http://museumvictoria.com.au/ The latest media releases from Museum Victoria, Melbourne Australia. en http://museumvictoria.com.au/about/media-releases/cloudy-with-a-chance-of-meatballs/ http://museumvictoria.com.au/about/media-releases/cloudy-with-a-chance-of-meatballs/ Get your umbrellas and a hearty appetite ready for a mouth-watering IMAX 3D experience unlike any other, when Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs 3D storms into IMAX Melbourne Museum on 26 November 2009, for a limited three week season. Inspired by a bestselling children's book, Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs 3D follows inventor Flint Lockwood and a brainy weather girl as they attempt to... http://museumvictoria.com.au//pages/13015/cloudywithmeatballs_th.jpg http://museumvictoria.com.au/ Museum Victoria 2009-11-19T12:48:27+11:00 http://museumvictoria.com.au/about/media-releases/archaeologists-on-show/ http://museumvictoria.com.au/about/media-releases/archaeologists-on-show/ Members of the public will have the opportunity to see archaeologists at work at an Open Day for the archaeological dig at Museum Victoria’s Royal Exhibition Building on Saturday 14 November from 10am to 3pm. The Open Day will offer the public the opportunity to walk through a real-life archaeological dig and meet the experts involved in the project. Visitors will also get the chance to see... http://museumvictoria.com.au//pages/12878/REBdigopenday_th.jpg http://museumvictoria.com.au/ Museum Victoria 2009-11-11T16:11:18+11:00 http://museumvictoria.com.au/about/media-releases/csiracs-60th-birthday/ http://museumvictoria.com.au/about/media-releases/csiracs-60th-birthday/ Australia’s first computer, CSIRAC, will celebrate its 60th birthday with its inclusion on the Victorian Heritage Register, where it joins culturally and historically significant objects such as the Eureka Flag and the Women’s Suffrage Petition. CSIRAC is regarded as an international icon of the digital age and today remains the world’s oldest and only intact stored memory electronic computer.... http://museumvictoria.com.au//pages/12610/000003699c-40_th.jpg http://museumvictoria.com.au/ Museum Victoria 2009-11-02T11:39:15+11:00 http://museumvictoria.com.au/about/media-releases/groundbreaking-for-the-reb/ http://museumvictoria.com.au/about/media-releases/groundbreaking-for-the-reb/ Media are invited to the groundbreaking for the Royal Exhibition Building sustainable garden project at 9.30am, Thursday 22 October 2009.   Museum Victoria is undertaking a major project to transform an unsightly car park at the Royal Exhibition Building, Australia’s first World Heritage listed building, into heritage gardens based on the original 19th century design. The project will restore t... http://museumvictoria.com.au//pages/12400/000012086c-40-High-Res_th.jpg http://museumvictoria.com.au/ Museum Victoria 2009-10-20T15:28:04+11:00 http://museumvictoria.com.au/about/media-releases/major-sustainable-garden-project/ http://museumvictoria.com.au/about/media-releases/major-sustainable-garden-project/ Museum Victoria is undertaking a major project to transform an unsightly car park at the Royal Exhibition Building, Australia’s first World Heritage listed building, into heritage gardens based on the original 19th century design. The project will restore the western forecourt of the Royal Exhibition Building, which was covered in asphalt in the 1950s. Funded by a $5.3 million grant from the... http://museumvictoria.com.au//pages/12390/000007832c-38_th.jpg http://museumvictoria.com.au/ Museum Victoria 2009-10-20T11:32:58+11:00 http://museumvictoria.com.au/about/media-releases/a-christmas-carol/ http://museumvictoria.com.au/about/media-releases/a-christmas-carol/ Visionary director Robert Zemeckis’ adaptation of the magical Dickens’ Christmas tale A Christmas Carol is set to be released in IMAX 3D at IMAX Melbourne Museum on 5 November 2009. Disney’s A Christmas Carol is a multi-sensory thrill ride imagined by Academy Award-winning filmmaker Robert Zemeckis – the director responsible for Forrest Gump , The Polar Express 3D , Beowulf 3D and the famous Ba... http://museumvictoria.com.au//pages/12347/ACC_2009_Mar26_01178RC.jpg_cmyk_th.jpg http://museumvictoria.com.au/ Museum Victoria 2009-10-19T13:25:45+11:00 http://museumvictoria.com.au/about/media-releases/solar-vehicle-challenge/ http://museumvictoria.com.au/about/media-releases/solar-vehicle-challenge/ Media are invited to join hundreds of students from across Victoria as they race solar-powered cars and boats in the 2009 Victorian Model Solar Vehicle Challenge at 11:30am, Sunday 18 October 2009. “We are looking forward to a day of action and great excitement,” says event organiser Paul Wellington. “This year we see students putting in more effort than ever before to participate in the... http://museumvictoria.com.au//pages/12339/monashcar_th.jpg http://museumvictoria.com.au/ Museum Victoria 2009-10-15T11:34:42+11:00 http://museumvictoria.com.au/about/media-releases/sun-powered-fun/ http://museumvictoria.com.au/about/media-releases/sun-powered-fun/ Almost 2000 students from across Victoria will converge on Scienceworks to race solar-powered cars and boats in the 2009 Victorian Model Solar Vehicle Challenge held on October 17 and 18. “We are looking forward to a day of action and great excitement,” says event organiser Paul Wellington. “This year we see students putting more effort in than ever before to participate in the challenge and ga... http://museumvictoria.com.au//pages/12282/IMG_6704_th.jpg http://museumvictoria.com.au/ Museum Victoria 2009-10-07T16:30:52+11:00 http://museumvictoria.com.au/about/media-releases/romp-and-stomp/ http://museumvictoria.com.au/about/media-releases/romp-and-stomp/ Celebrate Universal Children’s Day and join Weedy the Seadragon and Active Bear for Romp & Stomp Fun Day for Children , at Melbourne Museum on Wednesday 28 October 2009. With over 3,500 attendees last year, Romp & Stomp Fun Day for Children is a day of fun filled activities and events designed for children aged 0–5. Activities on the day are both fun and educational, and include performances,... http://museumvictoria.com.au//pages/12246/RompandStompLogo_th.jpg http://museumvictoria.com.au/ Museum Victoria 2009-10-06T10:56:29+11:00 http://museumvictoria.com.au/about/media-releases/menagerie-contemporary-indigenous-sculpture/ http://museumvictoria.com.au/about/media-releases/menagerie-contemporary-indigenous-sculpture/ Melbourne Museum will host Australia’s most extensive touring exhibition of contemporary Indigenous sculpture with the launch of Menagerie: Contemporary Indigenous Sculpture on December 16. The groundbreaking exhibition features sculpture depicting a variety of animals by 33 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander artists, working in materials ranging from ceramics to traditional materials such a... http://museumvictoria.com.au//pages/12211/image-16-_puruntatameri_hr_th.jpg http://museumvictoria.com.au/ Museum Victoria 2009-10-02T12:56:15+10:00 http://museumvictoria.com.au/about/media-releases/photographers-find-italy-in-melbourne/ http://museumvictoria.com.au/about/media-releases/photographers-find-italy-in-melbourne/ What makes Melbourne Italian? A competition in conjunction with Museum Victoria's blockbuster exhibition A Day in Pompeii invited Melburnians to show us through photographs. The top entries are on display at Melbourne Museum until 25 October. The Museum received nearly 200 entries that reveal the ways in which Italian culture is embedded in the rich fabric of Melbourne life through food and... http://museumvictoria.com.au//pages/12177/suyf_th.jpg http://museumvictoria.com.au/ Museum Victoria 2009-10-01T10:42:06+10:00 http://museumvictoria.com.au/about/media-releases/a-paragon-of-shoes/ http://museumvictoria.com.au/about/media-releases/a-paragon-of-shoes/ Media are invited to Melbourne Museum at 10am, Wednesday 30 September for the installation of a selection of 34 shoes representing almost 100 years of Melbourne’s fashion history. Shoes and advertising material from one of Australia’s most significant shoe manufacturers, Paragon Shoes, are featured in a new display from October 3 in the Melbourne Gallery. “Spring time and Melbourne fashion go... http://museumvictoria.com.au//pages/12125/paragon-shoes_th.jpg http://museumvictoria.com.au/ Museum Victoria 2009-09-23T11:24:37+10:00 http://museumvictoria.com.au/about/media-releases/get-ready-to-explore-the-wild/ http://museumvictoria.com.au/about/media-releases/get-ready-to-explore-the-wild/ Melbourne Museum is set to launch Wild: Amazing animals in a changing world , an exhibition featuring more than 700 mammals, birds and reptiles from all around the world. Wild: Amazing animals in a changing world , which opens on 13 November, is the latest addition to Melbourne Museum’s popular Science and Life Gallery. “This exhibition is the biggest display of backboned animals Melbourne Muse... http://museumvictoria.com.au//pages/12078/Wild-Yak_th.jpg http://museumvictoria.com.au/ Museum Victoria 2009-09-18T16:17:03+10:00 http://museumvictoria.com.au/about/media-releases/cracking-the-einstein-code/ http://museumvictoria.com.au/about/media-releases/cracking-the-einstein-code/ Relativity and the Birth of Black Hole Physics Guest lecture by Professor Fulvio Melia, University of Arizona, USA For more than four decades Albert Einstein's theory of general relativity remained largely a curiosity for scientists; however accurate it seemed, Einstein’s mathematical code was one of the most difficult to crack in all of science. That is, until a twenty-nine-year-old New... http://museumvictoria.com.au//pages/11952/disk-with-jet_th.jpg http://museumvictoria.com.au/ Museum Victoria 2009-09-07T12:46:39+10:00 http://museumvictoria.com.au/about/media-releases/around-the-world-to-the-middle-east/ http://museumvictoria.com.au/about/media-releases/around-the-world-to-the-middle-east/ Celebrate the mystique and wonder of the Middle East in the Immigration Museum’s spring school holiday program, from 19 September to 4 October 2009. Bring the family along to the Immigration Museum and you can participate in an exciting range of Middle Eastern-themed activities to celebrate the new exhibition, Handing on the Key: Palestinians in Australia . Activities: Around the World to the... http://museumvictoria.com.au//pages/11808/IM-school-hols-pic_th.jpg http://museumvictoria.com.au/ Museum Victoria 2009-08-27T12:16:04+10:00 http://museumvictoria.com.au/about/media-releases/search-settle-survive/ http://museumvictoria.com.au/about/media-releases/search-settle-survive/ This spring search the realms of outer space in Scienceworks’ school holiday program from 19 September to 4 October 2009. Star Wars : Where Science Meets Imagination exhibition Fantasy and reality join forces in Star Wars : Where Science Meets Imagination. This is the first exhibition to showcase more than 80 costumes, models and props from all six Star Wars films while exploring cutting-edge... http://museumvictoria.com.au//pages/11804/SW-school-hols-image_th.jpg http://museumvictoria.com.au/ Museum Victoria 2009-08-27T12:28:50+10:00 http://museumvictoria.com.au/about/media-releases/rome-around-ancient-pompeii-spring/ http://museumvictoria.com.au/about/media-releases/rome-around-ancient-pompeii-spring/ Go back in time to ancient Italy and explore one of the world’s most extraordinary cities, Pompeii, in Melbourne Museum’s spring school holiday program from 19 September to 4 October 2009. Exhibition: A Day in Pompeii A Day in Pompeii tells the story of life in the ancient city – from food and dining to shopping, medicine, and religious practices – with more than 250 objects, many never shown... http://museumvictoria.com.au//pages/11802/MM-school-hols-image_th.jpg http://museumvictoria.com.au/ Museum Victoria 2009-08-27T09:09:30+10:00 http://museumvictoria.com.au/about/media-releases/handing-on-the-key/ http://museumvictoria.com.au/about/media-releases/handing-on-the-key/ The changing identity of the Palestinian community and the link to their homeland is explored in Handing on the key: Palestinians in Australia at the Immigration Museum from 21 August to 22 November 2009. The majority of Palestinians living in Australia have no lived experience of Palestine. Handing on the key explores how a sense of cultural identity is passed from one generation to the next... http://museumvictoria.com.au//pages/11441/key_th.jpg http://museumvictoria.com.au/ Museum Victoria 2009-07-31T14:49:57+10:00 http://museumvictoria.com.au/about/media-releases/harry-potter-the-imax-experience/ http://museumvictoria.com.au/about/media-releases/harry-potter-the-imax-experience/ The much-anticipated sixth instalment of the J.K. Rowling-based Harry Potter series, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince – The IMAX Experience , is set to feature stunning IMAX 3D sequences exclusive to IMAX theatres and opens at IMAX Melbourne Museum on 15 July. Originally planned for release in December 2008, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince – The IMAX Experience , will finally scree... http://museumvictoria.com.au//pages/9960/Harry-Potter-6D-08263_th.jpg http://museumvictoria.com.au/ Museum Victoria 2009-06-29T16:08:48+10:00 http://museumvictoria.com.au/about/media-releases/ancient-hampi/ http://museumvictoria.com.au/about/media-releases/ancient-hampi/ The extraordinary experience of an ancient Indian empire. Ancient Hampi: The Hindu Kingdom Brought to Life is a unique exhibition offering visitors a distinctive sensory experience. This combination of archaeology, photography and virtual reality technology lets Melburnians explore the life of the ancient kingdom as if they were visiting India today. Ancient Hampi provides an immersion into the... http://museumvictoria.com.au//pages/7443/ganeshacropped---med-size_th.jpg http://museumvictoria.com.au/ Museum Victoria 2008-11-11T11:11:01+11:00