Museum Victoria January to March 2008 Schedule

Museum Victoria January to March 2008

Museum Victoria venues include: Melbourne Museum, Scienceworks, Immigration Museum, Royal Exhibition Building and the IMAX Theatre Melbourne.

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MELBOURNE MUSEUM

The Melbourne Story

The largest exhibition ever developed by Museum Victoria, The Melbourne Story, will reveal Melbourne’s unique and changing tale when it opens at Melbourne Museum in March 2008. The Melbourne Story features more than 1200 collection objects from Museum Victoria’s collection, resulting in it being the most complete and object-rich exhibition about Melbourne ever staged. The exhibition will feature iconic objects from Melbourne’s history such as a historic bark canoe from the Yarra River, a restored Cobb & Co coach, a carriage from the Luna Park Big Dipper and the much-loved ‘Little Men’ from Coles’ Book Arcade.

Date: 20 March 2008

Cost: free with Museum entry

Wathaurong Glass: Weing ko-rok (fire and sand)

This exhibition will showcase some of the finest pieces from the artists of Wathaurong Glass & Arts at Melbourne Museum’s Bunjilaka Aboriginal Cultural Centre. Creating works ranging from platters and bowls to corporate award trophies and kitchen splashbacks, Wathaurong Glass & Arts is an Aboriginal owned and operated enterprise based in Geelong, which expresses Aboriginal art through the techniques of kiln-formed and sandblasted glass.

Date: until 2 March 2008

Cost: free with Museum entry

The Mind: Enter the Labyrinth

This new permanent exhibition will explore the workings of the human mind by entering a world of emotions, thoughts, memories and dreams. You will step into the shoes of those that see the world from different mind perspectives. Discover the ways in which drugs and disorders affect our minds and question your attitudes to normality.

Date: now open

Cost: free with Museum entry

Miss Australia: A Nation’s Quest

Relieve the splendour and glamour of one the nation’s most successful charity endeavours in Miss Australia: A Nation’s Quest. This National Museum of Australia exhibition features the historic crown and gowns and key moments in the history of the Miss Australia Quest, which sparkled in our national consciousness for almost a century. Stylish and proficient fundraisers, trade envoys and advocates for the disabled, Miss Australia became a national cultural phenomenon. The exhibition follows the competition’s changing fortunes, from its beginnings as a magazine promotion in 1908, to its ascendancy in the 1950s and 1960s, and its eventual end in 2000.

Date: until 6 April 2008

Cost: free with Museum entry

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SCIENCEWORKS

Eyes on Earth

Beyond the atmosphere of Earth circle the satellites of the Earth Observing System (EOS), NASA’s primary satellite mission. These remote observers constantly scan our planet – tracking weather, monitoring pollution, creating maps and gathering information to help predict storms, monitor forest fires, and study holes in the ozone layer. This highly interactive exhibition focuses on the EOS and examines how satellite observations are made and what we can learn about the Earth using space technology.

Date: until November 2008

Cost: free with Museum entry

Strike a Chord – The Science of Music

This musical exhibition looks at the science behind music and brings together the many disciplines from the physics of sound to the physiology of hearing and singing. Visitors will have the chance to conduct their own virtual orchestra, play in an air band and design their own musical instrument. Developed by Questacon – The National Science and Technology Centre, Canberra, Australia.

Date: until 25 May 2008

Cost: $11 adult, $4 concession, $3.50 child (includes entry into Scienceworks)

Discover the Night Sky: Evening Planetarium Program

The Melbourne Planetarium at Scienceworks presents special after-dark sessions, Thursday evenings in March. All evenings include complimentary wine and cheese, the opportunity to chat to the Planetarium’s Astronomer and be immersed in a Planetarium experience. The evening will finish with stargazing through telescopes (weather permitting). Each evening will showcase a different aspect of the night sky.

Cost: $20.00 adults, $15.00 MV Members – per session

Bookings Essential: call 03 9392 4819 Monday to Friday 8.30am – 4.00pm

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IMMIGRATION MUSEUM

Trailblazers: Migrant Women Activists

“To be poor, migrant and a woman is to achieve optimum disadvantage” (anon.) – and a new exhibition recognises the efforts of migrant women who aimed to diminish that disadvantage. Celebrating the “mothers” of multiculturalism, Trailblazers records the untold story of the gutsy and spirited migrant women who fought for specialist medical, social, workplace and educational services for women of migrant backgrounds.
Date: 8 March to 27 July 2008
Cost: free with Museum entry

Masks of China: Ritual and Legend
Discover rare and spectacular masks from China in this exhibition exclusive to the Immigration Museum. Featuring handmade masks of wood, paper, copper, bronze and fabric, Masks of China explores the significance of masks in Chinese culture and history. The ancient yet still living tradition of mask-making brings together beliefs, myths and symbols from Shamanism and Buddhism, and reflects China’s many ethnic minority cultures. Constructed and painted by hand, some more than 200 years old, these masks symbolise China’s rich and diverse cultural landscape.
Date: until 24 March 2008
Cost: $12 adult, $6 concession, $3 MV members, free for children (includes Museum entry)

The Masks of China exhibition is being developed by China Museum of the National Cultural Palace, and is generously supported by the State Ethnic Affairs Commission of the People’s Republic of China, the Australian Multicultural Foundation and the Scanlon Foundation.

Kurbet… The Continuing Story of Victoria’s Albanian Community

Exploring the story of Victoria’s Albanian community, this exhibition takes as its focus the struggles of families separated for up to 40 years by Albania’s Communist rule. For Australian-Albanians, an important moment in the formation of a community was the transformation from the traditional notion of kurbet (temporary settlement in a foreign land) into a place of permanent belonging. Coming from an ethnically diverse nation, Albanian immigrants have quietly established flourishing communities in multicultural Australia, as part of their continuing journey.

Date: until 24 February 2008
Cost: free with Museum entry

We came as workers, We stayed as citizens: 40 years of Turkish migration
Marking 40 years since Australia and Turkey signed an assisted immigration agreement, this new exhibition highlights the history and growth of Victoria’s Turkish community. Initially, many Turkish immigrants arrived on Australian shores with a view of themselves as ‘guestworkers’ and the intention of eventually returning to their homeland; for many, however, this intention changed to a wish to remain. The exhibition explores the challenges faced by early Turkish immigrants as they settled into life in Victoria, and charts their successes and contributions to our multicultural community.
Date: until June 2008
Cost: free with Museum entry

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IMAX

I Am Legend – The IMAX Experience

An unstoppable man made virus sweeps the world. Dr Robert Neville (Will Smith) is the last human survivor. Somehow immune he searches for survivors but only encounters infected mutant victims of the plague who lurk in the shadows watching as Neville tries to find a cure by using his own immune blood.

The first six minutes of ‘The Dark Knight,’ (the sequel to Batman Begins) which introduces Heath Ledger as The Joker, will be shown only at IMAX before each screening of ‘I am Legend.’

Date: now showing

Cost: $20 adult, $16.50 concession, $15 child, $60 family (2 adults & 2 children)

Sea Monsters 3D – A Prehistoric Adventure

A film produced by National Geographic revealing the prehistoric marine life that lived in the oceans eighty million years ago, this stunning photo-realistic computer generated animation takes audiences back to the Late Cretaceous period and follows the dolochorhynchops as she travels through the most dangerous oceans in history.

Date: now showing

Cost: $17.50 adult, $14 concession, $12.50 child, $50 family (2 adults & 2 children)

African Adventure 3D – Safari in the Okavango

African Adventure 3D is the ultimate giant screen adventure in one of the most beautiful wildlife reserves on earth: The Okavango Delta. Zoologist Liesl Eichenberger and wildlife filmmaker Tim Liversedge will take you along a 3D journey as they explore this unique region and come face to face with hippos, crocodiles, elephants, lions and much more.

Date: 14 February 2008

Cost: $17.50 adult, $14 concession, $12.50 child, $50 family (2 adults & 2 children)

Beowulf 3D – The IMAX Experience

In a legendary time of heroes, the mighty warrior ‘Beowulf’ battles the demon ‘Grendel’ and incurs the hellish wrath of the beast’s ruthlessly seductive mother. This epic clash forges the timeless legend of Beowulf. Featuring Ray Winstone, Anthony Hopkins, John Malovich and Angelina Jolie. Rated M – Animated violence, Sexual references.

Date: now showing

Cost: $20 adult, $16.50 concession, $15 child, $60 family (2 adults & 2 children)

For IMAX session times please visit www.imaxmelbourne.com.au or call 03 9663 5454

For further public information on any Museum Victoria exhibitions, phone 13 11 02.