http://museumvictoria.com.au/ The latest news from Museum Victoria, Melbourne Australia en http://museumvictoria.com.au/about/mv-news/2010/goodbye-mv-news/ http://museumvictoria.com.au/about/mv-news/2010/goodbye-mv-news/ Say hello to MV Blog! MV News is winding down today after more than five years of regular updates about Museum Victoria's activities.  In its place, the new MV Blog will keep you posted about the research, exhibitions, events and collections at Melbourne Museum, Scienceworks, Immigration Museum and Royal Exhibition Building. Long-time bloggers Discovery Centre and Live Exhibits will also be joining the MV Blog. If... http://museumvictoria.com.au//pages/20599/000029502c-38_th.jpg http://museumvictoria.com.au/ Museum Victoria 2010-12-01T16:20:36+11:00 http://museumvictoria.com.au/about/mv-news/2010/arts-indigenous-leadership-program/ http://museumvictoria.com.au/about/mv-news/2010/arts-indigenous-leadership-program/ Bunjilaka officer selected to attend. Museum Victoria is delighted to congratulate Bunjilaka Project Officer Kimberley Moulton, who has been awarded a place in the inaugural Arts Indigenous Leadership Program that will be held in Canberra later this month. The program is a partnership between the Australian Indigenous Leadership Centre, the National Gallery of Australia and Wesfarmers, and aims to address the unbalanced... http://museumvictoria.com.au//pages/20373/KM_th.jpg http://museumvictoria.com.au/ Museum Victoria 2010-11-17T16:44:00+11:00 http://museumvictoria.com.au/about/mv-news/2010/vu-students-in-lightning-room/ http://museumvictoria.com.au/about/mv-news/2010/vu-students-in-lightning-room/ Experiments with high-voltage electricity. When it's not in use for spectacular Lightning Room shows, the Victoria University High Voltage Theatre at Scienceworks is a practical teaching lab for the next generation of electrical engineers. Students in the final year of their course perform high-voltage experiments on this specialised equipment that generates 100,000 volts of electricity. Much of the equipment was donated by Telstra when... http://museumvictoria.com.au//pages/19532/LR_th.jpg http://museumvictoria.com.au/ Museum Victoria 2010-11-16T16:03:31+11:00 http://museumvictoria.com.au/about/mv-news/2010/west-african-drummers/ http://museumvictoria.com.au/about/mv-news/2010/west-african-drummers/ Performance at Flinders St to celebrate new exhibition. This morning a group of drummers, singers and dancers dressed in traditional West African costume in a spirited performance to mark the upcoming opening of the new exhibition West Africa: Rhythm and Spirit at the Immigration Museum.  VideoInclude . . West Africa: Rhythm and Spirit is an exhibition exploring the long-held traditional beliefs and cultural practices of contemporary West African... http://museumvictoria.com.au//pages/20144/WAFlinders_th.jpg http://museumvictoria.com.au/ Museum Victoria 2010-11-10T15:24:23+11:00 http://museumvictoria.com.au/about/mv-news/2010/last-week-of-station-pier/ http://museumvictoria.com.au/about/mv-news/2010/last-week-of-station-pier/ Immigration Museum exhibition shippping out. Station Pier: Gateway to a New Life , one of the Immigration Museum’s most loved exhibitions, will close on 14 November to make way for the new permanent exhibition Identity: yours, mine, ours . Senior Curator of Migration, Moya McFadzean, contributed to the exhibition during its initial development and subsequent updates. On the eve of its closure, she reflects on Station Pier.     When Statio... http://museumvictoria.com.au//pages/19993/web000017002c-3_th.jpg http://museumvictoria.com.au/ Museum Victoria 2010-11-05T16:50:35+11:00 http://museumvictoria.com.au/about/mv-news/2010/how-to-measure-a-racehorse/ http://museumvictoria.com.au/about/mv-news/2010/how-to-measure-a-racehorse/ Scienceworks' Measure Island shows how! The opening of Scienceworks’ newest exhibition, Measure Island  coincides with Melbourne Cup week, presenting a timely opportunity to explain some of the unusual units used in horseracing! Measure Island examines the concepts of good measurement, how different systems have developed through history, and some of the measurement techniques that scientists use. Visitors can discover the difference... http://museumvictoria.com.au//pages/19891/Measure_Island044_th.jpg http://museumvictoria.com.au/ Museum Victoria 2010-11-05T09:30:58+11:00 http://museumvictoria.com.au/about/mv-news/2010/150th-melbourne-cup/ http://museumvictoria.com.au/about/mv-news/2010/150th-melbourne-cup/ Centennial Cup display to honour anniversary of famous race. To celebrate the 150th anniversary of the Melbourne Cup, the prize trophy from 1888 is on display beside Phar Lap's hide and skeleton at Melbourne Museum. Featuring three horses cast in silver on a silver-plated base this trophy was once known as the Centennial Cup, celebrating 100 years of British settlement. Prior to the race the Cup was displayed at the Centennial Exhibition in Melbourne’s... http://museumvictoria.com.au//pages/19739/melbournecup_th.jpg http://museumvictoria.com.au/ Museum Victoria 2010-11-03T11:19:31+11:00 http://museumvictoria.com.au/about/mv-news/2010/king-tut-heading-to-melbourne/ http://museumvictoria.com.au/about/mv-news/2010/king-tut-heading-to-melbourne/ Egyptian treasures on display in 2011. Tutankhamun and the Golden Age of the Pharaohs was announced today as the next Melbourne Winter Masterpieces exhibition for Melbourne Museum, to open on 8 April 2011. This will be the first time the exhibition visits Australia. It has been phenomenally popular worldwide, with seven million visitors to recent showings in Chicago, New York and London and other cities. The exhibition focuses on th... http://museumvictoria.com.au//pages/19743/TUT65_th.jpg http://museumvictoria.com.au/ Museum Victoria 2010-10-30T10:40:55+11:00 http://museumvictoria.com.au/about/mv-news/2010/solar-vehicle-challenge/ http://museumvictoria.com.au/about/mv-news/2010/solar-vehicle-challenge/ Annual competition transforms Scienceworks. Wild weather couldn’t stop the 2010 Victorian Model Solar Vehicle Challenge held at Scienceworks on Saturday 16 and Sunday 17 October. This competition, now in its 18th year, brings teams of school students from all over Victoria together to race solar powered model cars and boats that they have designed, built and tested throughout the year. The two-day event allows participants to discover wh... http://museumvictoria.com.au//pages/19691/solarcar_th.jpg http://museumvictoria.com.au/ Museum Victoria 2010-10-28T11:29:40+11:00 http://museumvictoria.com.au/about/mv-news/2010/deep-sea-animals/ http://museumvictoria.com.au/about/mv-news/2010/deep-sea-animals/ New species and specimens from Peru, Chile. MV senior collections manager and fish specialist, Dianne Bray, recently brought back extraordinary deep sea creatures from a three-week expedition to the south-east Pacific Ocean off Peru and Chile. She joined an international team of biologists investigating the bioluminescence and sensory systems of animals found in the Peru-Chile Trench, including those living in the midwaters of the twilig... http://museumvictoria.com.au//pages/19398/Black%20Seadevil_th.jpg http://museumvictoria.com.au/ Museum Victoria 2010-10-25T09:34:07+11:00 http://museumvictoria.com.au/about/mv-news/2010/happy-birthday-melbourne-museum/ http://museumvictoria.com.au/about/mv-news/2010/happy-birthday-melbourne-museum/ Celebrating ten years in Carlton Gardens. Exactly ten years ago today, Melbourne Museum officially opened its doors. Before then, the National Museum of Victoria had resided at 328 Swanston Street since 1899 alongside the State Library. It was bursting at the seams and needed a building of its own. The Carlton Gardens complex was custom-built with the museum's needs in mind, such as large exhibition galleries, climate control for... http://museumvictoria.com.au//pages/19538/web10Bday-06-co_th.jpg http://museumvictoria.com.au/ Museum Victoria 2010-10-21T16:46:40+11:00 http://museumvictoria.com.au/about/mv-news/2010/40-years-since-west-gate-bridge-collapse/ http://museumvictoria.com.au/about/mv-news/2010/40-years-since-west-gate-bridge-collapse/ Remembering lives lost during construction. Today marks the 40th anniversary of the collapse of the West Gate Bridge, described by a royal commission as " the most tragic industrial accident in the history of Victoria." 35 men died and many were injured during construction of the bridge when a large section tumbled to the ground. The royal commission determined that a series of errors in design and construction caused the collapse. The... http://museumvictoria.com.au//pages/19231/West-Gate-Bridge-Melbourne_th.jpg http://museumvictoria.com.au/ Museum Victoria 2010-10-15T09:04:17+11:00 http://museumvictoria.com.au/about/mv-news/2010/new-squat-lobster-species/ http://museumvictoria.com.au/about/mv-news/2010/new-squat-lobster-species/ Two new species described by MV researcher. MV researcher Dr Jo Taylor recently documented 10 species of squat lobsters along the continental margin of Western Australia, including two species that are new to science and six that are recorded for the first time from Australian waters. Jo has named one of the new species, Munidopsis comarge , in recognition of the Census of Marine Life Project: Continental Margin Ecosystems (COMARGE) that... http://museumvictoria.com.au//pages/19196/squattie_th.jpg http://museumvictoria.com.au/ Museum Victoria 2010-10-12T11:11:28+11:00 http://museumvictoria.com.au/about/mv-news/2010/scienceworks-at-royal-melbourne-show/ http://museumvictoria.com.au/about/mv-news/2010/scienceworks-at-royal-melbourne-show/ Robotics and problem solving at the show. This year Scienceworks participated in two stands in the Fast Forward Government pavilion at the Royal Melbourne Show. At the Arts Victoria stand, Scienceworks provided both a static display on “Maths throughout the ages” and an interactive display with two maths puzzles for visitors to solve. At the Department of Education and Early Childhood Development stand, Scienceworks ran robotics... http://museumvictoria.com.au//pages/19014/Melb-Show_th.jpg http://museumvictoria.com.au/ Museum Victoria 2010-10-05T15:15:04+11:00 http://museumvictoria.com.au/about/mv-news/2010/school-partnerships-at-scienceworks/ http://museumvictoria.com.au/about/mv-news/2010/school-partnerships-at-scienceworks/ Looking at maths in new ways. What do video cameras, data loggers, sport and mathematics have in common? Local schools are finding out that learning about maths can be engaging and fun when you incorporating amazing contemporary tools. Students from local schools participating in Scienceworks’ school partnership program are finding out just how useful and relevant maths is in everyday life as they learn problem solving... http://museumvictoria.com.au//pages/18841/IMG_0051_th.jpg http://museumvictoria.com.au/ Museum Victoria 2010-09-24T16:23:10+10:00 http://museumvictoria.com.au/about/mv-news/2010/halfway-to-the-moon/ http://museumvictoria.com.au/about/mv-news/2010/halfway-to-the-moon/ Model-makers busy in lead-up to Dynamic Earth exhibition. Working from a detailed map of the Moon’s surface, MV model-maker Peter Roberts is building an accurate model of the Moon for the upcoming exhibition Dynamic Earth . Our Moon’s surface is covered in geological features including volcanoes, large basaltic plains called mares, and millions of craters that formed through impacts by meteorites, asteroids and comets. Peter is about halfway through... http://museumvictoria.com.au//pages/18770/moon_th.jpg http://museumvictoria.com.au/ Museum Victoria 2010-09-22T09:50:32+10:00 http://museumvictoria.com.au/about/mv-news/2010/phar-laps-skeleton-goes-on-display/ http://museumvictoria.com.au/about/mv-news/2010/phar-laps-skeleton-goes-on-display/ Special exhibit reunites racing legend's skeleton and hide. The skeleton of Phar Lap, Australia's favourite racehorse, went on display next to his hide in Melbourne Museum today. It was reassembled and installed yesterday evening by MV preparators, conservators and installers, under the guidance of a Te Papa representative.  VideoInclude . . View this video with a transcript Phar Lap's skeleton is on loan from Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa in... http://museumvictoria.com.au//pages/18675/Phar-Lap-skeleton65_th.jpg http://museumvictoria.com.au/ Museum Victoria 2010-09-16T18:15:12+10:00 http://museumvictoria.com.au/about/mv-news/2010/immigration-discovery-centre/ http://museumvictoria.com.au/about/mv-news/2010/immigration-discovery-centre/ Temporary closure for renovations. The Immigration Discovery Centre (IDC) will close temporarily on 17 September for renovations. In early October it will reopen as a bigger and more vibrant space. Since the Immigration Museum opened in 1998, the IDC has helped thousands of people track down information about their family history, immigration history and communities. IDC resources include a collection of rare books in the... http://museumvictoria.com.au//pages/18599/000045084c-38_th.jpg http://museumvictoria.com.au/ Museum Victoria 2010-09-14T11:15:14+10:00 http://museumvictoria.com.au/about/mv-news/2010/biodiversity-snapshots/ http://museumvictoria.com.au/about/mv-news/2010/biodiversity-snapshots/ Minister Pike and Merri Creek Primary launch field guide. Kids from Merri Creek Primary School became citizen scientists in Melbourne Museum's Forest Gallery recently to launch Biodiversity Snapshots, the new mobile-device field guide created for school students to study the fauna in their schoolyard, neighbourhood park, or bushland.  Critters and keepers from Live Exhibits were on hand for the students to identify at the lauch, which was attended... http://museumvictoria.com.au//pages/18535/biosnap_th.jpg http://museumvictoria.com.au/ Museum Victoria 2010-09-10T16:34:53+10:00 http://museumvictoria.com.au/about/mv-news/2010/inspiring-scientists/ http://museumvictoria.com.au/about/mv-news/2010/inspiring-scientists/ Unexpected reunion via National Science Week. National Science Week is always a busy time for Melbourne Museum and Scienceworks as a special program of events and activities at both venues celebrate all that is great about science. This year, Scienceworks hosted an event called 'Inspiring Scientists' which invited kids to chat to museum scientists about careers in their particular "-ology". Avvy Banerjee is a programs officer at Sciencewor... http://museumvictoria.com.au//pages/18323/IMG_0761_th.jpg http://museumvictoria.com.au/ Museum Victoria 2010-09-01T16:28:37+10:00 http://museumvictoria.com.au/about/mv-news/2010/bike-fleet-arrival/ http://museumvictoria.com.au/about/mv-news/2010/bike-fleet-arrival/ MV's new staff bicycle fleet arrives. VideoInclude . . Five new bicycles form Museum Victoria's bike fleet, which will allow staff to ride between the museum's four campuses instead of driving or using taxis. The fleet, powered by the museum's Climate Change Committee, will be on the roads soon! Watch this video with a transcript http://museumvictoria.com.au//pages/18231/bikefleet_th.jpg http://museumvictoria.com.au/ Museum Victoria 2010-08-26T17:03:55+10:00 http://museumvictoria.com.au/about/mv-news/2010/violence-and-moral-panic/ http://museumvictoria.com.au/about/mv-news/2010/violence-and-moral-panic/ Selecting Audubon prints for touring exhibition. The Exhibition Collection Management store was a two-dimensional aviary last week for the final selection of Audubon prints for Eyeline , an upcoming touring exhibition about scientific illustration. French-American naturalist and artist John Audubon is lauded for his master work, The Birds of America , which was published between 1927 and 1838. John Kean, Eyeline curator, describes Audubon as... http://museumvictoria.com.au//pages/18235/000045448c-38_th.jpg http://museumvictoria.com.au/ Museum Victoria 2010-08-26T16:46:20+10:00 http://museumvictoria.com.au/about/mv-news/2010/true-blue-living-fossils/ http://museumvictoria.com.au/about/mv-news/2010/true-blue-living-fossils/ Australian Lungfish at home at Melbourne Museum. The museum’s preparators create models of prehistoric animals that are so vivid and lifelike that you almost expect the displays to move. But in 600 Million Years: Victoria Evolves , the prehistoric fish do move, because they’re alive! The Australian Lungfish, Neoceratodus forsteri , is often called a ‘living fossil’ since its basic body form has changed very little in 150 million years.... http://museumvictoria.com.au//pages/18091/000045126c-38_th.jpg http://museumvictoria.com.au/ Museum Victoria 2010-08-19T13:31:23+10:00 http://museumvictoria.com.au/about/mv-news/2010/aurecon-bridge-building-competition/ http://museumvictoria.com.au/about/mv-news/2010/aurecon-bridge-building-competition/ Kids' bridges better than those built by engineers! Take 42 teams of students in years 8 and 9, lots of balsa wood, cardboard tubes, string, glue and tape put them all together and what do you get? The 2010 Aurecon Bridge Building Competition! The Victorian finals of this annual competition were held at Scienceworks on Wednesday 4th August. Of the 42 competing teams, 20 were girls' teams, one was a ‘mixed’ team and the remaining 21 were boys'... http://museumvictoria.com.au//pages/18016/IMG_0560_th.jpg http://museumvictoria.com.au/ Museum Victoria 2010-08-16T10:35:08+10:00 http://museumvictoria.com.au/about/mv-news/2010/super-science-month/ http://museumvictoria.com.au/about/mv-news/2010/super-science-month/ Video Skynotes and a month of celebration at Scienceworks. Museum Victoria is so excited by National Science Week that the folks at Scienceworks couldn’t help but extend the celebration into one massive Super Science Month! There are activities for all ages. For adults, the Discover the Night Sky series at the Planetarium combines wine, cheese and stargazing with astronomer Tanya Hill. This month’s Skynotes, the regular guide to stars and planets in th... http://museumvictoria.com.au//pages/17815/skynotes_th.jpg http://museumvictoria.com.au/ Museum Victoria 2010-08-13T10:47:24+10:00 http://museumvictoria.com.au/about/mv-news/2010/art-of-scientific-observation/ http://museumvictoria.com.au/about/mv-news/2010/art-of-scientific-observation/ Regional tour begins in Ballarat. The first day of Museum Victoria’s three-week Art of Scientific Observation regional tour got off to a great start at the Art Gallery of Ballarat on 9 August. Art of Scientific Observation combines performance, hands-on workshops and museum collection objects to emphasise the importance of observation and drawing to capture information about biodiversity. Those that attended came from all walks... http://museumvictoria.com.au//pages/17905/feather_th.jpg http://museumvictoria.com.au/ Museum Victoria 2010-08-11T13:55:21+10:00 http://museumvictoria.com.au/about/mv-news/2010/how-old-was-that-dinosaur/ http://museumvictoria.com.au/about/mv-news/2010/how-old-was-that-dinosaur/ Visiting palaeontologist studies polar dinosaurs. Holly Woodward, a PhD student in palaeontology at Montana State University, is spending a few weeks at Museum Victoria studying growth rates of Victorian polar dinosaurs. Holly’s speciality is bone histology – the study of bone microstructure – which is amazingly well preserved in fossilised bone and reveals a surprising amount of information about dinosaur biology. “You can look at dinosaur bo... http://museumvictoria.com.au//pages/17823/P1010488_th.jpg http://museumvictoria.com.au/ Museum Victoria 2010-08-05T14:59:54+10:00 http://museumvictoria.com.au/about/mv-news/2010/tale-of-two-looms/ http://museumvictoria.com.au/about/mv-news/2010/tale-of-two-looms/ Two sister looms now in two museum collections. A weaving loom built by exiled Latvians has arrived at its new home in a Lativan emigration museum. It is one of two 'sister' countermarch floor looms from the Museum Victoria collection with remarkably similar histories. The Kivicka loom and the Apinis loom were both built in displaced persons camps in Germany after World War II from scrap timber, and both were brought to Australia by... http://museumvictoria.com.au//pages/17557/loom_th.jpg http://museumvictoria.com.au/ Museum Victoria 2010-07-30T15:24:56+10:00 http://museumvictoria.com.au/about/mv-news/2010/mv-members-event/ http://museumvictoria.com.au/about/mv-news/2010/mv-members-event/ Aviation fans view original Duigan plane. A rare chance to see the original Duigan biplane attracted MV Members to a special open day at the museum's offsite collection store on 25 July. Over 150 members enjoyed the invite-only event that was part of the museum's celebration of the Centenary of Australian Aviation. After a safety briefing, small groups of MV Members entered the collection store which is usually closed to the public.... http://museumvictoria.com.au//pages/17666/000039191c-39_th.jpg http://museumvictoria.com.au/ Museum Victoria 2010-07-26T14:50:07+10:00 http://museumvictoria.com.au/about/mv-news/2010/first-flight-centenary/ http://museumvictoria.com.au/about/mv-news/2010/first-flight-centenary/ Celebrating John and Reg Duigan's practical genius. 16 July this year marks the centenary of the first powered flight in Australia by an Australian-made aeroplane, flown by John Duigan at Mia Mia in Central Victoria. Museum Victoria has the original biplane and a faithful replica in its collection. In this video, Museum Victoria CEO, Dr Patrick Greene, and Curator of Engineering and Transport, David Crotty, talk about Duigan's contribution to... http://museumvictoria.com.au//pages/17514/duigan_th.jpg http://museumvictoria.com.au/ Museum Victoria 2010-07-15T17:17:14+10:00 http://museumvictoria.com.au/about/mv-news/2010/naidoc-week-2010/ http://museumvictoria.com.au/about/mv-news/2010/naidoc-week-2010/ Video of exhibition and performance at Bunjilaka. NAIDOC Week (named after the National Aborigines and Islanders Day Observance Committee) is the first full week in July each year. It celebrates the history, culture and achievements of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people. This year marks the 53rd year of NAIDOC celebrations and the theme is ‘Unsung Heroes: Closing the Gap by Leading Their Way’. Bunjilaka is presenting a number of even... http://museumvictoria.com.au//pages/17320/rachel_th.jpg http://museumvictoria.com.au/ Museum Victoria 2010-07-09T17:07:42+10:00 http://museumvictoria.com.au/about/mv-news/2010/croatian-festival/ http://museumvictoria.com.au/about/mv-news/2010/croatian-festival/ Hrvatska comes to Immigration Museum. Over 1,800 people flocked to the Immigration Museum on Sunday 27 June for a very successful Croatian Festival. The weather was kind despite the forecasted showers as visitors were treated to a day of Croatian arts and culture across the entire museum. Croatian Consul-General Mr Antun Babic opened the festival on the main stage which hosted traditional Croatian dance, music and theatre... http://museumvictoria.com.au//pages/17235/web000919-A-016-CO_th.jpg http://museumvictoria.com.au/ Museum Victoria 2010-07-06T13:39:46+10:00 http://museumvictoria.com.au/about/mv-news/2010/archaeopteryx-to-zygomaturus/ http://museumvictoria.com.au/about/mv-news/2010/archaeopteryx-to-zygomaturus/ Array of prehistoric life in new exhibition. The latest exhibition for Melbourne Museum's Science and Life Gallery, 600 million years: Victoria evolves , has opened to eager school holiday visitors. With fossils, living exhibits, models, multimedia and even animatronic dinosaurs to tell the story of Victoria's prehistory, the exhibition brings the long-extinct to life. Among the highlights are live Queensland lungfish - animals that look... http://museumvictoria.com.au//pages/17190/dicranurus_th.jpg http://museumvictoria.com.au/ Museum Victoria 2010-07-02T13:23:06+10:00 http://museumvictoria.com.au/about/mv-news/2010/talking-to-everybody/ http://museumvictoria.com.au/about/mv-news/2010/talking-to-everybody/ Will Patten's new role with Victoria's Indigenous communities. William Patten has been a familiar face around Museum Victoria and its galleries for a decade. In June 2010 he began a new role as the Indigenous Community Engagement Officer on the Bunjilaka redevelopment project. Will first began at MV as a customer service officer at Melbourne Museum upon its opening in 2000. With a background in horticulture, he was initially attracted by the Forest Gallery... http://museumvictoria.com.au//pages/16609/IMG_6970_500px-web_th.jpg http://museumvictoria.com.au/ Museum Victoria 2010-06-30T15:01:38+10:00 http://museumvictoria.com.au/about/mv-news/2010/from-little-things/ http://museumvictoria.com.au/about/mv-news/2010/from-little-things/ Aboriginal rights activists visit Melbourne Museum. Important figures in the history of the Aboriginal rights struggle visited Melbourne Museum on 18 June to see the new travelling exhibition From Little Things Big Things Grow. The exhibition is based in part upon the work of historian Dr Sue Taffe, who compiled an oral history of the executive members of the Federal Council for the Advancement of Aborigines and Torres Strait Islanders (FCAATSI)... http://museumvictoria.com.au//pages/16521/fromlt_th.jpg http://museumvictoria.com.au/ Museum Victoria 2010-06-25T17:23:38+10:00 http://museumvictoria.com.au/about/mv-news/2010/happy-birthday-spencer/ http://museumvictoria.com.au/about/mv-news/2010/happy-birthday-spencer/ 150th anniversary of Sir Baldwin Spencer's birth. Today marks the 150th anniversary of the birth of Sir Walter Baldwin Spencer, the museum’s second director and noted biologist, photographer, editor, anthropologist and connoisseur. After the death of Sir Frederick McCoy in 1899, English-born Spencer was made honorary director of the National Museum of Victoria, which he promptly relocated from the University of Melbourne to Swanston Street. Hi... http://museumvictoria.com.au//pages/16479/baldwinspencer_th.jpg http://museumvictoria.com.au/ Museum Victoria 2010-06-23T12:36:43+10:00 http://museumvictoria.com.au/about/mv-news/2010/rosalie-and-christine-/ http://museumvictoria.com.au/about/mv-news/2010/rosalie-and-christine-/ Friends reunited through MV Collections Online. A photograph from 1969 of the Balwyn Returned Service League Grenadels Marching Girls Team has reconnected two best friends who fell out of touch for almost three decades. Rosalie donated the photograph for the museum’s Biggest Family Album and it joined Collections Online when it launched in late 2009. Christine found the image almost by accident. “When I scrolled down and saw who donated it, ... http://museumvictoria.com.au//pages/16332/photobooth_th.jpg http://museumvictoria.com.au/ Museum Victoria 2010-06-11T17:07:36+10:00 http://museumvictoria.com.au/about/mv-news/2010/bhl-visitors/ http://museumvictoria.com.au/about/mv-news/2010/bhl-visitors/ Project to digitise biological literature. US members of the Biodiversity Heritage Library (BHL) visited Melbourne Museum last week, following Museum Victoria signing on to coordinate the Australian node of this important archive project. Visiting were Martin Kalfatovic from the Smithsonian Libraries and Assistant Director of the BHL, Chris Freeland from the Missouri Botanic Gardens (MOBOT) and Global Technical Director of BHL, Phil Cry... http://museumvictoria.com.au//pages/16290/bhl_th.jpg http://museumvictoria.com.au/ Museum Victoria 2010-06-08T15:56:17+10:00 http://museumvictoria.com.au/about/mv-news/2010/seven-millionth-visitor/ http://museumvictoria.com.au/about/mv-news/2010/seven-millionth-visitor/ 7,000,000 visitors to Melbourne Museum since its opening. Melbourne Museum, due to celebrate its tenth anniversary in October this year, has attracted an amazing seven million visitors since opening. Over one million people have visited in the past calendar year, many drawn in by blockbuster exhibitions A Day in Pompei and Titanic: the Artefact Exhibtion . But more than that, the visitation reflects that "the museum has been embraced by the Victorian... http://museumvictoria.com.au//pages/16238/000008484c-40_th.jpg http://museumvictoria.com.au/ Museum Victoria 2010-06-04T16:22:06+10:00 http://museumvictoria.com.au/about/mv-news/2010/extreme-science-experience-2010/ http://museumvictoria.com.au/about/mv-news/2010/extreme-science-experience-2010/ SW goes extreme with leading innovators. Scienceworks staff worked with Australia’s foremost scientists and engineers to develop hands-on workshops for over 300 students for Extreme Science Experience, held at the Melbourne Town Hall on 20 May 2010. The free one-day event gave Victorian Year 10 students the exclusive chance to interact with the winners of the prestigious ATSE Clunies Ross Award, which recognises significant... http://museumvictoria.com.au//pages/16205/10103_1033_th.jpg http://museumvictoria.com.au/ Museum Victoria 2010-06-03T16:24:57+10:00 http://museumvictoria.com.au/about/mv-news/2010/baradine-repatriation/ http://museumvictoria.com.au/about/mv-news/2010/baradine-repatriation/ Carved burial tree returned to traditional owners. A carved tree, or dendroglyph, has been repatriated to the traditional owners of Baradine, the Gamilaroi Nation, in moving ceremonies held at both Museum Victoria and in Baradine, NSW. The carved tree is historically associated with the burials of five named Aboriginal men, and was acquired by Museum Victoria in 1921 through an exchange with the Australian Museum in Sydney. The tree was carved ... http://museumvictoria.com.au//pages/16078/000880-A-020-CO_th.jpg http://museumvictoria.com.au/ Museum Victoria 2010-05-31T17:00:35+10:00 http://museumvictoria.com.au/about/mv-news/2010/childrens-art-joins-collection-online/ http://museumvictoria.com.au/about/mv-news/2010/childrens-art-joins-collection-online/ Healesville student works depict 2009 bushfires. 20 artworks created by the students of Healesville Primary School have joined other objects from the Victorian Bushfires Collection on the museum’s Collections Online site. Said Peg Fraser, one of three curators of the Victorian Bushfires Collection, “the artworks were produced by children during the time of the Black Saturday bushfires and show a range of subjects, from the fire itself and its... http://museumvictoria.com.au//pages/16001/fire_th.jpg http://museumvictoria.com.au/ Museum Victoria 2010-05-28T11:13:15+10:00 http://museumvictoria.com.au/about/mv-news/2010/dachshund-un-report/ http://museumvictoria.com.au/about/mv-news/2010/dachshund-un-report/ Highlights from sausage dog performance art. The first Dachshund U.N ., a 2010 Next Wave Festival project, was held on the Melbourne Museum plaza on 15 May. Created by Perth artist Bennett Miller and performed by over fifty local dachshunds and their owners, the event was a popular and slightly absurd spectacular, as the U.N. Human Rights Committee was recreated with sausage dogs in place of the usual human delegates. This video shows... http://museumvictoria.com.au//pages/15826/video_th.jpg http://museumvictoria.com.au/ Museum Victoria 2010-05-21T15:59:08+10:00 http://museumvictoria.com.au/about/mv-news/2010/argonaut-buoyancy/ http://museumvictoria.com.au/about/mv-news/2010/argonaut-buoyancy/ Unusual octopus uses air in shell to maintain buoyancy. Dr Julian Finn has discovered that argonauts - also known as 'paper nautiluses' - have sophisticated control over their buoyancy in the water column. In doing so he has cleared up centuries of misunderstanding about the function of the female argonaut's shell. In this video he explains what argonauts are, how they differ from true nautiluses, and some findings of his PhD project on these unusua... http://museumvictoria.com.au//pages/15757/argo_th.jpg http://museumvictoria.com.au/ Museum Victoria 2010-05-19T09:01:15+10:00 http://museumvictoria.com.au/about/mv-news/2010/green-award-for-mv/ http://museumvictoria.com.au/about/mv-news/2010/green-award-for-mv/ ECO-Buy Award recognises MV's sustainability efforts. Museum Victoria received recognition of its commitment to environmental responsibility by winning an ECO-Buy Award for Excellence in Green Purchasing (State Government category). These annual awards acknowledge that by virtue of their size and buying power, businesses and government have significant impact when they choose green products, services and suppliers. The award recognises the inclusi... http://museumvictoria.com.au//pages/15614/ECOBuy_th.jpg http://museumvictoria.com.au/ Museum Victoria 2010-05-10T10:54:05+10:00 http://museumvictoria.com.au/about/mv-news/2010/dachshund-un/ http://museumvictoria.com.au/about/mv-news/2010/dachshund-un/ Next Wave Festival brings sausage dogs to museum plaza. Perth-based artist Bennett Miller has been camping out in a rugged West- Melbourne warehouse for six weeks constructing his Next Wave Festival installation, Dachshund U.N . He’s building a timber model of a United Nations meeting room to dachshund-scale because in Bennett’s performance piece, the 47 delegates, speakers and interpreters of the UN Human Rights Committee are represented by live... http://museumvictoria.com.au//pages/15536/d8_th.jpg http://museumvictoria.com.au/ Museum Victoria 2010-05-04T10:24:55+10:00 http://museumvictoria.com.au/about/mv-news/2010/wild-design-recognised/ http://museumvictoria.com.au/about/mv-news/2010/wild-design-recognised/ Exhibition wins 2010 Australian Interior Design Award. Wild: Amazing animals in a changing world exhibition at Melbourne Museum has won the prestigious 2010 Australian Interior Design Award for Installation Design. In their citation, the jury described Wild as “a groundbreaking museum exhibition,” and noted that “the simplicity of the exhibition design highlights the exquisite detail of the displayed animals in most surprising and endearing ways.”... http://museumvictoria.com.au//pages/15422/web000041124-40_th.jpg http://museumvictoria.com.au/ Museum Victoria 2010-04-28T12:42:55+10:00 http://museumvictoria.com.au/about/mv-news/2010/ethiopian-festival/ http://museumvictoria.com.au/about/mv-news/2010/ethiopian-festival/ Ethiopian culture & community celebrated at Immigration Museum. Over 1500 people enjoyed Ethiopian culture, traditions, performances and cuisine at the Ethiopian Festival at the Immigration Museum on 18 April. Alan Brough broadcast live from the festival on 774 ABC radio and spoke with many of the performers, including musician Anbessa Gebrehiwot, who played the string instruments kral and masenko , and Eyerusalem Mazo, who presented a traditional coffee... http://museumvictoria.com.au//pages/15363/000863-A-014-co_th.jpg http://museumvictoria.com.au/ Museum Victoria 2010-04-23T14:50:18+10:00 http://museumvictoria.com.au/about/mv-news/2010/titanic-full-steam-ahead/ http://museumvictoria.com.au/about/mv-news/2010/titanic-full-steam-ahead/ <em>Titanic: The Artefact Exhibition</em> is on its way! Melbourne Museum’s Touring Hall is a construction site and ticket sales have begun for Titanic: The Artefact Exhibition, which opens in just a few weeks.  Seen by more than 22 million people worldwide, this will be the exhibition’s first visit to Australia. It will feature more than 280 original artefacts salvaged from the debris field at the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean as well as impressive... http://museumvictoria.com.au//pages/15296/titanic_th.jpg http://museumvictoria.com.au/ Museum Victoria 2010-04-20T16:18:16+10:00 http://museumvictoria.com.au/about/mv-news/2010/top-designs-review/ http://museumvictoria.com.au/about/mv-news/2010/top-designs-review/ First-hand account from Top Designs exhibitor. The annual Top Designs exhibition was launched in style at Melbourne Museum on 25 March 2010. Hundreds of people - including former VCE students, their friends and parents - assembled to celebrate the exhibition opening. Among them was Georgie Moore, a former student at Shelford Girls Grammar with work exhibited in the Food Technology section. Now studying Professional Writing and Editing at... http://museumvictoria.com.au//pages/15185/TOP-DESIGN-10_th.jpg http://museumvictoria.com.au/ Museum Victoria 2010-04-15T17:04:13+10:00 http://museumvictoria.com.au/about/mv-news/2010/mvs-first-donation-/ http://museumvictoria.com.au/about/mv-news/2010/mvs-first-donation-/ Little Pied Cormorant specimen identified as first gift to the museum. Some canny detective work, inspired by a newspaper article published 154 years ago today, has turned up what is probably the first specimen donated to the museum. The article was published in The Argus on 12 April 1856, listing specimens donated to the then-new National Museum of Natural History of Victoria. It describes the first donation to the museum as a 'chestnut-breasted pelican, very... http://museumvictoria.com.au//pages/15125/cormorant_th.jpg http://museumvictoria.com.au/ Museum Victoria 2010-04-12T11:25:45+10:00 http://museumvictoria.com.au/about/mv-news/2010/linking-the-food-chain/ http://museumvictoria.com.au/about/mv-news/2010/linking-the-food-chain/ Collaborative study reveals platypus are picky eaters. MV’s Richard Marchant has teamed up with Australia’s foremost expert on platypus to learn more about the feeding habits of these elusive monotremes. Tom Grant, of the University of New South Wales, has been studying platypus in a stretch of the upper Shoalhaven River for over thirty years. Despite this site being surrounded by farms  the upper Shoalhaven, on the south coast of NSW, is home to a... http://museumvictoria.com.au//pages/15089/webJKF_2010_01153_th.jpg http://museumvictoria.com.au/ Museum Victoria 2010-04-07T16:50:14+10:00 http://museumvictoria.com.au/about/mv-news/2010/having-a-lend/ http://museumvictoria.com.au/about/mv-news/2010/having-a-lend/ MV loans: a frock, a truck, a painting and early moving images. A gown that belonged to Lady Joan Ansett, wife of airline and television businessman Sir Reg Ansett, is one of several of Museum Victoria objects out on loan to other institutions. The floor-length evening dress is the sparkling showpiece that visitors see as they enter the ‘ til you drop – Shopping: A Melbourne History exhibition, on show at the State Library of Victoria until 31 October 2001.... http://museumvictoria.com.au//pages/15001/HT-12471_th.jpg http://museumvictoria.com.au/ Museum Victoria 2010-03-29T17:33:24+11:00 http://museumvictoria.com.au/about/mv-news/2010/victorian-tyrannosauroid-found/ http://museumvictoria.com.au/about/mv-news/2010/victorian-tyrannosauroid-found/ First evidence of these dinosaurs in Australia. A fossil uncovered at Dinosaur Cove in 1989 by local researchers Tom Rich and Pat Vickers-Rich is the first evidence of tyrannosauroid dinosaurs in the southern hemisphere. This new discovery, published today in the prestigious journal Science , is profoundly significant to our understanding of the ecology and evolution of this group of dinosaurs. Until now, tyrannosauroids – including the most... http://museumvictoria.com.au//pages/14935/000877-A-025_th.jpg http://museumvictoria.com.au/ Museum Victoria 2010-03-25T17:39:11+11:00 http://museumvictoria.com.au/about/mv-news/2010/kurds-in-australia/ http://museumvictoria.com.au/about/mv-news/2010/kurds-in-australia/ Explore the traditions and survival of an ancient culture. Music and dance – powerful symbols of survival for Victoria’s Kurdish community – were proudly celebrated at the recent launch of Survival of a Culture: Kurds in Australia , the latest community exhibition at Immigration Museum. Kurdish people in Australia trace their origins back more than 10,000 years to Kurdistan in the Middle East. Their culture is marked by a long history of invasion and... http://museumvictoria.com.au//pages/14930/000832-A-089_th.jpg http://museumvictoria.com.au/ Museum Victoria 2010-03-24T17:07:43+11:00 http://museumvictoria.com.au/about/mv-news/2010/everybody-needs-good-neighbours/ http://museumvictoria.com.au/about/mv-news/2010/everybody-needs-good-neighbours/ 25th anniversary of Melbourne soapie. Today marks exactly 25 years since the first episode of evening soap opera Neighbours was screened on Channel 7. It was axed after four months due to poor ratings, but was picked up and relaunched by Channel 10 the following year. In August they will broadcast the 6000th episode, making it Australia’s longest-running drama series. As arguably Melbourne’s most famous television production, the... http://museumvictoria.com.au//pages/14773/helen_th.jpg http://museumvictoria.com.au/ Museum Victoria 2010-03-18T11:46:39+11:00 http://museumvictoria.com.au/about/mv-news/2010/family-day/ http://museumvictoria.com.au/about/mv-news/2010/family-day/ Celebrating opening of <em>We Depend on Nature</em>. On Sunday 14 March, a Family Day was held to launch the new learning environment, We Depend on Nature , in the Children’s Gallery at Melbourne Museum. The space was created in partnership with the Department of Sustainability and Environment (DSE) to celebrate this year’s status as United Nations International Year of Biodiversity. It was designed for children under eight years old to explore t... http://museumvictoria.com.au//pages/14775/000856-A-01-co_th.jpg http://museumvictoria.com.au/ Museum Victoria 2010-03-17T13:57:05+11:00 http://museumvictoria.com.au/about/mv-news/2010/sea-star-population-genetics/ http://museumvictoria.com.au/about/mv-news/2010/sea-star-population-genetics/ Learning more about species movement. Museum PhD student Kate Naughton is halfway through a major project to map the genetic diversity of sea stars, or starfish, over the southern Australian coast. Her fieldwork samples selected populations of widespread, shallow-water sea stars from New South Wales to Western Australia, looking for clues about their distribution during glacial periods. “What I’m looking for are areas where we find... http://museumvictoria.com.au//pages/14680/seastar_th.jpg http://museumvictoria.com.au/ Museum Victoria 2010-03-12T17:36:23+11:00 http://museumvictoria.com.au/about/mv-news/2010/tracing-prehistoric-pacific-trades/ http://museumvictoria.com.au/about/mv-news/2010/tracing-prehistoric-pacific-trades/ Visiting researchers examine obsidian tools. Three researchers from the Australian Museum and the University of Sydney are using high-tech chemical analysis to track the origins of Museum Victoria’s obsidian artefacts. Combining the disciplines of anthropology, chemistry and geology, Dr Elizabeth Carter, Dr Robin Torrence and Dr Nina Kononenko are working to reconstruct how obsidian was traded by people in the Pacific region thousands of... http://museumvictoria.com.au//pages/14655/blade_th.jpg http://museumvictoria.com.au/ Museum Victoria 2010-03-10T15:58:23+11:00 http://museumvictoria.com.au/about/mv-news/2010/1854-scholarships-open-for-2010/ http://museumvictoria.com.au/about/mv-news/2010/1854-scholarships-open-for-2010/ Work with MV collections and researchers. This year’s round of 1854 Scholarships is now open for applications. The 1854 Scholarships were established in 2004 to celebrate the 150th anniversary of the museum. They are awarded to students undertaking an Honours, Masters or PhD research project related to Museum Victoria’s collections, or in association with a Museum researcher. Scholarships may be awarded in the fields of Natural Science... http://museumvictoria.com.au//pages/14575/pumpkin_th.jpg http://museumvictoria.com.au/ Museum Victoria 2010-03-05T12:37:40+11:00 http://museumvictoria.com.au/about/mv-news/2010/titanic-announcement/ http://museumvictoria.com.au/about/mv-news/2010/titanic-announcement/ Melbourne Museum to host <em>Titanic: The Artefact Exhibition</em>. Museum Victoria's next exciting touring exhibition was announced yesterday. Titanic: The Artefact Exhibition will sail into Melbourne Museum from 14 May 2010, featuring treasures from the world's most famous ship. The exhibition has been seen around the world but this exclusive Melbourne showing will mark its first arrival in the Southern Hemisphere. It has been created with a focus on the... http://museumvictoria.com.au//pages/14512/000852-a-169-co_th.jpg http://museumvictoria.com.au/ Museum Victoria 2010-03-03T17:00:54+11:00 http://museumvictoria.com.au/about/mv-news/2010/camel-walk-through-melbourne/ http://museumvictoria.com.au/about/mv-news/2010/camel-walk-through-melbourne/ Celebrating <em>Australia's Muslim Cameleers</em> at IM. On Friday 26th February, the exhibition  Australia’s Muslim Cameleers: Pioneers of the Inland 1860s - 1930s opened to the public at the Immigration Museum. To celebrate, a train of two camels, Jake and April, paraded over the bridges of Southbank this morning much to the delight of city visitors. VideoInclude . . ]]> The exhibition is touring from the South Australian Museum and tells the... http://museumvictoria.com.au//pages/14463/jake_th.jpg http://museumvictoria.com.au/ Museum Victoria 2010-03-01T19:10:14+11:00 http://museumvictoria.com.au/about/mv-news/2010/fleet-air-arm-museum-nowra/ http://museumvictoria.com.au/about/mv-news/2010/fleet-air-arm-museum-nowra/ Large Object Team bring aviation loans home. Earlier this month, six museum staff members drove to Nowra on the south coast of New South Wales to dismantle, pack and transport a number of large items from the Fleet Air Arm Museum at the end of a seven-year loan. It took four days and five freight trucks to get the objects on the move.  Among the cargo were two whole aeroplanes, three aero engines, a fuselage, an instrument panel, a jumbo... http://museumvictoria.com.au//pages/14456/DSC06113_th.jpg http://museumvictoria.com.au/ Museum Victoria 2010-02-26T15:22:24+11:00 http://museumvictoria.com.au/about/mv-news/2010/kodak-heritage-collection/ http://museumvictoria.com.au/about/mv-news/2010/kodak-heritage-collection/ New funds to expand Kodak collection online. CEO of Kodak Australasia, Steve Venn, and Chairman and CEO of Eastman Kodak Company, Antonio Perez, have presented a cheque for $10,000 to support the Kodak Heritage Collection at Museum Victoria. The money will be used in the coming months to register the collection in the museum’s database and increase the number of records published online. Following closure of Kodak’s Coburg plant in 2004,... http://museumvictoria.com.au//pages/14359/kodak_th.jpg http://museumvictoria.com.au/ Museum Victoria 2010-02-17T16:28:23+11:00 http://museumvictoria.com.au/about/mv-news/2010/bunjilaka-youth-forum/ http://museumvictoria.com.au/about/mv-news/2010/bunjilaka-youth-forum/ Indigenous young people involved in exhibition redevelopment. Members of the Victorian Indigenous Youth Advisory Council (VIYAC) shared their thoughts about the Bunjilaka redevelopment project at a forum for Indigenous Youth in late January. The eight forum participants hailed from across metropolitan and regional south-eastern Australia and represented seven Indigenous clans and nations. The day’s events included an introduction to the redevelopment... http://museumvictoria.com.au//pages/14337/store_th.jpg http://museumvictoria.com.au/ Museum Victoria 2010-02-15T15:05:12+11:00 http://museumvictoria.com.au/about/mv-news/2010/victorian-bushfire-collection/ http://museumvictoria.com.au/about/mv-news/2010/victorian-bushfire-collection/ 38 objects from 2009 bushfires now online. The first batch of bushfire-related items is now on the museum's Collections Online. Established to document the impact of bushfires upon our state, the Victorian Bushfires Collection includes objects, images and stories, and will continue to grow as communities recover from the disaster. “The potential of the collection is vast,” said Senior Curator Liza Dale-Hallett. “There were over one... http://museumvictoria.com.au//pages/14229/VBCholden_th.jpg http://museumvictoria.com.au/ Museum Victoria 2010-02-09T12:27:13+11:00 http://museumvictoria.com.au/about/mv-news/2010/mv-welcomes-genevieve-grieves/ http://museumvictoria.com.au/about/mv-news/2010/mv-welcomes-genevieve-grieves/ Filmmaker and historian joins Bunjilaka team. New MV staff member Genevieve Grieves brings her diverse background in Indigenous history, film and television to her role as Lead Curator on the redevelopment of Bunjilaka at Melbourne Museum. Since joining MV's Indigenous Cultures department in November 2009, Genevieve has launched straight into community consultations that will guide the Bunjilaka team as they update this important part of... http://museumvictoria.com.au//pages/14201/gen_th.jpg http://museumvictoria.com.au/ Museum Victoria 2010-02-05T14:45:34+11:00 http://museumvictoria.com.au/about/mv-news/2010/under-the-lens/ http://museumvictoria.com.au/about/mv-news/2010/under-the-lens/ Partnerships produce amazing underwater pictures. Scientists from Museum Victoria have captured new images of extraordinary and colourful marine biodiversity, thanks to a partnership with Parks Victoria on a project called Under the Lens. Julian Finn and Mark Norman took photographs and footage of the sponge fields, seagrass beds and temperate reefs around Popes Eye and Mud Islands in Port Phillip Heads Marine National Park. The images will be... http://museumvictoria.com.au//pages/14104/uth_th.jpg http://museumvictoria.com.au/ Museum Victoria 2010-02-03T13:39:34+11:00 http://museumvictoria.com.au/about/mv-news/2010/mummified-leaf-collection/ http://museumvictoria.com.au/about/mv-news/2010/mummified-leaf-collection/ MV receives traces of Anglesea rainforest. Dr David Christophel has transferred his collection of ancient Anglesea leaves to the museum’s Palaeobotany Collection. Around 250 types of rainforest plants are represented in the collection, which was discovered in the Alcoa coal mine in the 1970s. Trapped in layers of damp compressed mud, the leaves remained soft and pliable for 40 million years. Preservation in this way allows survival of t... http://museumvictoria.com.au//pages/13971/IMG_4481_th.jpg http://museumvictoria.com.au/ Museum Victoria 2010-01-21T16:58:29+11:00 http://museumvictoria.com.au/about/mv-news/2010/sam-the-koala-/ http://museumvictoria.com.au/about/mv-news/2010/sam-the-koala-/ Symbol of Victorian bushfires on display at Melbourne Museum. Sam the Koala was placed on display at Melbourne Museum today so that visitors may reflect upon her story and that of the firefighters, wildlife carers and other volunteers who responded to the February 2009 bushfires. Those involved in Sam's story, including the CFA volunteers that discovered her, gathered at Melbourne Museum to acknowledge her public display. Colleen Wood, Manager of the... http://museumvictoria.com.au//pages/13871/000785-a-06-co-65_th.jpg http://museumvictoria.com.au/ Museum Victoria 2010-01-14T13:19:25+11:00 http://museumvictoria.com.au/about/mv-news/2010/dwayne-bravo-visits-im/ http://museumvictoria.com.au/about/mv-news/2010/dwayne-bravo-visits-im/ Famous Caribbean cricketer previews Kids Fest. Dwayne Bravo, West Indian cricketer and DEC Bushranger, dropped in to the Immigration Museum to meet some kids from the Victorian Caribbean community ahead of Kids Fest: Cool Caribbean on Sunday 10 January. Dwayne helped Georgia, Ashlee and Harrison Muller and Noah, Jacob and Naomi Chinnama make paper cricket bats and tried on a toucan mask that the kids created. He also visited the new... http://museumvictoria.com.au//pages/13760/dwayne_th.jpg http://museumvictoria.com.au/ Museum Victoria 2010-01-08T10:33:38+11:00 http://museumvictoria.com.au/about/mv-news/2010/600-million-years/ http://museumvictoria.com.au/about/mv-news/2010/600-million-years/ Models, fossils and live animals in Science & Life Gallery. Museum Victoria staff are working steadily on the next stage of the Science and Life Gallery redevelopment. The upcoming exhibition, 600 Million Years: Victoria evolves , uses a local focus to answer a big question: how did life on Earth come to be the way it is? Curator and palaeontologist Wayne Gerdtz said, “it’s very ambitious in the sense that it’s condensing 600 million years into 400 squa... http://museumvictoria.com.au//pages/13761/peterroberts-and-model_th.jpg http://museumvictoria.com.au/ Museum Victoria 2010-01-08T10:33:52+11:00