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  1. 31 January 2024 - Science Matters

    A biobank freezes Australian species for the future

    By freezing the cells of living animals, University of Melbourne researchers and museums are working together to safeguard Australia’s wildlife.

  2. 29 January 2024 - Humanities

    Digital ‘history machines’ are never politically neutral

    As library, museum and other heritage collections go online, we need to consider who is creating these collections and why, says University of Melbourne expert.

  3. 19 January 2023 - Science Matters

    Lockdown ‘field trip’ reveals whereabouts of Australian grasshoppers

    Ecologists from the University of Melbourne used historical survey notes to map the location of hundreds of species of Australian grasshopper

  4. 22 July 2022 - Health & Medicine

    Bringing a living archive to life

    The Living Archive challenges the idea of what an Indigenous museum collection can be and could become say experts including from the University of Melbourne.

  5. 15 March 2022 - Learning & Teaching

    Uncomfortable truths from a town to a nation

    The storytelling in the town of Tennant Creek is a microcosm of Australia’s struggle to come to terms with it past, says University of Melbourne expert

  6. 17 May 2020 - Humanities

    Museums in cyberspace

    In the face of COVID-19 museums moved to engage audiences online; a University of Melbourne expert looks at what works, what doesn’t and where the future lies.

  7. 31 January 2020 - Humanities

    Feather-flowers and photographs

    A University of Melbourne collaboration is connecting Australia’s First Peoples’ with museum collections, creating a 'living archive' of Indigenous culture.

  8. 13 January 2020 - Education

    The young and curious: How Science Gallery can break down silos

    An innovative University of Melbourne study will explore and challenge what young people really want from their cultural institutions.

  9. 18 December 2019 - Humanities

    The remarkable journey of Leonardo’s inscrutable masterpiece

    Leonardo da Vinci’s portrait of Cecilia Gallerani, known as the Lady with an Ermine has had an extraordinary history, explains a University of Melbourne expert

  10. 13 September 2019 - Humanities

    Treading softly in power diplomacy

    Museums have emerged as effective agents of cultural soft power globally, including outside the West, like China and Russia, says University of Melbourne expert