 2025

Explore the role objects can play in supporting students’ learning and thinking.

Students play on a playground. One student sits on a playground spinner while another one spins it. Students are happy and smiling.

Physics in the Playground

Scienceworks | Monday 4 August 2025

Children play with physics everyday! In this professional learning session, learn how to use outdoor play as a physics teaching tool.

A close-up photograph of a person’s hands, wearing purple gloves, holding an artefact from the Galloway Hoard. The artefact is known as a pectoral cross. It is silver cross on a fine silver wire chain that would have been worn around the neck. Each of the four arms of the cross is decorated with symbols from the Christian faith.

Investigating the Viking Age with the Galloway Hoard

Melbourne Museum | Friday 29 August 2025

Be one of the first to see the Treasures of the Viking Age: The Galloway Hoard exhibition and discover what these precious artefacts reveal about the Viking Age.

Adults sit on reclining chairs in the Melbourne Planetarium at Scienceworks with projections on the Planetarium dome of the Moon and the Milky Way galaxy

Earth Moon Sun Science

Scienceworks | Tuesday 11 November 2025

Learn about the cycles of the Earth, Moon and Sun in the Planetarium and get hands-on activities for teaching.

Virtual professional learning

STEM Curious: Hands on experiences for early years educators

Select Dates

STEM Curious is a 2 hour professional learning program for educators and teachers using the VEYLDF within their service.

Two people sitting at a desk collaborating. There is a computer and other electronic components visible.

STEM Beyond: Extending STEM from your early childhood service

7 & 8 Oct

STEM Beyond is a virtual 60-minute webinar that will show you ways to better engage with your families through a ‘STEM lens’.

A teacher and two young children playing a board game.

STEM Numeracy: Nurturing Mathematical Minds in Early Childhood

19, 20, 21, 23 Aug | 9, 10, 11, 13 Dec

STEM Numeracy is a virtual 2 hour professional learning program for early childhood educators and teachers.

Inside a large brick building are many table and chairs. Students in uniform sit at the tables. Large metal boilers are in the background and in front of them are screens and a speaker sharing slides

STEMworks

Is your school thinking about STEM? Engage with Scienceworks and discover best practice for integrating new and emerging technologies into classroom inquiry units.

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Museums Victoria professional learning