Curator, Tracey-Ann Hooley and Exhibition Designer, Richard Glover create a showcase template, placing objects within helping with the process of designing showcase of Victorian birds for the upcoming Wild: amazing animals in a changing world exhibition.
Credit: Melinda Iser, Source: Museum
Victoria
Birds selected for display.
Fairy Penguin, Eudyptula minor novaehollandiae / Plumed Whistling-Duck Dendrocygna eytoni / Shy Albatross, Diomedea cauta cauta / Eastern Yellow Robin, Eopsaltria australis
Source: Museum
Victoria
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Wild: amazing animals in a changing world opens September 2009.
Signage / Western Grey Kangaroo - Macropus fuliginosus / Gang-gang Cockatoo - Callocephalon fimbriatum
Credit: late Gary Lewis, Source: Museum
Victoria
Visitors will be surrounded examples of mammals, birds and reptiles from around the world, including
Australia . They will be able to explore this wonderful diversity and discover which animals are thriving and which are merely surviving.
Victorian environments such as alps, grassland, wetlands will reveal what is changing and the connections between people and nature. Some aspects will be larger than life, others faster than life providing visitors with unique insights in each environment.
The exhibition explores why biodiversity is under threat and how we can create a more hopeful future.
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Wow look at me I'm being installed into the new exhibition. My friend
Dean has been working really hard to make me look good, you can see him
on the ground sorting out my tail.
Credit: Melinda Iser; Source: Museum Victoria
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Rencently we installed a Quetzalcoatlus at
Melbourne
Museum for the upcoming Dinosaur Walk exhibition. It ‘s a huge pterosaur with a wingspan of up to 15 metres - the largest flying creature of all time and existed the very end of the Cretaceous period. Being such a large animal it was suprisingly light and probably weighed no more than 100 kilograms.
Pterosaurs are not dinosaurs, but they lived alongside them during the Mesozoic era.
Credit: Rodney Start, Source: Melbourne Museum
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Hello
I'm currently getting a new 'look', all my bones have been individually cleaned and freshed up to make me look good for the new exhibition. I'll be standing on my hind legs like the picture below.
I've also added a picture of ramp (second image) that is being built, I'm going to be exhibited down the end near Diprotodon, he's the fellow you can see right at the end of the ramp.
Not long now only one month to go before I'm back on show and you can come and visit me again.
Artist: Kym Haines, Source: Museum Victoria / Credit: Kate Phillips, Source: Museum Victoria
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December 17, 2008 09:39 by
Margie
Credit: Rodney Start, Source: Museum Victoria
Hello!
My time had arrived to start the process of getting ready for my new look in the Dinosaur Walk exhibition, I had ALL these men fussing over me (which was just fabulous) making sure I was taken apart in the correct way. I’ve got a video of the whole thing, take a look.
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Museum staff installs temporary signage advertising the upcoming Dinosaur Walk exhibition
Credit: Melinda Iser, Source: Museum Victoria
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