Living with Natural Disasters

Of ragged mountain ranges, of droughts and flooding rains.

My Country by Dorothea Mackellar

Has your local community experienced a natural disaster? What happened and how has it been remembered?

The following sites offer links to materials produced in response to natural disasters in Victoria.

Expert Videos

Liza Dale-Hallett Senior Curator, Sustainable Futures, Museum Victoria Michael Cathcart Lecturer, Historical and Philosophical Studies, University of Melbourne

Museum Victoria Resources

Small Object Big Story A guide and range of tools to facilitate research and presentation. Natural Disasters in Collections Online Research the theme of natural disasters in Museum Victoria’s collections online to discovery related images, objects, documents and more.

Other Resources

The Black Saturday Gallery The 2009 Victorian Bushfires Royal Commission established this gallery to connect with the community. Floods Through Fire 2007 digital storytelling project by Lyndall Code at the Australian Centre of the Moving Image. Going Going Still Here 2007 digital storytelling project by Gary Hammer at the Australian Centre of the Moving Image. Extract from Flood, 1956 Culture Victoria presents a film that explores the impact of the 1956 floods along the Murray and Darling Rivers