Museums

When a Samoan ethnomusicologist visited Melbourne's Grainger Museum as a music student, she found objects her community had no idea were there. Now she's changing that

With names like the Neutron Howitzer, MUVEC, and the Pelletron, Melbourne’s particle accelerators have been the hidden engines driving research for almost a century

The violence and trauma stemming from European colonialism is a global phenomenon that has reverberated across generations and across the world, as one woman’s story illustrates

A new truth-telling book shines a light on the past, present and future of the University of Melbourne’s Indigenous cultural collections

The Tasmanian tiger is extinct. The only specimens are in museums, but it’s amazing what five thylacine skulls can still tell us

The Berry Collection was a poorly curated anatomical and anthropological collection that facilitated scientific racism and was dominated by unethically sourced Aboriginal remains

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

As library, museum and other heritage collections go online, we need to consider who is creating these collections and why

Using old field notes and new technology, researchers used COVID lockdowns to retrace the steps of pioneering Australian insect surveyors, virtually

The Living Archive challenges the idea of what an Indigenous museum collection can be and could become