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Museums Board of Victoria CONTENTS Annual Report 2004/2005

2 Introduction 16 Enhance Access, Visibility 26 Create and Deliver Great 44 Develop Partnerships that 56 Develop and Maximise 66 Manage our Resources 80 Financial Statements 98 Additional Information Profile of Museum Victoria and Community Engagement Experiences increase community involvement the Value of Victoria’s Performance Overview Introduction Research Projects Our Vision Performance Overview Performance Overview and support Heritage Collections Corporate Activities Financial Statements Research Supervision President’s Message Marketing and Communications Melbourne Museum Performance Overview Performance Overview Commercial Operations Auditor General Report Research Publications Chief Executive Officer’s Message Production Royal Exhibition Building Partnerships Research Corporate Governance Financial Review of Operations Lectures and Presentations Year of Highlights Education Immigration Museum Volunteers History and Technology Museums Board of Victoria Disclosure Index Freedom of Information Awards Beyond our Museums Scienceworks Museum Museum Victoria Supporters Indigenous Cultures Executive Management Team Information Privacy The Year in Brief Information Centres Museum Victoria Touring Exhibitions Sciences Organisational Structure Legislative Changes Strategic Directions Website Development Collection Management Public Sector Values and Conservation Cultural Diversity Statement National Competition Policy Consultancies Building and Maintenance Compliance Whistleblowers Procedures Fees and Charges

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Amphitheatre at Scienceworks PROFILE OF OUR VISION Museum Victoria will contribute to our communities’ understanding of the world, MUSEUM VICTORIA and ensure that our inheritance is augmented and passed to future generations. We will reach out to an increasingly diverse audience through our collections and knowledge using innovative programs that engage and fascinate.

Museum Victoria is Australia’s Melbourne Museum Scienceworks Museum Royal Exhibition Building Our Values Innovation largest public museum organisation. Opened 21 October 2000 Opened 28 March 1992 Constructed 1879–1880 As the State museum for Victoria, Melbourne Museum stands adjacent Located in the grounds of and Museum Victoria ownership since 1996 We will not compromise on the We value ideas and promote open- it is responsible for looking after to the historic Royal Exhibition Building incorporating the historic Spotswood Located in Carlton Gardens and following values in the attainment minded enquiry. We are open to the State’s collections, conducting in Carlton Gardens. Melbourne Pumping Station, the science and alongside Melbourne Museum, the of our Vision: change and encourage bold and research and providing cultural and Museum showcases Australian technology museum features modern Royal Exhibition Building continues creative approaches in our programs science programs for the people of society, Indigenous cultures, the interactive exhibition galleries, the to host exhibitions and other events. and organisational processes. Victoria and visitors from interstate human mind and body, science and Melbourne Planetarium and the The building and gardens were added Stewardship and overseas. technology and the environment. Victoria University High to the UNESCO World Heritage Voltage Theatre. register in July 2004. We value the collections as central Engagement in Life-long Learning Museum Victoria’s origins date back to our objective of understanding to 1854 with the founding of the Immigration Museum our natural and cultural history. As We value engagement with diverse National Museum of Victoria and later, Opened 12 November 1998 Moreland Annexe custodians, we aim to provide a audiences and communities in the establishment of the Industrial The Immigration Museum is situated Opened 30 October 1996 positive legacy for future generations. meaningful and relevant ways that and Technological Museum of Victoria in the Old Customs House on Flinders Museum Victoria’s off-site collection contribute to lifelong learning. Central (later known as the Science Museum Street. It is a contemporary social store houses the largest collection to achieving this, we aim to challenge, of Victoria) in 1870. By proclamation history museum that explores issues items and complements collection Professional Integrity excite and involve our visitors. of the Museums Act 1983, these two of immigration and cultural diversity. stores at Melbourne Museum institutions were amalgamated to and Scienceworks. We value credibility and accuracy form what is today known as Museum in all our interactions, activities and Social Responsibility Victoria, governed by the Museums programs. Through this we gain the Board of Victoria. respect and trust of others. We value and are committed to fairness and equity in all we do. Museum Victoria operates three We actively encourage access museums, a collections storage facility and participation and embrace the and is custodian for the World Heritage principles of sustainability, social listed Royal Exhibition Building. justice and reconciliation.

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On behalf of the Museums Board Museum Victoria’s membership I would especially like to thank the Museum Victoria has enjoyed a very Visitation to Museum Victoria websites In December 2004, Museum Victoria I would like to acknowledge the of Victoria, I am delighted to present program had another successful year Minister for the Arts, Mary Delahunty successful year and has continued again increased over the previous acquired IMAX Melbourne, previously enormous commitment, energy and the 2004/05 Annual Report detailing with the number of memberships MP, for her continued support; our to achieve exceptional standards year with 2.8 million individual user a tenant at Melbourne Museum. This dedication of Museum Victoria Staff, Museum Victoria’s operations reaching over 10,300 by the end excellent Ambassadors; the Museum of museum practice through sessions recorded. The Museum in a enhanced the Melbourne Museum led by the Museums Board of Victoria and achievements over the last of the year - this figure representing Victoria members; Patrons and the presentation of exhibitions, Van Outreach Program was relaunched visitor experience and provided and the Executive Management Team, twelve months. over 36,000 people. I would like Corporate Patrons who continue educational and public programs and as the Discovery Program and this an opportunity for linking IMAX in achieving such excellent results over to thank the members as their to provide essential support; the our extensive collections and year visited more than 49,000 people programming to exhibitions the past year. Museum Victoria continued to perform ongoing support facilitates Museum Museums Board of Victoria and research activities. in schools, kindergartens, aged care and programs. beyond expectations during the last Victoria’s development. of course, the staff and Executive facilities, libraries and other community As Museum Victoria continues to financial year. The Museums Board Management Team who continue to Our strategy Exploring Victoria: groups in regional, metropolitan and Research is a vital part of the prosper and grow, I look forward of Victoria is delighted that the Museum Victoria continued to inspire, create and maintain our world Discovering the World emphasises our remote areas of Victoria. Museum’s role. An active collecting to your ongoing involvement and State’s vast and priceless collection cement its position as a leading class museums. commitment to research and provides program involving international support. We look forward to seeing can be shared and explored by so cultural institution, receiving the context for us to develop new Educational groups remain a expeditions, the publication of 104 you at our museums. many Victorians and national and eighteen prestigious international and improved ways of presentation. significant component of the visitor papers, reports and books, and 149 international visitors. and national awards for a range of We aim to engage members of the mix. In the past year, organised lectures and talks were undertaken disciplines including Indigenous public through the exhibitions in our education groups accounted for over by members of Museum Victoria’s Celebrations to mark Museum culture, tourism, marketing, website three museums, our public programs, 260,000 visitors across the three research and operations teams. Victoria’s 150 years of collections, development, public programs and Harold Mitchell AO discovery centres, publications museums. Our education programs are research and exhibitions continued volunteer support. Of particular note, President, Museums Board and websites. linked to the curriculum and supported Volunteers continue to be integral Dr J. Patrick Greene throughout the 2004 calendar year. Scienceworks and Bunjilaka were both of Victoria by excellent web-based materials. to the success of the organisation. Chief Executive Officer A feature of the celebrations included admitted to the Hall of Fame in their In the past year, over four million visits This year 625 volunteers contributed the continuation of Treasures, a series respective categories in the Victorian were recorded at the different Museum The success of our major exhibitions in excess of 42,000 hours. Their of exhibitions held across all three Tourism Awards and the Immigration venues and through the website. attracted new and diverse audiences. contribution has ensured that Museum Museum Victoria venues to showcase Museum won the National Tourism The Museum continues to attract a Exhibitions included Dinosaurs from Victoria’s volunteer program continues some of the hidden treasures within Award in the Heritage and Cultural wide cross-section of the community China and Mummies: Ancient Egypt to set the benchmark for the industry. the Museum’s storage collections. Tourism category. through an excellent and varied and the Afterlife, both presented in the exhibition program, fun and engaging Touring Hall at Melbourne Museum. Corporate and philanthropic I would like to acknowledge the range public programs and strong Scienceworks presented Toys: Science assistance continued to be essential of significant contributions made by marketing campaigns. at Play and Eaten Alive: World of support for the organisation. individuals who support Museum Predators. At the Immigration Museum Appreciation is extended to our Victoria’s operations. This year Peter Station Pier: Gateway to a new life has corporate and philanthropic supporters Hiscock retired from the board and I been a remarkable success and was a who allow us to create and present express my sincere thanks to him for key contributor to the record visitation the superb array of galleries his contribution. to the Immigration Museum this year. and exhibits on display, as well as sustaining our important research and conservation work.

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What Human Rights Means to Young The Weaving Lands Community Station Pier: Gateway to a new life was Chinese Costumes: Garments Aimed at families with children less The Buchenwald Boys community This is the Place for a Song, a CD 30 Years in the Making: Vietnamese People opened at the Immigration Exhibition, developed in collaboration launched at Immigration Museum. and Accessories of China’s than 10 years of age, Kids’ Fest, exhibition, developed in collaboration project initiated by the Sunday Herald in Australia was launched at the Museum. It was developed by the with Hume City Council, opened at the Nationalities was launched at an exhibition to explore all things with the Holocaust Museum, was Sun and supported by SBS Radio Immigration Museum by the Hon. Western Young People’s Immigration Museum. The state finals of the Model Solar the Immigration Museum. Chinese, opened at the launched at the Immigration Museum. Melbourne, was launched by the Malcolm Fraser. The exhibition was Independent Network. Vehicle competition were held Immigration Museum. Hon. John Pandazopoulos, developed in collaboration with the Over 2000 individuals participated in at Scienceworks. A community event to promote Top Designs, an exhibition featuring Minister assisting the Premier Vietnamese Community of Australia The Design Awards 2004 exhibition the highly successful Polish Festival Station Pier: Gateway to a new life An Indonesian musical instrument work by VCE design students, opened on Multicultural Affairs. (Victoria Chapter). opened at Melbourne Museum. at the Immigration Museum. BHP Science Awards for students and was presented in partnership with the called a Gamelan was installed in the at Melbourne Museum. teachers was held at Scienceworks. Victorian Multicultural Commission, Tattersall’s Children’s Garden for use Museum Victoria launched its Over 1100 participants contributed to Bug Learning Environment opened at The Connell Wagner Bridge Building with over 100 senior citizens of Greek by visiting children. The World’s Longest Lunch was held Volunteer Recognition Program as part the success of the Vietnamese Festival the Melbourne Museum’s Competition for Year 9 students was The second Romp and Stomp and Italian heritage attending. on Melbourne Museum Events Plaza of National Volunteers Week. at the Immigration Museum. Children’s Gallery. held at Scienceworks. Children’s Festival was held at as part of the Melbourne Food and Melbourne Museum, in partnership Dinosaurs from China opened February 2005 Wine Festival. Digging up Ancient Egypt lectures The Melbourne Museum’s Discovery Sport More than Heroes and The Water Discovery Guide with the early learning community, and at Melbourne Museum. were presented as part of National Program was included as part of the Legends, an exhibition from the and website were launched at attracted more than 4000 families. Remembering Station Pier Day was Archaeology Week. Fun4Kids Festival at Warrnambool. Powerhouse Museum, was launched Melbourne Museum. Museum Victoria received special held at the Immigration Museum. April 2005 at Scienceworks. The Water Smart Home interactive funding from Arts Victoria and other Twined Together, an exhibition of fibre A $1.5 million equipment upgrade for On 29 September, Production Studio exhibit was launched at Melbourne partners for a public program to Community Collections recommenced Speaking with Cloth: Cerita Dalam works made by the Injaluk women of the Planetarium was completed. A The recipients of Museum Victoria’s staff photographed and recorded One Museum in conjunction with National commemorate the 150th Anniversary at Melbourne Museum. Kain, a travelling exhibition of northern Arnhem Land, opened new show The Search for Life: Are we 1854 Student Scholarships for 2004 Day in the Life of Museum Victoria, Water Week, with generous support of the Eight-Hour Day in 2006. Indonesian and Timorese textiles from in Bunjilaka. Alone, produced by the Natural History were announced. in recognition of Museum Victoria’s from the Smart Water Fund. Sir Neil Cossons, Chairman of English the Museum and Art Gallery of the Museum in New York, USA, was 150th Anniversary. Heritage, gave a lecture entitled Northern Territory, was launched at the Museum Victoria published and launched to mark the reopening. December 2004 World Heritage and the Western World Immigration Museum. launched two books: Child’s Play: August 2004 Museum Victoria launched a new Capturing the Age of Empire, Dorothy Howard and the Folklore website Victorian Railways to help The community exhibition Passage Industry and Commerce at The Dinosaur Learning Environment of Australian Children and Donald The Central American Community celebrate 150 years of railways from India, developed in collaboration Melbourne Museum. opened at the Children’s Gallery, Thomson: The Man and Scholar. Festival was presented at the in Victoria. with the East India Club of Melbourne Museum. Immigration Museum. Melbourne, was launched at the The Annual Science Showcase was Immigration Museum. held at Scienceworks. Scienceworks received over 44,000 National Science Week was celebrated visitors - the highest number for the across Museum Victoria. Wonderful Water Learning Environment Phase one of the 123 Grow! month of April since 1992. opened in the Children’s Gallery, refurbishment in the Children’s Gallery The Design Your Future Forum for Year Melbourne Museum. was completed. Our Place, Indigenous Australia Now, 10 students was held at jointly developed by Museum Victoria Melbourne Museum. Eaten Alive, a travelling exhibition from and the Powerhouse Museum, opened Questacon, The National Science and at the National Museum of China Dr Mark Norman presented the 2004 Technology Centre, was launched in Beijing. Crosbie Morrison Memorial Lecture at Scienceworks. on Wizards of the Sea: the secret lives Museum Victoria awarded a second of octopuses and their kin as part of A major fossil discovery by Dr Tom series of 1854 Student Scholarships National Science Week. Rich and colleagues is included in to support the work of graduate and the latest volume of the prestigious postgraduate students on projects The Australian Childrens Folklore international journal, Science. relating to the Museum’s collections. Collection held by Museum Victoria was accepted for inclusion on the UNESCO Australian Memory of the World Program.

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2004 Australian Tourism Awards 2004 Victorian Tourism Awards 2005 Federation of Ethnic 2005 Museums Australia Publication Key Outputs Memberships Heritage and Cultural Tourism Heritage and Cultural Tourism Community Councils’ Design Awards (MAPDA) Category: Awarded to the Category: Awarded to the Excellence in Cultural Corporate (Level C) category: Awarded 2004/05 2003/04 The Museum Victoria membership program was relaunched on 15 June 2004. Immigration Museum Immigration Museum Diversity Awards to Seasons Greetings - Museum In its first full year of operation the program performed strongly. Exhibitions presented 61 68 Increasing Cultural Diversity in the Victoria Christmas Card (joint winner). The total number of memberships at the end of June 2005 was 10,386, equating 2004 Victorian Arts Portfolio 2004 Victorian Tourism Awards Voluntary Sector: Awarded to Museum Publications by staff 104 103 to 36,805 individual members. Leadership Awards Major Tourism Attractions Category: Victoria Volunteers’ Program. 2005 Museums Australia Publication Presentations and lectures by staff 149 171 Leadership in Public Programs: Finalist Award for Melbourne Museum Design Awards (MAPDA) Research projects (externally funded) 22 26 2004/05 2003/04 Awarded to the Bugs Alive! Website: 2005 Gnunkai Awards, Australian Website (Level C) category: Awarded Memberships 10,386 7,568 www.museum.vic.gov.au/bugs 2004 Victorian Tourism Awards Indigenous Tourism Awards to Bugs Alive! Website: www.museum. (joint winner) Significant Tourist Attraction Category: Organisation Category: Finalist award vic.gov.au/bugs Visitors Awarded to Scienceworks and for Bunjilaka, the Aboriginal Centre at 2004 Victorian Arts Portfolio Melbourne Planetarium. Entered into Melbourne Museum. Australasian Reporting Awards 2004/05 2003/04 Staff Leadership Awards the Hall of Fame. Bronze Award: Awarded to Museum Melbourne Museum 670,030 678,606 Leadership in Public Programs: 2005 Muse Awards, American Victoria for the Museums Board of 2004/05 2003/04 Awarded to the Big Bug puppet show 2004 Whitley Award, Association of Museums Victoria Annual Report 2003/04 Scienceworks and Melbourne Planetarium 376,089 402,044 Employment Status Male Female Total Total Variation (joint winner). Royal Zoological Society of New Educational/Interpretive Science Immigration Museum 122,949 101,644 Ongoing 172 245 417 394 +23 South Wales Section: Gold Award to Museum Museums Australia (Victoria) Total Ticketed entry 1,169,068 1,182,294 Fixed 28 66 94 85 +9 2004 Victorian Arts Portfolio Best Interactive Key: Awarded Victoria for the Water Smart Home 2005 Museum Industry Recognition Discovery Program 49,359 35,149 Leadership Awards to Dr Robin Wilson for his CD- touch-screen computer and water Awards (MIRA) Casual 35 41 76 105 -29 Website 2,829,494 2,537,144 Leadership in Business Improvement: ROM publication, Polychaetes: An sculpture interactive. Best Project: Awarded to Total 235 352 587 584 +3 Awarded to Museum Victoria for the Interactive Identification Guide. Station Pier: Gateway to a new life, Total 4,047,921 3,754,587 FTE 188 269 457 440 +17 Exhibition Framework. 2005 Museums Australia Publication Immigration Museum Notes: 2005 Eve Pownall Award, Children’s Design Awards (MAPDA) 2004 Victorian Tourism Awards Book Council of Australian Society Books (Level C) category: Highly 1. Total reported visitation for 2003/04 varies from 3. Museum Victoria acquired IMAX Melbourne on *FTE Full time equivalent Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Best information book: Dr John Long’s commended, Treasures of the the total of 4,009,492 reported in last years report. 24 December 2004. Visitors to IMAX for the full In previous reports non-ticketed entries have been financial year numbered 246,128. Events held at the Tourism Category: Awarded to children’s book, Gogo Fish! The Story Museum, Victoria, Australia. reported. These figures are not considered reliable Royal Exhibition Building attracted 448,490 visitors. Bunjilaka, the Aboriginal Centre at of the Western Australian State Fossil so Museum Victoria no longer includes non-ticketed Including these figures brings the total visitation to Melbourne Museum. Entered into the Emblem shortlised visitors in reports for external audiences. Museum Victoria venues to 4,742,539. Hall of Fame. (awaiting announcement). 2. Non-ticketed entries are visitors who visited areas within the Museum’s facilities not requiring a ticket. These areas include: The Discovery Centres at Melbourne Museum and the Immigration Museum, the Melbourne Museum Shop, the Museum Café at Melbourne Museum and the Tribute Garden and Ground Floor Foyer at the Immigration Museum.

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Station Pier: Gateway to a new life, STRATEGIC Immigration Museum DIRECTIONS Our strategic plan Exploring Victoria. Discovering the World. identifies the five Strategic Directions that will enable Museum staff to achieve Museum Victoria’s Vision.

1. Enhance access, visibility and 3. Pursue the development 4. Develop and maximise the value 5. Manage Our Resources community engagement of strategic partnerships of our heritage collection Ensure that our resources are Position Museum Victoria so that: Develop and maintain mutually Strategically manage and managed effectively and efficiently to beneficial collaborations that will: strengthen Victoria’s collections and meet stakeholder expectations through • the public are aware of what we associated research through the the ongoing development of: have to offer • increase community involvement following means: and support • a motivated, dynamic, creative and • we attract and engage • continue to develop and strengthen skilled workforce diverse audiences • enhance the expertise of our staff and the collections amassed over the extend the range of our knowledge • an organisation structure and • more people come through our past 150 years infrastructure that assists our staff in doors, use our websites and seek • raise our profile both nationally • provide appropriate storage achieving our objectives our knowledge and expertise and internationally conditions to ensure the long-term • improved information management • we reach those who cannot easily • enable us to do things that we could survival of the collections and communication systems come to us not do on our own • provide enhanced public access • facilities that are well maintained and • we continue to meet the needs of • maximise our ability to contribute to through a purpose built fit for purpose the Victorian education sector the cultural, scientific and economic storage facility life of Victoria • sound financial and risk • enhance our knowledge base management practices • bring in funds and supplement through research, publication and 2. Create and deliver existing resources collection database development great experiences • further our relationship with • expand the information available Ensure that Museum Victoria Indigenous communities on the internet provides great experiences for the • work with kindred organisations public through the: throughout Victoria to help raise • creation of exhibitions that are standards of collection care engaging, surprising and authoritative • provision of easy to navigate websites offering high-quality content • use of innovative display methods to convey the wealth of our collections and knowledge • attraction of high-quality touring exhibitions and the creation of our own for display elsewhere • provision of a range of activities including tours, field trips, performances, presentations, lectures and publications that appeal to a broad audience

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Over the coming years, Museum • Museum Victoria will pursue the • Enhancing and developing new • Finalising the Royal Exhibition Building Victoria will focus on the following creation of a publicly accessible exhibitions. Three new exhibitions and Carlton Gardens Master Plan. strategic initiatives: collection store through the Treasure are planned for the next year This plan will form part of the World House Project. Following the including: Marine life: exploring our Heritage Management Plan, with the • Delivering a number of programs to successful submission of a business seas (Melbourne Museum), Mission aim of achieving formal accreditation coincide with the Melbourne 2006 proposal to the Victorian Government, Earthling (Scienceworks) and Origins by Heritage Victoria and the Commonwealth Games. Melbourne the land adjacent to Scienceworks (Immigration Museum). New content Australian Government. Museum is one of the sites selected was purchased for the purposes of the for Planetarium shows will also to host a Live Site showing the Games project. Museum Victoria continues be developed. • Preparing the Scienceworks Master in the plaza precinct. The exhibition with the development of a master Plan which will detail the planned Spirit of the Games, celebrating the strategy for the Treasure House facility, • Enhancing the management and development over the next 15 years. colour and excitement of the Opening and will prepare a detailed brief and development of our collections Ceremony will open at Melbourne business case for the public access through the continued implementation Museum within 72 hours of the Games component of Treasure House. of the EMu Project, the continued opening. The Victorian Aboriginal documentation and registration of the Cultural Centre at Melbourne Museum, • To redevelop the Museum Victoria collection, and further development Bunjilaka, will host Biganga, a Victorian Website. As an increasing number of the collection through accessioning indigenous exhibition. During the of visitors are accessing Museum and de-accessioning. Games, the Museum will serve as a Victoria’s website for information about cultural attraction and be promoted the collections and research, there is a as a family venue for viewing events. need to redevelop the site to ensure a A Commonwealth Photographic high standard of content is maintained Awards exhibition will be held at and that audiences are both the Immigration Museum and the fascinated and educated by the popular Sportsworks exhibition at website’s contents. Scienceworks has been refurbished to offer more interactive experiences for the visitor.

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Phar Lap, Melbourne Museum PERFORMANCE OVERVIEW

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Ensure that the public are aware Attract and engage diverse audiences. Position Museum Victoria so that more Reach those who cannot easily Continue to meet the needs of the of what we have to offer. people come through our doors, use come to us. Victorian education sector. our websites and seek our knowledge Actions and results and expertise. Actions and results Actions and results Actions and results Ongoing community engagement The Immigration Museum’s Each Museum Victoria museum has was undertaken at the Immigration Community Partnerships Program Actions and results The Museum Victoria Outreach Museum Victoria maintained a broad developed core positioning campaigns Museum to deliver community included four exhibitions and three Program was re-branded the range of curriculum-based learning to reinforce brand messages and exhibitions and a festival program. community cultural festivals. Each Museum Victoria’s three museums Discovery Program. The Discovery experiences at all museums, in communicate specific event activities. of these events attracted particular recorded strong visitor attendance Program exceeded previous years’ accordance with the priorities and In addition, base and signature A program of community exhibitions cultural groups from Melbourne over the year. Overall, Museum Victoria figures and forecasts by 45%, initiatives of the Department of programs were established for was presented at Bunjilaka as part of including Anglo-Indian, Central engaged with nearly 4.7 million people. reaching more than 49,000 people Education and Training. Immigration Museum, Melbourne the Birrarung Strategy. American, Jewish, Polish and More than 1.1 million of these were throughout Victoria in 2004/05. Museum and Scienceworks. Signature Vietnamese communities. ticketed visitors to Scienceworks, Additional online projects related to Programs for Museum Victoria Relationships were developed with Immigration Museum and Melbourne Museum Victoria continued to update school curriculum were developed Members have also been established. Victoria’s culturally and linguistically A variety of community engagement Museum, another 2.8 million were and redesign its website. Ninety five in association with the Department diverse communities. A Community programs were delivered at each visitors to our web sites. Other visitors new Information Sheets were added to of Education and Training and the Museum Victoria published some Engagement Strategy is currently museum to increase access and enjoyed shows at the Royal Exhibition the online delivery system and 87 new Victorian Education Channel. absorbing titles, including Memoirs being developed in support of participation in Museum Building and IMAX Melbourne or were Hot Topics articles were added to of Museum Victoria and Child’s Play: these initiatives. Victoria programs. participants in the Discovery Program. the website www.museum.vic.gov.au Dorothy Howard and the Folklore of Australian Children, and co-published The Indigenous community continued Museum Victoria continued to The Museum’s Discovery Program Donald Thomson: Man and Scholar to have general access to the undertake appropriate market research participated in the Ballarat Begonia with the Academy of Social Sciences ethnographic and photographic to monitor visitor responses to its Festival and Warrnambool’s Fun4Kids in Australia. Indigenous collections. A selection services and products. These studies Festival and presented at the Meet the of images was transferred to the identified barriers and incentives for Museum Scientist program in An integrated Calendar of Events was Bunjilaka Family Photo database. metropolitan residents accessing the regional Victoria. established to enable greater access Museum Victoria participated in the museums, tested exhibition concepts to information about Museum Victoria Integrated National Science Week for audience appeal, and evaluated activities and events. 2004 program, including the annual responses to existing exhibitions. In Crosbie Morrison Lecture. A Meet addition, strong marketing plans for all the Museums Scientists lecture touring exhibitions were developed. program was delivered for general and education audiences.

July Events 1 July – 1 August 9 July – 30 January 2005 18 July 28 July – 17 October July – ongoing Urbaninity Treasures of Aboriginal Australia Bookmarks and Monologues Series – Ann Synan Design 2004 Exhibition Bug Learning Environment Museum Victoria Bunjilaka, Melbourne Museum Bunjilaka, Melbourne Museum Immigration Museum Melbourne Museum Children’s Gallery, Melbourne Museum

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Installation of Dinosaurs from China, MARKETING AND PRODUCTION Melbourne Museum COMMUNICATIONS

Museum Victoria undertakes a Marketing initiatives across Museum Public Relations Museum Victoria’s Public Relations The Production Studio is • Design and production of wide range of marketing and Victoria included tourism strategies Department hosted approximately Museum Victoria’s comprehensive the Sportsworks exhibition at communication strategies that support and all venues were successful at the Public Relations successfully 250 international visiting journalists in-house production facility Scienceworks was undertaken in the objectives of all the Strategic Tourism Awards, including a National implemented communication from countries including the United comprising photography, digital readiness for a September Directions. The impact and outcomes Award for the Immigration Museum. strategies across Museum Victoria’s Kingdom, Japan, Singapore, Italy, imaging, exhibition, multimedia, 2005 opening. of these activities can be observed Other activities included: renaming five venues. Germany, United States, Bahrain publication, preparatorial, studio and in visitation rates, media relations, the outreach program and Infozone and China. video services for the Immigration, • Extensive image research, audio- product development and monitoring under the banner Museum Victoria Independent analysis valued the Scienceworks and Melbourne visual creation, graphic and 3D design visitor demographics. Discovery, undertaking collaborative 2004/05 media coverage of Museum A concerted effort towards expanding Museums, Museum Victoria’s undertaken for the Origins interactive advertising across all venues and Victoria at $18.8 million. This the Museums’ coverage in community, websites and the Discovery Program. project for the Immigration Museum. maintaining ongoing sponsorships represents an increase of 54% on ethnic and other language media Marketing with key partners including The Age, last year. Media coverage has risen throughout 2004/05 significantly • Design, production and fabrication Channel Seven, Channel Ten, Connex, dramatically for all museums, with increased the Museums’ exposure and Highlights undertaken for the Dinosaurs from The primary objective of marketing Melbourne Airport and V/Line. For the 3,335 media reports of stories, a raised awareness to a wider audience. China touring exhibition, including campaigns undertaken in 2004/05 was first time, marketing campaigns were 40% increase. Television coverage, in • The book, Child’s Play: Dorothy Museum preparators working with to attract visitors to exhibitions and conducted for IMAX and the Royal particular, has risen markedly, with a Howard and the Folklore of Australian visiting professionals from China events, using market research studies Exhibition Building. more than four fold increase to a value Museum Victoria Members Children, was designed and published. to assemble the displays. as the basis for the campaigns. The of $6.5 million. For all media coverage, A second book, Donald Thomson: Man objective of building awareness of core 92% involved positive reporting, with a 2004/05 was the first full year of the and Scholar, was co-published with • The newly-acquired Amargasaurus brands was achieved by ensuring each Market Research & Evaluation further 6% neutral and 2% negative. new Museum Victoria membership the Academy of the Social Sciences dinosaur skeleton cast from Argentina museum used positioning statements program, following the June 2004 in Australia. Phar Lap: the True Legend was prepared and articulated by and tag lines to reinforce core Market research studies during Media highlights included the relaunch in response to the price will be published in November 2005 to preparators for display in the foyer brand messages. 2004/05 focused on improving exhibitions Dinosaurs from China, changes across Museum Victoria. coincide with the 75th Anniversary of Melbourne Museum. our understanding of audiences Design 2004 and Mummies: Ancient The new program offers access to of the horse’s first win in the Marketing highlights from the previous and products. Studies included 18 Egypt and the Afterlife at Melbourne membership at a reduced price Melbourne Cup. • On Wednesday 29 September 2004, year include: the introduction of the exhibition and program evaluations, Museum, Station Pier, Chinese with streamlined benefits. The teams of photographers and digital Moving Stories brand campaign 13 market research studies and 38 Costumes and The Buchenwald Boys program has had a very successful • Design, production and fabrication of video camera operators visited each at the Immigration Museum which visitor studies. The most significant at the Immigration Museum, and year, recording a 37% increase the Station Pier: Gateway to a new life Museum Victoria campus (front flowed into successful campaigns for studies consisted of awareness Eaten Alive, House Secrets and Toys: in memberships. exhibition at the Immigration Museum, and back of house) to create a time Station Pier and Chinese Costumes; tracking, concept screenings and Science at Play at Scienceworks. and accompanying catalogue. capsule in photographs and digital at Melbourne Museum, a successful assessment of school teachers’ Other media highlights were further video of what took place from opening season for Dinosaurs from China and experiences when visiting the coverage for the Bugs Alive! exhibition, • The touring exhibition, Twined to closing time on a typical working unprecedented results for the first three museums. a 40% increase on coverage of the Together: Kunmadj njalehnjaleken, day during our 150th Anniversary year. days of Mummies: Ancient Egypt and Royal Exhibition Building, the launch of was designed, produced and From this work, Production Studio the Afterlife both using Melbourne The study results were used to develop the renovated Melbourne Planetarium fabricated. A selection of the images produced a DVD film for distribution to Museum’s brand campaign Come and marketing and communications and coverage of Museum Victoria’s taken in Arnhem Land especially for all staff and stakeholders entitled One See the Real Thing; and Scienceworks’ strategies and campaigns, assist with Science research, most notably for the the exhibition will be added to the Day in the Life of Museum Victoria. brand campaign Get a Grasp of exhibition development and schedule Marine Sciences area. Museum collection. Science, which flowed into successful and monitor changes to visitor profiles. seasons for Eaten Alive, the Melbourne Planetarium and the Victoria University High Voltage Theatre.

Museum Victoria’s 1854 Student Scholarships 2004 recipients announced.

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Station Pier: Gateway to a new life, EDUCATION Immigration Museum

Education Programs Melbourne Museum Immigration Museum Scienceworks Further to these, new kits and Website Education Cross Venue Initiatives Other initiatives resources were published to Education at Museum Victoria involves Education visitors to Melbourne The Immigration Museum experienced Education visitation for the year accompany the exhibitions Sport: Education material published online Adult Education • The Department of Education and the development and delivery of Museum numbered 140,145. continued strong support from the was 91,631. Of these, 42,098 also More than Heroes and Legends, Eaten and downloaded by Victorian, Training’s Strategic Partnerships curriculum-based programs and Highlights included: education community for its suite attended a Planetarium show. Alive and Megawatt. Australian and overseas teachers Program offerings for this sector Program which delivers programs and teacher professional development of curriculum-based programs and and students via Museum Victoria’s have expanded to complement the resources to the education community activities for the Victorian education • New curriculum-related programs resources that celebrate and affirm In 2004/05 Education staff completed Collaborative projects website include: existing adult education program at that are closely aligned to the priorities community. These services are based including Historiography, Breaking the Victoria’s culturally diverse community. and launched a range of new undertaken included: the Immigration Museum. In 2004/05 and initiatives of Government. on Museum Victoria’s exhibitions and Code and The Meaning of Things Education visitation numbered 37,932. programs including: • Drama & Cultural Diversity; Evolution; activities included the publication of research and create authentic learning • The Universal Peace Charity funded Moving Stories; Journeys to Australia; new education kits for students and • Museum Victoria convenes the experiences for students of all ages, • The development and publication As well as refreshing and updating • VCE Electricity; Electricity, movement water program Where Does the What’s Your Story?; and Avventura, their teachers visiting Bugs Alive!, the Science and Society Network as well as improving teacher skills and of Philosophy Guides for three of existing programs, Education and magnetism; Electrical energy, Water Go? forza e coraggio education kits Mind and Body Gallery and Australia on behalf of the Department of capabilities. They are delivered on-site, the galleries staff completed and launched safety and lightning; and VCE Electric Gallery at Melbourne Museum. Education and Training. This provides via the web and through programs in a range of new programs and Power shows for the Lighting Room • The Teacher Professional Leave • Adult Education Science and These are available online. The a forum for cultural organisations the community. • The development and publication resources including: program with Department of Education Literacy resources development of new education kits to share information. of the Water Discovery Guide • Journey to Mars and Predator Prey and Training for the project Integrating for students and teachers visiting Professional development for both • Moving Stories, a staff-led program for Science Shows Physical Sciences in the • Dinosaurs from China - Student Scienceworks has commenced. • The Star 6 transport subsidy practising and pre-service teachers • The Top Designs exhibition was primary students involving a range of Primary Curriculum. Exhibition Guides and Activities; Sport program funded by Government and occurred at all museums and included developed with the support of the story choices and outcomes based on • Magic Happens With Science Science More than Heroes and Legends; and administered by Museum Victoria. workshops and seminars held on- Victorian Curriculum and Assessment the Immigration Museum’s exhibitions. Stage show • Strategic partnership were created Eaten Alive Early Learning site and at conferences addressing Authority, Victorian industry and the to research and develop a DVD on: • The Catholic Education Office curriculum content and pedagogical wider education community. • Settlers Under Sail, a drama workshop • Funny Fluids and Surfactants House Channel Deepening and the • Italian language materials for Bugs New programs developed for children Melbourne and the Italian community issues such as the different ways that for lower primary students developed Secrets demonstrations Local Community. Alive! and Mummies: Ancient Egypt from pre-school to grade two included: organisation Co.As.It. enabled learning occurs in a museum setting. • Archaeology Week programs with Drama Victoria at the Museum and the Afterlife. Dynamic versions of teachers who are working at our included a lecture series on Life on an and presented across Victoria. • VCE Astrophysics planetarium show Top Designs 2004 - VCE Student folios • Immigration Museum: Bear in there three museums to develop and Education visitation for the year was archaeological dig in Egypt. and Water Discovery Trail and Out of the bag deliver science, humanities and 269,708. A further 5,577 students • Journeys to Australia, online materials • VCE Psychology program – language programs. were able to access Museum Victoria • Melbourne Museum education staff to accompany the Station Pier Visual Perception • Melbourne Museum: Bugs, Bugs, programs via the Discovery Program. continued to collaborate with the exhibition for secondary students. Bugs, The Secret life of Bugs and • Continuation of the Active Minds Brunswick cluster of schools and Growing Stories program through the generosity Melbourne University, resulting in the As part of the Government’s Harmony of the Onbass Foundation. publication of a set of Philosophy Week program in March 2005, the This program provides transport Guides and in Melbourne Museum Education and Visitor Programs Evaluation Programs subsidies for disadvantaged hosting a Philosophy Conference. teams helped launch the Refugee government and Catholic primary and Aboriginal Youth Anti-Racism Significant initiatives this year included schools visiting Melbourne Museum Education Program, with a week the development and implementation and the Immigration Museum. of activities for visiting schools. of an integrated Evaluation Program for education services. This is delivered by • The City Centre program, a all venues online and was designed to partnership with the City Centre, utilise longitudinal data and correlate providing subsidised programs for audience, curriculum and students from government secondary marketing information. schools visiting Melbourne Museum and the Immigration Museum.

August Events 1 August 4 August – 29 May 2005 5 August 7, 14, 21 & 28 August 24 August – 30 January 2005 Central American Community Festival What Human Rights Means to Young People Premier’s Design Awards 2004 BASF Kids Lab Sport: More than Heroes and Legends, Museum Victoria Immigration Museum Immigration Museum Melbourne Museum Scienceworks Scienceworks

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Discovery Program Melbourne’s Golden Mile Museum Victoria’s information Melbourne Museum • The Discovery Centre developed Immigration Heritage Trail centres enable the public to access Discovery Centre new displays and dinosaur content Discovery Centre The Discovery Program is a physical information about our research and in conjunction with the Dinosaurs collections, staff expertise and more from China exhibition. The displays outreach program that works with Melbourne’s key heritage trail, The This year approximately 60,000 This year approximately 37,600 people detailed information about exhibition comprised 15 specimens from the education and community groups Golden Mile Trail, is now included people visited the Melbourne Museum visited the Immigration Discovery subjects and contents. Museum Victoria’s palaeontology throughout metropolitan and regional in all tourist maps and literature. Discovery Centre. A team of 16 Centre. A team of four volunteers collections. Dinosaur web links, Victoria and provides access to The trail is a self-guided experience volunteers contributed 1,024 hours contributed 482 hours of work. There are three ways in which publications and documentaries were Museum Victoria’s collections, that leads people through the city’s of work. the public can access Museum highlighted during the exhibition. exhibitions and programs. In the past heritage precincts and highlights how Program highlights for the Victoria’s knowledge: year, the program had contact with the discovery of gold shaped the Program highlights for the year include: As a continuation of the partnership more than 49,000 people, providing development of Melbourne. The City year include: • through physical centres that inspire, with Charles Sturt University, the access to those Victorians who cannot of Melbourne is a significant partner • Providing visitors with additional encourage and teach visitors to pursue Discovery Centre now accepts visit our museums for such reasons in the maintenance of this program. • The Inside Stories series presented information and resources when their interests and research quests; student placements for Teacher and as geographical distance, age and The Golden Mile Trail brochure is by Museum Victoria staff, showcasing visiting for specific events at the Librarianship tertiary courses. incarceration. The program has two available at all Museum venues and behind the scenes activity. museum such as Remembering • through a Museum Victoria public A Masters student completed a library Museum in a Van vehicles to present the Melbourne Visitor Centre at Station Pier Day, Ship Reunion Day enquiries service that provides access audit of the Discovery Centre a selection of collection and exhibition Federation Square. • Internet for Seniors sessions were and the Vietnamese Cultural to Museum Victoria expertise and collection in April 2005. display material. The program recently held during Senior Citizens Week Festival Day. extended its range of services to behind-the-scenes activity related in March 2005. to research, collections and participate in significant regional • Internet for Seniors – Getting Started exhibitions; and events. These included the Ballarat • Caring for Collections Day with in Family History sessions were held Begonia Festival and the Warrnambool Conservation and History & during Senior Citizens Week in • through Web-friendly information Fun4Kids Festival. The Museum’s Technology curatorial staff, held on March 2005. Working Machines exhibition appeared systems including discovery centre International Museums Day on 18 websites and online catalogues. at the Ronaldson-Tippett Centenary May 2005, saw many personal items • The Immigration Discovery Centre Rally in Ballarat, the Lake Goldsmith brought to Melbourne Museum for free participated in the Family History The Discovery Centres at Melbourne Steam Rally in Beaufort and the advice on the care and Day held at the Victorian Archives Museum and the Immigration Museum 10th National Heritage Machinery historical significance of their Centre on 9th April - a successful received 5,850 public enquiries. Of Association Rally in Naracoorte. personal collections. partnership event. these, 65% were completed by using Discovery Centre resources and 35% As well as delivering over 900 face-to- Partnerships with related and were referred to Museum Victoria face presentations and coordinating affiliated organisations continued expert staff. a kit-hire program in 2004/05, the to strengthen, including the State Discovery Program saw its audience Library of Victoria, Public Record shift from 60/40 metropolitan and Office Victoria, Department of regional to 50/50 metropolitan Immigration and Multicultural Affairs, and regional. Genealogical Society of Victoria and various genealogical societies. These partnerships assist the Immigration Discovery Centre with responding to public enquiries and providing informed answers and referrals.

26 August – 1 December 15 – 21 August 17 August 19 August Blud in the Ground – National Science Week Crosbie Morrison Memorial Lecture Searching for Black Holes, Respect the Dead, Respect the Living! Activities across Museum Victoria ‘Wizards of the Sea: the secret lives of Dr Tanya Hill Bunjilaka, Melbourne Museum octopuses and their kin’ by Dr Mark Norman Melbourne Planetarium, Scienceworks Melbourne Museum Museums Board of Victoria Annual Report 2004/05 Page 24/25 10:15:01 10:15:11 10:15:16 10:15:18 10:15:20 10:15:22 10:15:40 10:16:11 10:16:41 10:17:16 10:17:22 10:17:23

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Big Bug puppet show, PERFORMANCE Melbourne Museum OVERVIEW

Strategy Strategy Strategy Strategy

Create exhibitions that are engaging, Provide websites that offer high-quality Use innovative display methods to Provide a range of activities surprising and authoritative. content and are easy to navigate. convey the wealth of our collections including tours, field trips, and knowledge. performances, presentations, lectures and publications that appeal Actions and results Actions and results to a broad audience. Actions and results Museum Victoria’s exhibition and Existing websites were updated to content renewal program for the ensure best accessibility, usability, Museum Victoria continued to Actions and results period 2004-07 encompasses major relevance and maintenance practices. pursue the Treasure House Project, exhibition developments, minor a collection store for public access. Activities offered to visitors included: displays and the refreshment of A detailed Business Case was weekend and holiday programs, orientation spaces, information points Strategy completed and the State Government tours, hands-on activities, lectures, and activity areas at Melbourne approved the purchase of the site. This presentations by staff, special Museum, Immigration Museum Attract high-quality touring exhibitions will enable the Treasure House vision children’s events, film screenings, and Scienceworks. The Melbourne and then create our own for to be achieved over the coming years. craft activities, bug keepers’ talks, Planetarium has undergone a display elsewhere. eel feeding demonstrations, shows, major upgrade. Three new shows were developed field trips, workshops, forums, family for Virtual Room: Sacred Angkor: activity days and outdoor Museum Victoria also took its Actions and results stereographic panoramas of the evening concerts. exhibitions overseas. The joint temple complex; Victoria goes Expo; Notions of exhibition between the Powerhouse A total of 26 temporary exhibitions and Specific programs were delivered the Deep. Museum and Museum Victoria entitled were installed, launched and/or to mark particular events including: Our Place: Indigenous Australia Now demounted across the three venues. National Science Week, National opened at the Benaki Museum in As part of the Winter 2005 School Water Week, National Archaeology Athens and has since shown in Beijing. Holiday Program, Museum Victoria set Week, Cultural Diversity Week and up a DNA laboratory in the Science Harmony Day, NAIDOC Week, Adult Museum Victoria developed 19 and Life Gallery. Scientists used real Learners’ Week, Seniors’ Festival, exhibitions in 2004/05. Ten were laboratory equipment to research DNA International Day for People with a launched during the year. of owls and engaged in conversation Disability, International Children’s Day, with visitors. International Museums Day and Arts Victoria Open House.

September Events 1 September – 8 September 2 September – 21 November 4 September 12 September 12 September Adult Learner’s Week Weaving Lands Community Exhibition Outlawed forum Machines in Action Day Polish Festival Museum Victoria Activities across Museum Victoria Immigration Museum Melbourne Museum Scienceworks Immigration Museum

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Melbourne Museum is a broad-based • Melbourne Museum Shop, which Long-Term Exhibitions Medical Melbourne showcased the Te Pasifika Gallery Belonging to Country explores the The Virtual Room uses experimental Children’s Gallery State museum with a national and offers a wide variety of giftware, incredible achievements of people complex relationships between imaging technology to enable visitors international focus that covers the museum merchandise, books and Evolution Gallery working in the field of biomedical Developed in partnership with the Aboriginal people and land and to see around, above, below and Aimed at three to eight year-olds, this natural and physical sciences as educational materials. science and research in Melbourne. Pacific Islander community, Te Vainui waterways throughout Australia. through digital objects and moving gallery consists of an exhibition space well as social history and cultures. Dinosaurs in Time is an exhibition It closed in June 2005. O Pasifika displays watercraft The spiritual, economic and political images. Programs offered this year and the Tattersall’s Children’s Garden. Exhibitions cover six major themes: • The Discovery Centre, which enables about the history of life on Earth, objects from nearly every country connections are explored through a were Think Big (on the human brain), Australian society, Indigenous the public to access information from ancient microfossils to trilobites, The Mind & Body Gallery is currently in the Pacific. selection of objects from The Future of Virtualisation, Australian 1, 2, 3 Grow illustrates the story of cultures, the human mind and about the Museum’s collections and dinosaurs, mammals and plants. undergoing exhibition renewal with the collections. Polar Dinosaurs, Exploring Mars and growth through the themes of size, body, science, technology and the research materials. the launch of a refurbished Human Sacred Angkor. colour and shape. Refurbished in environment. Through its exhibitions, Darwin to DNA explores the processes Body exhibition in September 2005. Bunjilaka Two Laws explores Aboriginal 2005, it uses natural history specimens Melbourne Museum aims to provide • IMAX Melbourne. and mechanisms of evolution and A temporary exhibition space is perspectives on knowledge, law and Bugs Alive! features a unique to encourage children to explore how an interactive and exciting visitor how our understanding has changed also under construction and a new Bunjilaka is the Aboriginal Centre property. Artworks, artefacts and video integration of live bug displays with plants, animals and humans grow. experience to the broadest • Melbourne Museum’s building and through the study of DNA. permanent exhibition on the mind and at Melbourne Museum. It aims to examine the differences between an extensive entomology collection, possible audience. facilities serve as popular venues brain is scheduled to open in present, interpret and celebrate Indigenous and non-Indigenous laws models, multimedia and staffed for corporate functions, events late 2006. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander and perceptions. demonstrations to create a rich and Forest Gallery Major features of Melbourne and performances. Mind and Body Gallery cultures, philosophies and issues, popular experience for visitors. Museum include: with a focus on south-eastern The Forest Gallery is a living example • Sidney Myer Amphitheatre, a 150-seat Bodyscape encourages visitors Australia Gallery Australia. Bunjilaka reflects the strong Science and Life Gallery The CSIRAC exhibition celebrates an of Victoria’s tall temperate forests. • Bunjilaka, the Aboriginal Centre, outdoor arena. to journey through our evolving partnership between Museum Victoria international icon of the digital age. The gallery houses thousands of which explores issues relating to the understanding of the human body’s Melbourne – Stories from a City and Aboriginal communities The Science and Life Gallery features CSIRAC is the world’s only surviving, trees and plants, from more than 120 experiences, rights and perspectives • The Age Theatre. construction and the colourful history explores the history of Melbourne, its across Victoria. It has temporary exhibitions that explore digital intact, first-generation stored-memory different species, and is also home to of Australia’s Indigenous people. of dissection and anatomy. people, neighbourhoods, workplaces exhibitions and three permanent technology, biodiversity, geology and computer and is recognised as a approximately 20 different vertebrate and cultures. exhibitions including: invertebrate biology, and how they National Engineering Landmark. species, including snakes, birds, fish • the Forest Gallery, which is a living Body Parts looks at the body’s have changed our perceptions of and frogs. The gallery’s exhibition gallery with temperate trees over 20 fundamental structure and processes Windows on Victoria features eight Koori Voices recounts the stories of the world. A new exhibition with a marine theme Forest Secrets is designed to convey metres tall, thousands of other plants by highlighting the circulatory, key historical events that have made Aboriginal people in Victoria. It is a is currently being developed and will a range of stories about forest life and and a wide variety of living digestive, reproductive, hormonal, a lasting impact on Victorian society celebration of the survival of Aboriginal Southern Diversity is a discovery of open in December 2005. how this environment changes over creatures including insects, birds, immune and musculoskeletal systems. since European settlement. culture and the ways Aboriginal people Australia’s unique plants and animals. time. As Melbourne Museum’s only fish and snakes. have continually sought to maintain Familiar and lesser-known groups 100-year exhibition, the Forest Gallery Biotech & Beyond examined the Phar Lap – A True Legend pays tribute autonomous lifestyles, in spite including kangaroos, cockatoos, sea provides the promise of growth and • the Children’s Gallery, with exhibitions development and application of to Australia’s most famous racehorse of oppressive policies and jellies, ants and sharks are highlighted change for generations to come. and activities designed for three to biotechnology, as well as issues and the country’s first media star. welfare regimes. through six Victorian environments. eight year-olds. associated with current and potential areas of research. It closed in • a Touring Hall for major June 2005. travelling exhibitions.

18 September – 3 October 22 September 24 September – 10 October 29 September Victorian School Holidays Around the World by Sea Fringe Furniture One Day in the Life of Museum Victoria Activities across Museum Victoria Immigration Museum Melbourne Museum Museum Victoria

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Age Theatre, Melbourne Museum

Temporary Exhibitions Design 2004 Exhibition Ara Iritija: Protecting the past - Temporary Exhibitions Sky Raising Magpies Visitor Programs and I Saw a Dinosaur and Community Collections 28 July to 17 October 2004 accessing the future in Bunjilaka Opened 11 February 2005 Special Events Tales from the Tomb This program was introduced in 2004 Top Designs 2004 As the centre-piece of the State of 20 December 2004 – 28 March 2005 A very different kind of Holden Two new presentations were to encourage community members Design Festival, this award-based This exhibition describes a project utility. Developed by a Gunai/Kurnai developed to link with the travelling to share their collections and passion 26 March to 4 July 2004 Diamonds are precious to us too! Ongoing Programs exhibition featured 72 examples of capturing Indigenous memories in collaborative team led by Lake Tyres exhibitions Dinosaurs from China and for collecting. Over 20 community An annual exhibition featuring 2 April 2004 to 2 Aug 2004 The regular What’s On at Melbourne Australian design excellence. a digital age. The project identified, resident artist and teacher Catherine Mummies: Ancient Egypt and the organisations and individuals will outstanding works by media, An exhibition of sculptures inspired Museum comprises daily tours of the copied and electronically recorded Larkins, the Ute - complete with large Afterlife. Written and presented by participate in the 2005 season. technology and design students, as a by the material culture of south eastern Royal Exhibition Building as well as Fringe Furniture historical materials about the Anangu wings and tail and a nest basket - uses Museum staff, the shows were a key component of the VCE Season Australia, by Aboriginal artist Kelly a Museum Highlights tour, weekend 24 September to 10 October 2004 people, enabling descendants to the magpie as a symbol of territorial feature of weekend and school Education Week Family Activity Day of Excellence. Koumalatsos. The diamond and zig- activities and presentations. The Fresh views and new directions in access this previously unavailable boundaries and the strength of family holiday programs. As part of State Education Week, the zag designs are a visual language that Museum’s lecture program includes furniture design, organised by the historical information. and community relationships in Museum hosted a family activity day Treasures: Museum Victoria directly connects Kelly to her staff presentations, as well as Melbourne Fringe Festival. East Gippsland. National Water Week aimed at students, teachers, their Celebrates 150 years cultural heritage, the Wergaia and lectures co-produced with a range Koorlongka Water Smart Home programs were families and related school community 16 May 2004 to 31 March 2005 Wamba Wamba. of partners. These partners included: Digital Design Biennale: 17 February to 22 May 2005 Tracks, Traps and Tucker. presented, including off-site tours members. The day featured free Some of the most significant objects Anthropological and Archaeological Imagining the Future This exhibition presented stories An exhibition by Fiona Clarke to water smart homes and gardens, activities, workshops and specimens from the Museum’s Urbaninity Society of Victoria, Australian 11 November 2004 to 6 February 2005 of Indigenous children in Western 16 April to 19 June 2005 and a Grey Water Forum in the and performances. collection, displayed in foyers, public 1 July 2004 to 1 August 2004 Geographic, Maths Association of This exhibition by lab.3000 at RMIT Australia, from the Museum of A collection of art works and tapestries Age Theatre. spaces and throughout the exhibition A collection of works from 40 Victorian Victoria and National Geographic. A showcased the impact of digital Childhood, Edith Cowan University. from Gunditjmara and Kirrae Whurrong galleries as part of Museum Victoria’s Indigenous artists. key feature of the annual Calender of IMAX Theatre design and examined its use by artist, Fiona Clarke. Romp ‘n Stomp 150th anniversary. Events is the expanded program for practitioners to conceive and create Top Designs 2005 Now in its second year, this initiative Treasures of Aboriginal Australia school holidays and long weekends The acquisition of the IMAX Theatre new environments. 4 March to 10 July 2005 Twined Together: is aimed at pre-school children and Outlawed 9 July 2004 to 30 January 2005 – periods that comprise 25% of in December 2004 has enabled This annual exhibition again featured kunmadj njalehnjalken comprises an activity program focused 10 June to 10 October 2004 Treasures from the Museum’s the year. Museum Victoria to enhance the visitor Dinosaurs from China outstanding works by media, Opened 13 May 2005 on the development of physical, An exhibition from the National collections of Aboriginal artefacts experience within the Melbourne 19 November 2004 to 17 April 2005 technology and design students, An exhibition of extraordinary fibre- cognitive and imaginative skills. Museum of Australia in Canberra, the and photographs. Design forums, lectures and Museum precinct. Traditional Initially developed by the Australian as a component of the VCE Season work of Kunwinjku speaking Aboriginal The event is co-presented with the exhibition told the true stories and workshops documentary style IMAX films Museum, Sydney, this exhibition was of Excellence. women from Western Arnhem Land, following partners: Early Learning popular legends of bushrangers, rebels Blud in the Ground – Respect the Museum Victoria has developed a continued to be popular with both the re-presented with additional Museum developed with the Injalak Arts and Management Services, Kindergarten and revolutionaries from around Dead, Respect the Living! range of partnerships to present a general public and education markets, Victoria content alongside the large Eureka Moments! Crafts Association. Parents Victoria, Lady Gowrie Child the world. 26 August to 1 December 2004 national and international program of with films titles including; NASCAR dinosaur skeletons and fossils from 4 June to 21 July 2005 Centre Inc, Multicultural Resource This exhibition approached design events. These partnerships are 3D, Forces of Nature, Aliens of the the Beijing Natural History Museum Highlights from 50 years of Australian Country Style, Country Youth Centre, Playgrouping Victoria and Alessi Tea and Coffee Towers: controversial subjects relating to between Department of Innovation Deep and Wild Safari. For the first and the Zingong Dinosaur Museum. A Science, presented by the Australian Opened 30 June 2005 Playworks. The attendance of over Digital Dreams, Manufactured respect for the dead and the living Industry and Regional Development, time, Hollywood blockbusters were scientific highlight was the display of Academy of Sciences. An exhibition of paintings by Yorta 3,000 participants on the day was Realities through the display of culturally the City of Melbourne, Swinburne screened including The Polar Express feathered dinosaur specimens which Yorta Mhutti Mhutti artist Craig more than double the standard daily 18 June to 8 August 2004 sensitive artwork. University, RMIT, Monash University and ROBOTS. had not previously been exhibited Mummies: Ancient Egypt Charles, highlighting the importance of visitation figure for this time of year. Presented by lab.3000 at RMIT, this and the Design Institute of Australia. in Australia. and the Afterlife Indigenous urban and country youth. touring display featured prototypes of Land and People – Shared Country Highlights of the program include Opened 24 June 2005 tea and coffee sets designed by 22 10 November 2004 to 31 January 2005 the Manufacturing Design Forum, The World We Live In: World AIDS Fascinating insights into death rituals innovative and respected architects A collection of photographic images the introduction of activities and Day 2004 art exhibition and beliefs in Ancient Egypt as told commissioned by Italian design and stories by Alister Thorpe Jnr. that workshops for families and teenagers, 24 November to 5 December 2004 through the story of Keku, a wealthy manufacturer, Alessi. reflected the diversity of South East and Regional Design Breakfasts in The World We Live In was an art young woman who died 2,700 years Australian Aboriginal Communities and Geelong and Ballarat. exhibition organised by Youth ago. Organised by the Australian their connection to the land. Empowerment Against HIV/AIDS to Museum, Sydney and the National commemorate World AIDS Day 2004. Museum of Antiquities, Leiden, The Netherlands.

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The Royal Exhibition Building and In July 2004 the Royal Exhibition Community interest in the Royal the Carlton Gardens are a rare Building and Carlton Gardens was Exhibition Building continues to intact reminder of the 19th century inscribed on the World Heritage List of increase with World Heritage status international exhibitions movement, UNESCO’s Convention concerning the resulting in the revamp of daily tours which showcased the products of Protection of the World Cultural and which are operated by Melbourne the industrial revolution, promoted Natural Heritage. The Royal Exhibition Museum staff. With the exception of a the wonders of the technological age Building has outstanding universal small number of events, tours are now and fostered a global exchange of value as the only surviving Great able to operate at the same time as products and ideas. Hall from a significant international commercial events. exhibition. It symbolises the The building and the exhibitions fundamental purpose of the exhibition Stakeholders including Museum proclaimed to the world that movement and retains a high level of Victoria continue the development Melbourne was an international city, authenticity both architecturally and of management plans for the World with the wealth to spend on lavish in its continued use as an exhibition Heritage site which highlight areas of display. The content of the exhibitions venue. The Royal Exhibition Building responsibility, desirable projects and also had a transforming effect as the and Carlton Gardens is the first built possible funding sources. people of Victoria were exposed to site in Australia to be added to the the latest manufactures from all over UNESCO World Heritage list. the globe. Today, the commercial business of Constructed in 1879–1880, the operating the Royal Exhibition Building Royal Exhibition Building was the as a venue for hire continues to centrepiece of the International grow with large scale events such as Exhibition of 1880. Since that time, the Melbourne International Flower the Royal Exhibition Building has and Garden Show, the bi-annual been the site of many great events in Bridal Exhibition, The University Melbourne, including the opening of of Melbourne exams and the long the first Australian Federal Parliament, running Hot Rod Show all staged the first Australian War Museum, and at the venue. To remain competitive the Olympic Games. in the exhibitions industry and to enhance the operational capability of the building a number of capital works projects were undertaken in 2005 including the construction of new staff offices, the upgrade of the theatrette and the installation of an additional passenger lift.

October Events 4 October – June 2006 13 October 16 – 17 October 17 October 17 October – 23 October Station Pier: Gateway to a new life Stories in the Stars: Victorian Model Solar Vehicle Challenge Smart Water Home interactive launched National Water Week Museum Victoria Immigration Museum The Night Sky of the Boorong People Scienceworks Melbourne Museum Melbourne Museum Melbourne Planetarium, Scienceworks Museums Board of Victoria Annual Report 2004/05 Page 34/35 15:19:01 15:19:11 15:19:16 15:19:18 15:19:20 15:19:22 15:19:40 15:26:11 15:36:41 15:36:43 15:36:45 15:36:47 IMMIGRATION Immigration Museum MUSEUM

The Immigration Museum continued Long Term Exhibitions Getting In Temporary Exhibitions What Human Rights Means to Passage from India Visitor Programs and Aboriginal and Refugee Youth to build on its success in 2004/05, This gallery looks at the reasons why Young People 10 December 2004 to Special Events Anti-Racism Education strongly positioning itself as a Four permanent galleries house people are granted or refused entry Station Pier: Gateway to a new life 4 August 2004 to 29 May 2005 19 February 2005 This project was launched on 18 significant cultural attraction in to Australia. The exhibition features An exhibition of photographs from the Developed by Victoria’s Anglo-Indian March as part of Cultural Diversity historical objects and stories that are 4 October 2004 to June 2008 Ongoing Programs Victoria. Over 120,000 visitors the award winning interactive theatre Western Young People’s Independent community, led by the East Indian Week. The partners for this project enhanced by multimedia technology For hundreds of thousands of The visitor program approach at experienced the Museum this year experience exploring Australia’s Network of a project which asked Club of Melbourne, this exhibition include: Australians for Native Title and interactive facilities. The resulting Victorians, Station Pier was the the Immigration Museum fosters – the highest rate of visitation since immigration policies and processes what human rights mean to celebrated the presence in Australia and Reconciliation, Western Young displays offer an engaging experience gateway to a new life. This exhibition involvement of families, distinct the Museum’s opening in 1998 and from the 1800’s to the present day. young people from refugee and of one of India’s smallest People’s Independent Network, Dulin that brings to life the many dimensions explores why this Melbourne landmark communities and older adults, and an increase in attendances of 20% migrant backgrounds. ethnic groups. Inc., Indigenous Young Peoples’ of the immigration journey. has become such an evocative symbol reflects the issues and interests of from last year. Mentoring Service, Cutting Edge Youth of Victoria’s immigration. our culturally-diverse society. Special Community Gallery Services in Shepparton and Cobram, events and community engagement Strategic, market focussed The Community Gallery is an important SBS Federation Square Art The Buchenwald Boys Eaglehawk Secondary College in Leaving and Settling programs attract members of the programming of events, coordinated forum for presenting temporary Awards collection: Australian 7 March to 22 May 2005 Bendigo, Maribyrnong College and These galleries explore the reasons Chinese Costumes: garments and public who would not normally visit promotion and customer service exhibitions generated by Victoria’s Multiculturalism in the 21st Century In 1945, the US Army liberated Braybrook College from Melbourne, people leave their home country, accessories of China’s nationalities the Museum. The Museum’s regular oriented presentation resulted in an culturally and linguistically 18 December 2004 to 29 May 2005 Buchenwald Concentration Camp Multicultural Arts Victoria, AMES and what they take with them, how they East Wing Gallery What’s On program includes tours, increased public awareness of the diverse community. Eleven artists were commissioned to in Germany, where they discovered the Victorian Multicultural Commission. settle and what obstacles they have 1 December 2004 to 14 March 2005 films and children’s activities. museum and an improvement in the to overcome to start a new life in This exhibition revealed a special produce the selection of works on around 900 youths, mostly orphans. Museum’s profile. Victoria. Using sound, objects, understanding of contemporary China paper, photographs and paintings. This exhibition, in celebration of the Immigration Discovery Centre The works display the richness, texture 60th anniversary of their liberation, Community Cultural Festivals and still and moving images, these showcasing costumes and ornaments Kids Fest! The Immigration Museum’s The centre provides resources for and diversity of imagery that embodies focused on those Buchenwald Boys Three festivals were presented galleries also explore significant from 14 of China’s ethnic nationalities. Established three years ago, this event Community Connections program, the study of Australia’s immigration the multicultural nature of modern who subsequently migrated in partnership with specific historical milestones that are part On show for the first time in Australia, is aimed at introducing families with featuring four community exhibitions history and the social and cultural Australian life. to Australia. communities. The aim was to foster of Australian immigration history. the 58 different costumes displayed children less than 10 years of age to and three community festivals, development of Australian society. ties between the communities and The Settlings Gallery redevelopment exquisite crafting and unique designs. the Immigration Museum. resulted in important collaborations was completed in 2004/05. It is also a resource for those the Immigration Museum. with Victoria’s culturally and researching their own family’s history. Community Exhibitions 30 Years in the Making: Vietnamese linguistically diverse communities The Ecumenical Migration Centre in Australia • The Central American Festival in Speaking with Cloth: Remembering Station Pier Day and high levels of participation and library is housed in the Centre. 5 June 2005 to 29 January 2006 August provided an opportunity for The Journey Cerita Dalam Kain Weaving Lands This event in February included visitation. The Museum successfully Officially launched by Hon Malcolm over 500 members of this small and All immigrants are linked by the East Wing Gallery 2 September to 21 November 2004 talks, tours and entertainment and collaborated with the State Ethnic Fraser former Prime Minister diverse community to meet with common experience of a journey, 11 April to 28 August 2005 Basket making exists as a common provided visitors with the opportunity Affairs Commission of the People’s Tribute Garden of Australia, this exhibition was one another. regardless of their time of arrival. Speaking with Cloth: Cerita Dalam craft across many cultures, but in to reminisce about their Station Pier Republic of China and the Australian Located in the Festivals Courtyard, the developed in collaboration with the Located in the Long Room of Old Kain exhibited a selection from Australia these skills are rarely shared, experience with family and friends and Multicultural Foundation to present Tribute Garden records for posterity Vietnamese Community of Australia • The Polish Festival in September Customs House, the Journeys Gallery the important Abbott Collection of nor passed onto younger generations. others who had made the journey. the highly popular exhibition Chinese features a 17-metre replica ship, which the names of over 7000 families who Indonesian and East Timor textiles, The result of a major community arts (Victoria Chapter) and celebrated 30 attracted in excess of 2,000 people. Costumes: Garments and accessories represents the long sea journey many have made the journey to Australia. and was toured by the Museum and project devised by Hume City Council, years of Vietnamese immigration of China’s ethnic nationalities. to Australia. • The Vietnamese Festival in June migrants endured on their way to Art Gallery of the Northern Territory. Weaving Lands brought together Ship Reunions linked with a community exhibition Australia. The Journeys Gallery also Through the collection of rare cloths groups including Maori, Turkish, Held in October 2004 and May 2005, celebrating the 30th Anniversary examines the changes in shipping dating from the late 18th to the Vietnamese, Russians, Chinese, both of these events linked with the of Vietnamese Settlement in Victoria accommodation – from the cramped 20th centuries, and contemporary Kurdish and Indigenous Australians in Station Pier exhibition and included and attracted in excess of steerage-class, square-rigger of the interviews with Indonesian people, the creation of an innovative large- factual presentations on featured 1,100 people. 1840s, to the luxurious, second-class the exhibition explored many of the scale basket sculpture, the Galgi- ships and an opportunity for audience saloon of a 1900’s steamer and the important issues facing contemporary ngarrak Yirranboi Tree. members to reminisce and share their cabin of a 1950’s ocean liner. Indonesian culture. personal migration stories and family histories.

17 October – 23 October 27 October 30 October – 2 November 31 October Children’s Week Dance Festival Romp ‘n Stomp Children’s Festival Phar Lap activities Ship Reunion: 1947 Troop Ships Melbourne Museum Melbourne Museum Melbourne Museum Immigration Museum

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Scienceworks is a dynamic and Long-term Exhibitions Temporary Exhibitions Eaten Alive: World of Predators Melbourne Planetarium Visitor Activities and Working Machines Model Solar Vehicle Challenge interactive science and technology 16 February 2005 to 10 July 2005 Special Events As part of the working machines In partnership with Monash University, museum incorporating the Melbourne Main West Gallery Sport: More than Heroes This interactive exhibition explored The Melbourne Planetarium equipment restoration program, Machines in Scienceworks hosted the state finals Planetarium, the Victoria University the behaviours, adaptations and Action days were conducted at of the Model Solar Vehicle Challenge House Secrets and Legends was upgraded to a full digital sky Ongoing Programs High Voltage Theatre and the technologies that predators use Scienceworks. These events include in October 2004. Over 220 vehicles The exhibition House Secrets looks 24 August 2004 to 30 January 2005 dome system through a grant from The regular What’s On at Spotswood Sewerage Pumping to catch prey. Giant animatronic the operation and display of heritage competed and the total attendance for at the science and technology Discovering the triumphs, fashion, the Ministry for the Arts Asset Scienceworks comprises daily Station. Through hands-on exhibits, predators and a realistic 3D shark agricultural machinery, which is part the weekend was 3,235. behind many of the familiar things science and passion of sport, this Management Fund. Due to a short tours of the Pumping Station and live demonstrations, activities and cage enhanced the visitor experience of the Museum Victoria heritage in our homes. exhibition looked at how and why we closure, total visitation was less than Heritage Collection Store, weekend shows, Scienceworks visitors are of seeing how some of the more collection. Various working machines strive to be faster, better and fitter, and last year at 114,509, including 41,467 activities, science shows and encouraged to ‘get a grasp of science interesting predators obtain their food. were also displayed at local and Explorer Club why sport is much more than heroes school students and teachers. A new presentations in the Planetarium and and technology’. regional community events. The Explorer Children’s Club Main South Gallery and legends. show The Search for Life: Are we alone Lightning Room. A key aspect of maintained a regular newsletter of Sports Works was purchased for the relaunch of the annual Calendar of Events is the During the 2004/05 year, Scienceworks Megawatt information and activity days. This exhibition explores the science the Planetarium. expanded program for school holidays had another successful year of 12 February to 4 September 2005 BASF Kid’s Lab and technology of sport through Toys: Science at Play and long weekends – periods that above target attendance figures with This exhibition explores the role Held every Saturday during August, the themes of fitness, movement 8 May 2004 to 30 January 2005 comprise 25% of the year. of electricity in our everyday lives these chemistry workshops were more than 376,000 visitors. This is and skills. Incorporating 40 engaging exhibits, Victoria University High an excellent result, considering the including robots, dolls, pinball, through 40 interactive displays. free for Scienceworks visitors. This Planetarium was closed for five weeks Voltage Theatre unique partnership, in which BASF and kaleidoscopes and more, Toys aimed Planetarium Lectures for an equipment upgrade. Scienceworks’ staff have collaborated Mezzanine Level to help visitors understand the science In partnership with RMIT, the Illusions and Visual Perception This facility is now promoted as The to develop and present the chemistry Nitty Gritty Super City that makes toys work. Melbourne Planetarium presented 7 March to 24 June 2005 Lightning Room – the name change workshops, is indicative of a new trend This exhibition engages young children the Making Sense of Heaven This small exhibition of visual illusions assisting visitors to better understand within corporate partnerships and in a variety of activities designed to and Earth lecture by renowned showed visitors how the same its function. The following shows were community engagement. improve their understanding of astrophotographer Dr David Malin. principles underpinning the human offered: VCE Electricity, VCE Electric the world. Dr Tanya Hill, Astronomy Curator, brain’s operation can be manipulated Power and The Electricity, Magnets Museum Victoria, presented the to create visual illusions. and Movement Show. 66,562 people saw a show, 15,910 of who were Searching for Black Holes lecture, Spotswood Sewage students and their teachers. which included a Planetarium show Pumping Station and telescope viewing. Muck Bunker Stormwater Experience This interactive exhibition looks at the issues surrounding the stormwater system. It focuses on pollution causes and what can be done to improve the quality of the water in the system.

November Events 10 November 10 November – 31 January 2005 11 November – 6 February 2005 19 November – 17 April 2005 24 November Grey Water Forum Land and People – Shared Country Digital Design Biennale: Imagining the Future Dinosaurs from China Stakeholder Dinner and launch of Dinosaurs Museum Victoria Melbourne Museum Bunjilaka, Melbourne Museum Melbourne Museum Melbourne Museum from China Melbourne Museum Museums Board of Victoria Annual Report 2004/05 Page 38/39 10:15:01 10:15:11 10:15:16 10:15:18 10:15:20 10:15:22 10:15:40 10:16:11 10:16:41 10:17:16 10:17:22 10:17:23 MUSEUM VICTORIA Main Foyer, Melbourne Museum TOURING EXHIBITIONS

Destination Australia: Megawatt Ports of Immigration The exhibition completed its New Development of this exhibition, Zealand tour in July 2004 with Te based on the successful Station Manawa, Palmerston North as the last Pier: Gateway to a new life at venue. It was then displayed at The the Immigration Museum, has Workshops Rail Museum in Ipswich commenced. The exhibition will from August 2004 to January 2005. start touring in September 2006. It returned to the floor at Scienceworks in January 2005 and will remain on display until September 2005. Toys: Science at Play Collaboratively developed between Scienceworks and Scitech Discovery Our Place: Indigenous Australia Now Centre, Western Australia, this This exhibition was produced in exhibition visited the Powerhouse partnership with the Powerhouse Museum between February 2004 Museum in Sydney and shown at the and July 2005 and is now installed Benaki Museum, Athens as part of at Questacon, The National Science the 2004 Athens Olympics Cultural and Technology Centre in Canberra for Program. It has also been shown at 12 months. the National Museum of China, Beijing.

24 November – 5 December The World We Live In: World AIDS Day 2004 art exhibition Melbourne Museum Museums Board of Victoria Annual Report 2004/05 Page 40/41 10:15:01 10:15:11 10:15:16 10:15:18 10:15:20 10:15:22 10:15:40 10:16:11 10:16:41 10:17:16 10:17:22 10:17:23 WEBSITE Melbourne Museum DEVELOPMENT

Online Publishing Amongst the year’s many projects, Key websites developed • The Water Smart Home website key achievements include: and upgraded include: provides information, resources The Online Publishing Team develops and case studies related to this and manages all Museum Victoria • Development of a large-scale • Victorian Railways - Celebrating 150 community-based project, which aims websites, which provide information interactive project – Origins: Immigrant years of railways in Victoria. Explores to engage, educate and inspire the beyond our venues to a local, national Communities in Victoria. A database- Victoria’s rich railway history, drawing public on how to reduce, reuse and and international audience. A vast driven system will deliver content to from over 1000 historic images from revalue water in everyday life. array of resources are available via both the exhibition space via a large the collections of Museum Victoria www.museum.vic.gov.au/ these sites, including corporate, touchscreen and a website version and the Public Record Office Victoria. watersmarthome venue, exhibition, collections, in the Immigration Discovery Centre. This project was the first to utilise research, educational and many recently developed systems, allowing • The Museum Victoria Lectures ‘showcase’ projects, all of which • Increased emphasis on the Hot Topics management of all primary data via Archive website was significantly continue to grow year by year. publishing system, with 87 new articles Museum Victoria’s EMu collection improved and now provides access to added during the year. management system. background information, images and Museum Victoria websites recorded The streamlined processes have www.museum.vic.gov.au/railways audio files. 2.9 million individual user sessions resulted in a 50% increase in www.museum.vic.gov.au/lectures for the year. publication and 100% increase • The Fiji’s Treasured Culture website in visitation. is a collaborative project comprising selected images of objects from • Commencement of What’s On Museum Victoria’s collection and system redevelopment. historical images from the Fiji Museum. This project continues our EMu to • Implemented processes for image website process development. copyright tracking on Museum www.museum.vic.gov.au/fiji Victoria websites.

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Strategy Strategy Strategy Strategy Strategy Strategy Strategy • Extensive consultation has been undertaken with Victorian Aboriginal Develop partnerships that increase Develop partnerships that enhance the Develop partnerships that raise Develop partnerships that enable us Maximise our ability to contribute Develop partnerships that bring Further our relationship with communities regarding the repatriation community involvement and support. expertise of our staff and extend the our profile both nationally to do things that we could not do on to the cultural, scientific and economic in funds and supplement Indigenous communities. of ancestral remains, including range of our knowledge. and internationally. our own. life of Victoria. existing resources. negotiations with the Gunditjmara Native Title Group. Actions and results Actions and results Actions and results Actions and results Actions and results Actions and results Actions and results • Negotiations have been undertaken for the repatriation of remains to New • Horizons, a Melbourne Museum • Museum Victoria supported Victorian Zealand including discussions with Volunteer training, professional • Museum Victoria continued to • Museum Victoria expanded its • Museum Victoria developed new • Funding for research projects was • Partnerships with Victorian Aboriginal artists and communities representatives of Te Papa, Museum of development and rewards program collaborate with other Australian research capacity by undertaking partnerships and maintained received from the Australian Biological Multicultural Commission and through the program of community New Zealand. was reviewed. The program has been museums in the Online Zoological collaborative research projects and existing relationships with funding Resources Study; Department of Department of Human Services exhibitions for Bunjilaka delivered as extended and is now available to all Collections of Australian Museums relationships with key universities bodies, including philanthropic Environment and Heritage; Department assisted with Cultural Diversity Week part of the Birrarung Strategy. • Museum Victoria’s Roving Curator Museum Victoria Volunteers. project, which is a distributed web and research institutions. Existing foundations and trusts, federal and of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry; and British Child Migrant project. continued to support Indigenous network that enables Internet access collaborations supported this work state government departments and and National Heritage Trust. • Key relationships developed by communities in the preservation, • Integrated and consistent standards for inquiries regarding natural history including research on the Donald agencies, and international • The State of Design Festival 2004 Bunjilaka include the Melbourne protection and management of their for the recognition of volunteer hours database records in all Thomson collection with ANU; granting organisations. • Funding was also received from Presentation Awards Dinner was 2006 Commonwealth Games cultural heritage. Activities included of service across Museum Victoria Australian museums. research into the gay & lesbian the Wettenhall Foundation for a held at Melbourne Museum on 5 Cultural Committee and Arts Victoria two regional Aboriginal community have been implemented. history of Victoria with the University • Funding was received from the publication on Nudibranchs, CSIRO August 2004. - facilitating access for Koori artists workshops on photographic archiving. • Museum Victoria developed the of Melbourne. Additionally, Museum Department of Environment and for the conservation of a mineral to collections for the purpose of Two regional Aboriginal community • The Museum Victoria Volunteer Collection Inventory System support Victoria has taken membership in the Heritage for a project to database and ore collection, the Australian • Media partnerships with T he Age, developing artworks for the opening of workshops were also held on fibre Recognition Program was launched in services infrastructure that was Australasian Research Management Australian Landsnails and the Roving Shipowners Association for marine Channel 7 and Channel 10 continue the Melbourne 2006 Commonwealth craft. A three-day workshop was held May 2005, in conjunction with National successfully implemented and Society (ARMS). Curator Program, the Australian pest identification, the Department of to be developed, as do relationships Games. Ongoing cross cultural at Museum Victoria with Northern Volunteers Week. supported at Powerhouse Museum. Research Council for research on Infrastructure for the Railways website, with funding bodies such as the awareness training was provided to Territory and Victorian Aboriginal • Museum Victoria staff attended various Agamid Lizards and the Australian The University of Melbourne for a PhD Victorian Multicultural Commission Victoria Police, and the Aboriginal women covering fibrecraft, jewellery, international conferences including Quarantine Inspection Service for project on the history of Australian and Visions of Australia. Tourism Marketing Association was possum skin etching, feather flowers meetings in the UK, USA, South Africa the development of the Pests and childhood. And The Miegunyah Press provided with support for Aboriginal and print making. and Taiwan. Museum Victoria also Diseases Image Library (PaDIL). for a publication featuring Donald tourism operators. hosted several international visitors in Thomson’s photos of the Pintupi. Australia for the Museums Australia • State funding bodies such as Arts • Repatriations have been made to National Conference during May 2005. Victoria have provided funds for the • Work on the Thomas Ramsay the Barkindji and Ngarrindjeri. Secret development of a program celebrating Fellowship is continuing. Four 1854 Sacred objects have been returned the eight hour working day, and the student scholarships were awarded; to communities near Alice Springs. State Library Victoria for research into two in Natural Sciences, and one the history of gay and lesbian Victoria. each in History & Technology and Indigenous Cultures.

1 December – 14 March 2005 10 December – 19 February 2005 18 December – 26 January 2005 18 December – 29 May 2005 20 December – 28 March 2005 December Events Chinese Costumes: Passage from India Victorian School Holidays SBS Federation Square Art Awards collection: Ara Iritija: Protecting the past - Museum Victoria Garments and Accessories Immigration Museum Activities across Museum Victoria Australian Multiculturalism in the 21st Century accessing the future of China’s Nationalities Immigration Museum Melbourne Museum Immigration Museum Museums Board of Victoria Annual Report 2004/05 Page 46/47 14:39:01 14:39:11 14:39:16 14:40:18 14:40:20 14:40:22 14:40:40 14:41:11 14:41:41 14:41:43 14:41:45 14:41:47 PARTNERSHIPS Forest Gallery, Melbourne Museum

Sponsorship, Patronage This year saw the launch of a series The Virtual Room The touring system then moved and Philanthropy of lectures aimed at providing an to Tokyo where it was shown at alternative way for our stakeholders to The Museum is a partner with the Miraikan Museum of Emerging interact with Museum Victoria and to Science and Innovation in Tokyo Museum Victoria is committed to Swinburne University in a company meet other supporters and staff of the Bay for both the automotive industry developing long-term corporate VROOM CO Pty Ltd, established Museum. Guest speakers were Sir Neil Trade Mission and the general public. and philanthropic partnerships, to promote and sell the Virtual Cossons, Chair of English Heritage in During the ten days it was open to which greatly contribute towards Room technology nationally February and David Anderson, Director the public 7,600 people visited the the ongoing growth of Museum and internationally. of Learning and Interpretation at the Virtual Room II. The final installation Victoria. Partners include corporate Victoria & Albert Museum, London, at the Miraikan Museum culminated in sponsors, philanthropic organisations In December 2004 Museum in May. a function held on behalf of VROOM and individuals, government funding Victoria, working with RMIT and the Inc. by the Australian Ambassador to bodies, media and suppliers. Department of Innovation, Industry and Regional Development agreed Japan attended by VROOM Inc. staff, a host of cultural and commercial The Museum Victoria Patrons Program Research Grants to develop a touring version of the organisations from the Japanese is designed for individuals and Virtual Room to promote the Victorian cultural sector, and the Director of corporate entities who want to belong Museum Victoria continued to automotive industry across the world. Miraikan, Dr Mohri. to the Museum Victoria community implement aspects of the Research A special program was developed for and contribute towards its future. Strategy, which includes a focus the Virtual Room on the history and New content developed for the Virtual The Program consists of two on establishing and developing current scope and capability of the Room during 2004 included, Victoria subscription programs: Museum productive relationships with granting Victorian automotive industry. First goes EXPO a 3D film showcasing the Victoria Patrons and Museum Victoria organisations, and seeking support shown at the Melbourne International Australian Pavilion at World Expo 2005 Corporate Patrons. from both government and non- Motor Show in the Virtual Room II Avatars at the Flying government sectors. During 2004/05, then toured to the United States and in Aichi, Japan; Palace: Stereographic panoramas of Museum Victoria has established a research grants and additional funding Japan where it was shown at the Angkor Wat Cambodia and Notions of number of partnership opportunities, totalling approximately $1,891,000 Society of Automotive Engineers 100th the Deep a program `exploring mans including sponsorship of galleries, helped to expand our research Anniversary Show in Detroit and then fascination and fear of the deep sea. exhibitions, collections and programs. and related programs and facilitate onto the Toyota Museum in Aichi at the research outputs. The supplementary site of World Expo 2005. Since opening in December 2003 over The annual event to thank supporters funds assisted in undertaking new 300,000 people have experienced for their contributions in the past projects, engage extra staff and the wonder of the Virtual Room at year was held in late November in develop critical infrastructure that Melbourne Museum. conjunction with the launch of the would not otherwise be possible. Dinosaurs from China exhibition. Over 250 supporters of Museum Victoria attended the black tie dinner. Guests included sponsors, patrons and Government representatives.

20 December Wonderful Water Learning Environment Children’s Gallery, Melbourne Museum

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Museum Victoria’s Volunteers Program Melbourne Museum Immigration Museum Vocational Education provides an avenue for the Victorian community to support and actively A total of 287 volunteers contributed A pool of regular volunteers now A new initiative within Museum Victoria participate in the operation of a total of 11,693 hours at Melbourne assists with the weekday operation of is the introduction of an integrated Museum Victoria. Museum, providing assistance in a the Immigration Discovery Centre. The Year 10 Work Experience Placement range of areas and activities. Apart Immigration Museum also draws on Program, which exposes students The Program is accessible to people from regular roles such as tour guiding, volunteers from both the Scienceworks to the range of skills and expertise with a variety of skills, experience and explaining, activities and hosting and Melbourne Museum volunteer involved in operating the Museum. knowledge, and the work undertaken school groups, volunteers made pools to assist with Cultural Festivals. In 2005 over 50 placements will by volunteers enhances and augments significant contributions to a number In total, 890 hours were contributed by be offered. the visitor experience and care of of special exhibitions and events a total of 37 volunteers. In addition to collections for all of Museum Victoria’s including: Dinosaurs From China, MV volunteers, over 215 community venues. The Horizons Program, Romp and Stomp and the International members involved in community the rewards and life long learning Flower & Garden Show. exhibitions and festivals volunteered program for volunteers, was reviewed their time to coordinate and present and redeveloped in 2004 and is now these activities. available to all volunteers. Scienceworks As part of National Volunteers Week, Behind the Scenes the Museum launched its Volunteer At Scienceworks 17,452 hours were Recognition Program, which contributed by 156 volunteers. Apart acknowledges the individual hourly from regular programs, volunteers In addition to regular front-of-house contributions of volunteers when they made significant contributions to a roles, volunteers are involved behind reach significant milestones. number of special events including: the scenes, assisting with research Machines in Action Days and Model related to the Marine, Palaeontology, In 2004/05 a total of 625 Museum Solar Vehicle Challenge. Volunteers Telecommunications and HV McVay Victoria Volunteers contributed 42,317 also assisted with engineering & collections. Volunteers also assisted hours from an active and stable pool restoration projects and after-hours with the Thomas Ramsey Fellowship of 460 volunteers. The program has programs such as Sleepovers and 2004, which focussed on one of the 51 volunteers who speak 28 different Cruise the Constellations. Museum’s earliest publications, The languages other than English. Prodromus of the Zoology of Victoria, commissioned by Professor Frederick McCoy. In total, 12,282 hours were contributed by 145 volunteers.

January Events 6 January – 28 April (Thursdays) 16 January Cruise the Constellations Kids Fest! – Experience China Museum Victoria Melbourne Planetarium, Scienceworks Immigration Museum

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Museum Victoria undertakes Bronze Partners Public Partners Museum Victoria Patrons Museum Victoria Patrons Research Supporters The Ian Potter Foundation Honorary Appointments various corporate and philanthropic Industrial Relations Victoria partnerships. These partnerships 774 ABC Arts Victoria Museum Victoria Corporate Patrons Anonymous (2) Museum Victoria undertakes an James Cook University Honorary Life Fellows greatly contribute towards the ongoing Agility Australia Council for the Arts Foundation Gold Patrons Mr Peter and Mrs Marlyn Bancroft extensive research program with Members Equity Bank• The growth of Museum Victoria. Amersham Biosciences Australian Research Council Mr Anthony Berger and generous support from various Miegunyah Press Granted to those individuals of The Jack Brockhoff Foundation City of Melbourne Denton Corker Marshall Ms Marita Quinn funding organisations: The Myer Foundation high academic distinction or public Catholic Education Office Commonwealth Government through Distinguished Vineyards Mr John and Mrs Janet Calvert-Jones National Oceans Office standing, considered to have Gold Partners The Danks Trust the National Cultural Heritage Account Langdon Ingredients Ms Joyce Flowers Arts Victoria Natural Heritage Trust made a significant contribution to The Myer Foundation Community Support Fund Interprint Digital Mr Geoff Handbury The Australia Council The Norman Wettenhall Foundation the intellectual standing or other Ms Margaret Heffernan The Age Peter Rowland Catering Department of Communication Millmaine Entertainment Australian Academy of Sciences Plant Health Australia significant development of Mrs Tina McMeckan Channel Seven Melbourne Sofitel Melbourne Information Technology and the Arts Mitchell & Partners Australian Antarctic Division Port Phillip and Westernport Regional Museum Victoria. Dame Elisabeth Murdoch AC DBE Commonwealth Bank Dame Elisabeth Murdoch AC DBE Department of Education, Employment Peter Rowland Catering Australian Biological Resources Study Catchment Management Authority Ms Patricia Quinn Melbourne Water Mr Baillieu and Mrs Sarah Myer and Training The Australian Centre, University of Rainforest Cooperative Research Prof. Margaret Cameron AM Mr Ralph and Mrs Ruth Renard The Sidney Myer Fund The Onbass Foundation Department of Innovation, Industry Melbourne Centre Prof. John Coghlan AO Ms Rosiland Russell Tattersall’s Rugs Carpets By Design and Regional Development Gold Patrons The Australian National University Robert Salzer Foundation Mr Graham Cunningham Ms Julie Skewes The Grollo Family Department of Victorian Communities Australian Research Council Royal Melbourne Institute of Mrs Amanda Derham Ms Ricci Swart Western Region Waste Environment Protection Authority Arts Events Management Australasia Australian Workers Union Technology Mr Bob Edwards AO Mr Ralph and Management Group Supporting Partners Heritage Victoria Cambridge Integrated Services Smart Water Fund Mr Jack Ellis State Government of Victoria Mrs Barbara Ward-Ambler Victoria State Library of Victoria Ms Phyllis Fry Mrs Lyn Williams AM The University of Melbourne ACI University of Melbourne Silver Patrons Community and Public Sector Union Ms Jill Gallagher Victoria Police CSIRO Victorian Folklife Association Prof. Jennifer Graves Silver Partners AGL Public Fund BP Oil Australia Limited Baci Department of Agriculture, Fisheries Prof. Rod Home Freehills Museum Victoria and Forestry Victorian Trades and Literary Institute Mr Steve Howard Ansell Limited Esso Australia Pty Ltd Cultural Partners Haycom Staging Pty Ltd Ambassadors Department of Communication, Mr John Kendall AM Bristol-Myers Squibb Mobil Oil Australia Pty Ltd Kevin O’Neill Florist Information Technology and the Arts Dr Phillip Law AC AO CBE Cadbury Schweppes The Harold Mitchell Foundation The Boite World Music KPMG Department of the Environment and Prof. Daryl Le Grew GlaxoSmithKline JC Decaux The Melbourne Early Music Festival Ms Sally Browne Melbourne Magazine Heritage Ms Jenny Love The Ian Potter Foundation Melbourne Port Corporation Melbourne International Arts Festival Ms Ita Buttrose AO Department of Infrastructure Ms Tina McMeckan The Helen MacPherson Smith Trust Mr Richard and Mrs Catherine Price Mrs Margot Capp Earthtech Dr Ray Marginson AM The Menzies Foundation The Russell and Mab Grimwade Mr Ray D’Cruz Bronze Patrons Field Museum of Natural History, Dr Angus Martin Nestle Peters Ice Cream Miegunyah Fund Committee of the Ms Helen Gee Chicago, USA Mr Graham Morris Network Ten University of Melbourne Mr George Kypraious The Sarah & Baillieu Myer Family Freshwater Ecology Cooperative Mr Phillip Morrison Telstra SPI Powernet Mr Cesare Leonardi Foundation Research Centre Prof. John Mulvaney AO Tooheys New TXU Mr Peter McMullin Global Biodiversity Information Facility, Mrs Sarah Myer Victoria University Mr Ken Mahlab Mr Richard Price Denmark Prof. David Penington AC Ms Maria Prendergast Heritage Victoria Mr Jack Scanlan The Hermon Slade Foundation Ms Lousje Skala Mrs Doreen Stockdale Mr Robert Wallace Mr Simon Westcott

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Installation of Dinosaurs from China, Melbourne Museum

Prof. Marian Quartly Honorary Associates Sciences Research Associates Mrs Caroline Searby Prof. Neil Archbold Mr Richard Searby Granted to those individuals who can Mr Ken Bell Granted to scholars who undertake Mr Ian Sinclair be called upon to provide specialist Mr Philip Bock research work at Museum Victoria for The Hon. Haddon Storey QC professional advice and assistance to Ms Suzanne Boyd a finite period, and who require some Prof. John Swan the Board, management or staff on an Mr Robert Burn official status in the building and some Prof. James Warren honorary basis. Dr Leslie Christidis degree of administrative support. Ms Deanne Weir Dr Patricia Cook Dr Barry Wilson Dr Lawrence Cookson Mr Garry Woodard History and Technology Dr John Douglas History and Technology Major Royston (Bill) Billett Dr Andrew Drinnan Ms Debbie Anderson Dr Andrew Brown-May Dr Ross Field Dr Sara Wills Curators Emeritus Mr Maxwell Burnet Dr Dean Hewish Mr Eddie Butler-Bowdon Dr Julian Hollis Granted to those curators who retire Prof. Kate Darian-Smith Dr Jean Just Indigenous Cultures after having given distinguished Dr Gwenda Davey AM Mr Rudie Kuiter Ms Penelope Edmonds service to the Museum for a minimum Prof. Graeme Davison Assoc. Prof. Murray Littlejohn of 10 years, and have made a Dr June Factor Mr William Loads distinguished contribution in an Dr Geoffrey Holden Prof. John Lovering Sciences appropriate curatorial or research field. Mr Euan McGillivray Mr Charles McCubbin Dr Melanie Archer Mr Ken Porter Mr John Neil Dr Christopher Burridge Mrs J. Hope Black Mr Gary Presland Dr Gareth Nelson Mr Mark Dupal Mr John Coventry Prof. Peter Thorne Dr Tim New Dr Bryan Fry Dr Thomas Darragh Dr Denise Whitehouse Mr Ken Norris Dr Francis Crome Ms Joan Dixon P. Mark O’Loughlin Mr David Pickering Dr Chung-Cheng Lu Dr Robert Paddle Ms Rhyllis Plant Dr Arturs Neboiss Indigenous Cultures Dr Joyce Richardson Dr Beverley van Praagh Mr John Sharples Mr Anthony Birch Dr Richard Schodde Ms Wendy Roberts Dr Brian Smith Dr David Dorward Dr Bronwen Scott Dr Martin Tymms Mr Mark Dugay-Grist Mr David Staples Assoc. Prof. Michael Westerman Dr Louise Hamby Assoc. Prof. Roy Swain Dr Colin Hope Prof. John Talent Prof. Marcia Langton Ms Elizabeth Thompson Scienceworks (VUHVT) Dr John Morton Prof. Patricia Vickers-Rich Mr Edward Bondarenko Dr Gaye Sculthorpe Mr Robert Warneke Ms Sandra Charles Dr Jeanette Watson Prof. Akhtar Kalam Mr H. Eric Wilkinson Dr Alan Yen

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Strategy Strategy Strategy Strategy Strategy Strategy

Continue to develop and strengthen Provide appropriate storage conditions Provide enhanced public access Enhance our knowledge-base through Expand the information available on Work with kindred organisations the collections amassed over to ensure the long-term survival through a purpose-built storage facility. research, publication and collection the internet. throughout Victoria to help raise 150 years. of the collections. database development. standards of collection care.

Actions and results Actions and results Actions and results Actions and results Actions and results Actions and results A review of Museum Victoria’s long- Museum Victoria developed two The Museum Victoria Research Museum Victoria initiated a new term collection storage requirements Museum Victoria implemented the new research and collection-related A detailed Business Case was Strategy and Action Plan (2001- Collection Strategy and Action Plan was completed, which led to Research Strategy in the main areas of websites including: Victorian completed for the Treasure House 2004) was implemented, and a new (2004-2014), with major achievements development of the Treasure House Sciences, History and Technology, and Railways: Celebrating 150 Years at Spotswood, involving an agency- Research Strategy (2005-2010) was in database management, electronic project – an Integrated Arts Agencies Indigenous Cultures. of Railways in Victoria, and Fiji’s wide approach from Museum Victoria, developed to provide a new focus for location and audit management, and Storage Facility at Spotswood. Treasured Culture: Highlighting the National Gallery of Victoria, ACMI and the future. registration of the State Collections The Museum produced 104 books, Collections of Museum Victoria and Victorian Arts Centre Trust. during the year. Tours of the Scienceworks collection referred journal articles, reports and the Fiji Museum. The Museum continued to develop store and Pumping Station continued other publications. Museum Victoria’s Roving Curator collections through a program of Collections were managed in line with on a daily basis. Special interest group The Museum participated in the continued to support Indigenous research, acquisitions and donations. legislative requirements, including tours of the collection stores Projects to enhance the development of the Pest and communities in the preservation, Significant acquisitions made over the implementation of a risk- at Melbourne Museum were documentation associated with the Diseases Image Library, an online protection and management of their the last financial year include: two management program. also undertaken. Museum’s collections of arms, trade resource for identifying a range of cultural heritage. rare marine mammals from the tokens, and domestic technology pests and diseases that pose a Southern Ocean, Victorian Railways New Collection Recovery Plans were were undertaken. potential plant health threat Museum Victoria staff gave memorabilia, and Lionel Rose’s boxing developed for all museums that house to Australia. professional advice on the collection gloves, with assistance from the collections, to ensure a timely and In accordance with the 2004/05 management systems EMu and MvCIS Collection Acquisitions Fund. effective response to managing any implementation schedule, 14 The key infrastructure for a at a stakeholders meeting held collection disasters. databases were transferred from old Web/EMu publishing system was in Sydney. During the year, Museum Victoria electronic systems into EMu, Museum completed to support integrated repatriated Aboriginal ancestral Funding received from several external Victoria’s collection database. online searching of collections, data remains from the State bodies including: Australian Biological updates and further development of Collection and the University Resources Study; Natural History Trust collection-based Web projects. of Melbourne Collection to the – Department of the Environment and Ngarrindjerri community. Heritage; Department of Agriculture, An additional 4% of the collection, Fisheries and Forestry; CSIRO; and the representing about 100,000 items, Global Biodiversity Information Facility. was electronically registered.

February Events 1 February – January 2006 4 February 5 February – 26 February (Saturdays) 11 February – 11 April 12 February – 4 September Community Collections World Heritage and the Western World – Global Sounds Sky Raising Magpies Megawatt Museum Victoria Melbourne Museum Capturing the Age of Empire, Melbourne Museum Bunjilaka, Melbourne Museum Scienceworks Industry and Commerce. Sir Neil Cossons, Chair of English Heritage Museums Board of Victoria Melbourne Museum Annual Report 2004/05 Page 58/59 15:19:01 15:19:11 15:19:16 15:19:18 15:19:20 15:19:22 15:19:40 15:26:11 15:36:41 15:36:43 15:36:45 15:36:47 RESEARCH HISTORY AND Thomas Ramsay Fellow, John Kean TECHNOLOGY

Museum Victoria is responsible for Research • The remarkable discovery of a Graduate and Postgraduate Through the History and Technology • Museum Victoria has coordinated • Three projects were undertaken to • Significant acquisitions included maintaining a collection of more than primitive fossil mammal jaw with Student Supervision Department, Museum Victoria strategic partnerships with cultural, improve the catalogue data and archaeological material from the 16 million items. • In 2004/05, Museum Victoria remnant ear-bone attachments by conducts research and develops educational and community images for significant collections central city Casselden Place dig Dr Thomas Rich (Senior Curator, collections that document Victoria’s organisations, to commemorate including: the extensive collection (2001-2002). With a focus on the Little researchers received funding support • Six Honours, nine Masters and 24 PhD The collection is developed Vertebrate Palaeontology) and history in a national and international the 150th Anniversary of the Eight- of Australian 19th century halfpenny Lonsdale street neighbourhood, this from a variety of sources including: students were supervised by Museum through research and acquisition, colleagues was published in the context, with the objective of Hour Day in 2006. The program will and penny trade tokens; domestic is the most extensive collection of the Australian Research Council Victoria staff. and accessed by scholars and (ARC); Australian Biological Resources prestigious international journal, facilitating the community’s include exhibitions, conferences, technology collection; and arms material on 19th century Melbourne. communities. Information on Science, in March 2005. An ARC understanding of the past, and public lectures, educational programs, collection (with assistance from the Scouts Australia donated a sledge Study; Natural Heritage Trust • Museum Victoria awarded four 1854 Museum Victoria’s collection and Discovery Grant was awarded to Dr engagement with issues affecting community events, publications and Firearms Registry Branch of Victoria used by Arch Hoadley on the – Department of the Environment and Student Scholarships in the 2005 research focus, including details John Long (Head of Sciences), and our future. a website. Project partners include Police). These projects will enable Australasian Antarctic Expedition Heritage; Department of Agriculture, round, to encourage the involvement of current research programs a co-investigator from the Australian the Victorian Trades Hall Council, the development of online access to (1911-1914), led by Douglas Mawson. Fisheries and Forestry; Smart Water of graduate and postgraduate and projects, is available on Museum National University, to collect and Melbourne Workers Theatre, RMIT collection data and images of entire An armoured commercial van, ordered Fund; University of Melbourne; students in research on the Museum’s Victoria’s website study remarkable three-dimensionally Highlights University, University of Melbourne, sub-collections. by the Commonwealth Bank in 1936 The Myer Foundation; The Norman collections. The scholarship scheme (www.museum.vic.gov.au). preserved fish fossils from sites State Library of Victoria, Australian and assigned to the Note Printing Wettenhall Foundation; and the Global was established as part of Museum around Australia. This project is being • Curators undertook a wide range of Centre for the Moving Image, • Curators continued to provide Branch in Fitzroy for armed escort Biodiversity Information Facility. Victoria’s 150th Anniversary program. Museum Victoria’s research program undertaken to gain new insights into research projects - many of these are Australian Society for the Study of extensive assistance to the duties of gold bullion and banknotes, is guided by a Research Strategy that • Museum Victoria received additional the evolutionary transition from fishes expected to lead to publication and Labor History, City of Melbourne and Moveable Cultural Heritage Unit of was transferred by the South Australia was approved by the Museums Board to land animals. exhibition. They include: Sustainable Parliament of Victoria. the Department of Environment and Museum. Museum Victoria acquired funding from the Smart Water Fund for Publications of Victoria in September 2001. The the development of a water-activated Water Practices; Women in Agriculture; Heritage with the assessment of a collection of 34 electric appliances, organisation is currently reviewing the interactive display at Melbourne Women and Cycling in the Late 19th • Museum Victoria, State Library of requests for the export of significant business records, photos and trade Research Strategy, to encompass a Museum, a website, and ongoing • Museum Victoria continued to and Early 20th centuries; Lives of Victoria and the Australian Lesbian cultural artifacts. literature associated with Hecla vision for Museum Victoria research series of public programs. This project implement the Publications Strategy. Women in Melbourne’s “Little Lon”; and Gay Archive have established a Electrics. Established in 1918, this for the next five years (2005-2010) and encourages innovation in water saving This includes a program for publishing Glory Boxes of Immigrant Women; joint initiative to undertake a survey of • Museum Victoria is collaborating company was one of Australia’s this is expected to be in place by and recycling, and has involved a wide monographs and collections of articles Immigrant Ships; War and Public lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender with Professor Mark Burry of RMIT leading manufacturers and suppliers late 2005. range of community, government, and on areas of research - particularly Memory; History of Telegraphy; collections in Victoria. The survey will University on an ARC project to of electric heating appliances. With industry stakeholders. those subjects outlined in the Museum Development of Television in Australia; identify gaps in public collections, test different ways of undertaking the generous assistance of Thomas Research projects were undertaken Victoria Research Strategy, along with History of Computing in Victoria; the locate and recognise significant architectural design, in particular, and Barbara Yates, important Victorian in the fields of Sciences, Indigenous • In another collaborative project, non-specialist publications. Royal Exhibition Building; and the private collections, and map out future the impact of digital technologies on Railways artifacts and memorabilia Cultures, and History and Technology, Museum Victoria curators worked Melbourne Observatory. collecting strategies. The survey is design practice. A key component have been acquired at several auctions Memoirs of Museum Victoria in accordance with the Research with Fiji Museum staff to complete • The being undertaken in collaboration of the project will be the hosting of throughout the year. Strategy Action Plan. the website, Fiji’s Treasured Culture: Volume 61(1-2) was produced, • The Australian Children’s Folklore with the lesbian and gay community, seminars and annual displays at Highlighting the Collections of featuring a series of scientific papers Collection held by Museum Victoria and was launched during the Melbourne Museum, with funding Museum Victoria and the Fiji Museum. on marine, freshwater and was one of nine collections and Midsumma Festival. from the Australian Research Council. Officially launched in Suva in May terrestrial animals. artifacts from Australian collecting These displays will provide an industry 2005, the website focuses on Fijian institutions accepted for inclusion on and public showcase on cutting-edge artefacts and their traditional uses, and • 104 papers, reports, books and theses the UNESCO Australian Memory of the design systems and practices. provides insight into ancient Pacific were produced, and 149 lectures and World Program. cultures and Fiji’s fascinating past: talks were presented. www.museum.vic.gov.au\fiji

16 February – 10 July 17 February – 22 May 20 February 22 February Eaten Alive: World of Predators Koorlongka Remembering Station Pier Day Annual Science Showcase Scienceworks Melbourne Museum Immigration Museum Scienceworks

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Museum Victoria works with • Further fieldwork was undertaken • The Museum co-published the book • There continues to be a very high Repatriation Supported by agreements negotiated Indigenous communities in Australia on the ARC Linkage Grant project A Record in Stone: the Study of demand for external access to with the Strehlow Research Centre and the South Pacific to improve our Anthropological and Aboriginal Australia’s Flaked Stone Artefacts, the collections and for copies With continued funding assistance in Alice Springs, Museum Victoria understanding of Indigenous people perspectives on the Donald Thomson which was launched in August 2004. of photographs. Scanning and from the Commonwealth Department repatriated over 90 secret sacred and their cultures. Collection: material culture, collecting Staff also contributed two chapters registration of 3,500 images in the of Communication, Information objects to a number of Central and identity. Preliminary fieldwork to the book Donald Thomson: Man Donald Thomson Pintupi Collection Technology and the Arts (DoCITA), Australian Aboriginal communities was also carried out in support of two and Scholar, which was launched in was completed. Further work was Museum Victoria repatriated Aboriginal in August 2004. Highlights future projects regarding the Cape May 2005. Work on a reprint of The also completed on Thomson’s map ancestral remains from the State York Peninsula component of the Aboriginal Photographs of Baldwin collection, and significant progress Collection and from the University Negotiations for the return of ancestral • The touring program for the exhibition Donald Thomson Collection, and the Spencer is nearly complete, with towards a full data enhancement of th of Melbourne’s Berry Collection to remains and secret-sacred objects are Our Place: Indigenous Australia now Baldwin Spencer Collection. Local an expected publication date in e manuscript collection was achieved. representatives of the Ngarrindjerri currently underway with communities was completed, with exhibitions at research was carried out on the Officer September 2005. Preparations are Aboriginal community in South from Blue Mud Bay and the East the Benaki Museum in Athens and Collection (from the Solomon Islands) underway for a new publication of • New loans from the Indigenous Australia in August 2004. Further Alligator River regions in the Northern the National Museum of China in in Melbourne. Donald Thomson’s photographs of his Cultures collection were processed at archival research relating to ancestral Territory, and from Wathaurong, Beijing. Indigenous Cultures staff trips to Central Australia in the 1950s the request of the de Young Museum, remains in the State, Berry and Gunditjmara, Yorta Yorta and Gunai/ also contributed to the exhibitions • During 2004/05, the Roving Curator and 1960s. San Francisco, USA, as well as locally. Freemasons collections was conducted Kurnai communities in Victoria. Treasures of Aboriginal Australia Program delivered two photographic Long-term loans continued with the in support of the repatriation effort. and Twined Together: Kunmadj conservation workshops and two • Major acquisitions during the year Warradjan Cultural Centre in Kakadu, A formal strategy for the repatriation njalehnjaleken, both in Bunjilaka material culture workshops to included the boxing gloves worn by Menmuny Community Museum in of provenanced Victorian ancestral at Melbourne Museum. Other Aboriginal community groups in Lionel Rose during the first defence of Yarrabah, Bairnsdale Keeping Place, remains was endorsed by the exhibitions in development include regional Victoria. In conjunction with his world title in 1968, and an original and Nyinkka Nyunyu Cultural Centre Aboriginal Cultural Heritage Advisory Colliding Worlds: Art and Life of the Bunjilaka, the program also delivered painting by Kirrae wurrong artist Vicki in Tennant Creek. Committee and approved by the Pintupi People of Central Australia, in three days of workshops at Melbourne Couzens, celebrating the repatriation Museums Board of Victoria in conjunction with National Aboriginal Museum involving traditional of ancestral remains to her country. June 2005. Cultural Institute, Tandanya. Aboriginal fibrework, possum skin etching, printmaking, traditional jewellery making, string games and feather flower manufacture, all in support of the opening of Twined Together: Kunmadj njalehnjaleken. The Roving Curator program also engaged in further discussions with the Public Records Office Victoria and the National Archives of Australia regarding the delivery of six Aboriginal community archive workshops, planned for the period August to December 2005.

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Museum Victoria aims to promote an • Sciences staff and honorary • Mineralogy and petrology staff reached Collection Management Collection Information Systems Conservation understanding of the natural sciences, associates have teamed up to solicit an agreement with CSIRO Minerals in the human mind and body, and community input from volunteer Sydney for the transfer of a significant The Museum played a key role in Museum Victoria had a four-year plan Conservation staff travelled to China to science communication. amateur underwater photographers economic mineral and ore collection to Arts Agencies’ reviews of Collections to transfer all its collection databases install and demount the exhibition Our to help illustrate and understand the Museum Victoria. and Collection Storage needs. As into a single system (EMu) and the Place: Indigenous Australia now at the biodiversity and habitat preferences a result of the Collection Storage past year was the EMu implementation National Museum of China, Beijing. Highlights of marine nudibranchs and flatworms • Other major acquisitions for the review, the Museum led the case project’s final. All collection disciplines in Victorian waters, and to make Sciences collection included: a to government for the development now use EMu proprietary software to Conservation staff performed extensive • Staff were involved in major this information available as a Risso Dolphin (Museum Victoria’s of the Treasure House Project - an manage the collection electronically. work on two new in-house exhibitions, publications of both academic photographic atlas on the internet: first complete skeleton) donated Integrated Arts Agencies Storage Fourteen key associated databases Station Pier: Gateway to a new life at research and books for the general http://researchdata.museum.vic.gov. by the Department of Sustainability strategy to open the collections to the will be transferred in 2005/06. the Immigration Museum, and Twined public. The landmark book by Dr Gary au/marine/nudi_home.htm. and Environment; a Cuvier’s Beaked public and to address the long-term Together: Kunmadj njalehnjaleken at Poore (Senior Curator, Marine Biology) Whale donated by Parks Victoria; collection storage needs of the Arts The application of the Collection Melbourne Museum. on Marine Decapod Crustacea of • A major collaboration was established and the acquisition a large silver Agencies. Subsequently, the Victorian Inventory System exceeded its Southern Australia (CSIRO Publishing) between scientists from the Museum specimen from Western Australia, plus Government agreed to purchase a site 2004/05 targets of 15,000 History and Specialist conservators of paper, was launched in September 2004. Victoria’s Population and Evolutionary two important Australian meteorites in Spotswood, located immediately Technology collection items and the photographic and digital media, Genetics Unit and the University (Hamilton and Broken Hill) under the adjacent to Scienceworks that will be corresponding creation of objects, and large technology items • Marine biology curators, along with of Melbourne’s Australian Venom auspices of the Cultural Gifts Program. used to develop the Treasure House 22,000 records. were recruited to assess and conserve five research assistants and two PhD Research Unit to investigate the origin and to extend the car-parking capacity significant collections across students, are conducting an extensive of venomous function in snakes, • Sciences staff provided content for Scienceworks. The Museum will the Museum. faunal survey of the coastline of lizards and fish. and played leading roles in the continue to lead the Treasure House Victoria, with funding from the Natural development of a new marine gallery developments over the forthcoming A number of highly significant bark Heritage Trust. The results of this • Staff undertook fieldwork related to that will open at Melbourne Museum year, including the development of a paintings from the Baldwin Spencer study will be used as a basis for their research programs at various in late 2005, the refurbishment of the Business Case for government and a Collection were conserved for outward understanding the current biodiversity Australian and overseas locations, Sportsworks and Nitty Gritty Super design brief. loan to the Art Gallery of New South of intertidal reefs, and for monitoring including work in the Northern Territory City exhibitions at Scienceworks, and Wales where they were a key feature in the ecological health of our to collect agamid lizards (funded by provided information and supporting Museum Victoria made other the exhibition Crossing Country. marine habitats. the ARC); a survey in Madagascar program events for the Dinosaurs from significant achievements in managing to collect native bees (funded by the China touring exhibition. the State collections and meeting National Geographic Society); and or exceeding targets in several sampling of volcanic minerals and major projects outlined in the rocks in the Auvergne district, France. 2004-2014 Collection Strategy and Collection Action Plan. The Collection Registration Project was initiated, resulting in the additional electronic registration of some 100,000 collection items. These figures are equivalent to an additional 4% of the State collections (when counted in Collection Management Units), and represent an exponential leap on previous years.

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Printing artwork in the Production Studio, PERFORMANCE Melbourne Museum OVERVIEW

Strategy Strategy Strategy Strategy Strategy

Develop a motivated dynamic, creative Provide an organisation structure and Improve information management and Ensure our facilities are well Employ sound financial and risk and skilled workforce. infrastructure that assists our staff to communication systems. maintained and fit for purpose. management practices. achieve our objectives.

Actions and results Actions and results Actions Actions Actions and results Museum Victoria’s fourth Staff A draft Information and Knowledge A review of collection and building Museum Victoria continued to identify Partnership Agreement (SPA), formerly The strategic realignment of the Management Strategy and Action Plan security was undertaken and an and mitigate risks through a review known as the Enterprise Partnership organisation was finalised and was developed. action plan is being implemented at of precedent contracts, and the Agreement, was certified by the organisational changes were Melbourne Museum and the Royal incorporation of due diligence and Industrial Relations Commission. A implemented. Organisation An integrated document management Exhibition Building. risk assessment into all aspects of new classification structure and new development focused on training system was implemented. The Museum Victoria management culture. terms and conditions of employment and development of individual and inclusion of a search function resulted Good progress was made with the A contract management audit report were also introduced. leadership capability. in an increase in the use of the recycling of materials at Melbourne was reviewed by the Finance and records management system across Museum and the site was re-certified Audit Review Committee in March. Occupational Health and Safety Secure remote information technology Museum Victoria. as a Waste Wise facility. Training was delivered to all target access was provided to staff in Succession planning was undertaken groups with specialised, occupation- November 2004. Business tools were added to the Installation of flow-reduction valves by the Executive Management Team based safety training provided to Museum Victoria intranet, Musenet, on taps and toilet fixtures across most to ensure that Museum Victoria is employee groups and individuals including a Help Desk request service of Museum Victoria’s buildings was prepared to fill critical gaps as the where required by regulations and and business reports. completed, with the aim of reducing need arises. to individuals subject to identified water consumption. The potential to occupational hazards. reclaim and re-use rain water from the Seven policies and associated roof of the Royal Exhibition Building is procedures underwent review and The Corporate Training Program for being investigated. were amended in accordance 2005/06 was developed. Induction with legislative, regulatory or programs were delivered to all new corporate requirements. staff, and included a customer service charter and entry level customer An IT Risk Assessment and Disaster service awareness. Induction Recovery Plan was completed and will programs were also delivered for be updated annually. new managers.

4 March – 10 July 7 March – 22 May 7 March – 24 June 11 March 13 March – 19 March March Events Top Designs 2005 The Buchenwald Boys community exhibition Illusions and Visual Perception The World’s Longest Lunch, Cultural Diversity Week Museum Victoria Melbourne Museum Immigration Museum Scienceworks Melbourne Food and Wine Festival Activities across Museum Victoria Melbourne Museum Museums Board of Victoria Annual Report 2004/05 Page 68/69 16:19:01 16:19:11 16:19:16 16:19:18 16:19:20 16:19:22 16:19:40 16:26:11 16:36:41 16:36:43 16:36:45 16:36:47 CORPORATE Meeting room, Melbourne Museum ACTIVITIES

Human Resources Occupational Health • Emergency evacuation drills Buildings and Facilities Compliance and Multimedia Information Management Finance and Administration Management and Safety were undertaken. Risk Management A review of collection and building The multimedia team plays an integral A new intranet, Musenet, was Revenue earned was greater than • Museum Victoria’s Contractor Safety Museum Victoria has implemented Museum Victoria continued to apply security was undertaken and an Museum Victoria undertook a role in the Museum Victoria exhibition launched in December 2004. It is the forecast as a result of the large number Management Plan was reviewed to a networked organisation structure rigorous standards in managing action plan is now in place at comprehensive corporate risk and program planning, employing main tool for internal communication, of visitors viewing the excellent ensure compliance with the 2004 to enable effective collaboration health and safety across all museums Melbourne Museum and the Royal assessment with the assistance of technology to deliver high-quality and is used both as a means of exhibitions on display. At the same Occupational Health and Safety Act. and swift communication. and facilities. Museum Victoria’s Exhibition Building. Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu in May experiences for our visitors. sharing information and for access time, expenditure was well managed Organisation development focused health and safety program is 2004. The corporate risk management to business tools and resources. and directed towards the achievement • The Melbourne Museum Cooling Tower on leadership development, managed in accordance with the Environmental management remains a program was applied throughout Highlights this year included: Musenet receives a daily average of the objectives stated in the 2004/05 Risk Management Plan was audited team effectiveness and Occupational Health and Safety priority, with continuing investigations 2004/05, and quarterly progress of 297 unique visitors, and a daily Business Plan. During the year, and approved in accordance with the individual performance. Act 1985 Regulations, Museums into methods of reducing energy reports, including an updated risk • Participating in Station Pier: average of 5,194 Musenet pages improved financial reporting was Health (Legionella) Regulations 2001. Board of Victoria approved policy consumption and accessing green register, were provided to the Finance, Gateway to a new life to design and are viewed. developed and managers now Museum Victoria’s fourth Staff and Occupational Health & Safety power. Good progress was made with Audit and Risk Committee of the install audio, video and multimedia receive financial reports and can • In consultation with approved Partnership Agreement (formerly Management Plan. the recycling of materials at Melbourne Museums Board of Victoria. components. Operations Reviews of both Records access detailed information. The training providers, Museum Victoria known as the Enterprise Partnership Museum. In 2004, the diversion Museum Victoria participated in the Management and Museum reviewing of financial reports developed Occupational Health and Agreement) was certified by the The new Victorian Occupational rate of recyclables from landfill was State Public Sector Site Risk Survey • Playing a central role in presenting Victoria Library were completed will continue. Training Programs for Managers Australian Industrial Relations Health and Safety Act 2004 was 27.36% - this has increased to 35.1% Program undertaken by the Victorian the Digital Design Biennale exhibition, during 2004/05. and Supervisors, and for employees Commission, with support from the assented to on 21 December 2004 with the inclusion of timber and glass. Managed Insurance Authority. including installing hardware to responsible for managing Community and Public Sector Union and came into operation on 1 July Further initiatives are being pursued, This program seeks to create an support ten large-screen projections As a result of the Records Museum Victoria Library external contractors. and in agreement with a majority of 2005. In preparation for meeting its and Melbourne Museum was recently organisational risk profile where life and a multi-channel soundscape, as Management Operations Review, the staff. Implementation of the new obligations under the Act, Museum re-certified as a Waste Wise facility. safety, property damage, public and well as installing and continuing to Executive Management Team agreed • Museum Victoria engaged an The two key features of the Museum Victorian Public Service classification Victoria reviewed and amended its other liabilities, environmental, security support twenty computer installations. to increase Archives and Records approved training organisation Victoria Library are its large and structure commenced. Occupational Health and Safety Installation of flow-reduction valves on and operational risk exposures are staffing, and created an Archives and to provide employment-specific significant collection of historical value, Policies, and Health and Safety taps and toilet fixtures to reduce identified and risk mitigation options • Preparing and installing the audio Records Manager position and an occupational training (plant & and the research and information The Staff Consultative Committee Management Plan. water consumption across most of are recommended. visual components for Dinosaurs from additional Records Officer position, equipment) to meet competency or service it provides. As a result of the have commenced implementation of Museum Victoria’s buildings has China. to take effect from 2005/06. This licensing standards, in accordance Operations Review, Library staff role key projects including: Understanding In consultation with approved training almost been completed. As a result of Museum Victoria’s will enable the development of a with the Occupational Health and statements have been revised and a Each Other; Managing Performance; providers, Museum Victoria developed close association with the VMIA and • Working with staff across Museum comprehensive strategy to improve Safety (Plant) Regulations 1995. Museum Victoria Library strategy has Improving the Way We Do Things; executive information sessions A project to reclaim and re-use rain the development of an effective risk Victoria to advise, design, install and the management of archives and been drafted to address the areas of Recognising Our Staff; and Ensuring and employee training programs to water from the roof of the Royal mitigation program, Museum Victoria operate a wide variety of audio visual records - including a training and • Hazards and safety risks identified increasing access to the collection and Merit, Fairness and Equity. communicate the changes in the Act. Exhibition Building is being researched has retained its VMIA Gold Medal and computer-based interactives. awareness program, enhanced at all campuses were treated or the ongoing development of the Library These programs commenced in and a submission for funds from the Rating for all venues. These are part of several temporary services, and an upgrade to the eliminated in accordance with Museum collection. A major focus for the Library An extensive program of training and April 2004. Smart Water Fund is being prepared. and touring exhibitions, and education records management system. At the Victoria’s established procedure. has been the transferral of data to a development was provided to staff and The Finance Audit and Risk Committee and visitor programs. end of the 2003/04 year, there were A process of hazard identification and new Library Management System. This an enhanced program was developed Museum Victoria’s management of the Museums Board of Victoria is 20,259 records in the system. risk control will remain at all Museum will be launched in 2005/06. for the coming year. Key initiatives of Occupational Health and Safety provided with a copy of the Museum • Commencement of the multimedia Victoria buildings. have included induction programs for included the following achievements: Victoria Site Risk Survey Reports and delivery system hardware and software In the past year, 619 new books and all new staff and managers, the first receive regular updates against the risk upgrade in February 2005. The project 2,218 journals were added to the Australian Indigenous Perspectives • Maintenance and testing programs mitigation program. will encompass all galleries and public collection. Museum staff made 622 Program (to be attended by all staff were carried out in accordance with spaces at each museum. loans from the collection. Library staff members), and Disability Awareness the Building Essential Services answered 151 enquiries from staff. Programs for frontline staff Act 1994. • Playing a major role in designing and Forty external visitors used the Library developing the Virtual Room II display and volunteers. for research purposes. which toured internationally.

20 March Machines in Action Day Scienceworks

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Museums Board of Victoria meeting, COMMERCIAL CORPORATE Melbourne Museum OPERATIONS GOVERNANCE

Melbourne Museum Retail Scienceworks Immigration Museum Museum Victoria is governed by The Museums Board of Victoria is • To promote use of those collections the Museums Board of Victoria, a responsible for the good management for scientific research Catering and Cafes The Melbourne Museum shop offers Catering and Café Retail and Café statutory body established under the of Museum Victoria and has the a broad range of predominantly Museums Act 1983 (Vic). It consists of following functions: • To promote the use of Museum The Melbourne Museum Café is Australian-made gifts, souvenirs, White Card Corporate Catering An exciting redevelopment in late a maximum of 11 members appointed Victoria’s resources for education operated by Peter Rowland Catering. books and toys. The mix of operates the Scienceworks Café 2004 saw the opening of a combined for a three-year term (for a maximum • To control, manage, operate, promote, in Victoria Following a renovation in 2004, merchandise includes: authentic and provides function catering for café and retail shop in the Immigration of three terms) by the Governor-in- develop and maintain Museum Victoria the café now operates in a more Indigenous art and artefacts Scienceworks and the Museum foyer. Now serving food Council and subject to the direction • To research, present and promote streamlined manner and delivered (sourced wherever possible from Immigration Museum. and beverages seven days a week, and control of the Victorian Minister • To control, manage, operate, issues of public relevance and benefit a seven percent increase in sales communities in Victoria), Museum the café shop provides an important for the Arts. promote, develop and maintain the in 2004/05. Temporary cafes were Victoria publications, children’s toys service to Museum visitors, as well Exhibition land as a place for the • To act as a repository for specimens also established at the Touring Hall and education products, books for all Functions and Venue Hire as creating a warm and welcoming The Museums Board of Victoria holding of public exhibitions and for upon which scientific studies have exit for the Dinosaurs from China ages and interests, and unique gifts atmosphere in the foyer. The is directly accountable to the the assembly, education, instruction, been made or which may have special and Mummies: Ancient Egypt and and souvenirs relating to Melbourne The function and venue hire business addition of food service increased Government of Victoria through the entertainment or recreation of cultural or historical significance the Afterlife exhibitions, positively and Melbourne Museum exhibitions. at Scienceworks demonstrated strong revenue by one hundred percent. Minister for the Arts, and works closely the public enhancing the visitor experience. The shop delivered net contribution growth on the previous year, hosting a Stocking predominantly Australian- with Arts Victoria to deliver • To provide leadership to museums significantly above forecast. number of unique and award-winning made products, the Immigration policy objectives. • To develop and maintain the State in Victoria events. Large corporate family days Museum shop specialises in unique collections of natural sciences, Functions and Venue Hire A temporary shop was established for and dinners proved to be the most merchandise that supports the Indigenous culture, social history and • To advise the Victorian Minister for the the Mummies: Ancient Egypt and the popular bookings throughout the year. permanent and temporary exhibitions. science and technology Arts on matters relating to museums, Private functions have continued to Afterlife touring exhibition on the lower and co-ordination of museum services be popular this year, with hirers taking ground level and proved to be very • To exhibit material from those in Victoria. advantage of Melbourne Museum’s popular with visitors. Retail Functions and Venue Hire collections for the purposes of unique spaces and exciting exhibits. education and entertainment Almost 300 catered events were held The Scienceworks shop offers a wide The Immigration Museum is an at Melbourne Museum including Car Park range of products that support the elegant venue situated within the corporate dinners, product launches permanent and temporary exhibition heart of Melbourne’s CBD. Functions and weddings. The venue has also The Car park offers reasonably-priced program at Scienceworks. The held at the Immigration Museum proved to be a popular film location, and secure city car parking to precinct merchandise includes educational over the past year include: book with crews taking advantage of the visitors and city workers. A two-year goods, gifts, souvenirs, toys launches, weddings, cocktail parties, striking architecture. The installation contract has been offered to Secure and books. presentations and formal dinners. of a large screen in the Age Theatre Parking to continue managing the car Interest in the venue increased broadened the appeal of the facility, park for Museum Victoria. significantly after the Immigration and proved to be popular for Museum won the Australian conferences, presentations and Tourism Award for Heritage film screenings. and Cultural Tourism.

2 April – 17 April 9 April – 17 April 11 April – 28 August 16 April – 19 June 20 April April Events Victorian School Holidays National Youth Week Speaking with Cloth: Cerita Dalam Kain Tracks, Traps and Tucker. Dinosaur Learning Environment Museum Victoria Activities across Museum Victoria Activities across Museum Victoria Immigration Museum An exhibition by Fiona Clarke Children’s Gallery, Melbourne Museum. Bunjilaka, Melbourne Museum Museums Board of Victoria Annual Report 2004/05 Page 72/73 15:37:25 15:37:27 15:37:30 15:37:42 15:37:48 15:37:52 15:37:56 15:38:10 15:38:16 15:38:20 15:40:22 15:40:24

Museums Board of Victoria meeting, MUSEUMS BOARD Melbourne Museum OF VICTORIA

President Deputy President Treasurer Professor Daine Alcorn Mr Terry Garwood Ms Susan Heron Mr Peter Hiscock AM Dr Gael Jennings Mr Harold Mitchell AO Mr Peter McMullin Mr Michael Perry PhD, MSc, BSc (Hons) Diploma of Arts GradDipEd BEc Dip Appl Sc FCPA FCIS B.Sc (Hons.), Dip.Ed., Ph.D. Appointed 2001 LLB BCom (Melb) FAIM Bachelor of Commerce Appointed 2002 (Secondary) Appointed 2001 Appointed 1996 Appointed 2002 Harold is the Chairman and CEO of Appointed 2001 Appointed 2004 Daine is currently a Professor of Appointed 1997 Susan is currently Chief Executive Peter was Director of Sovereign Hill Gael is a former research scientist Mitchell & Partners, Australia’s largest Peter is a practising solicitor Michael is a Senior Audit and Business Anatomy and Pro Vice-Chancellor Terry is a member of the Yorta Yorta Officer of the Australian Institute of at Ballarat for 22 years. In that time with a PhD in Immunology from the independent media consultancy, specialising in mediation, Advisory Partner in the Ernst & (Science, Engineering & Technology) people and was Director of Aboriginal Management. Susan has extensive he vigorously promoted the cause Walter and Eliza Hall Institute and is a established in 1976. Mitchell & administrative and commercial law. Young, Melbourne Office. Michael at RMIT University. Professor Alcorn Affairs Victoria for seven years, management experience across of regional museums through the multi-award winning television current Partners was voted ‘Media Agency He is a former Deputy Lord Mayor has extensive experience in financial has a background in research and concluding at the end of 1996. He diverse industry sectors, including Museums Advisory Board of which he affairs presenter, radio host, science of the Year 2000’. His work in of Melbourne, and is involved with a consulting services with specialist teaching and has been published on has long been involved with Museum medical, shipping, finance and higher was Chair. He is a former Chairman and medical journalist, author, speaker, establishing the Harold Mitchell number of community organisations, skills in auditing, public company over 100 occasions specialising in Victoria in the area of Indigenous education. She is currently on a of the Victorian Tourism Commission media and documentary consultant Foundation, which supports the health holding the following positions: floats and takeovers, the preparation the biomedical sciences, including communities and culture. Now a number of boards, including Deputy and chaired the Immigration Museum and university lecturer. Gael has and arts sectors, has earned him Fellow of the Australian Institute of of prospectuses, valuation of embryology, cell biology, and Regional Director of the Department Chair of the Country Fire Authority. through its building phase and its initial anchored the national TV current affairs wide-ranging respect throughout the Management; Chairman of Melbourne companies, corporate financing - both developmental biology. Daine has of Human Services, he also serves two years of operation. He currently program Insight on SBS, ABC Radio community. He is actively involved in International Comedy Festival Board; locally and offshore, internal audit extensive experience serving on as the Chair of the Museums Board’s chairs the Regional & Specialist Metro programs, and made thousands a number of significant community Council Member of Philanthropy structures and business acquisition Boards and committees and is Aboriginal Cultural Heritage Advisory Museums Advisory Committee of of science/medical reports on national and arts organisations and holds the Australia and Victoria University; Board planning and implementation. Michael currently a Member of the Baker Committee and is a member of Museum Victoria. An accountant by ABC TV for News, The 7.30 Report and following positions: Chairman, National Member of Melbourne Community is the past Treasurer of the Melbourne Medical Research Institute Board, Victoria’s Centenary of Federation profession, Peter spent 15 years in Quantum. She has won 14 national Gallery of Australia; and Board Foundation, Turning Point, Melbourne International Festival of the Arts and is and is the former Chair of the Committee. Terry has a keen interest financial and general management and state journalism awards, and Member of the Opera Convention and Visitors’ Board, a Board Member of the Australian Print Research Fellowships Committee and in Aboriginal community development positions with Petersville Limited. written the award-winning book Sick Australia Council. Victorian Employers’ Chamber of Workshop Inc. Member of the Research Committee issues, particularly with respect As – Bloody Moments in the History of Commerce & Industry and Education of the National Health and Medical to cultural heritage and economic Medicine. Foundation; Commissioner, Local Research Council. development. Terry has been involved Government Best Value Commission; with many Aboriginal community Gael has held many honorary Member, Victorian Casino and Gaming organisations and is a Life Member of community and corporate positions Authority; and Member, Victorian the Koorie Heritage Trust. and is currently on the Board of the Curriculum and Assessment Authority. Cancer Council Australia, the Old Peter was also awarded the Centenary Treasury Building and Gold Museum Medal in 2003 for service to the Board, and the North Carlton Primary Centenary of Federation celebrations School Council. in Victoria.

Museum Victoria’s 1854 Student Scholarships 2005 recipients announced.

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Boardroom, Melbourne Museum

Committees Aboriginal Cultural Heritage Immigration Museum The Museums Board of Victoria Advisory Committee Advisory Committee is also represented on the The Board has established a number Responsible for advising the Board Responsible for providing advice following Committees: of committees under the Museums on all matters relevant to Aboriginal to the Board on the ongoing Act 1983. cultural heritage. The members of the programming and management Donald Thomson Collection Committee include representatives of of the Immigration Museum. Administration Committee Aboriginal communities throughout The Committee provides advice on Established to administer the legal Finance Audit and Risk Committee Victoria, as listed in the Aboriginal all matters relevant to the interpretation agreement between The University of The Hon. Joan Kirner AM Professor Janet McCalman Ms Sheila O’Sullivan Assists the Board in fulfilling its and Torres Strait Islander Heritage of the migration experience and Melbourne, Mrs Dorita Thomson and Appointed 2003 BA PhD FAHA BA FPRIA responsibilities with regard to financial Protection Amendment Act 1987, issues of cultural diversity. Museum Victoria for the placement on Joan has been a community Appointed 2000 Appointed 2000 reporting, audit activities, accounting Part 2(a). long-term loan of the Donald Thomson activist for 37 years. Joan became Janet is Head of the Department of A highly-regarded leader in and reporting practices, and financial Collection at Museum Victoria. a Member of Parliament in 1982, History and Philosophy of Science and communications and public relations, and operational risk management as Research Committee served as Minister for Conservation Professor in the Centre for the Study with multiple awards from the Public prescribed by the Museums Act 1983. Regional and Specialist Museums Responsible for advising the Board on from 1985-88 and was instrumental of Health and Society at the University Relations Institute of Australia (PRIA), All members of the Finance, Audit and Advisory Committee strategic matters relating to research Museums Project Control Group in establishing LandCare. In 1988 of Melbourne. Published widely in Sheila has a strong commitment to Risk Committee are independent. Responsible for advising the Minister and collection development, and Responsible for planning and Joan moved to the Lower House and Australian and British social history, developing excellence in the public Members: on matters relating to museums and oversees the implementation of the implementation of Museum Victoria became Minister of Education, then she has won a number of literary and relations profession. She is Chair of Mr Michael Perry (Chair) the co-ordination of museum services, Board’s Research Strategy. major projects. Deputy Premier. Between August scholarly awards. She is chair of the the RMIT Public Relations Advisory Ms Susan Heron to stimulate collaborative approaches 1990-1992 she was the first female Museum Victoria Research Committee. Committee and Chair of the Public Professor Daine Alcorn and provide leadership to museums Premier of Victoria and Minister for Relations Institute of Australia Ms Rosemary Foxcroft in Victoria. Women’s Affairs. After a short time National Examination Board. Sheila as Leader of the Opposition, she left has extensive knowledge of and Parliament in 1994. experience in issues management in Nominations, Remuneration and Thomas Ramsay Science and the public and community sectors. Governance Committee Humanities Committee During 1994-1996 her activities She has served as a member of many Responsible for advising the Board on Responsible for the awarding of included: President of the ALP in advisory bodies. all staffing and governance matters. the Thomas Ramsay Science and Victoria; Chair of the Prime Minister’s Humanities Fellowship and Centenary of Federation Advisory conducting the Crosbie Morrison Committee; and Chair of the Memorial Lecture. Employment Services Regulatory Authority. She is currently a member of the following boards: Australian Children’s Television Foundation and the Malthouse Playbox Theatre. She is also a Patron of many organisations, including; The Living Museum of the West, the Women’s Circus and Positive Women; and she is a Matron of the Women’s Electoral Lobby and Co- Convenor of EMILY’s List (Australia).

May Events 2 May – 8 May 13 May - 4 December 15 May 15 May – 20 May 21 May – 22 May Innovation Festival Twined Together: kunmadj njalehnjalken Ship Reunion Day – Post World War II National Archaeology Week Out of the Vaults Museum Victoria Scienceworks Bunjilaka, Melbourne Museum Immigration Museum Digging up Ancient Egypt Melbourne Museum Lectures at Melbourne Museum Museums Board of Victoria Annual Report 2004/05 Page 76/77 15:37:25 15:37:27 15:37:30 15:37:42 15:37:48 15:37:52 15:37:56 15:38:10 15:38:16 15:38:20 15:40:22 15:40:24

Executive Management Team meeting, EXECUTIVE Melbourne Museum ORGANISATIONAL MANAGEMENT TEAM STRUCTURE

Minister for the Arts Department of Premier & Cabinet & Arts Victoria Museums Board of Victoria

Customer Bunjilaka Indigenous Sciences Service Operations Cultures

History and Technology Chief Executive Officer Director Corporate Services Director Information, Multimedia Director Collections Research Director Museum Operations Immigration Education Museum Exhibition Dr J Patrick Greene Mr Joseph Corponi and Technology and Exhibitions Ms Barbara Horn Operations Collections Planning & OBE BSc PhD FSA FMA FTA Bbus GradDipIT Mr Timothy Hart Dr Robin Hirst BA(Hons), GradDipLIS, Museum Co-ordination Research Commenced August 2002 Appointed 1993 BSc Arch (Hons) BSc(Hons) PhD DipEd GradDipMgmt, GAICD Operations Melbourne & Exhibitions Since taking up his post, Patrick Responsible for the provision of Appointed May 2001- Director Appointed August 1999 – Director Commenced February 2005 Barbara Horn Museum Robin Hirst has led a comprehensive review financial, human resources, property Outreach, Technology, Information Programs Research and Collections Responsible for implementation of Commercial Operations Strategic of the organisation, realigning it to and legal services, development and Multimedia December 2002 – Director Collections the Museum Victoria Strategic Plan Collection meet the needs of visitors and to of policy, maintenance of a risk- December 2002 – Director Information, Research and Exhibitions through the provision of daily access Management maximise the effectiveness of staff. controlled environment for staff Multimedia and Technology Responsible for the Museum’s for all of our various audiences, to He has widespread knowledge of and visitors, business and strategic Responsible for Museum Victoria’s Research Program; the development, a range of innovative, high quality Scienceworks Production museums internationally and is a planning and ensuring the effective information technology, information management and conservation of experiences and programs at Marketing & Visitor Operations Studio Communication Programs former chairman of the European and efficient management of Museum and knowledge management the collections; and the development Melbourne Museum, Scienceworks, Museum Forum. He has authored and Victoria’s resources and assets. infrastructure and systems, websites of Museum Victoria exhibitions, Immigration Museum, IMAX Melbourne CEO contributed to a number of books, and digital publishing, discovery publications, production of and Royal Exhibition Building, as well Patrick Greene and lectures widely on museum and centres at the Immigration Museum planetarium shows, online content and as through the Discovery Program archaeological subjects. and Melbourne Museum and the other public programs. across Victoria. Responsibilities also development and management of the include liaising with the Victorian Museum’s multimedia installations, Department of Education and Training Corporate Risk including networks and systems. and the Catholic Education Office to & OHS Tim is also responsible for providing provide education services throughout leadership in the innovative uses of Museum Victoria. Public technology across Museum Victoria. Planning Information Ms Gaye Hamilton Corporate Information, (retired December 2004) Services Multimedia & BSc(Ed) Joseph Corponi Technology Appointed October 1996 – Facilities Technical Management & Tim Hart Operations Director Scienceworks Development December 2002 – Finance & Director Museum Operations Administration

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June Events 4 June – 21 July 5 June – 29 January 2006 12 June 24 June – 2 October 26 June – 11 July Eureka Moments 30 Years in the Making: Vietnamese in Australia Vietnamese Festival Mummies: Ancient Egypt and the Afterlife Victorian School Holidays Museum Victoria Melbourne Museum Immigration Museum Immigration Museum Melbourne Museum Activities across Museum Victoria

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Museums Board of Victoria

Statement of Financial Performance Statement of Financial Position For the year ended 30 June 2005 As at 30 June 2005

MUSEUMS BOARD OF VICTORIA

Notes 2004/05 2003/04 Notes 2004/05 2003/04

We certify that the attached financial statements for the Museums Board of Victoria $’000 $’000 $’000 $’000 have been prepared in accordance with Standing Direction 4.2 of the Financial Management Act 1994, applicable Financial Reporting Directions, Australian Revenue from Ordinary Activities Current Assets accounting standards and other mandatory professional reporting requirements. Victorian Government Grants 2 71,141 73,312 Cash Assets 6,15.1 14,903 11,764 We further state that, in our opinion, the information set out in the statement of Fees & Charges 7,843 5,304 Receivables 7 1,687 2,247 financial performance, statement of financial position, statement of cash flows and notes to and forming part of the financial statements, presents fairly the financial Sales 2,120 1,982 Inventories 8 680 672 transactions during the year ended 30 June 2005 and financial position of the Board as at 30 June 2005. Other Grants 3 3,474 3,321 Prepayment 158 0

However, the Board believes that it should be noted that the revenue as stated in the Other Income 4 4,527 2,756 Total Current Assets 17,428 14,683 Financial Statements includes revenue of the nature of specific purpose donations Donations 10 274 Non-Current Assets and grants which are brought to account when received and not matched with expenditure which may occur in subsequent financial periods. Rent revenue 1,073 1,609 Property, Plant & Equipment & Exhibitions 9(b),(c)& (d) 446,029 409,709

Museum Victoria receives a substantial proportion of its revenue from Government. 90,188 88,558 Collections 9(a) 243,408 228,791 The revenue received from Government does not fund depreciation, and accordingly Museum Victoria shows a deficit result from operations for the year. This does not Expenses from Ordinary Activities Prepayment 316 0 impact on Museum Victoria’s ability to operate as a going concern. Employee Benefits 1(f) 27,495 23,873 Total Non-Current Assets 689,753 638,500

We are not aware of any circumstance which would render any particulars included Other Operating Expenses 5 26,585 26,417 Total Assets 707,181 653,183 in the financial statements to be misleading or in accurate. Cost of Goods for Sale 881 713 Current Liabilities

Capital Charge 1(i) 29,102 30,885 Payables 10 3,299 3,215

Depreciation & Amortisation 9(a) 19,608 20,655 Provisions 11(a) 2,848 2,241

Mr Harold Mitchell Mr Michael Perry 103,671 102,543 Interest Bearing Liability 12(a) 23 6 PRESIDENT BOARD MEMBER Net Deficit for the Year 13(b) (13,483) (13,985) Total Current Liabilities 6,170 5,462

Net Increase in Asset Revaluation Reserve 13(c ) 66,292 0 Non-Current Liabilities

Total changes in equity other than those Provisions 11(b) 3,381 2,992 resulting from transactions with Victorian Dr J Patrick Greene Mr Joseph Corponi State Government in its capacity as owner 52,809 (13,985) Interest Bearing Liability 12(b) 137 45 CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER CHIEF FINANCIAL OFFICER The above statement of financial performance should be read in conjunction with the accompanying notes. Total Non-Current Liabilities 3,518 3,037

Total Liabilities 9,688 8,499 DATED Net Assets 697,493 644,684

Equity

Contributed Capital 13(a) 587,770 587,770

Accumulated Deficit 13(b) (56,558) (42,310)

Reserves

Trust Funds 13(c) 4,601 4,229

Externally Funded Special Projects 13(c) 3,188 2,795

Asset Revaluation Reserve 13(c) 158,492 92,200

Total Equity 697,493 644,684 The above statement of financial position should be read in conjunction with the accompanying notes.

Museums Board of Victoria Annual Report 2004/05 Page 82/83 Financial Statements Notes to the Financial Statements Museums Board of Victoria For the year ended 30 June 2005

Statement of Cash Flows 1. Significant accounting Collections (c) Inventory (ii) Long Service Leave (k) Payables

For the year ended 30 June 2005 policies During the financial year, Museum Victoria arranged Stocks have been valued at the lower of cost and The liability for long service leave expected to be These amounts represent liabilities for goods and for the revaluation of its collections. This project net realisable value. settled within 12 months of the reporting date is services provided prior to the end of the financial formed the basis for the valuation of all the Museum recognised in the provision for employee benefits year and which are unpaid. The amounts are (a) This general-purpose financial report has collections. The collections have been valued and is measured in accordance with (i) above. The unsecured and are usually paid within 30 days been prepared in accordance with the Financial in accordance with the principles set out in the (d) Receivables liability for long service leave expected to be settled following the month of recognition. Management Act 1994, Australian Accounting Australian Accounting Standard AASB 1041- more than 12 months from the reporting date is Notes 2004/05 2003/04 Standards, Statement of Accounting Concepts Revaluation of Non-Current Assets. Trade debtors are recognised at the amount recognised in the provision for employee benefits and other authoritative pronouncements of the $’000 $’000 receivable, as they are due for settlement no and measured as the present value of expected (l) Leased Assets Australian Accounting Standards Board, and The collection was valued utilising the fair value more than 30 days from the date of recognition. future payments to be made in respect of services Urgent Issues Group Consensus Views. Cash Flows from Operating Activities method of valuation. The effect of this valuation Collectibility of trade debtors is reviewed on an provided by employees up to the reporting date. Operating lease payments are charged to the The financial report has been prepared under is disclosed in note 9(a). ongoing basis. A provision for doubtful debts is Consideration is given to expected future wage and statement of Financial Performance in the periods Receipts the historical cost convention and has not been raised where some doubt as to collection exists. salary levels, experience of employee departures in which they are incurred, as this represents the adjusted to take account of changing money Museum Victoria intends revaluing its collections A debt is written off when there appears no and periods of service. Expected future payments pattern of benefits derived from leased assets. Grants & Donations 3,484 3,595 values, or except where stated, the current cost every three years with any future acquisitions being possibility of the account being collected. are discounted using interest rates on national of specific assets or the impact of that cost on Interest 833 551 valued at cost until the next valuation. Government guaranteed securities with terms to Finance leases are capitalised. A leased asset the operating result. The financial report has been maturity that match, as closely as possible, the and liability are established at the present value prepared on an accrual and going concern basis. Fees & Charges 7,795 5,269 (e) Revenue Recognition estimated future cash outflows. of minimum lease payments. Lease payments are

Library allocated between the principal component of the Sales – Commercial Operations 2,100 2,001 Museum Victoria is economically dependent on Revenue from the sale of goods and services is lease liability and the interest expense. The finance the Victorian State Government grant to assist in During the 2002-2003 financial year Museum recognised upon delivery of the goods and services (iii) Employee Benefit On-costs lease facility was ratified by Cabinet as part of the Other 5,856 3,332 funding its operations. Victoria arranged for the revaluation of its library to the customer. new Vic Fleet facility and is restricted to Goods and Services Tax on Receipts 1,471 1,013 collections. The valuation included an itemised Employee benefit on-costs, including payroll tax vehicle acquisitions. valuation of individual items which exceeded a Interest revenue is recognised on the proportional are recognised and included in employee benefit (b) Non-Current Assets Goods and Services Tax recovered from the ATO 1,441 1,498 defined threshold value, an index taken from these basis taking into account interest rates applicable liabilities and costs when the employee benefits to items has been applied to the remaining rare books to the financial assets. which they relate are recognised as liabilities. (m) Events after Balance date Government Grants: recurrent 71,141 73,312 Museum Victoria has progressively valued all collection. The general collection has been revalued its assets under the provisions of Victorian by reference to the acquisition records maintained Grants from Government and other sources are Museum Victoria is not aware of any material Total Receipts 94,121 90,571 Government Policy – Revaluation of Non-Current by the Museum since the 1997 valuation. The brought to account as revenue as and when (g) Rounding events after balance date which would effect these Physical Assets – June 2002. Since the policy was Payments collections have been valued using the fair value received, with the exception of Government grants financial statements. issued, Museum Victoria has completed revaluation method of valuation. The library collection will be for the construction of the new Melbourne Museum All figures in the financial statements and notes of its land, buildings and its collections. Valuations Salaries & Associated Costs (26,699) (22,854) revalued at 30 June 2006. and Immigration Museum building and fitout costs thereto have been rounded to the nearest $1,000. of Museum Victoria’s land, buildings, plant and which have been treated as contributed capital in (n) Impact of Adopting AASB equivalents to Operating Expenses (53,644) (51,993) equipment and collections were undertaken at 30 line with Note 1 (h). Expenditure from such grants is IASB Standards June 2005. Building Repairs & Maintenance (2,886) (2,942) Depreciation recognised when incurred. (h) Treatment of Capital Contribution For interim and annual reporting periods ending Cost of Goods for Resale (896) (557) Depreciation is charged on non-current assets, Specific donations, for exhibition development Consistent with UIG Abstract 38 Contributions by on or after 30 June 2004, AASB 1047 Disclosing Property, Plant & Equipment other than land, at rates assessed to match the cost have been treated in these financial statements Owners to Wholly-owned Public Sector Entities the Impacts of Adopting Australian Equivalents Goods and Services Tax on Expenditure (2,755) (2,848) of these assets against their estimated economic as revenue. appropriations for additions to net assets have to International Financial Reporting Standards Museum Victoria periodically values its property lives to the entity. been designated as contributed capital. Other (IFRS) requires an explanation of how the transition Total Payments (86,880) (81,194) using the services of independent valuers. Any transfers that are in the nature of contributions process is being managed and a narrative costs incurred between valuations are deemed to Depreciation is calculated on the straight-line (f) Employee Benefits or distributions have also been designated as explanation of the key differences in accounting Net Cash Inflow from Operating Activities 15.2 7,241 9,377 be an increase in the fair value of the property and method. No provision is made for the depreciation contributed capital. policies that are expected to arise from the are recorded at cost. Cash Flows from Investing Activities of the Collections or for the Library – rare books Provision is made in respect of the Museum adoption of Australian equivalents to IFRS. Refer to collection as they are heritage assets and are Victoria’s liability for annual leave and long service Note 21 for further details. Plant and equipment Payments deemed to have an indefinite useful life. leave at balance date. (i) Capital charge A net revaluation increment relating to a class Great Hall (796) (408) of non-current assets is credited to an asset Estimates of remaining useful lives to the entity are In accordance with Government policy, a capital revaluation reserve except that, to the extent that made on a regular basis for all assets, with annual (i) Wages, Salaries & Annual Leave charge has been applied to distribute the Scienceworks 0 (110) the increment reverses a revaluation decrement reassessments for major items. The expected useful centrally-funded annual cost of capital. The rate previously recognised as an expense in respect Melbourne Museum Development (611) (1,906) lives are as follows: Liabilities for wages and salaries and annual charged for the 2004/05 financial year was 8 per of the same class of assets, it is recognised leave expected to be settled within 12 months of cent. This charge represents the interest which as revenue. Property, Plant & Equipment (2,555) (1,317) Buildings 20-100 years the reporting date are recognised in respect of Museum Victoria would have paid for the capital Plant and equipment 3-10 years employees’ services up to the reporting date and works portion of its grant. This charge has been Exhibitions (65) (2,519) A net revaluation decrement relating to a class Library – general collection 3-5 years are measured as the amounts expected to be paid recognised as revenue within the Government grant of non-current assets is recognised as an expense Exhibitions 1-5 years when the liabilities are settled. and disclosed separately as an expense within the Collections (65) (108) – except that, to the extent that a credit balance financial statements. exists in the asset revaluation reserve in Net Cash (Outflow) from Investing Activities (4,092) (6,368) Exhibitions with a life of one year or less are respect of that same class of assets, the expensed immediately. Exhibitions with an revaluation decrement is debited directly to Cash Flows from Financing Activities anticipated life of more than one year are capitalised (ii) Other Financial Assets the revaluation reserve. and depreciated over their remaining useful life. Receipts Investments are held for the purpose of gaining Revaluations are assessed annually and income and are not normally sold before maturity. Government Contributed Capital 13(a) 0 1,906 supplemented by independent valuations at least They are recorded in the Statement of Financial every three years. Payments Position at cost. No provision for diminution in value is made. Finance Lease (10) (2) Net Cash Inflow /(Outflow)from Financing Activities (10) 1,904

Net Increase in Cash Held 3,139 4,913

Cash at the Beginning of the Financial Year 11,764 6,851

Cash at the End of the Financial Year 15.1 14,903 11,764 Museums Board of Victoria The above statement of cash flows should be read in conjunction with accompanying notes. Annual Report 2004/05 Page 84/85 Notes to the Financial Statements

For the year ended 30 June 2005

2. Victorian government grants 5. Other Operating Expenses 8. Inventories 9(b) Property

The Museums Board of Victoria received the following grants from the Victorian Government 2004/05 2003/04 2004/05 2003/04 $’000 $’000 2004/05 2003/04 2004/05 2003/04 $’000 $’000 Property At Valuation *** $’000 $’000 $’000 $’000 Stock of Goods for Sale 767 915 Land 127,000 97,090 Recurrent Grant Building and Equipment Maintenance 2,886 2,942 Less Provision for Stock Obsolescence (87) (243) Buildings Applied to Operations 42,039 42,427 Administration Total 680 672 Abbotsford Building 0 4,000 Capital Charge 29,102 30,885 Consumables 11,756 12,615 Scienceworks Museum 23,200 15,724 71,141 73,312 Miscellaneous* 6,583 6,002 Royal Exhibition Building 34,160 23,000 Melbourne Museum Funding Consultants** 18 14 9. Non Current Assets Immigration Museum 18,900 15,014 Applied to Contributed Capital 0 1,906 Audit Fees *** - External 39 38 Moreland Store 11,050 5,500 Total 71,141 75,218 - Internal 101 136 9(a) Collections Melbourne Museum (including IMAX) 191,980 199,600 Bad/Doubtful Debts 0 515 At Valuation 406,290 359,928 Interest 0 1 Indigenous Collections* 84,354 77,100 At Cost Exhibitions History & Technology Collections* 22,274 20,900 3. Other grants Natural Science Collections* 129,098 123,000 Scienceworks Museum 0 110 Contractors & Display Costs 5,012 3,880 Royal Exhibition Building 0 922 Research and Collections Library** 7,682 7,682 Grants from other Agencies 2,667 2,671 Melbourne Museum 0 1,906 Collection Management 190 274 At Cost 0 109 Commonwealth Grants 433 468 0 2,938 Total 26,585 26,417 Total Collections 243,408 228,791 Other Grants 374 182 406,290 362,866 *The majority of the expenses in this category fall into two areas: Corporate Charges and Advertising. * Valued at 30 June 2005 by the Australian Valuation Office Total 3,474 3,321 Less Accumulated Depreciation **No Consultants were engaged or paid over $100 000 during the year **Valued at 30 June 2003 by Barbara Hince of Kenneth Hince Old & Fine Books Pty Ltd Abbotsford Building 0 (400) *** Audit Fees payable to the Victorian Auditor- General’s Office relating to the audit for the year ended 30 June 2005 were $39,600 ($38,530 2003/04). Scienceworks Museum 0 (786)

4. Other Income Royal Exhibition Building 0 (465) Immigration Museum 0 (601)

Interest 828 625 Moreland Store 0 (220) 6. Cash Assets Miscellaneous Income* 3,699 2,131 IMAX 0 (328) Total 4,527 2,756 Melbourne Museum 0 (3664) Cash Assets *Includes contribution in kind for Museum Victoria’s activities 0 (6,464) Cash 1,605 1,217 Total Land and Building at Valuation net of Negotiable Certificates of Deposit and Interest Bearing Deposits 13,298 10,547 Accumulated Depreciation 406,290 356,402 Total 14,903 11,764 *** Abbotsford, Scienceworks, Royal Exhibition Building, Moreland, Immigration Museum, Melbourne Museum (including IMAX). The Australian Valuation Office undertook a valuation of Museum Victoria’s land and buildings at fair value in June 2005

7. Receivables

Debtors 1,450 2,732

Less Provision for Doubtful Debts 0 (659)

1,450 2,073

Accrued Revenue 237 174

Total Receivables 1,687 2,247

Museums Board of Victoria Annual Report 2004/05 Page 86/87 Notes to the Financial Statements

For the year ended 30 June 2005

9(c) Plant, Equipment & Exhibitions 9(d) Property, Plant & Equipment, Exhibitions & Collections Reconciliation 10. Payables 12. Interest bearing liabilities 2004/05 2003/04 Land Buildings Plant & Exhibitions Sub-Total Collections Total $’000 $’000 Equipment 2004/05 2003/04 2004/05 2003/04

Plant & Equipment –at cost $’000 $’000 $’000 $’000 $’000 $’000 $’000 $’000 $’000 12(a) Current Secured $’000 $’000

Plant & Equipment at cost 63,042 60,824 2005 Trade Creditors 1,889 1,864 Lease liabilities (Note 19) 23 6

Less accumulated depreciation (29,501) (23,163) Carrying amount 97,090 259,312 37,711 15,596 409,709 228,791 638,500 Other Creditors 1,057 799 Total 23 6 at start of year Total 33,541 37,661 Accrued Salaries 353 552 12(b) Non-current Secured Additions 0 1,407 2,788 65 4,260 66 4,326 Plant & Equipment under finance lease Total Payables 3,299 3,215 Lease liabilities (Note 19) 137 45 Disposal 0 0 (73) 0 (73) 0 (73) Plant & Equipment under finance lease at cost 172 53 Total 137 45 Transfer 7,100 (7,100) 0 0 0 0 0 Less accumulated amortisation (12) (3) Total interest bearing liabilities 160 51 Revaluation 22,810 28,931 0 0 51,741 14,551 66,292 Total 160 50 11. Provision for employee benefits Lease liabilities are effectively secured as the rights to the leased assets revert to the lessor in the event Depreciation 0 (3,260) (6,725) (9,623) (19,608) 0 (19,608) of default Total plant & equipment 33,701 37,711 Carrying amount Exhibitions 11(a) Current Liabilities 12(c) Assets pledged as security at end of year 127,000 279,290 33,701 6,038 446,029 243,408 689,437

Melbourne Museum at cost 46,323 46,323 The carrying amounts of non – current assets pledged as security are: 2004 Employee Benefits Less accumulated depreciation (41,298) (32,011) Finance lease Carrying amount Annual Leave 2,473 1,909 Scienceworks Museum at cost 2,435 2,369 at start of year 97,090 260,123 43,607 23,243 424,063 228,682 652,745 Plant & equipment under finance lease (Note 9(c)) 160 51 Long Service Leave 375 332 Less accumulated depreciation (1,470) (1,145) Additions 0 2,424 1,369 2,518 6,311 109 6,420 Total non – current assets pledged as security 160 51 Total 2,848 2,241 Immigration Museum at cost 4,723 4,723 Disposal 0 0 (10) 0 (10) 0 (10)

Less accumulated depreciation (4,675) (4,663) Depreciation 0 (3,235) (7,255) (10,165) (20,655) 0 (20,655)

Total Exhibitions 6,038 15,596 Carrying amount 11(b) Non-Current Liabilities at end of year 97,090 259,312 37,711 15,596 409,709 228,791 638,500 13. Equity Total property, plant & equipment, & exhibitions 446,029 409,709 Employee Benefits 13 (a) Contributed Capital*

Long Service Leave 3,381 2,992 Balance at beginning of year 587,770 585,864 Total 3,381 2,992 Capital Receipts Total (including on-costs) – Refer Note 1 (f) 6,229 5,233 Victorian Government

Melbourne Museum Development 0 1,906

Balance at End of the Year 587,770 587,770

Museums Board of Victoria Annual Report 2004/05 Page 88/89 Notes to the Financial Statements

For the year ended 30 June 2005

13 (b) Accumulated Deficit 14. Contingent liabilities and contingent assets 16. Related party transactions 18. Superannuation

2004/05 2003/04 Museum Victoria believes that there are no contingent liabilities or contingent assets. (a) The Minister, the Director & Board Members of the Museum Board of Victoria Museum Victoria has, in its staffing profile, a number of employees who are members of the following public sector superannuation schemes: $’000 $’000 The Minister for the Museums Board of Victoria is the Hon. Mary Delahunty MP. The names of each person holding the position of Board member of the Museums Board of Victoria during the financial year are Mr (a) State Superannuation Fund (Revised Scheme & New) Balance at beginning of year (42,310) (28,049) Harold Mitchell, Mr Peter McMullin (resigned 8 July 2004, reappointed 22 March 2005), Ms Sheila O’Sullivan, Mr Terry Garwood, Mr Peter Hiscock AM, Dr Janet McCalman, Mr Michael Perry, Dr Gael Jennings, Professor Employer contributions paid to the above Schemes were $646,692 (2003/04 $638,268). Contributions Deficit for the Year (13,483) (13,985) 15. Notes to the cash flow statement Daine Alcorn, Ms Susan Heron and the Hon. Joan Kirner AM). The Chief Executive Officer of the Museum is outstanding at 30 June 2005 were $Nil. The contributions rate for the above Schemes is not available to Transfers Between Reserves Dr J Patrick Greene. There were no related party transactions by the Minister, the Chief Executive Officer and Museum Victoria. Board Members. Transfer (to) from Trust Funds (372) (1,312) 15.1 Reconciliation of Cash (b) There are no other related party transactions (b) State Superannuation Fund (VicSuper Scheme) Transfer from (to) Externally Funded Special Projects (393) 1,036 For the purposes of the Statement of Cash Flows, Museum Victoria considers cash to include cash on hand and in banks and investments in money market instruments. Cash at the end of the reporting period, Employer contributions paid to the above Scheme were $1,497,820 (2003/04 $1,268,298). Contributions Balance at end of the year (56,558) (42,310) as shown in the Statement of Cash Flows, is reconciled to the related items in the Statement of Financial outstanding at 30 June 2005 were $Nil. This represented a contribution rate of 9% of normal salary. Position as follows: 13 (c) Reserves Museum Victoria is required to recognise all superannuation payments as expenses in its operating 17. Responsible persons remuneration statement. The Department of Treasury and Finance shall recognise the aggregate unfunded superannuation 2004/05 2003/04 Trust funds** liability relating to employing entities in its financial statements of 30 June 2005 as the Victorian Government has assumed responsibility for this liability. Balance at beginning of the year 4,229 2,917 $’000 $’000 (a) Responsible Persons

Cash 1,605 1,217 Transfer Between Reserves Persons who hold positions of Responsible Persons in relation to the Board at any time during the reporting period are: Transfer from Accumulated Deficit 372 1,312 Other Financial Assets 13,298 10,547 Balance at end of the year 4,601 4,229 Total (refer to Note 6) 14,903 11,764 Responsible Minister – Mary Delahunty MP 19. Leasing commitments Accountable Officer – Dr J Patrick Greene Externally funded special projects*** Board Members – As disclosed in note 16 (a). 15.2 Reconciliation of Operating Result to Net Cash Inflow from Balance at beginning of year 2,795 3,831 2004/05 2003/04 Operating activities (b) Remuneration of Responsible Persons Transfer between Reserves $’000 $’000 Members of the Board act in an honorary capacity. Transfer (to) from Accumulated Deficit 393 (1,036) Operating Deficit (13,483 ) (13,985 ) Operating Leases The remuneration of the Accountable Officer, who is not a Member of the Board, is reported below. Balance at end of the year 3,188 2,795 Add (Less) items classified as Investing/Financing activities Non-Cancellable Operating Leases contracted for

Asset revaluation reserve (Profit) Loss on Sale of Non-current Assets 73 10 (c) Executives Officer Remuneration but not capitalised in the accounts

Balance at beginning of year 92,200 92,200 Add (Less ) non cash items: Payable: Income Band Total Remuneration Base Remuneration Add Increment 66,292 0 Assets Acquired (114) 0 not longer than 1 year 667 624 2005 2004 2005 2004 Balance at end of the year 158,492 92,200 Depreciation & Amortisation 19,608 20,655 longer than 1 year but not longer than 5 years 1,182 1,011 No. No. No. No. *“Contributed Capital” consists of capital funds provided by the Victorian Government for the building of the Provisions 180 1,215 Total 1,849 1,635 new Melbourne Museum, Immigration Museum and Royal Exhibition Building. Ministerial approval has been $40,000 - $49,999 1 0 1 0 received for the treatment of these amounts as Contributed Capital. Net cash provided by operating activities before Finance Leases change in Assets and liabilities 6,264 7,895 $60,000 - $69,999 0 0 1 0 Commitments in relation to finance leases are payable as follows: ** “Trust Funds” consist of those funds which may be used by the Museums Board of Victoria for Museum Increase/(Decrease) in Creditors & Accruals 84 2,317 $100,000 - $109,999 1 0 0 0 purposes defined by the relevant Trust deed or will. within 1 year 32 9 (Increase)/Decrease in Receivables 1,282 (755) $110,000 - $119,999 0 0 0 2 *** “Externally Funded Special Projects” consist of unexpended Government and other grants tied to a longer than 1 year but not longer than 5 years 148 49 specific purpose. (Increase)/Decrease in Inventories 148 10 $120,000 - $129,999 0 2 2 2 Minimum lease payments 180 58 (Increase)/Decrease in Accrued Revenue (63) (90) $130,000 - $139,999 1 1 1 0 Less future finance charges 20 7 (Increase)/Decrease in Prepayments (474) 0 $140,000 - $149,999 1 1 0 0 Recognised as a liability 160 51 Net cash provided by operating activities 7,241 9,377 $150,000 - $159,999 1 0 0 0 Representing lease liabilities: $180,000 - $189,999 0 1 0 1 Current (Note 12) 23 6 $190,000 - $199,999 0 0 1 0 Non–Current (Note 12) 137 45 $220,000 - $229,999 1 0 0 0 Total 160 51 Total Numbers 6 5 6 5

Total $808,000 $716,000 $704,000 $667,000

Museums Board of Victoria Annual Report 2004/05 Page 90/91 Notes to the Financial Statements

For the year ended 30 June 2005

20. Financial instruments Fixed interest maturing in: (c) Net Fair Value of Financial Assets and 21. Impacts of adopting • AASB 132 Financial Instruments: Disclosure Liabilities and Presentation; 2004 Floating 1 year Over 1 More Non- Total Australian equivalents Interest or to 5 than 5 interest (a) Credit Risk Exposures On–balance sheet • AASB 139 Financial Instruments: Recognition rate less years years bearing to international financial and Measurement. The credit risk on financial assets which have been recognised on the Statement of Financial Position, Notes $’000 $’000 $’000 $’000 $’000 $’000 The net fair value of cash and cash equivalents and reporting standards is generally the carrying amount, net of any provisions for doubtful debts. non-interest bearing monetary financial assets and The comparative information for transactions Financial Assets financial liabilities of Museum Victoria approximates Following the adoption of Australian equivalents affected by these standards will be accounted for in their carrying value. Cash and deposits 6 1,173 0 0 0 44 1,217 to International Financial Reporting Standards (A- accordance with existing accounting standards. (b) Interest Rate Risk Exposure IFRS), Museum Victoria will report for the first time Museum Victoria has taken the following steps The net fair value of other monetary financial assets Receivables 7 121 0 0 0 2,126 2,247 in compliance with A-IFRS when results for the in managing the transition to A-IFRS and has Museum Victoria’s exposure to interest rate risk and the effective weighted average interest rate for each class is based upon market prices where a market exists financial year ended 30June 2006 are released. achieved the following scheduled milestones: of financial assets and liabilities is set out below. Investments 6 5,547 5,000 0 0 0 10,547 or by discounting the expected future cash flows by the current interest rates for assets with similar risk It should be noted that under A-IFRS, there are • established a steering committee to oversee the Exposures arise predominantly from assets and liabilities bearing variable interest rates as the economic entity 6,841 5,000 0 0 2,170 14,011 profiles. In the 2003-04 financial year requirements that apply specifically to not-for- transition to and implementation of A-IFRS; intends to hold fixed rate assets and liabilities to maturity. Museum Victoria did not have any financial assets Weighted average profit entities that are not consistent with IFRS in this class. • established an A-IFRS project team to review the interest rate 5.27% 5.44% 0% 0% requirements. Museum Victoria is established to Fixed interest maturing in: achieve the objectives of government in providing new accounting standards to identify key issues services free of charge or at prices significantly and the likely impacts resulting from the adoption 2005 Floating 1 year Over 1 More Non- Total below their cost of production for the collective of A-IFRS and any relevant Financial Reporting interest or to 5 than 5 interest consumption by the community, which is Directions as issued by the Minister for Finance; rate less years years bearing Financial liabilities incompatible with generating profit as a principal • participated in an education and training process Notes $’000 $’000 $’000 $’000 $’000 $’000 Trade and other creditors 0 0 0 0 3,215 3,215 objective. Consequently, where appropriate, Museum Victoria applies those paragraphs in to raise awareness of the changes in reporting Financial Assets Finance lease 0 6 45 0 0 51 accounting standards applicable to not-for requirements and the processes to be undertaken; profit entities. and Cash and deposits 6 1,560 0 0 0 45 1,605 0 6 45 0 3,215 3,266 Weighted average An A-IFRS compliant financial report will comprise • initiated reconfiguration and testing of user systems Receivables 7 237 0 0 0 1,450 1,687 interest rate 0% 6.50% 6.50% 0% a new statement of changes in equity in addition to meet new requirements. to the three existing financial statements, which Investments 6 6,298 7,000 0 0 0 13,298 Net Financial will all be renamed. The Statement of Financial This financial report has been prepared in Assets (Liabilities) 6,841 4,994 (45) 0 (1,045) 10,745 8,095 7,000 0 0 1,495 16,590 performance will be renamed as the Operating accordance with current Australian accounting Statement, the Statement of Financial Position standards and other financial reporting Weighted average will revert to its previous title as the Balance Sheet requirements (Australian GAAP). It is considered interest rate 5.27% 5.7% 0% 0% and the Statement of Cash Flows will be simplified that there is no significant impact on the financial as the Cash Flow Statement. However, for the position of the Museum as at 30 June 2005 and on the current year’s result had the Financial Reconciliation of Net Financial Assets to Net Assets purpose of disclosing the impact of adopting Financial liabilities A-IFRS in the 2004-05 financial report, which is Statements been prepared using A-IFRS. 2004/05 2003/04 prepared under existing accounting standards, Trade and other creditors 0 0 0 0 3,299 3,299 existing titles and terminologies will be retained. $’000 $’000 Finance lease 0 23 137 0 0 160 Net Financial Assets as above 13,131 10,745 With certain exceptions, an entity that has adopted 0 23 137 0 3,299 3,459 A-IFRS must record transactions that are reported Non-Financial Assets and Liabilities: in the financial report as though A-IFRS had Weighted average always applied. This requirement also extends interest rate 0% 6.5% 6.5% 0 Inventories 680 672 to any comparative information included within Net Financial the financial report. Most accounting policy Property, Plant & Equipment 446,029 409,709 Assets (Liabilities) 8,095 6,977 (137) 0 (1,804) 13,131 adjustments to apply A-IFRS retrospectively Collections 243,408 228,791 will be made against accumulated funds at the 1 July 2004 opening balance sheet date for the Provisions (6,229) (5,233) comparative period. The exceptions include deferral until 1 July 2005 of the application and Prepayment 474 0 adjustments for:

Net Assets per Statement of Financial Position 697,493 644,684

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Financial Review of Operations and Financial Condition

Five year financial summary

2004/05 2003/04 2002/03 2001/02 2000/01 INDEPENDENT AUDIT REPORT INDEPENDENT AUDIT REPORT $1000 $’000 $’000 $’000 $’000 Museums Board of Victoria (Continued) Independence Revenue 90,188 88,558 87,752 81,219 76,093 The Auditor-General’s independence is established by the Constitution Act 1975. To the Members of the Parliament of Victoria and Members of the The Auditor-General is not subject to direction by any person about the way in which his powers are to be Expenditure 103,671 102,543 99,917 93,835 89,360 Museums Board of Victoria exercised. The Auditor-General and his staff and delegates comply with all applicable independence requirements

of the Australian accounting profession. Net Deficit for the Year (13,483) (13,985) (12,165) (12,616) (13,267) Scope The Financial Report Audit Opinion Assets 707,181 653,183 662,315 672,489 594,956 The accompanying financial report for the year ended 30 June 2005 of the Museums Board of Victoria In my opinion, the financial report presents fairly in accordance with applicable Accounting Standards and other Liabilities 9,688 8,499 5,552 5,631 5,332 consists of the statement of financial performance, statement of financial position, statement of cash mandatory professional reporting requirements in Australia, and the financial reporting requirements of the Financial Management Act 1994, the financial position of the Museums Board of Victoria as at 30 June 2005 and flows, notes to and forming part of the financial report, and the supporting declaration. Equity 697,493 644,684 656,763 666,858 589,624 its financial performance and cash flows for the year then ended. Members’ Responsibility The Members of the Museums Board of Victoria are responsible for: • the preparation and presentation of the financial report and the information it contains, including Significant changes in The Museums Board of Victoria’s financial result throughout the year are as follows: accounting policies and accounting estimates • the maintenance of adequate accounting records and internal controls that are designed to record its Financial Position transactions and affairs, and prevent and detect fraud and errors. Land and Buildings and the Museum’s Collections were revalued at 30 June 2005. These revaluations MELBOURNE JW CAMERON resulted in an increase in value of $66.3 million which contributed to a positive change in equity 19 September 2005 Auditor-General Audit Approach of $52.8 million. As required by the Audit Act 1994, an independent audit has even carried out in order to express an opinion on the financial report. The audit has been conducted in accordance with Australian Auditing Standards to provide reasonable assurance as to whether the financial report is free of New Capital Funding Initiatives material misstatement. An amount of $1.5 million was received from the Victorian Government for the upgrade of the The audit procedures included: Planetarium at Scienceworks. • examining information on a test basis to provide evidence supporting the amounts and disclosures in the financial report • assessing the appropriateness of the accounting policies and disclosures used, and the reasonableness of significant accounting estimates made by members • obtaining written confirmation regarding the material representations made in conjunction with the audit • reviewing the overall presentation of information in the financial report.

These procedures have been undertaken to form an opinion as to whether the financial report is presented in all material respects fairly in accordance with Accounting Standards and other mandatory professional reporting requirements in Australia, and the financial reporting requirements of the Financial Management Act 1994, so as to present a view which is consistent with my understanding of the Board’s financial position, and its financial performance and cash flows.

The audit opinion expressed in this report has been formed on the above basis.

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The Annual Report of Museum Victoria is prepared in accordance with all relevant Victorian legislation. Financial and other information Financial Statements Legislation This index has been prepared to facilitate identification of the Museum’s compliance with statutory FRD 22 Statement of workforce data and merit and equity 106 disclosure requirements. Financial statements required under Part 7 of the FMA Freedom of Information Act 1982 106 FRD 22 Summary of the financial results for the year 95 SD 4.2(c) Compliance with Australian accounting standards Building Act 1983 107 FRD 22 Significant chances in financial position during the year 82 Legislation Requirement Page reference and other authoritative pronouncements 84 Whistleblowers Protection Act 2001 107–110 FRD 22 Operational and budgetary objectives and performance 11, 18–65 SD 4.2(c) Compliance with Ministerial Directions 73 Information Privacy Act 2000 106 Ministerial Directions against objectives SD 4.2(d) Rounding of amounts 85 FRD 22 Major changes or factors affecting performance 11-12, 18–19, 28, SD 4.2(c) Accountable officer’s declaration 82 44–45, 58–59, 68–69 SD 4.2(b) Statement of financial performance 83 Report of Operations FRD 22 Subsequent events 85 SD 4.2(b) Statement of financial position 83 Charter and Purpose FRD 22 Application and operation of Freedom of Information Act 1982 106 SD 4.2(b) Statement of cash flows during the year 84 FRD 22 Compliance with building and maintenance provisions FRD 22 Manner of establishment of the relevant Ministers 4, 73 of Building Act 1993 107 Other disclosures in notes to the financial statements FRD 22 Objectives, functions, powers and duties 4, 15, 73 FRD 22 Statement on National Competition Policy 107 FRD 9 Departmental disclosure of administered assets and liabilities 87–89 FRD 22 Nature and range of services provided 4, 30–45, 73 FRD 22 Application and operation of the FRD 11 Disclosure of ex-gratia payments N/A Whistleblowers Protection Act 2001 107-110 FRD 13 Disclosure of parliamentary appropriations 86 Management and structure FRD 22 Details of consultancies over $100,000 107 FRD 21 Responsible person and executive officer disclosures 91 FRD 22 Details of consultancies under $100,000 107 FRD 23 Superannuation liabilities and disclosure 91 FRD 22 Organisational structure 79 FRD 12 Disclosure of major contracts 107 FRD 22 Statement of availability of other information 106 FRD 22 Occupational health and safety 70 FRD 15 Executive officer disclosures 91 FRD 10 Disclosure index 96–97 FRD 24 Reporting of office-based environmental impacts N/A FRD 8 Budget portfolio outcomes 11–12, 18–19, 28, 44–45, 58–59, 68–69

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Research Projects Walker, Ken. Pest and Disease Image Library: Costa, Trudy: PhD, University of Melbourne. Kefford, Ben: PhD, RMIT University. Raadik, Tarmo: PhD, University of Canberra. Bardeleben, B., Moore, R.L., Austin, J.J. and Frost, R.L., Carmody, O., Erickson, K.L., Weier, Kuiter, R.H. 2004. A new pygmy pipehorse (Pisces: development, facilitation and maintenance. Plant Supervisors: Tim O’Hara, Mick Keough. Supervisors: Richard Marchant, Supervisors: Martin Gomon, Arthur Georges, Robson, T. 2005. Isolation of polymorphic M.L., Henry, D.A. and Cejka, J. 2005. Molecular Syngnathidae: Idiotropiscis) from eastern Australia. Health Australia, Department of Agriculture, Project: Human impacts on the rocky intertidal Dayanthi Nugegoda. Mark Adams. tetranucleotide microsatellite markers for the Satin structure of the uranyl mineral uranopilite-a Raman Records of the Australian Museum 56: 163–165. Externally Funded projects Fisheries and Forestry. coast of Victoria. Project: The role of salinity in structuring stream Project: Conservation biology and systematics of Bowerbird (Ptilonorhynchus violaceus). Molecular spectroscopic study. Journal of Molecular Structure invertebrate communities. the mountain galaxias. Ecology Notes 5: 305-307. 733(1-3): 203-210. Kuiter, R.H. 2004. Description of a new species The following projects received external funding Willis, Elizabeth. ‘Little Lonsdale’ archaeological Cotter, Mary: MA, Public History, Monash University. of butterflyfish, Roa australis, from northwestern and commenced during the year: collection. Heritage Victoria. Supervisors: Elizabeth Willis, Seamus O’Halloran. Lee, Katrina: BSc(Hons), Department of Zoology, Rheindt, Frank: PhD, University of Melbourne. Bardeleben, C., Delaney, K.S., Austin, J.J. and Frost, R.L., Mills, S.J. and Erickson, K.L. Australia (Pisces: Perciformes: Chaetodontidae). Project: A descriptive analysis of research material University of Melbourne. Supervisors: Janette Norman, Les Christidis, Moore, R.L. 2005. Isolation of polymorphic 2004. Thermal decomposition of peisleyite: Records of the Australian Museum 56: 167–171. Allen, Lindy. Twined Together: Kunmadj Wilson, Robin. Australian Nereididae bioinformatics: relating to Victorian trade union banners. Supervisors: Robin Wilson, Mick Keough. Jon Martin. tetranucleotide microsatellite markers for the a thermogravimetry and hot stage Raman njalehnjaleken. The Myer Foundation. PARTNER project. Australian Biological Project: The diversity and endemism of the family Project: Speciation in neotropical tyrannids: grey-headed robin (Poecilodryas albispecularis). spectroscopic study. Thermochimica Acta 419(1-2): Long, J.A. and Gordon, M.S. 2004. The greatest Resources Study. Dolman, Gaynor: PhD, University of Queensland. Serpulidae (Annelida: Polychaeta) in the Eleania complex. Molecular Ecology Notes 5: 146-148. 109-114. step in vertebrate history: a paleobiological review Allen, Lindy. Donald Thomson: Cape York language Supervisors: Jeremy Austin, Sandie Degnan, south-eastern Australia. of the fish-tetrapod transition. Physiological and program. The University of Melbourne. The following collaborative projects administered Craig Moritz. Rose, Rebecca: BSc(Hons), Department of Zoology, Bardeleben, C., Gray, M.M., Austin, J.J. and Frost, R.L., Mills, S.J. and Weier, M.L. 2004. Biological Zoology 77(5): 700-719. by other institutions received external funding and Project: Speciation in Carlia skinks from the Lees, Joannah: PhD, University of Canberra. University of Melbourne. Amorim do Rosario, I. 2005. Isolation of Peisleyite, an unusual mixed anion mineral: a Batty, Philip. Colliding Worlds: catalogue and commenced during the year: wet tropics. Supervisors: Janette Norman, Stephen Sarre, Supervisors: Jane Melville, Josh Van Buskirk. polymorphic tetranucleotide microsatellite vibrational spectroscopic study. Spectrochimica Longmore, N.W. and Silveira, L.F. 2005. A opening. The Australia Council. James Robertson, Terry Chesser. Project: Population genetics and background markers for the large-billed scrubwren (Sericornis Acta, Part A, Molecular and Biomolecular replacement name for Xiphorhynchus fuscus Long, John. Australia’s exceptional Palaeozoic Ferraro, Paul: MSc, Rainforest CRC, Project: Molecular methods for the diagnosis of colour matching in Victorian painted dragons magnirostris). Molecular Ecology Notes 5: 143-145. Spectroscopy 61(1-2): 177-184. brevirostris (Pinto 1938). Bulletin of the British Birch, William. A.B. Edwards mineral, rock and ore fossil fishes, and a Gondwana origin for land James Cook University. Glossy Black-Cockatoo populations and their (Ctenophorus pictus). Ornithologists Club 125: 153-154. collection. CSIRO. vertebrates. Australian Research Council. Supervisors: Janette Norman, Chris Johnson, application in forensics. Batty, P. 2005. White redemption rituals: repatriating Frost, R.L., Weier, M.L., Erickson, K.L., Carmody, This grant is administered by the Australian Peter Latch, John Winter. Schwartz, Leah: PhD, Monash University. Aboriginal secret-sacred objects. Arena Journal O. and Mills, S.J. 2004. Raman spectroscopy of McDairmid, H., Day, R. and Wilson, R.S. 2004. The Dale-Hallett, Liza. Development of stories for National University. Project: Conservation genetics of the Lockett, Matthew: PhD, Supervisors: Thomas Rich, Patricia Vickers-Rich. 23: 29-36. minerals of the variscite group. Journal of Raman ecology of polychaetes that infest abalone shells in Women on Farms Gathering display. Women on Mahogany Glider. University of Technology, Sydney. Project: The Bullock Creek mid-Cainozoic small Spectroscopy 35(12): 1047-1055. Victoria, Australia. Journal of Shellfish Research 23: Farms Gathering. Schmidt, Rolf. A global species database of Phylum Supervisors: Martin Gomon, David Booth. mammal assemblage. Beadell, J.S., Gering, E., Austin J.J., Dumbacher, 1179–1188. Bryozoa. Global Biodiversity Information Facility, Finn, Julian: PhD, La Trobe University. Project: Comparative biology of introduced gobies J.P., Peirce, M.A., Pratt, T.K., Atkinson, C.T. and Gomon, M.F. 2004. Two new species of roughy Dale-Hallett, Liza. Water Smart Lifestyles in and Denmark. This grant is administered by the Field Supervisors: Mark Norman, Simon Goldsworthy. in Sydney and Melbourne estuaries. Smith, Katie: BSc(Hons), Department of Zoology, Fleischer, R.C. 2004. Prevalence and differential (Trachichthyidae: Optivus) from coastal waters Nicholls, J.A. and Austin J.J. 2005. Phylogeography around Melbourne: Stage 2. Smart Water Fund. Museum of Natural History, Chicago, USA. Project: Systematics and biology of argonauts University of Melbourne. host-specificity of two avian blood parasite genera of southern Australia. Records of the Australian of an east Australian wet-forest bird, the satin (Family Argonautidae). Maroske, Sara: PhD, University of Melbourne. Supervisors: Jane Melville, Josh Van Buskirk. in the Austral-Papuan region. Molecular Ecology 13: Museum 56: 173–178. bowerbird (Ptilonorhynchus violaceus), derived Ferraro, Paul and Norman, Janette. Taxonomy Wilson, Robin. Ports survey integration Supervisors: Thomas Darragh, Rod Home. Project: Species boundaries in two genetically 3829-3844. from mtDNA, and its relationship to morphology. and population structure of the Mahogany Glider. project. Natural Heritage Trust, Department of Fitzgerald, Erich: PhD, Monash University. Project: Science by correspondence: Ferdinand separated but morphologically and ecologically Gomon, M.F., and Tomoyasu, S. 2004. A new Molecular Ecology 14: 1485-1496. Rainforest CRC, James Cook University. the Environment and Heritage. This grant is Supervisors: Thomas Rich, Patricia Vickers-Rich. Mueller (1825-1896). overlapping species of Agamid lizards (Diporiphora Black, A.B. and Longmore, N.W. 2004. The bird cucumberfish (Paraulopidae) of the Paraulopus administered by The Australian Museum. Project: The functional anatomy and phylogeny of bilineata and D. magna). collection of R.C. Chandler: Tarcoola to Ooldea nigripinnis complex from central eastern Australia. Norman, M.D., Boucher, R. and Hochberg, F.G. Gillespie, Richard. Commemoration of the Eight toothed Mysticeti (Cetacea) from the Late Mills, Stuart: PhD, University of Melbourne. Storey, Melissa: PhD, University of Melbourne. (Yellabinna region), 1908-9. South Australian Records of the Australian Museum 56: 195–199. 2004. The Sharkclub Octopus, Galeoctopus Hour Day. Grants from: Arts Victoria; Australian Oligocene of Australia. Supervisors: William Birch, David Phillips, Ian Grey. Supervisors: Gary Poore, David Macmillan. Ornithologist 34: 185-198. lateralis, a new genus and species of deep- Workers Union; Cambridge Integrated Services Project: Secondary minerals in the Broken Hill Project: Systematics and biogeography of the Greene, J.P. 2004. Content and contention: can water octopus from the western Pacific Ocean Victoria; Community and Public Sector Union; Research Supervision Hansen, Amber: MEnvSc, deposit, New South Wales. isopod family Serolidae (Crustacea). Bock, P.E. and Cook, P.L. 2004. Dimorphic brooding museums present controversial issues? Open (Cephalopoda: Octopodidae). Journal of Molluscan Industrial Relations Victoria; Members Equity Bank; University of New South Wales. Morris, Jasmine Sarah: MA, Public History, zooids in the genus Adeona Lamouroux from Museum Journal [?Vol. 7, Sept 2004 – check, Studies 70: 247-256. Robert Salzer Foundation; RMIT University; The Supervisors: Tim O’Hara, Ronnie Harding. Monash University. Syme, Anna: PhD, University of Melbourne. Australia (Bryozoa: Cheilostomata). Memoirs of pages??] University of Melbourne; Victorian Trades and Graduate and Post-Graduate Project: Cryptic speciation in the eleven-armed Supervisors: Deborah Tout-Smith, Helen Doyle. Supervisors: Gary Poore, David Macmillan. Museum Victoria 61(2): 129–133. Norman, M.D., Hochberg, F.G. and Boucher- Literary Institute; and, Victorian Trades Hall Council. Supervision: seastar, Coscinasterias muricata. Project: Old Customs House, Melbourne: furniture Project: Systematics and biogeography of Harvey, G. 2004. Expanding aesthetic boundaries Rodoni, R. 2004. Microeledone mangoldi n. gen. and fittings of the Long Room. cylindroleberidid ostracods (Crustacea) in Bock, P.E. and Cook, P.L. 2004. A review of in Australian garden design. Traffic, An and n. sp., a deep-water pygmy octopus from Gillespie, Richard. Gay and lesbian history of Harding, Lucy: MSc, Department of Earth Sciences, southern Australia. Australian Conescharellinidae Interdisciplinary Postgraduate Journal 4: 51-71. the Norfolk Ridge, New Caledonia (Cephalopoda: (Museum Victoria supervisors in italics) Victoria. State Library of Victoria. University of Melbourne. Ng, Julienne: BSc(Hons), Department of Zoology, (Bryozoa: Cheilostomata). Memoirs of Museum Octopodidae). Molluscan Research 24(3): 193-209. Supervisors: Thomas Darragh, Stephen Gallagher. University of Melbourne. Thompson, Vanessa: PhD, University of Melbourne. Victoria 61(2): 135–182. Henry, D.A. 2005. Gem beryl in Australia. ExtraLapis Anderson, Debbie: PhD, University of Melbourne. Gillespie, Richard. The history of Australian Project: Early Pliocene molluscan palaeontology Supervisors: Jane Melville, Josh Van Buskirk. Supervisors: Jane Melville, Stephen Swearer. 7: 76-78. Novas, F.E., Valais, S., Vickers-Rich, P. and Rich, Supervisors: Liza Dale-Hallett, Kate Darian-Smith, childhood. PhD sponsorship project. The University and palaeoenvironments of the Marine Project: Conservation genetics of the Anglesea Project: Determining the mechanisms of self- Cook, C.E., Austin, J.J. and Disney, R.H.L. 2004. T.H. 2005. A large Cretaceous theropod from Peter Christoff. of Melbourne. Plain Area (Antarctica). Earless Dragon (Tympanocryptis diemensis). recruitment in Australian coral reef fishes: a A mitochondrial 12S and 16S rRNA phylogeny of Henry, D.A., Birch, W.D. and MacRae, C. 2005. Patagonia, Argentina, and the evolution of the Project: Drought, risk and rural endurance: comparison of the evolutionary relationships and critical genera of Phoridae (Diptera) and related Manganaxinite from Pyles limestone, near carcharodontosauroids. Naturwissenschafften 92: rethinking the Australian climate. Marchant, Richard. Assessment of environmental Harris, Collette: MA, Public History, Nicholls, James: PhD, University of Queensland. population genetics of endemic and families of Aschiza. Zootaxa 593: 1-11. Benambra, and ferroaxinite from Corop, Victoria. 226-230. flow requirements for the Latrobe River and Monash University. Supervisors: Jeremy Austin, Anne Goldizen, non-endemic species. Australian Journal of Mineralogy 11(1): 27-33. Blamey, Libby: MA, Public History, wetlands of the Lower Latrobe River. West Supervisors: Richard Gillespie, Seamus O’Hanlon. Craig Moritz. Darragh, T.A. 2004. Ferdinand Mueller and Charles O’Loughlin, P.M., and Waters, J.M. 2004. A Monash University. Gippsland Catchment Management Authority. Project: The relationship between design and Project: Examining the ecological and evolutionary York, Kate: BSc(Hons), Department of Genetics, La Trobe. La Trobeana, Journal of the La Trobe Henry, D.A., Pogson, R.E. and Williams, P.A. 2005. molecular and morphological revision of genera of Supervisors: Deborah Tout-Smith, manufacturing in Victorian industry. causes of call variation in Satin Bowerbirds. University of Melbourne. Society of Australia 2(2): 1-5. Threadgoldite from the South Alligator Valley Asterinidae (Echinodermata: Asteroidea). Memoirs Seamus O’Hanlon. Melville, Jane. The evolutionary history of self- Supervisors: Janette Norman, Belinda Appleton. uranium field, Northern Territory, Australia: second of Museum Victoria 61(1): 1–40. Project: Material evidence of immigrant depots and replenishment in endemic coral reef fishes. The Hogan, Fiona: PhD, Deakin University. Piper, Katarzyna Julia: PhD, Monash University. Project: Microsatellite analysis of the Bentwing Bat, Darragh, T.A. 2005. Review of: Moyal, A. (2003) The world occurrence. Australian Journal of Mineralogy camps in mid-19th century Victoria. University of Melbourne. Supervisors: Janette Norman, Raylene Cooke, Supervisors: Thomas Rich, Patricia Vickers-Rich. Miniopterus schreibersii. Web of Science: The Scientific Correspondence of 11(1): 9-14. Poore, G.C.B. 2005. Biremia kensleyi, new species Chris Burridge, Chris Austin. Project: Analysis of the early-mid Pleistocene the Rev. W.B. Clarke, Australia’s Pioneer Geologist, of Bathynataliidae, a small southern hemisphere Buchanan, Lucas: PhD, Monash University. Norman, Mark. Australia’s argonauts: taxonomy, Project: Genetic variability of Powerful Owls in the Portland mammalian fauna. Australian Scholarly Publishing: Melbourne. Holloway, D.J. 2004. The trilobite subfamily family (Crustacea: Isopoda: Sphaeromatidea). Supervisors: Thomas Rich, Patricia Vickers-Rich. biology and a revision of the family Argonautidae. south-east Australian forests. Archives of Natural History 32(1): 124-125. Monorakinae (Pterygometopinae). Palaeontology Proceedings of the Biological Society of Project: Australian fossil crocodiles from the Rundle Australian Biological Resources Study. Plant, Rhyllis: MA, Visual Arts, La Trobe University. Research Publications Federle, W. and Rheindt, F.E. 2005. Macaranga 47: 1015-1036. Washington 118: 55-62. Oil Shale of Queensland: mirrors of past climate & Holland, Timothy: BSc(Hons), Department of Supervisors: Thomas Darragh, James McArdle, ant-plants hide food from intruders: correlation of Poore, G.C.B., and Bardsley, T.M. 2004. ecological associations. Norman, Mark and Wilson, Robin. Publication Zoology, Latrobe University. John Robinson. food presentation and presence of wax barriers Holmes, F.C. 2004. A new Late Eocene cassiduloid Pseudidotheidae (Crustacea: Isopoda: Valvifera) of Nudibranchs and Relatives of Southeastern Supervisors: John Long, Anne Warren. Project: Natural history illustration: Publications – Refereed Journals analysed using phylogenetically independent (Echinoidea) from Yorke Peninsula, South Australia. reviewed with description of a new species, first Cohn, Helen: PhD, University of Melbourne. Australia. The Norman Wettenhall Foundation. Project: Carboniferous rhizodont fishes from woodblock to website. contrasts. Biological Journal of the Linnaean Memoirs of Museum Victoria 61(2): 209–216. from Australia. Memoirs of Museum Victoria 61(1): Supervisors: Thomas Darragh, Rod Home. Mansfield, Victoria. Austin, J.J., Bretagnolle, V. and Pasquet, E. 2004. Society 84: 177-193. 75–83. Project: Novelty to rarity: a history of the National O’Hara, Tim. Ecological ‘health’ of Victorian Pocklington, Jacqueline: PhD, A global molecular phylogeny of the small Puffinus Just, J. 2004. Sicafodiidae, fam. nov. for Sicafodia Herbarium of Victoria. intertidal rock platforms. Natural Heritage Trust, Hoskin, Conrad: PhD, University of Queensland. University of Melbourne. shearwaters and implications for the systematics of Fitzgerald, E.M.G. 2004. A review of the Tertiary stylos, gen. nov., from the marine bathyal of Rheindt, F.E. 2004. Review of: Handbook of Department of the Environment and Heritage. 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Melbourne Museum. Victorian Association for data available on the web; and; The different sustainable museums. InfoZone staff lecture series Theatre, Melbourne Museum, 4 November). River? (Infozone, Melbourne Museum, 8 December). O‘Hara, T. 2004. Two seminars on: Spectacular Davey, G. 2005. Snug as a Bug! Scenes from Family Philosophy in Schools Conference (Melbourne meanings of “depth”: managing data in zoological, (Melbourne Museum, 27 September). seastars; and, Plants and animals of the Inverloch Thomas, B. 2004. Lock, stock and barrel: revisiting Life. 2nd Edition. Brolly Books: Malvern. Museum, 1 May). palaeontological and geological collections. 19th Green, M. 2004. Prehistoric cranial variation in Kean, J. 2005. The artists of Frederick McCoy’s region. Department of Sustainability and Museum Victoria’s arms collection. History and International Congress of Zoology (Beijing, China, Dale-Hallett, L. 2004. Water smart home. InfoZone Papua New Guinea: geographic, cultural and Zoology of Victoria. Brighton Probus Club (Brighton, Environment (Inverloch, 27 August). the Meaning of Things Seminar Series (InfoZone, Davey, G. 2005. Duck under the Table! More Scenes Kerridge, Y. and Stewart, J. 2005. Art and design at 21-29 August). staff lecture series (Melbourne Museum, 10 linguistic interpretations. Inside Story talk (InfoZone, 25 April). Melbourne Museum, 11 September). from Family Life. 2nd Edition. Melbourne Museum. Design Distinctions, Seminar December). Melbourne Museum, 5 November). O‘Hara, T. 2004. Cryptic speciation in echinoderms Brolly Books: Malvern. for Teachers of Visual Communication and Design, Wallis, E. 2005. Deriving meaning from specimens: Kenderdine, S. 2004. This is not a peepshow: the (InfoZone, Melbourne Museum, 1 September). Tout-Smith, D. 2004. Not just sportsmen and National Gallery of Victoria in association with making zoological data available on the web. 9th Demant, D. 2004-2005. The Museum and its Green, M. 2005. Sigatoka and Lapita: biological Virtual Room at Melbourne Museum. Museum scholars: documenting the Australian medals Long, J.A. 2005. The Big Picture Book: See Life Melbourne Museum (18 March). Museums and the Web Conference (Vancouver, BC, history and technology collections. Probus Group perspectives on the origins of the Polynesians. Fiji Futures: External Forces and New Directions, O‘Hara, T. 2004. Victorian marine biodiversity. collection. History and the Meaning of Things on Earth Unfolding Through Time. Allen & Unwin, Canada, 6-19 April). of Eltham (10 August); Sunbury and Macedon Museum (Suva, Fiji, 26 May). Museums and Galleries Foundation of NSW Friends of the Prom (Hawthorn, 3 September). Seminar Series (InfoZone, Melbourne Museum, Sydney. 48 pp. Pentland, P. 2004. Forces and energy in sport. Ranges VIEW Club (20 May); and, Probus Group of Seminar Series (Museum of Sydney, 23 July). 7 July). Science Teachers Association of Victoria Walpole, H. 2004. Recolonising heritage: presenting Warragul (8 June). Greene, J.P. 2004. Of material advantage: the O‘Hara, T. 2005. Effects of climate past and present Tout-Smith, D. 2004. Documenting Museum Lubanszky, E. 2005. Journeys to Australia. An Conference (STAVCON) (Latrobe University, contemporary art in heritage places. Colonialism evolution of Museum Victoria’s purpose from Kerridge, Y. 2004. The museum exhibition as text: on Victorian marine animals. Jewish Ecological Victoria’s Australian medals collection. Ray Jewell Education Program at the Immigration Museum. Bundoora, 25-26 November). and its Aftermath Conference (Hobart, 23 June). Demant, D. 2005. The history of computers, in 1854 to 2004. Staff lecture series (Age Theatre, the art of reading between the lines. InfoZone staff Coalition (Caulfield, 15 April); and, Inside Story talk Memorial Lecture, Numismatic Association of Education Kit. Museum Victoria. particular the role of computers in information Melbourne Museum, 17 November). lecture series (Melbourne Museum, August). (InfoZone, Melbourne Museum, 22 April). Victoria (Melbourne, 16 July). Pinti, M. 2005. Immigration: the human shape of Wilson, R. 2004. The age of the deep sea. New management. Diploma of Library and Information Museum Victoria Production Studio. 2005. One Day Australia. Victoria University (Footscray, 24 May). Concepts in Global Tectonics Workshop (Urbino, Services students, Swinburne University (10 March). Harvey, G. 2005. Conservation of bark paintings. Kinsey, F. 2004. ‘Butterfly cyclistes’ on Beaconsfield O‘Hara, T. 2005. Spectacular echinoderms. Unger, I. 2004. Images: doing the rights thing. in the Life of Museum Victoria. Museum Victoria Italy); and Zoological Museum Ballarat Fine Art Gallery, lunchtime talk series Parade to fearless endurance riders: women Reefwatch (Melbourne Aquarium, 16 April). Albury-Wodonga Council (Albury-Wodonga, celebrates 150 years. A film by Cameron Crowley. Stoyles, P. 2004. Kitchen chemistry. Science (Hamburg, Germany) (September). Demant, D. 2005. Learning and interpretation in (Ballarat, 8 June). cyclists in 1890s Australia. Australian Society for 16 July). DVD, 10 min. Museum Victoria: Melbourne. Teachers Association of Victoria, Primary Science museums with special reference to the history and Hawkins, F. 2004. Museum Victoria Collection Sports History, Victorian Chapter O‘Hara, T. 2005. Two lectures on: Reef and sand; Teachers’ Conference (Institute of Land & Food technology collections. Museum Studies students, Inventory System (MvCIS): KE EMu data access for (Kensington, 2 August). and, Intertidal rock platforms. Department of Veis, N. 2004. ‘Blood, sweat and tears’: the Pinti, M., Ferrara, P. and others. 2004. What’s Resources, Richmond, 18-19 July). Deakin University, Monash campus (4 April). handheld computers. KE EMu Users Group Meeting Sustainability and Environment, Marine Ecology Commonwealth Serum Laboratories (CSL) Your Story? A Greek Language Program at the (Sydney, 20-21 October). Leggio, A. 2005. Materials and techniques: course (Queenscliff, 3-4 May). collection. History and the Meaning of Things Immigration Museum. Education Kit. Museum Watt, P. 2004. Fun science from the International Lectures Demant, D. 2005. Magic lanterns and music boxes. photographs and digital technologies. Master of Seminar Series (InfoZone, Melbourne Museum, Victoria with the Department of Education and Space Station. Science Teachers Association of Castlemaine VIEW Club (26 April). Henry, D. 2004. Chesney Vale, Victoria, making Arts (Cultural Materials Conservation). University of O‘Hara, T. 2005. Gondwana: a marine illusion. 11 August). Training in Victoria. Victoria, Primary Science Teachers’ Conference Allen, L. 2004. Where is the song man? GARMA interesting minerals with calcium and fluorine. Melbourne (Parkville, 18 May). National Institute of Water and Atmospheric (Institute of Land & Food Resources, Richmond, Festival of Traditional Culture Fielding, K. 2004. Melbourne conversations: turning Mineralogical Society of Victoria Research (Wellington, NZ, 2 June). Wallis, E. 2004. Case Study 8: Museum Victoria. Tarascio-Agosta, A. 2005. Moving stories. An 19 July). (Gulkula, NT, 7 August). 150 in Melbourne: who do we commemorate and (Melbourne, 7 July). Long, J. 2004. The origins of teeth. Orthodontics Forum on: A snapshot on managing digital or Education Program at the Immigration Museum. why? (Federation Square, Melbourne, Society (Perth, 19-21 November). O’Loughlin, M. 2004. Finding congruence between media assets, or … ‘What is everyone else doing?’ Education Kit. Museum Victoria. Watt, P. 2004. Space science and the International Allen, L. 2004. Anthropological and aboriginal 14 September). Henry, D. 2004. Collecting in your own back yard: molecular and morphological phylogenies of (National Museum of Australia, Canberra, 16 Space Station. Horsham Science Fair (Horsham perspectives on the Donald Thomson collection: the importance of topographic mineral collections. Long, J. 2005. Fabulous fossil fishes of Gogo. Asterinidae seastars. Melbourne Systematics September). Watt, P. 2005. Muck Bunker Stormwater Experience. Secondary College, 23 August). material culture, collecting and identity. ANU Centre Fielding, K. 2004. Keeping it sexy: teaching creative Betty Mayne Memorial Lecture, Mineralogical Melbourne Systematics Forum (InfoZone, Forum (InfoZone, 7 October). Education Resource. Museum Victoria. CD-ROM. for Cross-Cultural Research Spring Seminar Series history. History Teachers Association of Australia Society of New South Wales (Sydney, 6 August). Melbourne Museum, 3 March). Wallis, E. 2004. Publishing from EMu onto the web, Watt, P. 2004. Science works at Scienceworks. (Canberra, 23-24 November). (University of Melbourne, 29 September). Regan, A. 2005. ‘A most active standing and, KE EMu and its compatibility with Darwin Catholic Education Office, Science Coordinators’ Horvath A. 2005. Science comminication [sic]. Long, J. 2005. 380 million year old fishes from advertisement’: Victorian trade tokens, 1849-1863. Core. KE EMu Users Group Meeting (Sydney, Network conference (Scienceworks, 8 September). Anderson, D. 2005. Drought, risk and rural Fielding, K. 2005. Teaching creative history. Department of Pharmacology, Monash University Gogo, Western Australia, and what they tell us Numismatic Association of Victoria (Melbourne, 20-21 October). Presentations endurance: ways of rethinking a sunburnt country. Professional development sessions, History (2 May). about the origins of the human body plan. Inside 17 June). History and the Meaning of Things Seminar Series Teachers Association of Victoria (Collingwood, Story talk (InfoZone, Melbourne Museum, 6 May). Willis, E. 2004. Creating, remembering and Watt, P. 2004. Science from the International (InfoZone, Melbourne Museum, 11 May). 31 January & 2 February). Horvath, A. 2005. Present with impact: public. Rich, T. 2004. Two-part seminar on: History of celebrating: the Deans Marsh Hall curtains. Bollen, R. 2004. Privacy and museums. Privacy Space Station. Annual Conference of the Australian Postgraduate Upskills seminar series, School of McFadzean, M. 2005. Museums and public Australian mammals. Monash University (Clayton, InfoZone staff lecture series (Melbourne Museum, Victoria Network (Melbourne Museum, 14 July). Science Teachers Association (CONASTA) Austin, J. 2004. Dodos to DNA. National Science Fielding, K. 2005. History and hypermedia: Graduate Studies, University Melbourne (Parkville, history. Public History postgraduate students, The 14 & 16 September). 3 September). (Canberra, 26-30 September). Week lecture series (The Age Theatre, Melbourne applications in public history. Public History 5 May). University of Melbourne (Parkville, 6 April). Byrne, T. 2004. Exciting things to do with eggs. Museum, 21 August). Masters students, The University of Melbourne Sciences Department. 2005. Lectures by M. Willis, E. 2004. Holding on to hope. Speech at book Science Teachers Association of Victoria, Primary Watt, P. 2005. Strategic partnerships in science. St (Parkville, 23 March). Horvath, A. 2005. Science communication to McFadzean, M. 2005. Representations of migration Norman, T. O’Hara, G. Poore and R. Wilson. Marine launch of Jill Barnard and Karen Twigg’s Holding Science Teachers’ conference (Institute of Land & Clement of Rome Primary School (Bulleen, 4 May). Bartlett, A. 2005. Interpreting tragedy: researching non-scientists. Careers Skills Development at Melbourne’s Immigration Museum. Migrant Biodiversity and Systematics course, Department on to Hope: a History of the Founding Agencies Food Resources, Richmond, 18-19 July). and developing an exhibition on the Bali bombings. Fitzgerald, E. 2004. The origins of modern whales seminar series for PhD students the CRC for Nation undergraduate students, The Australian of Zoology, University of Melbourne Zoology of MacKillop Family Services, 1854-1997 (South Watt, P. and Phillips, K. 2005. Muck Bunker History and the Meaning of Things Seminar Series and dolphins: emerging fossil evidence. Australian Chronic Inflammatory Diseases and Dairy CRC Centre, University of Melbourne (Parkville, 12 April). (Queenscliff Marine Sciences Centre, Melbourne, 19 October). Stormwater Experience development. Clearwater (InfoZone, Melbourne Museum, 9 March). and New Zealand Association for the Advancement (Two seminars for the Melbourne Group, University 7-12 February). – Stormwater Showcase (Melbourne, 9 June). of Science (RMIT University, Melbourne, of Melbourne, Department of Medicine, Royal Marchant, R. 2005. How do stream invertebrate 20 October). Melbourne Hospital, Parkville, 5 May; and Sydney communities respond to dam building in south- Group, Faculty of Veterinary Science, University of eastern Australia? Inside Story talk (InfoZone, Sydney, 24 May). Melbourne Museum, 3 June). Museums Board of Victoria Annual Report 2004/05 Page 104/105 Legislation and Compliance

Freedom of Information Requests for Access to Documents Availability of Additional Information Legislative Changes Our Commitment to Leadership of Indigenous cultural training. During the year National Competition Policy The Whistleblowers Protection Bunjilaka provided professional development Access to documents (as defined in section 5 of The following information relating to Museum We are committed to achieving excellence in the Act 2001 and training sessions for the Victoria Police and Museum Victoria is committed to competitive The Freedom of Information Act 1982 entitles the Act) may only be obtained through a written Victoria, relevant to the financial year, has been There were no amendments to the Museums Act management of people. Staff in management Brotherhood of St Laurence. neutrality principles ensuring fair and open members of the public to obtain information, other request to the Freedom of Information Officer. A prepared and is available to the Minister, Members 1983 in the 2004/05 financial year. roles have a specific accountability for adopting There were no disclosures made to Museum Victoria competition. Many non-core activities, such as than information that is exempt under the Act, held fax will be sufficient. However, each request should of Parliament and the public on request. a leadership style that fosters a co-operative during 2004/2005. • The Indigenous community continued to cleaning, food and beverage services, security, by Museum Victoria. No Freedom of Information be accompanied by a $21.00 application fee. An and collegiate approach, within their workgroup, have general access to the ethnographic and design, exhibition construction, car park requests were received in the reporting year. applicant may request photocopies of documents, • Declarations of pecuniary interests duly completed Department and with other Departments. We Public sector values photographic Indigenous collections. management, facilities and events management inspection of specific documents at Museum by all relevant officers. believe that staff performing management tasks have been outsourced. Museum Victoria The information below is required to be published Victoria or other access arrangements as may be and public sector have added responsibility for their actions and that • Two regional Aboriginal community workshops on Whistleblowers procedures annually under Part II of the Freedom of Information appropriate to the application. • Details of shares held by a senior officer as nominee employment principles. they will: photographic archiving delivered. Act 1982. The information required to be published or held beneficially in a statutory authority under sections 7(1)(a)(i), 7(1)(a)(iii), 7(1)(a)(iv), Applications should be as specific as possible to or subsidiary. • communicate the Museum Victoria Vision and instil • Two regional Aboriginal community workshops on Consultancies 1. Statement of Support 7(1)(a)(vii) and7(1)(a)(viii) is located elsewhere in this enable Museum Victoria to identify the documents During the 2004/05 financial year, Museum Victoria commitment to the organisation’s goals; fibre craft delivered. annual report. sought. Where a request does not sufficiently • Details of publications produced by Museum complied with the Public Sector Management to Whistleblowers Museum Victoria did not commission any identify the documents sought, the applicant will Victoria about the Museum, and the places where and Employment Act 1998, as well as the Public • effectively plan the workloads of staff, • Indigenous Employment Coordinator employed and consultancies over 2004/05. Contacts be advised and provided with an opportunity to publications can be obtained. Administration Act 2004. review of the Aboriginal Employment Strategy and Museum Victoria is committed to the aims and Principal Officer: Dr J. 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Some charges may be of employees. • work safely and promote safe work behaviour; • provide opportunities for staff to continually improve to Aboriginal traditional owners in Central Australia, • Repairs and maintenance to playground equipment subject of the disclosure. • Museum Victoria policies and procedures waived in certain circumstances. their professional skills; and, and negotiation of an agreement with the Strehlow - $7,000 • A general statement on industrial relations within • act ethically and maintain our personal and Research Centre in Alice Springs for the local • records of Divisional operations Museum Victoria and details of time loss through professional integrity; • assist staff to achieve an effective storage of a further 64 secret/sacred objects to 2. 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3. Objects of the Act Where the Protected Disclosure Co-ordinator, 5.3 Protected Disclosure Officer 6. Confidentiality 7. Receiving and assessing Where the Protected Disclosure Co-ordinator 8.3 Investigation plan 8.5 Conduct of the Investigation Protected Disclosure Officer, CEO or President is disclosures concludes that the disclosure amounts to a public The Investigator will prepare an investigation The Investigator will make contemporaneous The purpose of the Act is to encourage and facilitate the subject of a claim, the internal reporting system • Receive all disclosures forwarded from the Museum Victoria will take all reasonable steps interest disclosure, he or she will: plan for approval by the Protected Disclosure notes of all discussions and phone calls, and the making of disclosures of improper conduct by will be modified as follows: Protected Disclosure Officer; to protect the identity of the whistleblower. 7.1 Has the disclosure been made in Co-coordinator. 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An Investigator may be a person from within or electronic, are kept in secure storage and can should be given the opportunity to put forward made a legitimate disclosure. They must refrain in reprisal for making a protected disclosure; Investigator to carry out the investigation. Location: Level 1West an organisation or a consultant engaged for only be accessed by the Protected Disclosure further material that may influence the outcome The Protected Disclosure Co-ordinator will report from any activity that is, or could be perceived to The objectives of an investigation will be: Melbourne Museum that purpose. Co-ordinator, Protected Disclosure Officer, the of the report and that person’s defense should be to the Ombudsman about the progress of an be, victimisation or harassment of a person who • The person making a disclosure has reasonable Carlton Gardens Investigator or Welfare Manager (in relation to fairly set out in the report; investigation. makes a disclosure. Furthermore, they should grounds for believing the alleged conduct • To collate information relating to the allegation as Phone: (03) 8 341 7746 5.5 Welfare Manager welfare matters). All printed material will be kept Where the Ombudsman or the whistleblower protect and maintain the confidentiality of a person has occurred. quickly as possible. This may involve taking steps to Fax: (03) 8 341 7273 in files that are clearly marked as a Whistleblower • All relevant parties to a matter should be heard and requests information about the progress of an they know or suspect to have made a disclosure. protect or preserve documents, materials The Welfare Manager is responsible for looking Protection Act matter, and warn of the criminal all submissions should be considered; investigation, that information will be provided The Protected Disclosure Co-ordinator & Officer will and equipment; Protected Disclosure Co-ordinator – after the general welfare of the whistleblower. The penalties that apply to any unauthorised divulging within 28 days of the date of the request. 5.2 Protected Disclosure Officer determine whether the disclosure is a public interest Director Corporate Services Welfare Manager will: information concerning a protected disclosure. All • A decision should not be made until all reasonable disclosure. This assessment will be made within 45 • To consider the information collected and to draw electronic files will be produced and stored in a inquiries have been made; 9. Action taken after an • Be a contact point for general advice about the days of the receipt of the disclosure. conclusions objectively and impartially; Location: Level 1West • Examine the immediate welfare and protection secure environment. Backup files will also be kept • The Investigator or any decision maker should operation of the Act for any person wishing to make • To maintain procedural fairness in the treatment of investigation Melbourne Museum needs of a whistleblower who has made a secure. All materials relevant to an investigation, not have a personal or direct interest in the matter a disclosure about improper conduct or Where a disclosure is assessed not to be a witnesses and the person who is the subject of the Carlton Gardens disclosure and seek to foster a supportive work such as tapes from interviews, will also be stored being investigated; detrimental action; protected disclosure, the matter does not need disclosure; and 9.1 Investigator’s Final Report Phone: (03) 8 341 7768 environment; securely with the whistleblower files. Fax: (03) 8 341 7237 to be dealt with under the Act. The Protected • All proceedings must be carried out fairly and • Make arrangements for a disclosure to be made Disclosure Co-ordinator & Officer will decide how • To make recommendations arising from the • At the conclusion of the investigation, the • Advise the whistleblower of the legislative and Museum Victoria will not email documents relevant without bias. Care should be taken to exclude privately and discreetly and, if necessary, away the matter should be dealt with. conclusions drawn concerning remedial or other Investigator will submit a written report of his or her All correspondence, phone calls and emails from administrative protections available to him or her; to a whistleblower matter and will ensure all phone perceived bias from the process; and from the workplace; appropriate action. findings to the protected disclosure coordinator. internal or external whistleblowers will be referred to calls and meetings are conducted In reaching a conclusion as to whether a protected Where the Investigator has found that the conduct the Protected Disclosure Co-ordinator. • Listen and respond to any concerns of harassment, in private. • The Investigator must be impartial in assessing the • Receive any disclosure made orally or in writing disclosure is a public interest disclosure, 8.2 Terms of reference disclosed by the whistleblower has occurred, intimidation or victimisation in reprisal for making credibility of the whistleblowers and any witnesses. (from internal and external whistleblowers); the Protected Disclosure Co-ordinator will consider recommendations made by the Investigator will Where a person is contemplating making a disclosure; and Where appropriate, conclusions disclosure and is concerned about approaching the whether the disclosure shows, or tends to show, Before commencing an investigation, the Protected as to credibility should be included in the include: • Commit to writing any disclosure made orally; that the public officer to whom the Disclosure Co-ordinator will draw up terms of Protected Disclosure Co-ordinator or a Protected • Ensure the expectations of the whistleblower investigation report. disclosure relates: reference and obtain authorisation for those terms • The steps that need to be taken by Museum Disclosure Officer in the workplace, he or she can are realistic. call the relevant officer and request a meeting in a • Impartially assess the allegation and determine by the CEO. The terms of reference will require the Victoria to prevent the conduct from continuing or discreet location away from the workplace. whether it is a disclosure made in accordance with • Has engaged, is engaging or proposes to engage in Investigator to make regular reports to the Protected occurring in the future; and Part 2 of the Act (that is, improper conduct in his or her capacity as a public Disclosure Co-ordinator who, in turn, is to a protected disclosure); officer; or keep the CEO and Ombudsman informed of • Any action that should be taken by Museum general progress. Victoria to remedy any harm or loss arising from • Forward all disclosures and supporting evidence to • Has taken, is taking or proposes to take detrimental the conduct. This action may include bringing the Protected Disclosure Co-coordinator; and action in reprisal for the making of the disciplinary proceedings against the person protected disclosure. responsible for the conduct, and referring the • Take all necessary steps to ensure the identity of matter to an appropriate authority for the whistleblower and the identity of the person further consideration. who is the subject of the disclosure are Museums Board of Victoria kept confidential. Annual Report 2004/05 Page 108/109 Legislation and Compliance Fees and Charges

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The Protected Disclosure Co-ordinator of a protected disclosure without legislative Museum Victoria is committed to the protection • Joining fee not applicable for child or additional child. will clearly advise the whistleblower of the authority. The Act provides a maximum penalty of of genuine whistleblowers against detrimental • Advise the whistleblower of his or her rights under proposed action to be taken, and of any mitigating $6,000 or six months imprisonment or both. action taken in reprisal for the making of protected the Act; and factors that have been taken into account. • Household Membership covers 2 adults and up to 4 dependant children, 16 years and under at the disclosures. The Protected Disclosure Co-ordinator one address. • Advise the Protected Disclosure Co-coordinator or • It is an offence for a person to obstruct the is responsible for ensuring whistleblowers are Chief Executive Officer of the detrimental action. 11. 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Where such detrimental action is • It is an offence for a person to knowingly provide a Welfare Manager to all whistleblowers who have against whom disclosures are made must also be reported, the Protected Disclosure Co-ordinator will false information under the Act with the intention made a protected disclosure. supported during the handling and investigation assess the report as a new disclosure under the that it be acted on as a disclosed matter. The Act The welfare manager will: of disclosures. Museum Victoria will take all Act. Where the Protected Disclosure Co-ordinator provides a maximum penalty of $24,000 or two reasonable steps to ensure the confidentiality of the is satisfied that the disclosure is a public interest years imprisonment or both. • Examine the immediate welfare and protection disclosure, he or she will refer it to the Ombudsman. person who is the subject of the disclosure during needs of a whistleblower who has made a If the Ombudsman subsequently determines the assessment and investigation process. Where disclosure and, where the whistleblower is an investigations do not substantiate disclosures, the the matter to be a public interest disclosure, the 13. Review employee, seek to foster a supportive Ombudsman may investigate the matter or refer it to fact that the investigation has been carried out, work environment; another body for investigation as outlined in the Act. the results of the investigation, and the identity of the person who is the subject of the disclosure will These procedures will be reviewed every three • Advise the whistleblower of the legislative and 10.4 Whistleblowers Implicated remain confidential. years along with the policy statement to ensure administrative protections available to him or her; in Improper Conduct they meet the objectives of the Act and accord with The Protected Disclosure Co-ordinator will ensure the Ombudsman’s guidelines. • Listen and respond to any concerns of harassment, Where a person who makes a disclosure is the person who is the subject of any disclosure intimidation or victimisation in reprisal for implicated in misconduct, Museum Victoria will investigated by or on behalf of a public body is: making disclosure; handle the disclosure and protect the whistleblower from reprisals in accordance with the Act, the • Informed as to the substance of the allegations; • Keep a contemporaneous record of all aspects Ombudsman’s guidelines and these procedures. of the case management of the whistleblower Museum Victoria acknowledges that the act of • Given the opportunity to answer the allegations including all contact and follow-up action; and whistleblowing should not shield whistleblowers before a final decision is made; from the reasonable consequences flowing from any • Ensure the expectations of the whistleblower are realistic.

Museums Board of Victoria Annual Report 2004/05 Page 110/111 This film captures One Day in the Life of Museum Victoria. The sun rises on the Royal Exhibition Building and we follow a day’s progress at each of our museums. We even take a peek behind the scenes. You will be fascinated by the diverse range of activities that take place on a single day in the life of Museum Victoria.

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