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Unlock the stories behind the latest exhibitions, fascinating explorations into our collection objects, and surprising insights from collection professionals and collaborators.
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The emergence of conceptualism in China
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A velvet ant, a flower and a bird
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Hany Armanious: Stone Soup
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65,000 Years: A Short History of Australian Art
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Distraction
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the veil
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Tony Clark: Unsculpted
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Potter Museum opens
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Sci-fi: Mythologies Transformed
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The Same Crowd Never Gathers Twice
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Change-maker of the Year
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Nightshifts
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Meet the Collective Unease Artists
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Peter Tyndall
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BAUHAUS NOW! – The Lantern Parade
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Digital Winter
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Ludwig Hirschfeld Mack ‘The Cigarette’ – Roxanna Richens
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Between Appearances: The art of Louise Weaver
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Head Inside the Isolation Chamber
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Former PM Malcolm Fraser Was a Champion for the Environment
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AFTERIMAGE at Arts West
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Sounds of Life
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A Javanese Puppet and Guatemalan Worry Dolls
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The Collaboration of Two Great Australian Artists
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Divine Comic: Graphic Novel Workshop
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In the Aftermath of Environmental Disaster
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Taloi Havini, Useful Arts 2021
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Public Facades and Intimate Spaces
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Which Resilience, Why Resilience, Whose Resilience
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Next generation of curatorial talent present Liminal Encounters
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Animating the Collection
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Concert Curation at Buxton Contemporary
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2024 Miegunyah Student Project Awards
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2023 Miegunyah Student Project Award
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2022 Miegunyah Student Project Award
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21 x 10
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Grainger Re-animated by VCA BFA Animation Students
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Miegunyah Student Project Award
Deep dive into the making of performance based artworks and live performance.
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Body Loss
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Simulcra
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Stelarc: Creating an Exhibit
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Percy Grainger Experiments in Freedom – online exhibition
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Sound of the Future – online exhibition
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Creation in Isolation
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Music and Architecture Collide
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Q&A with Girls & Boys Actor Nikki Shiels
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Marco Fusinato Spectral Arrows
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In Conversation with David Hare
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Phone Tag podcast
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A Nose by Any Other Name
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Innovations in Percussion – online exhibition
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Objects of Fame: Nellie Melba and Percy Grainger
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Backstage Banter
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Diary of the Heart
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MULCH: A Performance Picnic
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Directing Bernhardt/Hamlet
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Making Costumes with Sophie Woodward
Discover our program of First Nations collections, experiences and events on campus and in our exhibition spaces.
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Indigenous Visions in Venice
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Identity Bricks Project
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Remote Australia and the Voice
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The art of healing: Australian Indigenous healing practice
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Mandy Nicholson’s Possum Skin Cloak
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Balnhdhurr – A Lasting Impression
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Awaken Exhibition
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How can Indigenous fire practices help our climate?
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White Australia has a Black History
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Heal Country: In Conversation With Zena Cumpston
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Celebrating Millenia of Indigenous Engineering
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Change and Collaboration with Françoise Vergès
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A Computer Server and Indigenous Reconciliation
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Grace Ndiritu on Healing the Museum
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The Place Brand Design
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The Making Of an Exhibition: Emu Sky
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The Machinery of Creativity: Indigenous Data
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Can AI Connect Us to Country?
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Indigenous Engineering and Technology at Budj Bim
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Wurrungik dhumbunjan – I speak my language
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Get Up! Stand Up! Show Up!
Explore fascinating science themes from Science Gallery and our other Museums
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EMERGENCE[Y] opens
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Exploring the Intersection of Deaf Art and Science
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DISPOSABLE: Reimagining Your Waste Podcast
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From Parkville to Space: The Unimelb Rover Team
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Can AI Connect Us to Country?
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How Do We Nurture Nature?
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Science Gallery Mediators – how we talk about science
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Biometric Mirror – an imperfect you
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University of Melbourne’s First Computer
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Using Indigenous science to create ‘Eel Trap’
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Computing Pioneers
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The Algorithmic Composer – Dr Paul Doornbusch
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Seeing Science in Early Encyclopaedias
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The Machinery of Creativity: Indigenous Data
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When Shopping Takes Your Breath Away
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Where Computing Meets Climate Change
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Shedding Light on Climate Change
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Indigenous Engineering and Technology at Budj Bim
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EVENT HORIZON – Symposium
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MACHINE Interdisciplinary Forum – The Machinery of Creativity
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Physics – Online cultural collection database
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Restoring the Professor’s Telescope
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How to Collect a Wind Tunnel
Hear from curators, archivists, artists, academics and other collaborators on our collection objects and projects.
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Illustrating Wagner’s The Ring of the Nibelung
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Gregory Burgess: From the Coalface
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The Royal Children’s Hospital, Melbourne:150 Years
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Epic and Divine: Dante’s World
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Thylacine skull – 3D digital model
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Fungi illustrations at the University of Melbourne Herbarium
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Rediscovering an Iconic Object
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Australian Red Cross Collection – online exhibition
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Henry Forman Atkinson Dental Museum online collection
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Harry Brookes Allen Museum of Anatomy and Pathology online collection
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Ancestral Memory: Catalogue
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Old Quad: Catalogue
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Exhibition catalogues & publications
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The Story of Trinity College’s 150th Poster
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Jigsaw Gallery
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Architecture, Building and Planning Library digitised collection
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Medical History Museum online collection
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The Vizard Foundation Art Collection of the 1990s
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University of Melbourne Herbarium – collection online
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Creswick Campus Historical Collection – collection online
- Creswick
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Medical History Museum online exhibitions
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Germaine Greer Archive
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Malcom Fraser Collection
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University of Melbourne Archive digitised exhibitions
- Archive
- UMA
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Introducing the Virtual Reading Room
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Virtual Tour of the University’s Archives
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VCA Film and Television Digital Archive
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Up From the Vaults with Dr Raafat Ishak
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Zelda D’Aprano, activist
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Ella Grainger’s Diaries
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60 Years of the Samuel Wadham Wing
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A Rare Music Collection Mystery
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Celebrating a Collector John McCutchan
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How Christian Jollie Smith Dared to be Different
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‘A magnificent bunch of women’
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