Melbourne Museum Museums Board of Immigration Museum Annual Report 2003/2004 Royal Exhibition Building Front Cover The Royal Exhibition Building light show for Museum Victoria’s 150th Anniversary

Building on 150 years of excellence in collections, research and exhibitions Mother and child examine exhibit at Bugs Alive! Exhibition, Museum 4 67 101 Introduction Research and Collections Financial Statements Profile of Museum Victoria Research Introduction President’s Message Australian Society and Technology Financial Statements Message from the CEO Indigenous Cultures Auditors Report A Year of Highlights Sciences Finance Review of Operations Awards Collection Management Disclosure Index The Year in Brief Conservation Fees and Charges Museum Victoria Celebrates 150 Years Production

21 79 118 Strategic Direction Corporate Activities Additional Information Exploring Victoria: Discovering the World Corporate Services Research Grants Performance Overview Marketing, Public Relations Research Supervision Future Priorities and Partnership Development Research Publications Information, Multimedia and Technology Lectures and Presentations Freedom of Information 35 89 Information Privacy Legislative Changes Review of Museum Operations People in Museum Victoria Merit and Equity : Exhibitions and Programs Corporate Governance Cultural Diversity Statement Immigration Museum: Exhibitions and Programs Organisational Structure National Competition Policy Scienceworks Museum: Exhibitions and Programs Executive Management Team Consultancies Education Programs Museum Victoria Supporters Building and Maintenance Compliance Commercial Operations Volunteers Whistleblowers Procedures Royal Exhibition Building Beyond our Museums

Introduction

Profile of Museum Victoria

Museum Victoria is ’s largest public Melbourne Museum Moreland Annexe Research & Collections museum organisation. As the State museum Opened 21 October 2000 Opened 30 October 1996 • Research expertise in terrestrial and marine for Victoria, it is responsible for looking after Melbourne Museum stands adjacent to the Museum Victoria’s state-of-the-art off-site environments, earth science, science the State's collections, conducting research, historic Royal Exhibition Building in Carlton collection store houses the largest collection communication, Australian society and and as a multi-campus educational and cultural Gardens, forming the largest museum complex items and complements collection stores technology, and Indigenous cultures institution, providing cultural and science in the southern hemisphere. Melbourne at Melbourne Museum and Scienceworks. programs for the people of Victoria and visitors • Custody and preservation of the State’s Museum draws on the latest technology and from interstate and overseas. over 16 million-item heritage collection interpretation methods in showcasing Australian Services • Object and specimen identification Museum Victoria’s origins date back to society, Indigenous cultures, the human mind 1854 with the founding of the National Museum and body, science and technology and the Museum Victoria provides a wide range • Tertiary student supervision of Victoria and later, the establishment of the environment. Features include Bunjilaka the of services and products, including: • Student industry placement training Industrial and Technological Museum of Victoria Aboriginal Centre, the Children’s Gallery, the • DNA-based research and identifications Attractions (later known as the Science Museum of Victoria) Virtual Room, a living Forest Gallery, a discovery through the Molecular Biology Laboratory in 1870. By proclamation of the Museums centre and the IMAX theatre. • Exhibitions and public activity programs • Electronic and physical access Act 1983, these two institutions were • Touring exhibitions to collections and associated information amalgamated to form what is today known Immigration Museum for research purposes as Museum Victoria, governed by the Opened 12 November 1998 • Melbourne Planetarium Museums Board of Victoria. • IMAX theatre, Melbourne • Collection development and management The Immigration Museum is situated in the advice for other institutions Museum Victoria has a long history of research Old Customs House on Flinders Street, one Community • Loans of collection items to other institutions and collections and is custodian of Victoria’s vast of Melbourne’s finest 19th century buildings. natural science, Indigenous, social history and It is a contemporary social history museum • Museum Victoria membership program • Separate collection stores and viewing areas for sensitive Indigenous cultural material science and technology collections. The size that explores issues of immigration and cultural • Museum Victoria website: of these collections is in excess of 16 million diversity. The Museum features engaging and www.museum.vic.gov.au individual items. interactive exhibition galleries, a Discovery Education • Museum Victoria magazine Centre, Tribute Garden and a range of indoor • Primary, secondary, tertiary, adult and • Public lectures and forums Museums and outdoor recreation and activity spaces. pre-school education programs and resources • Outreach visits to schools and other groups Museum Victoria operates three dynamic • Professional development programs Scienceworks Museum museums and is custodian for the heritage-listed • A roving curator for Indigenous communities for teachers Opened 28 March 1992 Royal Exhibition Building (which recently achieved • Partnership with Victoria’s regional • Extensive online educational resources World Heritage status), Old Customs House and Located in the grounds of and incorporating and specialist museums for Victorian schools Spotswood Pumping Station. Museum Victoria the historic Spotswood Pumping Station, • Public information services on environmental, also operates a separate collections the science and technology museum features Indigenous, historical and scientific matters Commercial storage facility. modern interactive exhibition galleries, an • Community Access Programs for culturally outdoor arena, the Melbourne Planetarium • Car park facilities (Melbourne Museum) and linguistically diverse groups and the recently opened, Victoria University • Commercial venue hire, catering High Voltage Theatre. and retail outlets • Extensive photographic image library Museums Board of Victoria Annual Report 2003/2004 5

Our Vision

Museum Victoria will contribute to our communities’ understanding of the world, 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.

Our Values Engagement in Life-long Learning

We will not compromise on the following We value engagement with diverse audiences values in the attainment of our Vision. and communities in meaningful and relevant ways that contribute to life-long learning. Stewardship Central to achieving this, we aim to challenge, excite and involve our visitors. We value the collections as central to our objective of understanding our natural and cultural history. Social Responsibility As custodians, we aim to provide a positive legacy for future generations. We value and are committed to fairness and equity in all we do. We actively encourage Professional Integrity access and participation and embrace the principles of sustainability, social justice We value credibility and accuracy in all our and reconciliation. interactions, activities and programs. Through this we gain the respect and trust of others.

Innovation

We value ideas and promote open-minded enquiry. We are open to change and encourage bold and creative approaches in our programs and organisational processes. Introduction

President’s Message

. On behalf of the Museums Board of Victoria, I am delighted to present the 2003/04 Annual Report detailing Museum Victoria’ s operations and achievements over the last twelve months.

Once again Museum Victoria has performed beyond expectations, with the reduced entrance fees enabling more people from Victoria and beyond to access the Museum’s venues and be educated and entertained by the collections. We are delighted that this year the State’s vast and priceless collection was explored by more visitors than ever before.

In March 2004, Museum Victoria celebrated 150 years of collections, research and exhibitions, with celebrations continuing throughout the calendar year. This period of celebration provided us with a wonderful opportunity to increase the number of dynamic exhibitions at the Museum Victoria venues and demonstrate the breadth and richness of the collections in our care. Particular highlights included the opening of Bugs Alive!, which was conceived, designed and developed by Museum staff and has been a great success since its March opening, and Treasures, a series of exhibitions held across all three Museum Victoria venues showcasing some of the hidden treasures within the Museums’ storage collections. Museums Board of Victoria Annual Report 2003/2004 7

Portrait of the President of the Museums Board of Victoria, Mr Harold Mitchell, AO, alongside Harry Johns' Boxing truck

Corporate and philanthropic support continued I would like to acknowledge the range of to be an essential foundation for the organisation. significant contributions made by individuals Ongoing appreciation is extended to our corporate who support Museum Victoria’s operations. and philanthropic supporters who, through their This year Bob Weis retired from the board generous support, enable us to create and present and I express my sincere thanks to him the superb array of galleries and exhibits on display, for his contribution. as well as continuing our important research and I would especially like to thank the Minister conservation work. The Museum Victoria Patrons for the Arts, Mary Delahunty MP, for her and Museum Victoria Corporate Patrons programs continued support; our excellent Ambassadors; continued to be well supported and I thank all the Museum Victoria members, Patrons and those involved. Corporate Patrons who continue to provide Museum Victoria’s membership program essential support; the Museums Board of experienced a year of change with a review Victoria and most importantly, the staff and of the membership program as a result of Executive Management Team who ensure the reduced admission prices. A new program that Museum Victoria remains a world-leading was launched in June and is already proving and dynamic cultural organisation. a success with existing and new members. I would like to thank the members as their ongoing support facilitates Museum Victoria’s development.

Museum Victoria continued to cement its position as a leading cultural institution, receiving eighteen prestigious international Harold Mitchell AO and national awards for a range of disciplines President, Museums Board of Victoria including Indigenous culture, tourism, marketing, website development, public programs and volunteer support. Introduction

Message from the CEO

On the 9th March 2004, Museum Victoria Today, Museum Victoria remains true to the As well as caring for 16 million collection items, celebrated the 150th anniversary since its ideals of its founders. The title of the Museum’s Museum Victoria plays a significant role in the predecessor, the National Museum of Victoria, strategy Exploring Victoria: Discovering the stewardship of four landmark buildings. Opened opened its doors to the public for the first time. World emphasises our commitment to research only four years ago, Melbourne Museum has This year’s anniversary celebrations provided an and exploration, both on land and off the coasts since become one of the most successful excellent opportunity to reflect upon 150 years of Victoria, covering both the natural and man- Museum buildings to open at the turn of the of collecting, research, exhibitions and public made world, and considering an international millennium. The Sewage Pumping Station programs, and to renew our commitment to the perspective wherever possible. Integral to this at Scienceworks is a notable survivor from people of Victoria in the spirit of those pioneers approach has been ensuring that members of the nineteenth century era of municipal who established the Museum. the public can share in these discoveries by improvement, made all the more valuable by exploring the galleries in the three museums, virtue of the magnificent steam pumps in their In 1854, Victoria was an extraordinary place. our discovery centres, our publications original location. The Customs House, which Recently established as a colony in its own and our websites. graces the Flinders Street bank of the River right (it was previously part of New South Yarra, was carefully restored six years ago Wales), the State was in the grip of gold fever. In the past year, 3.7 million visits were recorded to house the Immigration Museum. As people arrived from all over the world to at the different Museum venues and through seek their fortunes, the population soared. the website. Audience research has shown that The largest building in the care of Museum Yet despite the fact that the settlement was the Museum is reaching an increasingly wide Victoria is the Royal Exhibition Building, erected only 19 years old, there existed in Melbourne cross-section of the community by providing to house the Melbourne International Exhibition a number of individuals who had a vision more affordable entry prices, excellent new of 1880. This past year the museum celebrated of what the inhabitants of a modern town exhibitions, engaging public programs and two excellent achievements with regards to required. One of these essential requirements effective marketing strategies. A particularly the Royal Exhibition Building: inscription on was a museum - a place where wonders of noteworthy result has been the increase in the UNESCO World Heritage register (the first the natural world of Victoria could be stored, visits made by educational groups to the three building in Australia to gain this distinction) and documented and displayed to members of the museums, with nearly 300,000 visitors being being one of the first sites to be recognised public. This museum would also provide ideas part of organised parties. Much of Museum on the new National Heritage List by the that could be adopted by practitioners in the Victoria’s popularity can be attributed to the Australian Government. mining and agricultural sectors to advance the provision of memorable educational experiences state’s economy. In essence, this place would that are linked to the curriculum and supported look beyond Victoria to the whole of the world. by excellent web-based materials. We are determined to continue building on our success in this area. Museums Board of Victoria Annual Report 2003/2004 9

Museum Victoria CEO, Patrick Greene alongside Holden car model 48-215 (FX) manufactured by General Motors in 1950

In this annual report readers will discover the astonishing breadth of Museum Victoria’s activities. The achievements described can be attributed to the efforts of the Board, staff, volunteers and supporters from many organisations in Victoria and beyond. Everyone involved deserves a very special thankyou in our 150th year.

Dr J. Patrick Greene Chief Executive Officer

Introduction

Year of Highlights

July 2003 September 2003 December 2003

The Armenian Festival, held at the Immigration Developed in partnership with the Centre for The exhibitions Cooking Stories and Museum, successfully attracted significant Adult Education, the exhibition From There to Embark Disembark were launched at the community participation, with over 1000 people Here was launched at the Immigration Museum Immigration Museum. attending the festival. as part of Adult Education Week. The Virtual Room, imaging technology Museum Victoria was awarded a Smart Water to allow visitors to see around, above, below fund grant to facilitate development of a new October 2003 and through digital objects, was opened interactive exhibit to be launched in late 2004. The Museum Victoria exhibition Spirit Country, at Melbourne Museum. contemporary Australian Aboriginal art from Design in Italy 1945-2000 displayed 100 objects August 2003 the Gantner Collection, opened in Japan. from the Triennale di Milano. This exhibition The community exhibition Safar-e- Ma: was launched as part of the designed to inspire Our Journey, celebrating 140 years of Afghan November 2003 program at Melbourne Museum. migration to Australia, was launched at the The Immigration Museum celebrated its An exhibition of artwork by Koori children, Immigration Museum. 5th birthday with a program of cultural Thookay Ngaweeyan – Young Voices opened Spinning Around, an exhibition about events and activities. at Melbourne Museum. Australian popular music was launched Death, Mortality and Religious Diversity, an at Melbourne Museum. exhibition developed in partnership with Deakin Stuffed and Mounted was launched at Melbourne University and a variety of cultural communities, Museum. This exhibition focused on the beauty was launched at the Immigration Museum of birds and the need for their conservation. by Stephen Crittenden, broadcaster of ABC’s Radio National Religion Report.

Museum Victoria launched a new website dedicated to Phar Lap: www.museum.vic.gov.au/pharlap/ .

Earth’s Fury opened at Scienceworks.

The Melbourne Planetarium show Big Bang was launched.

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January 2004 A new long term gallery, Bugs Alive! May 2004 June 2004 was launched at Melbourne Museum by Museum Victoria commenced celebrations Over 1,300 participants contributed to the Settled and Unsettled community exhibition, Governor John Landy. The exhibition uniquely of its 150th Anniversary year with an event for success of the Sri Lankan Festival at the developed with Atherton Gardens Housing integrates live bug displays with an extensive stakeholders at the Royal Exhibition Building. Immigration Museum. Estate, was launched by Justice Julian Burnside entomology collection. at the Immigration Museum. CSIRAC, the world’s only surviving intact 9th March was the official 150th birthday February 2004 first generation computer returned to display Outlawed was launched at Melbourne Museum, of Museum Victoria. Group photos of all staff at Melbourne Museum. telling the stories of the world’s bushrangers, The Immigration Museum confirmed two and volunteers were taken and staff enjoyed rebels and revolutionaries. project partners for Station Pier and Destination a celebratory breakfast at Melbourne Museum. Museum Victoria published Treasures of Australia exhibitions. Visions of Australia and the Museum to mark the 150th anniversary Our Place: Indigenous Australia Now, developed The annual exhibition of VCE students work, the Macpherson Smith Trust provided funds and promote the diverse collections. in partnership with the Powerhouse Museum Top Designs, was launched at Melbourne for the development of the exhibitions. opened at the Athens Cultural Olympiad. Museum. Treasures: Museum Victoria celebrates Global Sounds at Sunset concert series 150 years, showcasing significant items The interactive exhibition, Muck Bunker Staff, volunteers and families took part in commenced at Melbourne Museum. from the Museum’s collection, was launched Stormwater Experience was opened in the parade, celebrating 150 years by the Premier The Hon. Mr Steve Bracks the Spotswood Sewage Pumping Station of Museum Victoria. March 2004 at Melbourne Museum. at Scienceworks. The exhibition Etched on Bark 1854: Kulin Barks 150th anniversary re-enactment of the first To complement the Treasures exhibition, The Royal Exhibition Building became the from Northern Victoria brought together three telegraphic transfer in the Southern Hemisphere a new website was launched: first building in Australia to be inscribed 19th century bark etchings. It was on display was held at the Immigration Museum, with a www.museum.vic.gov.au/treasures/. on the UNESCO World Heritage List. in Bunjilaka at Melbourne Museum. direct telecommunications link to Scienceworks. Telstra’s Chief Executive Officer and Manager Toys: Science at Play, exploring scientific Director Dr Zygmunt Switkowski launched April 2004 concepts through the medium of toys, was opened at Scienceworks. the anniversary event. The Victoria University High Voltage Theatre The Heart is Highland exhibition developed in was launched at Scienceworks. A Ship Reunion Day was held at the Immigration Museum. partnership with the Victorian Highland Pipe Band Innocent Victims exhibition was launched Association was launched at the Immigration at the Immigration Museum. Museum by the Hon. Sir .

Introduction

Awards

2003 Australia Interactive Media 2003 Victorian Tourism Awards 2003 Victorian Arts 2004 Museums Australia

Industry Association (AIMIA) Major Tourism Attractions Category: Portfolio Leadership Awards Publication Design Awards Best New Digital Content: Awarded to Finalist Award for Melbourne Museum. Leadership in Community Award – High Multimedia (Level C) Category: Awarded Melbourne Museum for The Virtual Room Commendation: Awarded to Museum Victoria to Melbourne Museum for the Virtual Room. website www.vroom.org.au. 2003 Victorian Tourism Awards for Building Partnerships: The Repatriation of Aboriginal Cultural Property Program. Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Tourism Australian Quarantine and Inspection 2003 Australian Writers Guild Category: Awarded to Bunjilaka, the Service (AQIS) 2004 Quarantine Award (AWGIE) Aboriginal Centre at Melbourne Museum. 2003 Victorian Arts Certificate Of Commendation Portfolio Leadership Awards Awarded to Mr Tim Rolfe (Head, Production Awarded to Museum Victoria for its Live Studio) for the Getting In interactive theatre 2003 Victorian Tourism Awards Volunteer Certificate of Appreciation: Animal Exhibits and Entomology, and its experience script at the Immigration Museum. Awarded to Museum Victoria's Natural Science Heritage and Cultural Tourism Category: contribution to the quarantine protection Volunteers for the Natural Science Research Awarded To Immigration Museum. of Australia’s agricultural industries 2003 Best Not-For-Profit and Collections Enhancement Project. and unique environment. Business Award 2003 Victorian Tourism Awards 2003 Victorian Arts Museums Australia (Victoria) Greater Western Chamber of Commerce Significant Tourist Attraction Category: Portfolio Leadership Awards 2004 Museum Industry Recognition and Industry: Awarded to Scienceworks. Awarded To Scienceworks. Volunteer Certificate of Appreciation: Award (MIRA) 2003 Business of The Year Award 2003 Victorian Arts Awarded to the Scienceworks team for the Best Project: Awarded to Museum Victoria’s Scienceworks and Melbourne Planetarium Portfolio Leadership Awards DNA Lab Project. Greater Western Chamber of Commerce Sleepover Program. and Industry: Awarded to Scienceworks. Leadership in Public Programs Award Museums Australia (Victoria) – Winner: Awarded to the Immigration 2004 Museums Australia 2004 Museum Industry Recognition 2003 City Pride Award Museum for the Getting In exhibition. Publication Design Awards Award (MIRA) Hobson’s Bay City Council: Website (Level C) Category: Awarded to Awarded to Scienceworks. Meritorious Volunteer Achievement: Melbourne Museum for the Phar Lap website: Awarded to Rosalind Poole. www.museum.vic.gov.au/pharlap Museums Board of Victoria Annual Report 2003/2004 13

The Year in Brief

Key Outputs Staff

2003/04 2002/03 2003/04 2002/03

Exhibitions presented 68 70 Employment Status Male Female Total Total Variation

Publications by staff 103 68 Ongoing 163 231 394 354 +40

Presentations and lectures by staff 117 137 Fixed 34 51 85 75 +10

Research projects (externally funded) 26 27 Casual 61 44 105 107 -2

Total 258 326 584 536 +48 Visitors FTE 189 251 440 424 +16

2003/04 2002/03 *FTE Full time equivalent

Melbourne Museum 678,606 615,323 Memberships Scienceworks and Melbourne Planetarium 402,044 360,653 The introduction of reduced admission charges individual members. To address this decline Immigration Museum 101,644 86,949 to Museum Victoria venues in May 2003 and maximise membership participation and resulted in a 90% decrease in new member revenue, a revised membership program was Non-ticketed entry* 254,905 170,830 enrolments. At 30 June 2004, there were 7,568 designed. This new program was launched Outreach Services 35,149 29,132 memberships, representing approx 28,000 on 15 June 2004.

Website 2,537,144 2,058,271 2003/04 2002/03

Total 4,009,492 3,321,158 Memberships 7,568 11,408

Notes: *Non-ticketed entries are visitors who visited areas within the Museum’s During the 2003/04 financial year, each Museum Victoria Museum recorded its facilities not requiring a ticket. These areas include: InfoZone, the Melbourne strongest full financial year ticketed attendance since their respective openings. Museum Shop, the Museum Café at Melbourne Museum, the Immigration This is the direct result of the Government’s decision to reduce the entry price Museum Discovery Centre, and the Tribute Garden and Ground Floor Foyer for Museum Victoria Museums, combined with the new exhibition contents. at the Immigration Museum.

Celebrating 150 years of Museum Victoria

Museum Victoria celebrates 150 years of collections, research and exhibitions

Museum Victoria celebrated its 150th Anniversary on 9th March 2004. On this day in 1854, Melbourne’s Museum of Natural History, which also contained a Museum of Economic Botany, opened to the public. The Museum was located in the Government Assay Office in Latrobe Street and eventually evolved into Museum Victoria.

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Display of Animals in McCoy Hall, featuring a lion Source: State Library of Victoria, La Trobe Picture Collection Celebrating 150 years of Museum Victoria

Interior of the Industrial and Technological Museum 1872 Source: State Library of Victoria, La Trobe Picture Photographer: Charles Nettleton

In March 2004, the Museum commenced • Etched on Bark 1854: Kulin Barks from an extensive program of events to celebrate Northern Victoria was another exhibition the 150th Anniversary, including: specifically produced to celebrate the Museum’s 150th Anniversary. Running • Treasures: Museum Victoria celebrates from March-June 2004, the exhibition drew 150 years - a spectacular and ambitious together the only three existing 19th Century set of displays at Melbourne Museum, bark etchings from south east Australia, held Immigration Museum and Scienceworks. in the collections of the British Museum, the Launched in May 2004, the exhibition Kew Botanic Gardens and Museum Victoria. showcases some of the most significant Displayed with original, contemporaneous objects and specimens from the Museum’s photographs of the Aboriginal people from collection, in foyers and public spaces, as Boort in Northern Victoria, the exhibition well as throughout the exhibition galleries. aimed to reveal, in some detail, a moment • Treasures of the Museum, Victoria, in Victoria's history that corresponded Australia - a commemorative book, written, with Museum Victoria's birth. designed, illustrated and produced in-house, • Station Pier will open at the Immigration which highlights the institution’s extensive Museum in October 2004. This moving and diverse collection. Published in May 2004, exhibition celebrates the memories and the book includes more than 200 treasured experiences of the many immigrants who objects, along with expert accounts from have passed through Melbourne’s Station staff and contributions from special guests. Pier since opening in 1854. • Launched in March 2004, Bugs Alive! is • The Victoria University High Voltage a state–of-the-art exhibition about the insect Theatre opened at Scienceworks. This kingdom. It brings together the best of major new facility includes a giant Tesla traditional museology - spectacular taxonomic coil to demonstrate the force of lightning. collections, authoritative interpretation and fine model making – with contemporary • Scienceworks collaborated with Scitech design, audio-visual demonstrations and Discovery Centre Perth to produce brilliantly presented live displays. This an interactive travelling exhibition exhibition features live insects and Toys: Science at Play. spiders, hands-on activities and feeding demonstrations, along with the very best of the Museum’s insect collection.

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Celebrating 150 years of Museum Victoria Museums Board of Victoria Annual Report 2003/2004 19

Preparators preparing elephant skeleton c.1900

• Victorian individuals and members of • The Museum announced the names of community organisations displayed their the first three students to receive Museum wonderful and unusual collections at the Victoria's 1854 Student Scholarships. The Melbourne Museum exhibition Community scholarship scheme was established to Collections. Features of the exhibits included: encourage the involvement of graduate Bow ties, Barbie Dolls and Shearing Tools, and postgraduate students in the Museum's as well as The Beatles, Salvation Army research activities. and Town Crier memorabilia. • Museum Victoria designed and produced • Museum staff, their families and volunteers a special 150th Anniversary Souvenir Edition took part in a Museum Victoria Moomba of the Museum Magazine. Parade entry, which featured the Cowley • Museum Victoria collaborated with the Steam Traction engine under steam. Powerhouse Museum Sydney to produce Characters representing Victoria’s immigration Our place: Indigenous Australia Now, history, and ‘bug’ puppets inspired by the a gift from the Victorian and NSW State Bugs Alive! exhibition, also participated Governments to the Athens Cultural Olympiad in the parade. program. Hosted at the newly refurbished • Stakeholder events included events for Benaki Cultural Centre from 1st July to end Museum staff, volunteers, sponsors and August 2004, this exhibition provided a unique corporate partners, and photographs of all insight into one of the oldest living cultures staff and volunteers were taken on 9 March and most dynamic contemporary art 2004, the official 150th Birthday of movements in the world. the Museum.

Two girls looking at wax fruit in Melbourne Museum’s Mind and Body display Strategic Direction

1,182,294 unique experiences

Strategic Direction

Exploring Victoria: Discovering the World

Our strategic plan Exploring Victoria. Discovering the World. identifies the five Strategic Directions that will enable Museum staff to achieve the Museum’s Vision.

01 Enhance access, visibility and community engagement

Position Museum Victoria so that:

• the public are aware of what we have to offer • we attract and engage diverse audiences • more people come through our doors, use our websites and seek our knowledge and expertise • we reach those who cannot easily come to us • we continue to meet the needs of the Victorian education sector.

Detail of Melbourne Museum’s Forest Gallery Museums Board of Victoria Annual Report 2003/2004 23

02 Create and deliver 03 Pursue the development 04 Develop and maximise 05 Manage our resources great experiences of strategic partnerships the value of our heritage collection Ensure that our resources are managed Ensure that Museum Victoria provides great Develop and maintain mutually beneficial Strategically manage and strengthen effectively and efficiently to meet stakeholder experiences for the public through the: collaborations that will: Victoria’s collections and associated expectations through the ongoing research through the following means: development of: • creation of exhibitions that are engaging, • increase community involvement and support • a motivated, dynamic, creative and skilled surprising and authoritative • enhance the expertise of our staff and extend • continue to develop and strengthen the workforce • provision of easy to navigate websites offering the range of our knowledge collections amassed over the past 150 years • an organisation structure and infrastructure high-quality content • raise our profile both nationally and • provide appropriate storage conditions that assists our staff in achieving our • use of innovative display methods to convey internationally to ensure the long-term survival of the collections objectives the wealth of our collections and knowledge • enable us to do things that we could not • improved information management and • attraction of high-quality touring do on our own • provide enhanced public access through a purpose built storage facility communication systems exhibitions and the creation of our own • maximise our ability to contribute to the • facilities that are well maintained and fit for display elsewhere cultural, scientific and economic life of Victoria • enhance our knowledge base through research, publication and collection data-base for purpose • provision of a range of activities including • bring in funds and supplement existing development • sound financial and risk management tours, field trips, performances, presentations, resources lectures and publications that appeal • expand the information available on the practices. • further our relationship with Indigenous to a broad audience. internet communities. • work with kindred organisations throughout Victoria to help raise standards of collection care.

Strategic Direction

Performance Overview

01 Enhance access, visibility and community engagement

The following overview illustrates Museum • Museum Victoria published a commemorative • Each Museum attracts visitors from a range • Museum Victoria continued to undertake Victoria’s achievements over the 2003/04 book entitled Treasures of the Museum to of different ethnic communities and represents appropriate market research to monitor financial year. These activities are described mark the 150th anniversary and promote the a broad cross-section of the community. In visitor responses to its services and products. in relation to the five Strategic Directions. institution’s extensive and diverse collections. the 2003-2004 year, changes to visitor These studies identified barriers and incentives • Museum Victoria produced a book on the demographics included: for metropolitan residents accessing the Strategy history of the Royal Exhibition Building (REB) - an increase in visitors to Scienceworks campuses, tested exhibition concepts for and expanded the REB section of the website that cite ‘Home Duties’ as their audience appeal, and evaluated responses Ensure that the public are aware www.museum.vic.gov.au/reb/ to support the principal occupation; to existing exhibitions. of what we have to offer. UNESCO World Heritage List nomination of - an increase in younger visitors • The new Museum Members strategy, the building and surrounding gardens. The designed to maximise membership Actions and results to Scienceworks; success of the nomination was formally participation and revenue, was launched - an increase in older visitors to the • Over the past twelve months, Museum announced on 30 June 2004. in June 2004. Immigration Museum; Victoria has successfully transformed its • Museum Victoria’s website is the most - all three of our museums achieved public image from an organisation in flux Strategy successful cultural website in Australia. an increase in visitors who do not to one that is successfully fulfilling its In 2003/04 it attracted in excess Attract and engage diverse audiences. hold a tertiary qualification; and role of being relevant and beneficial to the of 2.5 million user-sessions. community. In part, this has been achieved - general increases in visitation were • A publications strategy was approved. through Museum Victoria’s strategic approach Actions and results primarily from visitors who reside The first two titles of the new publications to marketing and communications. Activities in the Metropolitan Melbourne region. • The Immigration Museum’s Community program were The Royal Exhibition Building, included: carefully targeted advertising and Partnerships Program included four exhibitions Melbourne: A Guide and Treasures of the promotions campaigns executed via a variety and three community cultural festivals. Each Strategy Museum. One edition of the prestigious of media, stakeholder management processes, of these events attracted particular cultural Position Museum Victoria so that more people Memoirs of Museum Victoria was published. and a vibrant membership program. These groups from Melbourne including Armenian, come through our doors, use our websites The publications revenue target was exceeded. activities contributed to the unprecedented Afghani, Scottish and Sri Lankan communities. attendance results at all of our museums. and seek our knowledge and expertise. • An online exhibition, competition and entry • A variety of community engagement database for Design in Italy was developed. • Museum Victoria generated publicity in the programs were delivered at Museum Victoria’s Actions and results • Approximately 50,900 people visited InfoZone popular media that was independently valued information centres to increase access to at Melbourne Museum and another 28,750 at $12.5 million. Museum Victoria information and expertise. • Museum Victoria’s three museums recorded visited the Immigration Discovery Centre • A new online newsletter and website entitled These events included seniors’ internet training, their strongest full financial year ticketed at the Immigration Museum. E-News was delivered to subscribers on Adult Learners’ Week, Military Memorabilia attendance since their respective openings. a quarterly basis. Day and Ship Reunion days. This is a direct consequence of the • A total of 1,697 people participated in the Government’s decision to reduce entry evening Planetarium sessions, Cruise the • Museum Victoria partnered with • Six Indigenous community exhibitions prices, in conjunction with the development Constellations, representing an increase newspaper to produce and distribute four were presented in the Birrarung space of new exhibitions at each of the museums. of 28 visitors per night from the previous science posters featuring: Mars Exploration, at Melbourne Museum. year. This increase is attributed to positive Sport, House Science and Forensic Science. ‘word of mouth’ reports and effective marketing activities.

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Strategy conferences, seminars and workshops. A total of 2,180 teachers participated in Reach those who cannot easily come to us. these presentations by Museum Victoria staff, as well as many pre-service teachers Actions and results still enrolled at university. • The Museum Victoria Outreach Program • Teachers were given free access to reached 35,149 people throughout Victoria an expanding range of online classroom in 2003/04, exceeding forecasts by 3.5%. and professional development resources. New audiences were generated through • Museum Victoria serviced the growing existing government networks, including demand for professional development mental health organisations, children's for early learning students by delivering hospitals, prisons, science in regional approximately 15 presentations to tertiary schools and libraries. groups on Melbourne Museum’s approach • As part of an ongoing community loans to early learning. program, Museum Victoria loaned sets • Fifteen schools and over 1,000 students of the 2001 Federation Handbells to over participated in National Science Week 80 organisations and individuals. through the Simple Machines program at Scienceworks. Teachers attending the Australia’s Indigenous people use message sticks to communicate Strategy program received an accompanying CD with other groups. They often convey permission to enter country Continue to meet the needs of the Victorian of support materials. or extend an invitation to participate in a ceremonial event. Most have incised patterns that were used as a memory aid for the education sector. • Three education shows were developed with carrier of the stick. This item, made by the Wurrundjeri people, associated educational materials to support was presented to the Premier of Victoria to mark the opening Actions and results exhibitions . These included a general show of Melbourne Museum. for early and middle years and two shows , courtesy of the Wurrundjeri people • Museum Victoria maintained a broad range for VCE physics students. of curriculum-based learning experiences at all venues, in accordance with the priorities • Additional online projects related to school and initiatives of the Department of Education curriculum were developed in association and Training. An increase in bookings with the Department of Education and associated with educational institutions was Training and the Victorian Education Channel. observed across all venues, resulting in an • A partnership with COASIT resulted in the unprecedented total of 292,613 education placement of a specialist Italian language attendances in 2003/04. teacher with Museum Victoria. • An extensive program of on-site teacher professional development activities were augmented by a range of off-site teacher Strategic Direction

02 Create and deliver great experiences

Strategy Strategy

Create exhibitions that are engaging, Provide websites that offer high-quality surprising and authoritative. content and are easy to navigate.

Actions and results Actions and results

• Museum Victoria developed and launched • Museum Victoria achieved a record Alfred Smith built working models from found objects all his life. Seven of them are in Museum Victoria’s collection. He loved 68 exhibitions in 2003/04. 2,537,144 user-sessions across its websites. carousels and created this model with great attention to detail. • Audience evaluation research demonstrated • The redevelopment of Museum Victoria’s It recalls his experience of English fairgrounds, which Alfred left behind in the fifties when he migrated to Melbourne. the success of Museum Victoria’s exhibitions popular site www.museum.vic.gov.au/pharlap with these extraordinary satisfaction ratings: won the Museums Australia Publication Design Model carousel, created by Alfred Mervyn Smith - Bugs Alive! - 90% Award 2004 in the Website category (Level C). According to the judges: ‘This site has terrific - Toys: Science at Play - 83% content and is compelling, motivating the - Nitty Gritty Super City - 89% viewer to explore it extensively.’ • Treasures: Museum Victoria Celebrates • www.museum.vic.gov.au/treasures/ was 150 Years showcases some of the most developed to enhance Internet visitor access significant objects and specimens from to the Museum’s treasures, and to promote the Museum Victoria’s collections. 150th Anniversary events, exhibitions and • Bugs Alive! , a state of the art display of the book. The Behind the Scenes online game the insect kingdom, opened in March 2004. provides an interactive experience featuring In support of the exhibition, an extensive exhibition items and bar-code access to Bugs Alive! activity program was developed collection management information. and included live bug demonstrations, puppet performances and craft activities. • Etched On Bark 1854 was the first in a series of exhibitions specifically developed to celebrate the Museum’s 150th anniversary.

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Strategy • A variety of multimedia infrastructure/ • A total of 23 temporary exhibitions were installations were completed including: installed, launched and/or demounted across Use innovative display methods to convey the three venues. the wealth of our collections and knowledge. - Design in Italy - Stormwater • Museum Victoria’s Megawatt electricity exhibition successfully toured to five locations Actions and results - Top Designs in . • The Virtual Room was opened to the public on - Outlawed 18 December 2003. The exhibit won a 2003 Strategy Award from the Australia Interactive Media Strategy Industry Association (AIMIA) for Best New Provide a range of activities including tours, Attract high-quality touring exhibitions Digital Content. The Virtual Room website field trips, performances, presentations, lectures and then create our own for display elsewhere. www.vroom.org.au was launched prior to and publications that appeal to a broad audience. the opening of the exhibit, assisting project Actions and results communication and promotion. The site won Actions and results the Museums Australia Publication Design • Our Place: Indigenous Australia Now was • A range of activities and presentations for Awards 2004 in the Multimedia category produced in partnership with the Powerhouse visitors were delivered at each of the museums. (Level C) and was described as: “A promotion Museum in Sydney and opened in June These included treasure hunts, tours, film that reflects the extension of the boundaries 2004 at the Benaki Museum, Athens. screenings, craft activities, lectures, special in museum exhibits, challenging the designer • The Toys: Science at Play exhibition was children’s events, children’s games, shows, to come up with ways to convey developed in conjunction with SciTech in bug keepers talks, eel feeding demonstrations, new concepts.” Western Australia. Following a successful field trips, activity days and outdoor • As part of the January 2004 school season in Perth, it was installed and launched evening concerts. holiday program, Museum Victoria set up a at Scienceworks in May 2004. Other venues • Specific programs were delivered to mark laboratory within one of Melbourne Museum’s are being sought for the exhibition for specific events including: National Archaeology galleries. This innovative approach to science 2005 and beyond. Week, Seniors Week, Cultural Diversity Week, communication received a Museums Industry • Museum Victoria’s exhibition Spirit Country Harmony Day, the Immigration Museum’s Recognition Award for Best Project. successfully toured three venues in Japan. 5th Birthday, Adult Learners’ Week, International • The Big Bang Planetarium show, a humorous More than 28,000 people visited Day for People with a Disability, the transit musical production that explores ideas about the exhibition. of Venus and Astronomy Week. the beginning of the universe, was launched • Museum Victoria’s Thookay Ngaweeyan in December 2003. exhibition ended a tour of regional Victoria at Melbourne Museum in December 2003.

Strategic Direction

03 Pursue the development of strategic partnerships

Strategy Strategy • Strategic partnerships expanded our research • Museum Victoria maintained its Partners capacity and helped to increase the number Program with 28 Gold, Silver and Bronze Develop partnerships that increase Develop partnerships that enhance the of researchers utilising and developing our partners contributing almost $700,000 in community involvement and support. expertise of our staff and extend the range collections, and facilitating research outputs. sponsorship throughout the year. The Patrons of our knowledge. The current list of researchers includes four program continues to provide individuals and Actions and results honours and 30 postgraduate university corporations with a means of contributing Actions and results • The Melbourne Museum Volunteer Program students. to the future of Museum Victoria. was expanded to include volunteers for the • Museum Victoria collaborated with other • A key partnership during the year between Immigration Museum. As of 30 June 2004, Australian museums in the Online Zoological Museum Victoria and the Powerhouse Strategy Museum Victoria had 425 active volunteers. Collections of Australian Museums project, Museum resulted in the successful Maximise our ability to contribute to the which is a distributed web network that • As part of Museum Victoria’s 150th development of Our Place: Indigenous cultural, scientific and economic life of Victoria. Anniversary celebrations, an afternoon enables Internet access for inquiries regarding Australia Now, a new exhibition for natural history database records in all Australian tea party was held for all past and present the 2004 Athens Cultural Olympiad. Actions and results volunteers and current Museum Victoria museums. http://www.ozcam.gov.au • Museum Victoria participated in, or was • Bunjilaka, the Aboriginal Cultural Centre at Members in recognition of their support • Museum Victoria participated in the 15th a member of, numerous national and Melbourne Museum continued its role as and contribution to the Museum. Women on Farms Gathering held at Horsham international conferences and networks a key provider of cross cultural training by • Development of the Koori Volunteer between 26-28 March by presenting two including: the Asia/Pacific Science Centres delivering professional development and Strategy commenced. portable display units showing artefacts, Association Conference, the Australia/New training sessions for the Victoria Police images and oral histories of past gatherings. Zealand Science Centres Network, the • The success of the education programs at and Brotherhood of St Laurence. Museum Victoria continued its ongoing International Planetarium Society, Australia’s all venues is attributed in part to the strategic partnership to document the gatherings by National Outreach Strategy Working Party, • Museum Victoria is now contributing over partnerships established with professional collecting documents, images and objects Museums Australia, and the Council of 66,000 objects and images to the national education associations, departments and relating to each event. Australian Museum Directors. collections database project, Australian industry bodies including: Science and Museums On Line (AMOL) Society Network of Cultural Organisations; http://www.amol.org.au and over 30,000 Science Teachers’ Association of Victoria; Strategy Strategy images to the national image database Australia/New Zealand Science Centres Develop partnerships that raise our profile Develop partnerships that enable us to do project Picture Australia National Network; and Network of Australian both nationally and internationally. things that we could not do on our own. http://www.pictureaustralia.org Museum Exhibitors. • Museum Victoria continued presentations • A reception to welcome delegates to the Actions and results Actions and results as part of the Victorian Government’s Design 2004 Museums Australia Conference and • Museum Victoria continued to implement • Approximately 60 Museum Victoria Initiative. The Design in Italy exhibition was to launch the Museum’s 150th anniversary aspects of the Research Strategy, which projects were undertaken in conjunction launched to the public in December 2003 and exhibition Treasures was held in May. Over includes a focus on establishing and with universities, government departments, was viewed by approximately 50,000 visitors. 500 people attended. developing strong research partnerships private industry bodies, foundations, museums, A number of key public programs were held with other museums, Federal Government community networks, local councils, funding during the year including three major forums, agencies, universities and research bodies, education networks, special interest a Milanese dinner and a master class. organisations in Australia and abroad. groups, hospitals and correctional services. Museums Board of Victoria Annual Report 2003/2004 29

Strategy Strategy

Develop partnerships that bring in funds Further our relationship with Indigenous and supplement existing resources. communities.

Actions and results Actions and results

• Funding for research and collection projects was • Museum Victoria supported Victorian received from international bodies, government Aboriginal artists and communities through agencies, philanthropic foundations and trusts, partnerships that delivered six exhibitions. and corporate partners. These include: the • Museum Victoria preparators travelled Australian Research Council, the Department to Nagle College, Bairnsdale to mould of the Environment and Heritage, the Global and cast Aboriginal Grinding Grooves for Biodiversity Information Facility, The Ian Potter the Gippsland/East Gippsland Aboriginal Foundation, the Australian Academy of Cooperative and Aboriginal Affairs Victoria. Sciences, the Department of Infrastructure, • Museum Victoria’s Roving Curator continued the Hermon Slade Foundation, and the Helen to support Indigenous communities in the McPherson Smith Trust. preservation, protection and management • The partnership between Museum Victoria of their cultural heritage, working with fifteen and Telstra, Victoria University, TXU, SPI different communities across the state. Powernet, Ed Bondarenko and Associates, Activities included weaving and jewellery AGL/Agility, Department of Innovation, workshops, support for the Aboriginal Industry and Regional Development, and community archive project, and asset bar- Olex Cables, provided funding and resources coding of Museum Victoria resources in for the construction of the Victoria University use at regional Aboriginal organisations. High Voltage Theatre at Scienceworks and Museum Victoria was the first Australian museum to establish • During the year, some 250 lots of ancestral a Pacific Islander Advisory Group. The group provides advice the ongoing delivery of programs associated remains were repatriated from the State on issues concerning Indigenous Pacific people’s heritage and with the theatre. guides the organisation in establishing partnerships with Pacific Collection to Aboriginal communities in Island communities. This eight metre crab-claw sail is one of Victoria, New South Wales and Western three commissioned from Pacific Islander artists in Melbourne. Australia. Nine restricted objects were sent It represents the island culture of Micronesia. to the West Australian Museum for return Crab-claw sail, featuring Melanesian designs Courtesy of the Pacific Islands Council to communities in the Kimberly. Artist: Ben Whippy • Museum Victoria created an education cadetship for an Indigenous student teacher enrolled in a teacher training course. Strategic Direction

04 Develop and maximise the value of Victoria’s heritage collection

Strategy

Continue to develop and strengthen the collections amassed over 150 years.

Actions and results

• A Collection Strategy and Action Plan was developed and approved for implementation. • The collections were managed in line with legislative requirements, including the implementation of a risk assessment program. • Museum Victoria continued to develop its collections through a program of research, acquisitions and donations. Significant acquisitions made over the last financial year include: - 650 objects from CSL Ltd for the medical collection The John Curtis Collection of British and Foreign Insects has been - 5m female and 2.5m male specimens in Museum Victoria’s care since 1863. It comprises over 40,000 of Great White Shark specimens, some of which are now considered to be extinct in England. The collection continues to inform entomology research - fish and invertebrate material from throughout the world. Collected in 1796, this moth is the oldest the NORFANZ expedition specimen in the Curtis collection. - 1 dolphin and 3 whale specimens A Sphinx Hawkmoth, Sphinx carolina from the Curtis collection - the saddle used by jockey Billy Elliott in riding Phar Lap to seven wins (jointly acquired by Museum Victoria and The ) - a 1901 Confederation of Australian Commonwealth medal - a Melbourne 1888-89 Exhibition Catalogue

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- photographs and other memorabilia relating Strategy • Museum Victoria’s Live Exhibits Unit has Strategy to the cycling career of Sir Hubert Opperman established the organisation as leading Provide enhanced public access through Work with kindred organisations throughout invertebrate specialists, with over 100 species - David Morrisey’s Lake Tyers collection a purpose built storage facility. Victoria to help raise standards of collection care. of photographs and children’s works. maintained and researched in the specialised facilities at Melbourne Museum. • Museum Victoria restored the Victorian Actions and results Actions and results Railways Union Eight Hour Day banner • Twelve collection databases, including as a major conservation project. • A draft proposal is in development for a new the Technology, Herpetology, Marine, and • As part of the Regional Imaging Project, Museum Victoria collection storage facility associated loan databases, were transferred a Museum Victoria photographer spent one • The restoration of the ‘Tin Shed’ or old with managed public access. from old electronic systems into EMu, week in Wonthaggi and digitally captured workshop situated alongside the Pumping Museum Victoria’s collection database. over 350 images for the Bass Coast Shire. Station at Scienceworks was completed in • In the interim Museum Victoria continued These images will enable the local Historical May, as was the repair of the North Straining to deliver tours of the Scienceworks store on • 10,900 new inventory records were created. Societies to put parts of their collections Well doors. Both activities were completed a daily basis. Special interest group tours of As well as providing accurate location data in on-line and will contribute to a future as part of the Museum’s overall conservation the collections stores at Melbourne Museum real-time for the first time, the implementation exhibition on the history of sport in the and restoration plan. were also undertaken. of the Collection Inventory System is also providing accurate figures for unregistered Bass Coast area. Strategy Strategy and unidentified collection items. • A project to improve the documentation Provide appropriate storage conditions to Enhance our knowledge base through research, publication and collection data-base development. of Museum Victoria’s major collection ensure the long-term survival of the collections. of Australian medals was undertaken. Actions and results Actions and results Strategy • The Indigenous Cultures Department unpacked • Museum Victoria produced 65 books, refereed Expand the information available on the internet. and finalised appropriate long term storage for journal articles, reports and other publications. 7,500 objects in the Ethnographic collection. These included Geology of Victoria, now the primary reference source for geology in Actions and results • A review of Museum Victoria’s long term Victoria, and an interactive CD identification collection storage requirements was initiated. • The key infrastructure for a Web/EMu guide to Polychaete worms of Australia. The publishing system has been completed • Scienceworks was reaccredited by Museums reprint of Donald Thomson in Arnhem Land to support integrated online searching Australia (Vic). Museum Victoria as a whole was also launched. of collections, data updates and further was registered for accreditation. Accredited • Fieldwork was undertaken on the Australian development of collection based museums demonstrate that they are applying Research Council Linkage Grant project web projects. and meeting industry standards in a variety Anthropological and Aboriginal perspectives of areas including collection care. on the Donald Thomson Collection.

Strategic Direction

05 Manage Our Resources

Strategy • The Museum Victoria Customer Services Strategy Strategy division implemented cross campus staff Develop a motivated, dynamic, Improve information management Employ sound financial and risk management induction and a staff swap program. As creative and skilled workforce. and communication systems. practices. well as providing professional development for staff, these programs enabled staff to Actions and results promote their own personal experiences Actions and results Actions and results • The Staff Consultative Committee with each of the venues to museum visitors. • A Strategic Plan for Information Technology • An upgrade of the finance system commenced the development of the was completed and approved by the Board. was completed. new Enterprise Agreement (entitled Staff Strategy Implementation will occur in 2004/05. • A collections acquisitions reserve has Partnership Agreement). The committee Provide an organisation structure and • Infrastructure savings including changes been established enabling Museum Victoria identified six critical projects that are infrastructure that assists our staff to achieve to W/LAN, Systems Integration, Desktops, to seize opportunities as they arise. necessary for Museum Victoria’s our objectives. Leasing, Voice Communications, PIVOD • Museum Victoria’s risk management program future success. and the ICE Theatre. has resulted in contained Workcover and • A staff opinion survey was undertaken to Actions and results • Museum Victoria’s intranet content insurance premiums. assess 18 attributes of Museum Victoria. management system was developed • Museum Victoria continued to implement the Museum Victoria was rated highly for and will be launched in 2004/05. its working conditions, job design, staff Strategic Realignment. Proposals for changes to ten departments were considered and performance, direct supervision and Strategy quality of customer service. approved by the executive management team. • Museum Victoria launched its corporate • Museum Victoria appointed dedicated Ensure our facilities are well maintained training and development program for staff. bookings and enquiries staff at each venue, and fit for purpose. This program is aligned to the Strategic and developed a streamlined training program. Directions, reflects Museum Victoria values, This has increased the organisation’s ability Actions and results to manage bookings and enquiries at each enables staff to perform to the best of their • Works are well underway with respect to venue, and enhanced the level of customer abilities and facilitates professional and the installation of a lift, fit-out of the theatrette service provided to callers. personal development. In the period April and reconfiguration of the Royal Exhibition to June 2004, 12 different courses were • Museum Victoria commenced the process Building’s northern entrance. offered, totalling 225 training days. A total of transferring to the Victorian Public Service’s • The Age Theatre at Melbourne Museum was of 353 staff participated in at least one pay and classification system. refitted as a 214 seat fully equipped theatre. training course.

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Future Priorities

Over the coming years, Museum Victoria will focus on the following strategic initiatives:

• The Treasure House project, a purpose-built storage facility that provides managed public access to collections.

• The recent listing of the Royal Exhibition Building on UNESCO’s World Heritage Register and its selection for the National Heritage List, which will open exciting opportunities for connecting the public with Victoria’s history.

• The creation of innovative exhibitions at all three of Museum Victoria’s museums and a program of gallery enhancement to add to visitor enjoyment. Comprising almost 100,000 items, Museum Victoria’s Numismatics • The development of our entry points, to Collection is the most significant in Australia. During the improve foyers, exhibits, shops, orientation Depression, no 1930 pennies were issued, although some were systems, ticketing and information provision. struck by the to test dies in case orders were received. The proof 1930 penny is Australia’s • The pursuit and development of partnerships most valuable coin. with universities, government agencies, Penny, proof (1930), Australian community groups and philanthropic organisations that will strengthen our research capability and the communication of results to the public.

• The continued strengthening of the collections, utilising the EMu documentation system to improve information availability. Melbourne Museum performance of The Marvellous Mr McCoy

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Melbourne Museum: Exhibitions and Programs

Museum Overview and Key Achievements

Melbourne Museum is a broad-based State Major features of Melbourne Museum include: museum with a national and international focus • Bunjilaka, the Aboriginal Centre, which that covers the natural and physical sciences as explores issues relating to the experiences, well as social history and cultures. Exhibitions rights and perspectives of Australia’s cover six major themes: Australian society, Indigenous people. Indigenous cultures, the human mind and body, science, technology and the environment. • the Forest Gallery, which is a living gallery with temperate trees over 20 metres tall and Melbourne Museum is spread over six levels thousands of other plants and a wide variety – three of which contain public galleries and of living creatures including insects, birds, fish purpose-built amenities such as restaurants, and snakes. cafes and education rooms. Through its exhibitions, • the Children’s Gallery, with exhibitions and Melbourne Museum aims to provide an interactive activities designed for three to eight year-olds. and exciting visitor experience to the broadest possible audience. • a Touring Hall for major travelling exhibitions. • Melbourne Museum Shop, which offers a wide Melbourne Museum promotes public debate variety of giftware, museum merchandise, on concepts and issues relating to the natural books and educational materials. environment, new technology and other changes occurring in our society. The Museum features • InfoZone, which enables the public to access excellent education and catering facilities, a information about the Museum’s collections state-of-the-art storage facility for some of the and research materials. Museum’s collections and a range of • an adjacent IMAX Theatre. performance spaces. • Melbourne Museum’s building and facilities serve as popular venues for corporate functions, events and performances. Such commercial activities contribute positively to the Museum's financial performance, while enhancing the Museum’s public profile. • Sidney Myer Amphitheatre, a 150-seat arena for the staging of large outdoor events. • The Age Theatre.

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Entrance to Design in Italy with exhibition in background Objects: Triennale di Milano

Highlights included

• over 678,600 visitors to Melbourne Museum, including the Touring Hall. • Bugs Alive! opened in March 2004 and is proving to be one of Melbourne Museum’s most popular exhibitions. • Treasures displays and programs have enlivened the public spaces and galleries of the Museum. • The Virtual Room had visitors spellbound with amazing visualisation experiences. • Design in Italy 1945-2000 was an important survey of international design, made possible by the Victorian Government’s State of Design initiative.

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Long-Term Exhibitions

Evolution Gallery Biotech & Beyond Te Pasifika Gallery Dinosaurs in Time This exhibition examines the development and Te Vainui O Pasifika application of biotechnology, as well as issues Dinosaurs in Time is an exhibition about the Developed in partnership with the Pacific associated with current and potential areas history of life on earth. Presenting the fossil Islander community, Te Vainui O Pasifika displays of research. record as evidence for evolution, it covers the watercraft objects from nearly every country in past 3,400 million years of life on earth, from the Pacific. Its many features include a Solomon Medical Melbourne ancient microfossils to trilobites, dinosaurs, Islands’ war canoe and three large crab claw mammals and plants. Medical Melbourne showcases the incredible sails painted in traditional and contemporary achievements of people working in the field of designs by Pacific Island artists. Darwin to DNA biomedical science and research in Melbourne.

This exhibition explores the processes and Bunjilaka Gallery Australia Gallery mechanisms of evolution through three different Bunjilaka is the Aboriginal Centre at Melbourne themes: the history of evolution’s discovery, the Melbourne: Stories from a City Museum. It aims to present, interpret and genetic mechanisms required for evolution to celebrate Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander This exhibition explores the history of occur and how our understanding of human cultures, philosophies and issues, with a focus Melbourne, its people, neighbourhoods, evolution and other organisms has changed on south-eastern Australia. Bunjilaka reflects the workplaces and cultures. through the study of DNA. strong partnership between Museum Victoria and Aboriginal communities across Victoria. Windows on Victoria Mind and Body Gallery Illustrated with objects from the Museum’s Koori Voices Bodyscape collection, this exhibition features eight key This exhibition recounts the stories of Bodyscape encourages visitors to journey historical events that have made a lasting impact Aboriginal people in Victoria. It is a celebration through our evolving understanding of the on Victorian society since European settlement. of the survival of Aboriginal culture and the human body’s construction and the colourful ways Aboriginal people have continually sought history of dissection and anatomy. Phar Lap: A True Legend to maintain autonomous lifestyles, in spite of This exhibition pays tribute to Phar Lap, oppressive policies and welfare regimes. Koori Body Parts Australia’s most famous racehorse and the Voices recognises the history of struggle to Body Parts looks at the body’s fundamental country’s first media star. preserve rights and dignity within the structure and processes by highlighting the machinations of daily life. circulatory, digestive, reproductive, hormonal, immune and musculoskeletal systems. Museums Board of Victoria Annual Report 2003/2004 39

Melbourne Museum, Bunjilaka Gallery

Belonging to Country

This exhibition explores the complex relationships between Aboriginal people and land and waterways throughout Australia. The spiritual, economic and political connections are explored through a selection of objects from the collections.

Two Laws

Aboriginal perspectives on knowledge, law and property are explored. Artworks, artefacts and a video discussion between anthropologist Baldwin Spencer and Arrernte Leader Irrapmwe examine the differences between Indigenous and non-Indigenous laws and perceptions.

Science and Life Gallery

The Science & Life Gallery features exhibitions that explore digital technology, biodiversity, and the scientific principles behind physics, chemistry, geology and biology, and how they have changed our perceptions of the world.

Southern Diversity

Southern Diversity is a discovery of Australia’s unique plants and animals. Familiar and lesser- known groups including kangaroos, cockatoos, sea jellies, ants and sharks are featured within through six Victorian environments. The Mallee, the Alps, river redgum, forests, rocky coasts, bays and the deep ocean are highlighted with backlit photographs, small models, animal sounds and real specimens.

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The Virtual Room Children’s Gallery Forest Gallery Opened December 2003 Aimed at three to eight year-olds, this gallery The Forest Gallery is a living example of The Virtual Room uses experimental imaging consists of an exhibition space, the Children’s Victoria’s tall temperate forests. The gallery technology to enable visitors to see around, Gallery, the Sidney Myer Amphitheatre, and houses thousands of trees and plants, from above, below and through digital objects and the Tattersall’s Children’s Garden. more than 120 different species. The tall trees moving images. Programs currently on offer were salvaged from logging coupes and road include Think Big (on the human brain), The 1, 2, 3 Grow reserves east of Melbourne. The Forest Gallery Future of Virtualisation, Australian Polar is also home to around 20 different vertebrate 1, 2, 3 Grow illustrates the story of growth Dinosaurs and Exploring Mars. species, including snakes, birds, fish and frogs. through the themes of size, colour and shape. The gallery’s exhibition Forest Secrets is Children see how plants, animals and humans Bugs Alive! designed to convey a range of stories about grow through a wonderful selection of Opened March 2004 forest life and how this environment changes specimens from Museum Victoria’s natural over time. As Melbourne Museum’s only This exhibition features a unique integration of history collections. 100-year exhibition, the Forest Gallery provides live bug displays with an extensive entomology the promise of growth and change for collection, models, multimedia and staffed Treasuring our Environment generations to come. demonstrations to create a rich and popular experience for visitors. Over 100 live bug species This exhibition takes a closer look at the are on show, from ants and cockroaches to stick fascinating environments of the desert, insects and tarantulas. sea and rainforest.

CSIRAC Opened May 2004

This CSIRAC exhibition which celebrates an international icon of the digital age has been redeveloped. CSIRAC is the world’s only surviving intact first generation stored memory computer. It is recognised as a National Engineering Landmark.

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Temporary Exhibitions

A Gap in Nature Dinosaur Designs Burial Sites 30 November 2002 – 13 July 2003 3 June – 13 July 2003 28 October 2003 – 11 January 2004

A collaborative effort between Scientist Dr Tim This exhibition illustrated the beauty, uniqueness This exhibition displayed works by artist Gayle Flannery and Artist Peter Schouten, this project and diversity of Australian design company Maddigan as a celebration of Aboriginal survival. sought to identify, interpret and produce life-size Dinosaur Designs. It featured over 300 jewellery paintings of 103 species of fauna lost over the and homeware designs by Louise Olsen, Stephen Thookay Ngaweeyan: last 500 years. Ormandy and Liane Rossler from between Young Voices of Victoria 1985 and late 2002. 2 December 2003 – 8 March 2004 Photo Voices A Museum Victoria touring exhibition showing 26 February – 13 July 2003 New Way Now colourful and vibrant artwork by Koori children 5 July – 10 October 2003 This exhibition displayed photographs and stories from all over Victoria. from Indigenous people aged 13–17 years from This exhibition of Koori design featured Mildura, Shepparton and Warrnambool. The contemporary design products by Victorian Design in Italy 1945-2000 exhibition presented a compelling sexual health Aboriginal artists. 12 December 2003 – 8 March 2004 educational opportunity and also highlighted 100 objects from the Italian Design Permanent possible solutions to some confronting issues Stuffed and Mounted Collection of the Triennale di Milano were facing indigenous youth in regional areas. 25 July – 12 October 2003 exhibited as part of Museum Victoria’s designed Developed in partnership with Birds Australia, to inspire program and supported by the Victorian Top Designs 2003 this Museum Victoria exhibition promotes an Government’s The State of Design initiative. 27 March – 13 July 2003 appreciation of the beauty of birds and the Top Designs was an exhibition of outstanding need for their conservation. BG Wildlife Exhibition 2002 VCE student art and design by students of 13 December 2003 – 15 February 2004 Technology, Media and Visual Communication Spinning Around: The annual BG Wildlife Photographer of the Year & Design. 50 Years of Festival Records competition is a prestigious wildlife photography 6 August – 23 November 2003 competition. The exhibited images from the 2002 CARE Spinning Around was a travelling exhibition competition were astonishing and inspiring. 1 June – 31 August 2003 from the Powerhouse Museum in Sydney that This Children Caring and Respecting their put the spotlight on the unique character of Environment project was developed by The Australian popular music, from Johnny O’Keefe Early Learning Centre to . to help young children appreciate and respect the environment. Museums Board of Victoria Annual Report 2003/2004 43

Spinning Around exhibition opening showing layout of display

Koori Kids Diamonds are Precious to us too! 15 January – 26 March 2004 2 April 2004 – 2 Aug 2004

Koori Kids was held in conjunction with the These sculptures by Aboriginal artist Kelly Thookay Ngaweeyan travelling exhibition and Koumalatsos are inspired by the material culture is a collection of artworks by children from the of south eastern Australia. The diamond and Yappera Children's pre-school and the Thornbury zig-zag designs are a visual language that directly Primary School. The theme was ‘Who am I? connects Kelly to her cultural heritage, the Who are we?’ Wergaia and Wamba Wamba.

Etched On Bark 1854 : Treasures: Kulin Barks from Northern Victoria Museum Victoria Celebrates 150 years 18 March – 27 June 2004 16 May – 31 December 2004

Displayed in association with original The exhibition showcases some of the most contemporaneous photographs of the Aboriginal significant objects and specimens from the people from Boort in Northern Victoria, the Museum’s collection, displayed in foyers exhibition aimed to reveal, in some detail, a and public spaces, as well as throughout the moment in Victoria's history which corresponded exhibition galleries as part of Museum Victoria’s with the Museum's birth. 150th anniversary.

Top Designs Exhibition 2004 Outlawed 26 March – 4 July 2004 10 June – 10 October 2004

This annual exhibition again featured outstanding This exhibition from the National Museum works by media, technology and design students, of Australia, Canberra, tells the true stories as a component of the VCE Season of Excellence. and popular legends of bushrangers, rebels and revolutionaries from around the world. River Grass Series 2 April – 28 June 2004 Alessi Tea and Coffee Towers: Digital Dreams, Manufactured Realities Kim Lampton, a Yorta Yorta artist from Northern 18 June – 8 August 2004 Victoria is strongly influenced by her family, traditional country and the stories that have been Presented by lab.3000 at RMIT, this touring passed down from her elders. In this exhibition, display featured prototypes of tea and coffee Kim keeps alive the tradition of sand art and sets designed by 22 innovative and respected Victorian Aboriginal symbolism. architects commissioned by Italian design manufacturer, Alessi.

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Visitor Programs and Special Events

Ongoing Programs 150th Anniversary: Moomba Parade Community Engagement

The regular What’s On at Melbourne Museum Staff, their families and volunteers took part in 150th Anniversary: Community Collections comprises daily tours of the Royal Exhibition a parade entry to celebrate Museum Victoria’s Held between March and August 2004, this Building as well as a Museum Highlights tour, 150th anniversary. Workshops for the participants new program presented the collections of over weekend activities and presentations. The were held at Melbourne Museum and 90 community organisations and individuals. Museum’s lecture program includes staff Immigration Museum. presentations, as well as lectures co-produced Community Partnerships with a range of partners. These partners included: Bugs Rule! & A Bugs Eye View Anthropological and Archaeological Society of The Museum continued its special events Two new presentations were developed to link Victoria, Australian Geographic, Maths Association partnership with Club Wild; a music, performance with the Bugs Alive! exhibit. A Bug’s Eye View, of Victoria and National Geographic. A key feature and cultural development organisation by and for aimed at children under eight years, features of the annual Calender of Events is the expanded people with disabilities. This program co-presented ‘big bug’ puppets and was developed for the program for school holidays and long weekends, a family day with the Victorian Services for Deaf Autumn Holiday program. Bugs Rule!, held which is themed to link with new exhibits. Children and the Deaf Arts Network. in The Age Theatre, is now part of the regular weekend and holiday What’s On. Both Special Events presentations encourage visitors of all ages to Design forums, lectures and workshops ask questions and interact with Museum staff.

Museum Victoria has developed a range of Romp ‘n Stomp partnerships to present a national and international program of design events. These partnerships are This new initiative is aimed at pre-school groups with the Department of Innovation Industry and and families with children aged under five years. Regional Development, the , The activity program relates to the development Swinburne University, RMIT, Monash University of physical, cognitive and imaginative skills. and the Design Institute of Australia. Highlights The event is co-presented with the following of the program include Design and the National partners: Early Learning Management Services, Economy, Milan/Melbourne Manufacturing Ideas Kindergarten Parents Victoria, Lady Gowrie and the Emerging Designers forums, and the Child Centre Inc, Multicultural Resource Centre, Professor Arturo Dell’Acqua Bella Vista Playgrouping Victoria and Playworks. The Design Masterclass. attendance for the day at 3,500 participants was more than double the standard daily visitation figure for the time of year. Museums Board of Victoria Annual Report 2003/2004 45

Melbourne Museum Galleria entrance showing visitors and display during Treasures exhibition to mark 150th anniversary

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Immigration Museum: Exhibitions and Programs

Museum Overview and Key Achievements

Recognised and celebrated as a dynamic and Highlights Included inclusive living cultural centre, the Immigration • 133,956 visitors (including ticketed and Museum is a contemporary social history non-ticketed) experienced the Immigration Museum that explores Australia’s immigration Museum’s exhibitions, activities and cultural history, provides insights into the migrant events. experience, and contributes to a greater understanding of the many dimensions of our • 2003 Victorian Tourism Award for Heritage cultural heritage. and Cultural Tourism. • Strong partnerships developed with culturally A particular feature of the Immigration Museum and linguistically diverse communities to is its collaboration with Victoria’s culturally and present a successful and well-received program linguistically diverse communities. The Immigration of exhibitions and community cultural festivals. Museum has continued to demonstrate commitment to building social capital by being a • Education programs focussing on Australian vehicle for self-determination, creative expression society, immigration issues and cultural and social reflection. Community exhibitions and diversity positioned the Immigration Museum cultural programs are fundamentally community- as a key education facility in Victoria. Over based. Through its community partnership 39,000 students participated in programs. programs, the Immigration Museum has fostered • Major partnerships with Helen Macpherson community ownership, increased participation Smith Trust, Visions of Australia and Victorian and made a contribution to building better, Multicultural Commission established to stronger communities across Victoria. develop and present Station Pier: Gateway to a new life and the touring exhibition In November 2003 the Immigration Museum Destination Australia: Ports of immigration. celebrated its 5th birthday. Since its opening in 1998, it has attracted well in excess of 500,000 • Redevelopment of the ground floor to improve visitors and experienced success in a number of admissions and retail facilities, and improved key business areas. With continued innovations signage in external and internal areas of the in product development and support by key Museum completed. marketing initiatives, the Museum achieved unprecedented media coverage and profile. Over 100,000 visitors during the past year has strengthened its position as one of the State’s key cultural attractions.

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Visitors viewing the wall plaque of names in the Immigration Museum's Tribute Garden

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Long-Term Exhibitions Temporary Exhibitions

Four permanent galleries house historical objects Getting In Journey through Diversity: Death: Mortality and Religious Diversity and stories that are enhanced by multimedia the story of Armenian Migration November 2003 to February 2004 This gallery looks at the reasons why people are technology and interactive facilities. The resulting May to August 2003 granted or refused entry. The exhibition features Different religions and cultures have diverse displays offer an engaging experience that brings the award winning interactive theatre experience This exhibition conveyed the immigration attitudes, protocols and rituals surrounding to life the many dimensions of the immigration exploring Australia’s immigration policies and experience of Armenians in Melbourne. For many death, dying and bereavement. Using interactive journey. processes from the 1800s to the present day. Armenians, arriving in Australia was their second displays, images and artefacts, this exhibition experience of resettling in a new country. Having explored both traditional and contemporary Leaving and Settling Community Gallery been forced to flee host countries as a result of attitudes to mortality from different religious These galleries explore the reasons people leave persecution and economic and political instability, and cultural perspectives. The Community Gallery is an important forum their home country, what they take with them, many Armenians were further estranged from for presenting temporary exhibitions generated how they settle and what obstacles they have their traditional culture. As a result, the Armenian The Heart is Highland by Victoria’s culturally and linguistically diverse to overcome to start a new life in Victoria. Using community is influenced by other cultural groups March to May 2004 community. sound, objects, and still and moving images, as well as their own heritage. Celebrating the 80th anniversary of the these galleries also explore significant historical Victorian Highland Pipe Band Association, this milestones that are part of Australian Immigration Discovery Centre Safar-e-Ma: Our Journey exhibition explored the association’s link to immigration history. August to November 2003 The centre provides resources for the study Scottish immigration and pays tribute to the of Australia’s immigration history and the social Safar-e-Ma: Our Journey celebrated 140 years strong tradition of Highland pipe bands and The Journey and cultural development of Australian society. of Afghan migration to Australia – from the music in Victoria. It was opened by the former It is also a resource for those researching their All immigrants are linked by the common first ‘Ghan’ cameleers, to contemporary young Premier of Victoria the Hon. Sir Rupert Hamer own family’s history. The Ecumenical Migration experience of a journey, regardless of their Afghan-Australians. Using personal objects in one of his last public engagements. Centre library is housed in the Centre. time of arrival. Located in the Long Room of Old and stories of individuals, against a historical Customs House, the Journeys Gallery features landscape of war, occupation and devastation, Settled and Unsettled a 17-metre replica ship, which recreates the long Tribute Garden this exhibition follows the successive waves June to September 2004 of Afghan immigration to Australia, from the sea journey many migrants endured on their way Located in the Festivals Courtyard, the Tribute A multimedia installation developed with people cameleers who arrived in Australia in the to Australia. The Journeys Gallery also examines Garden records for posterity the names of who live in one of Melbourne’s public housing 1860s to immigrants in the 1990s. the changes in shipping accommodation – from over 7000 families who have made the journey estates, Atherton Gardens, this exhibition explored the cramped steerage-class, square-rigger of to Australia. the negotiation between traditional cultures and the 1840s, to the luxurious, second-class saloon identities within the contested landscape of public of a 1900s steamer and the cabin of a 1950s housing estates. ocean liner. Museums Board of Victoria Annual Report 2003/2004 49

Immigration Museum's Embark Disembark exhibition

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Immigration Museum's Cooking Stories display showing Afghan table setting

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Cooking Stories From There to Here We are Australian December 2003 to October 2004 September 2003 to March 2004 Until November 2003

This major community project documents This collaborative exhibition focused on the This vibrant, travelling exhibition is a tribute significant moments involving food during the personal histories of students from the Centre to contemporary Australia’s cultural diversity. journeys of some 50 refugee arrivals to Australia. for Adult Education’s Literacy and English as a It includes the work of 300 Australian artists, The collection of stories charts the experience Second Language programs, and their journey bringing together Aboriginal and Torres Strait of Chilean, El Salvadorian, Vietnamese, East towards greater literacy. The show celebrated Islanders artists with artists from over 140 Timorese, Iraqi, Afghani, Afar (African), Russian individual triumph over a lack of literacy in different ethnic backgrounds. Jewish immigrants and refugees who have English – whether due to poverty, resettlement arrived in Australia from the 1970s up to the or other factors. Embark Disembark present day. This project was developed by November 2003 to June 2004 Melbourne-based artist and writer Julie Shiels, Recognise the Journey, Celebrate the Future This exhibition explores how four Australian in collaboration with many individuals and December 2003 to March 2004 artists have been influenced by other cultures. communities and the Immigration Museum. The Immigration Museum hosted this national This exposure to different cultures has occurred Like many community exhibitions presented refugee advocacy project exhibition, which through travel and migration, as well as at the Immigration Museum, Cooking Stories contained 72,000 messages of support for understanding family history and simply living brings the motivations and experience of those seeking asylum in Australia. Recognise as part of Australia’s multicultural society. individuals to the fore. In doing so, it challenges the Journey: Celebrate the Future is a project the prevailing public and political notion of of The Forum of Australian Services for Survivors refugees as faceless, nameless statistics. of Torture and Trauma (FASSTT), supported by The Body Shop. Special Until August 2003 Innocent Victims This photographic exhibition displayed the work April to July 2004 of 44 refugee and immigrant children from the This vivid exhibition of drawings expresses Western English Language School, in conjunction the reality of everyday life, conditions and with acclaimed Australian photographer and experience at as seen through artist, Nicola Loder. the eyes of children who have lived in the immigration detention centre.

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Visitor Programs and Special Events

Ongoing Programs

The visitor program approach at the Immigration Museum fosters involvement of families, distinct communities and older adults, and reflects the issues and interests of our culturally diverse society. The Immigration Museum’s special events and community engagement programs encourage participation and attract members of the public who would not normally visit the Museum. As part of the Museum’s regular What’s On, a range of activities have been developed to address the needs of families. These include the Immigration Adventures activity trail booklet and the school holiday workshop program Around the World.

Visitors in the Immigration Museum's Leaving Gallery

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Special Events Community Engagement 5th Birthday Celebrations Community Cultural Festivals

This event was held on 9 November 2003 These festivals develop ties with specific and included community groups who had communities. The Armenian Festival, which been involved in previous Community Cultural linked with an Access Gallery exhibition, was Festivals. It featured musicians, dancers and presented in July 2003. The Sri Lankan Festival demonstrations, such as the Italian woman’s was presented in May 2003. Both attracted choir La Voce Della Luna and noodle maker ticketed admissions in excess of 2,000 visitors. Tommy Cheung. Cooking Stories Tours Kids Fest! Offered as part of the Seniors Festival program Established two years ago, this family event and the Sri Lankan Festival, tours of the exhibition introduces participants to the Museum and were conducted by Nga Diep, Joseph Peiris and Calender of Events. Held on 18 January 2004, Gonzalo Vilches, three community members the event generated excellent publicity and featured in the exhibition. attracted four times as many visitors as a regular Sunday. Ship Reunions

Held in October 2003 and May 2004, these highly successful events included factual presentations on featured ships and an opportunity for audience members to reminisce and share their personal migration stories and family histories.

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Scienceworks Museum: Exhibitions and Programs

Museum Overview and Key Achievements

Scienceworks is a dynamic and interactive Highlights included science and technology museum incorporating • The commissioning in March 2004 of the the Melbourne Planetarium, the new Victoria Victoria University High Voltage Theatre. This University High Voltage Theatre and the purpose-built facility houses a huge Faraday Spotswood Sewerage Pumping Station. Through Cage, containing the largest Tesla Coil on hands-on exhibits, live demonstrations, activities public display anywhere in the world. This and shows, Scienceworks visitors are encouraged equipment produces spectacular displays of to ‘get a grasp of science and technology’. lightning, which together with other electrical The attendances for Scienceworks this year have equipment, stars in an informative and been outstanding, with more than 400,000 visitors entertaining show that runs up to five times for the first time. This success is attributed to the per day, each with up to 120 participants. This popularity of the exhibition program, the quality high voltage equipment was donated by of public programs and the reduced admission Telstra from its decommissioned research prices announced in May 2003. laboratory. Partnership funding for the Theatre has been contributed by Victoria University, AGL/Agility, SPI Powernet, Olex Cables and TXU, through a grants scheme offered by the Department of Innovation, Industry and Regional Development’s Science, Technology and Innovation Infrastructure (STI) branch, and with in-kind assistance from Ed Bondarenko & Associates. • The launch of the Muck Bunker Stormwater Experience exhibition, which was made possible by a $187,000 award granted under the EPA’s Stormwater Action Program to develop and deliver this program in the Pumping Station.

Volunteers and workers at the Pumping Station working on the Cowley Steam engine

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Long-Term Exhibitions Temporary Exhibitions

Main West Gallery Sea Chest Secrets 7 May 2003 – 5 October 2003 The exhibition House Secrets looks at the physics, chemistry and biology behind many Using scientific principles, this exhibition of the familiar things in our homes. investigates clues to help the visitor find the writer of an intriguing diary. Main South Gallery Speed: Science in Motion Sports Works 26 May 2003 – 5 October 2003 The exhibition SportsWorks explores the This interactive exhibition explored the cutting- science and technology of sport through edge science and technology behind motor sports. the themes of fitness, movement and skills. Earth’s Fury Mezzanine Level 13 October 2003 – 8 August 2004 Nitty Gritty Super City Earth’s Fury focuses on the natural forces This exhibition engages young children in that shape the earth. a variety of activities designed to improve their understanding of the world. Science on the Move 18 October 2003 – 15 April 2004

Spotswood Sewage Pumping Station Science on the Move provided extensive hands- Muck Bunker Stormwater Experience on exhibits based around a variety of themes Launched 7 June 2004 including ecology, human genetics, sound, force and motion, electricity and magnetism, fluids This interactive exhibition looks at the issues and logic. surrounding the stormwater system. It focuses on pollution causes and what can be done to Toys: Science at Play improve the quality of the water in the system. 8 May 2004 – 27 Jan 2005

This exhibition explores many scientific concepts through the medium of toys.

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Melbourne Planetarium Victoria University High Voltage Theatre

134,797 people attended the Planetarium during Since the High Voltage Theatre opened on 2003/04, including 55,006 school students and April 1 2004, 21,400 people attended two shows teachers. Several shows were on offer, including developed for schools and the general visitor: Escape from Andraxus, Spinning Out, Launch Electrifying and Loud and Charged Up. . Pad, Tycho to the Moon, Tycho Stars Again, Out Education materials have been developed of Darkness, Cosmic Couriers, and the new to support these shows. show launched in December 2003, Big Bang.

Highlights Included

A highly successful Thursday evening program, Cruise the Constellations, was launched and operated from January–April 2004. Over 2,026 people came to the Planetarium to see Guiding Lights, Big Bang, and Out of Darkness, and view the night sky through the Planetarium’s volunteer- operated telescopes. These attendance figures saw an increase of more than 800 people from the previous year. This year, a special program was run for Valentines Day – and was fully booked out.

Detail from the Melbourne Planetarium foyer, at Scienceworks

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Visitor Programs and Special Events

Ongoing Programs Working Machines Explorer Club

The regular What’s On at Scienceworks Machines in Action days were conducted The Explorer Children’s Club maintained a regular comprises daily tours of the Pumping Station at Scienceworks as part of the Melbourne newsletter of information and activity days, and Heritage Collection Store, weekend Museum Out of the Vaults program. Various including an excursion to Melbourne Museum. activities, science shows and presentations in working machines were also displayed at the Planetarium and High Voltage Theatre. A key local and regional community events. Winter Sleepout aspect of the annual Calendar of Events is the As part of the Melbourne City Mission program, expanded program for school holidays and long Community Engagement over 600 Girl Guides spent the night ‘sleeping weekends – periods that comprise 42% of the Morsecodians out’ on the Scienceworks Arena in August 2003. Scienceworks total attendance. This program is themed to link with new exhibits. Supported by Telstra, this community group presented Morse code demonstrations to Special Events celebrate the 150th anniversary of the first telegraphic message sent in Australia as Astronomy Short Courses part of the Seniors Festival program. Melbourne Planetarium and Swinburne University have developed a short course partnership for Model Solar Vehicle Challenge interested members of the public. This course The state finals of the Model Solar Vehicle was offered in October 2003 and February 2004. Challenge were hosted by Scienceworks in October 2003. This weekend event occurs as a Transit of Venus result of an ongoing partnership with Monash 8th June 2004 University and involved the participation of more Audience members safely viewed this unique than 100 schools and 4,353 people - 60% more astronomical event through telescopes and than the previous year. enjoyed an expert lecture on the history of the transit.

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Education Programs

Melbourne Museum • Genetech 2004. Collaboratively developed by • The completion of the outreach kit What’s education staff at Melbourne Museum and Your Story, which is proving to be popular Education visitors to Melbourne Museum external organisations, this program was with schools numbered just over 147,000 (45% increase on designed to give years nine and ten students 02-03) and participated in a variety of staff-led • A new drama program, Drama and Diversity, with a demonstrated interest in science, the and self-guided education programs. Highlights developed in partnership with Drama Victoria. chance to explore issues arising from the included: This program combines student-based applications of scientific research and workshops with teacher professional • New curriculum-based early learning programs biotechnology. development activities in the Children's Gallery, for primary children Professional development for both practising and • Completion of development work on the up to grade three. These programs linked to pre-service teachers continued to be an important website, Small Object, Big Story – an exhibitions throughout the Museum. part of the education program at Melbourne educational and community resource to • The new Bugs Alive! exhibition and associated Museum. Workshops and seminars held on-site record the wealth of immigration stories education programs that have increased the and at conferences addressed curriculum content in the community. depth of science offerings for students in and pedagogical issues such as the different ways • Revisions of core programs Refugees and years three to eight. that learning occurs in a museum setting. Almost Waves of Migration to keep them up to date • A raft of programs that satisfy specific 2,000 teachers and 1,200 pre-service teachers for the specific curriculum requirements of curriculum requirements of the Victorian attended these sessions. the Victorian Certificate of Education and Certificate of Education, including the fresh for our repeat visitors. workshops, seminars, lectures and floor talks Immigration Museum associated with the Top Designs exhibition. By attending conferences organised by Education visitors to the Immigration Museum These programs were developed with the professional teacher bodies and extending numbered 39,400 and participated in a range support of the Victorian Curriculum and networks and connections with peers in other of formal education programs. This is a 26% Assessment Authority, Victorian industry cultural organisations, education officers are increase on the previous financial year. and the wider education community. constantly developing their professional interests to expand the Immigration Museum’s • Hosting the Great Australian Science Show Education staff maintained emphasis on quality, collaborative projects. One example is the From during National Science Week. This week staff-led Museum experiences, while refreshing there to here: stories of a lifetime exhibition featured special exhibits and presentations and expanding the suite of programs on offer, that was jointly developed with Council of Adult from Victoria’s research institutes, scientists, including: Education staff and students to mark the 2003 Museum Victoria curators and the CSIRO’s • New, free, self-guided pathways for primary, Adult Learner’s Week. Talking Up Science. secondary and adult audiences. • The conversion of education kits and other resource materials to a web-based format. These are now available free online to teachers and students and will help to more widely disseminate our materials. Museums Board of Victoria Annual Report 2003/2004 59

Victoria University High Voltage Theatre show in progress at Scienceworks

Scienceworks The popular STAR 6 program provided transport and program subsidies to 18,707 students, a Along with the Immigration Museum and 15.7% increase on 02/03. Thirty-seven percent Melbourne Museum, Scienceworks also enjoyed of the schools (191) were from Melbourne increased education visits, with a total of 106,000 metropolitan areas, with the remaining 63% visitors (an increase of 7.6%). Of these visitors, (321)) from rural and regional Victoria. 51,531 also attended a Planetarium show. Offering professional development and other Adding to and refreshing the venue’s suite of activities for teachers continued to be an programs ensured a variety of new experiences important part of the education program at engaged and excited repeat visitors and attracted Scienceworks. The fifth annual Science new ones. In 2003/04 education staff: Showcase for teachers was held in February to • Played leading roles in the development and launch the 2004 Education Program. As a result, installation of the High Voltage Theatre and over 300 teachers have signed up for the 2004 Stormwater exhibit. Teacher Privilege Pass. Guest speaker was Dr Hugh Bradlow, Chief Technology Officer • Developed education programs and materials for Telstra and Managing Director of the Telstra for these projects. Research Laboratories. • Developed education programs and materials for both long-term and temporary exhibitions Website Education including House Secrets, Earth’s Fury, Toys and the Planetarium show, Big Bang. Education material published on Museum • Developed new shows for Science Stage, Victoria's website - and accessed by Victorian, Auditorium and the House Secrets Australian and overseas teachers and students demonstration area. - includes: Stuffed & Mounted - Bird Research in Australia, Italian Design LOTE Activities, • Delivered science shows to Victorian regional Treasures Student Activities, Bugs! Student schools and on the Royal Children’s Hospital Activities and Exhibition Trails, Scienceworks in-house TV channel using grant money from Museum Curriculum Resources, Top Designs the Federal Department of Education Science - VCE Student folios, and Immigration Museum and Training. education kits. • Released education materials on CD-ROM. Interactive education programs Bug Catcher and The Sleepover program continues to be popular, Behind the Scenes were developed in the form with 904 students attending either Scienceworks of an online 'game' involving tasks, resources or Planetarium sleepovers. and tools. These have been designed using a constructivist pedagogy approach. Each task makes a reference of both the resources provided to support the learner in responding to the task, and the digital tools necessary to engage students in the completion of that task. Review of Museum Operations

Children at the House Secrets exhibition explore the house bugs interactive

Cross Venue Initiatives

There were a number of significant cross-venue initiatives over the year, including:

• The signing of a memorandum of understanding with COASIT for an Italian language teacher to work across the three venues and develop and deliver Italian language programs for school audiences, professional development activities for teachers and online resources. The impact has been immediate. Between January and June 2004, 150 teachers have already attended professional development activities, while 1,835 students have visited the venues to undertake various Italian language programs. • The renewal of the Active Minds program, a partnership with the Onbass Foundation, that provides transport subsidies for disadvantaged government and Catholic primary schools visiting Melbourne Museum and Immigration Museum. • The formalisation of the City Centre program, a partnership with the City Centre, providing subsidised programs for disadvantaged students from government secondary schools visiting Melbourne Museum and Immigration Museum. • The inaugural appointment of an Indigenous student teacher cadetship for an Indigenous student enrolled in a teacher education course. The person is currently undertaking a one-year structured program that combines theories of learning in museums with hands-on involvement in educational and other public programs. Museums Board of Victoria Annual Report 2003/2004 61

Commercial Operations

By delivering a wide diversity of products and Retail Car Park Scienceworks services, Museum Victoria’s commercial activities Operating on two levels, the Museum Shop Car park usage business continues to grow by The commercial activities at Scienceworks contribute important financial resources, enabling offers a broad range of gifts, souvenirs, books offering secure, value-for-money city parking to include a retail shop, cafe and venue hire. All further development and enhancement of the and toys that are predominantly Australian precinct visitors and city workers. In its third year profits from these activities are used to further Museum’s world-class facilities. products. The mix of merchandise includes: the Park ‘n’ Ride scheme (an initiative partnership develop and enhance museum operations. authentic Indigenous art and artefacts (sourced with Yarra Trams) aims to ease traffic congestion Melbourne Museum whenever possible from communities in Victoria), in the Central Business District by encouraging Cafés & Catering The retail, venue hire, catering and functions, car Museum Victoria publications, children’s toys commuters to park on the city’s outskirts and White Card Corporate Catering continues to grow park and Royal Exhibition Building commercial and educational products, books for all ages and then use public transport into the city. its business at Scienceworks Museum through operations contribute significantly to the ongoing interests, and unique gifts and souvenirs relating understanding the demographics and demands operation of Melbourne Museum and Museum to Melbourne and Melbourne Museum permanent Immigration Museum of its visitors. This is reflected by a steady Victoria. The businesses also provide the public and touring exhibitions. Cafés & Catering increase in catering revenue during 2003/04. with services and experiences that enhance To coincide with Museum Victoria’s 150th Café operations capitalised on increased their visit to Melbourne Museum. White Card Corporate Catering has operated anniversary, a range of postcards and bookmarks visitation by maintaining a high level of customer the Museum’s Atrium café throughout the year. using images from the Treasures collections and service, incorporating an innovative menu design Cafés & Catering An exciting café renovation, relocating the café publication were developed. Also to commemorate and delivering exceptional food quality. operation from the Atrium into the Museum the 150th birthday, a unique mug and mouse mat The Melbourne Museum Café, operated by foyer, commenced in late June. Peter Rowland Catering, underwent a major were produced with artwork specially Functions & Venue Hire renovation this year, resulting in enhanced commissioned by Victorian artist Helen Leitch. Functions & Venue Hire Scienceworks Museum continues its popularity customer service and presentation. The Balcony The Melbourne Museum Retail Department as a venue with a difference, attracting a range Café, which overlooks the main foyer, has been The Immigration Museum provides venue hire for continues to develop original lines of merchandise of clientele from large corporations to local operating during weekends and holidays and corporate and private functions in the distinctive and souvenirs for Museum Victoria, with a design not-for-profit organisations. The number of continues to be a popular destination for indoor and outdoor areas of the heritage-listed focus on icons and objects within the Museum’s functions continued to increase this year with Melbourne Museum visitors. venue. Over the past year, functions held at collection such as Phar Lap, and the popular and 85 functions hosted and over 8,000 new visitors Immigration Museum included formal dinners, successful Bugs Alive! exhibition. attracted to the venue. As part of a strategic Functions & Venue Hire cocktail parties, interactive workshops and marketing initiative, Scienceworks continued to product launches. Private functions at the museum have continued IMAX nurture its relationship with key bodies within to be popular this year, with hirers taking the industry. During the course of the year, IMAX screened Retail advantage of the Melbourne Museum’s striking an impressive range of international film titles. architecture and exciting exhibits. Almost 550 Stocking predominantly Australian-made items, Retail This giant-screen entertainment venue, operated catered events were held in museum spaces the Immigration Museum Shop specialises in by MTM Funds Management Limited, enhances The gift shop offers a wide range of products including: corporate dinners, product launches unique merchandise that supports the permanent the experience of visitors to the precinct and that support the permanent and temporary and weddings. The venue has also proved popular and temporary exhibitions. A large range of books complements Melbourne Museum’s exhibitions exhibition programs at Scienceworks. The range with film crews from Australia and overseas. describing immigration experiences relevant to and educational programs. of stock includes toys, books, educational the Museum’s content are also available. products, gifts and souvenirs.

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Royal Exhibition Building

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Royal Exhibition Building at night

In 2003/04 efforts were focused on the promotion Museum and the City of Melbourne work and advancement of the nomination of the Royal together to implement additional World Heritage Exhibition Building and for World and National Heritage requirements, and to Heritage listing. This effort was rewarded at the ensure the co-ordinated management of the end of June 2004 in Suzhou, China, when the precinct. An updated Conservation Management World Heritage Committee voted to add the Plan for the Royal Exhibition Building and the Building and Gardens to the World Heritage List. Carlton Gardens was commenced in 2003/04. The Royal Exhibition Building became the first Capital works projects during 2003/04 on the building in Australia to be inscribed on the World Royal Exhibition Building included the installation Heritage List, and the first World Heritage place of a new lift in the north transept and the fit in Victoria. out of the theatrette and north-east tower. Also in 2004, the Royal Exhibition Building Commercial operations continued during and Carlton Gardens were placed on the 2003/04, with another successful Melbourne National Heritage List, as part of a new International Flower and Garden Show (MIFGS) system established under amendments to held in April. A new contract was signed for the Environmental Protection and Biodiversity MIFGS, committing the show to the Carlton Conservation Act 1999. Gardens for the next five years. Partnerships were consolidated with other Tours of the building are offered on a daily basis. agencies throughout the year, including the Department of Environment and Heritage, and the City of Melbourne. A Memorandum of Understanding was signed with the City of Melbourne, formalising a Joint Management Committee between the two organisations. Its role is to ensure that the Review of Museum Operations

Beyond our Museums

Regional and Community Outreach Spirit Country Museum Victoria Websites The Virtual Room 20 July – 8 December 2003, Japan www.vroom.org.au/ Regional and Community Outreach delivers Museum Victoria websites recorded 2.8 million programs to education and community groups Spirit Country celebrates the diverse and individual user sessions. This website was delivered prior to opening throughout metropolitan and regional Victoria. distinctive art of and their of the Virtual Room exhibit, assisting project Key websites developed and upgraded include: These provide access to Museum Victoria’s spiritual connection to the land. The Japan tour communication and promotion. The site won the collections, exhibitions and programs. In the was a key component of the Australia Japan Museums Australia Publication Design Awards Treasures past year, the program had contact with more Exhibition Program, organised by Melbourne 2004 in the Multimedia category (Level C). www.museum.vic.gov.au/treasures/ than 34,000 people, providing access to those Museum, Art Front Gallery in Japan and Asialink. Victorians who cannot visit the Museum for The venues included: the Museum of Natural This website promotes the Treasures exhibition Melbourne’s Golden Mile Heritage Trail such reasons as geographical distance, age and Science, Matsunoyama (as part of the Echigo and book. The site includes the Behind the Melbourne’s key heritage trail, the Golden incarceration. The program has two Museum Tsumari Triennial 20 July – 7 September); Hillside Scenes online game. Mile Trail, is now included in all tourist maps in a Van vehicles to present a selection of Forum, Dikanyama, Tokyo (1 – 10 October); and and literature. Over 1,250 people walk the trail collection and exhibition display material. The Kushiro City Museum, Hokkaido (18 October Bugs Alive! independently each month. A further 300 per museum is currently developing a range of – 8 December). www.museum.vic.gov.au/bugs/ month join a guided tour of the trail including regional hub partners from a variety of sectors The website was launched prior to the approximately 200 in school groups. such as education, health and libraries. Our Place: Indigenous Australia Now exhibition’s opening at Melbourne Museum, Opened June 2004, Athens Daily guided tours currently run from the assisting exhibition promotion and delivering Museum Victoria Touring Exhibitions Melbourne Visitor Centre at to The exhibition and associated publication reflects education materials for schools visiting Melbourne Museum and are proving increasingly Thookay Ngaweeyan: Young Voices of Victoria the diversity of Indigenous people across Melbourne Museum. popular with tourists and locals. Museum Victoria Ended March 2004 Australia, while highlighting the importance of also developed seven additional walking trails family, community and the land relationships that Phar Lap An exhibition of artwork by Koori children, which around Melbourne in collaboration with Federation have kept their cultures and sense of identity www.museum.vic.gov.au/pharlap/ ended its regional tour at Melbourne Museum, strong. The exhibition includes a documentary Square Management. operated between December and March. produced by Museum Victoria about Greek The Phar Lap website was redeveloped and migrant Alick Jackomos, a legendary figure in the this popular site won the Museums Australia Koori community. Produced in partnership with Publication Design Awards 2004 in the Website the Powerhouse Museum in Sydney, and hosted category (Level C). at the newly built touring wing of the Benaki Museum, Athens, Our Place: Indigenous Australia The Royal Exhibition Building now was a joint gift of the Victorian and New www.museum.vic.gov.au/reb/ South Wales Governments (representing Redevelopment of the existing Royal Exhibition Australia’s two Olympic cities) to the Athens Building website was conducted to support Cultural Olympiad. the World Heritage nomination process. Museums Board of Victoria Annual Report 2003/2004 65

Museum Outreach program presenter Raoul Jones in the classroom Milari garden eel pond with Customer Service Officer Bunjilaka, Melbourne Museum

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6,570 handfulls of fresh eel feed

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Research

Museum Victoria is responsible for maintaining interactive display, which will be launched in collections. The scholarship scheme was a collection in excess of 16 million items. The September 2004. The additional funding is established as part of Museum Victoria's collection is developed through research and for public events, website maintenance and 150th Anniversary program. acquisition, and accessed by scholars and annual updating of the interactive, which communities. Information on Museum Victoria’s highlights effective water-saving approaches Publications Highlights The chestnut racehorse is one of Australia’s most collection and research focus, including details by Melbourne residents. popular sporting champions and the subject of • Museum Victoria finalised a Publications of current research programs and projects, • Museum scientists ran a ‘DNA Laboratory’ legend, having won 37 of his 51 races between Strategy in March 2004. This strategy includes is available on Museum Victoria’s website. in the Science and Life Gallery at Melbourne 1928 and 1932, before an untimely death during a program for publishing monographs and Museum during the Summer Holiday Program an ill-fated venture to the United States. Today, During the year, Museum Victoria focused on the collections of articles on areas of research, in January 2004, providing visitors with an Phar Lap stands proudly in the Australia Gallery. implementation of key aspects of the Research particularly those outlined in the Museum opportunity to learn about ‘back-of-house’ The surrounding walls are cloaked in his Strategy, which was approved by the Research Strategy, along with non- carmine, black and white racing colours. It is research activity. Generous support for the Board in September 2001. Museum Victoria specialist publications. The first title in the a remarkable experience to visit Phar Lap and DNA Laboratory came from the Ian Potter constantly aims to expand its research capacity new publication program is the The Royal watch the different generations walk slowly by building on existing research partnerships Foundation, Amersham Biosciences, Australian around him, look up and speak in whispers, as Exhibition Building, Melbourne: A Guide. with key universities and research institutions. Geographic Society, Corbett Research and if paying homage in a sacred space. The people • The Museum published a commemorative Additionally, Museum Victoria aims to secure Deakin University. The initiative received a have made sure Phar Lap’s spirit endures. The book entitled Treasures of the Museum to further research grants and increase involvement 2004 Museums Industry Recognition Award people have made Phar Lap a treasure. mark the 150th Anniversary and promote the in graduate student education. for Best Project. institution’s extensive and diverse collection. • The 2004 Thomas Ramsay Science and The book was written, designed, illustrated Humanities Fellowship was awarded to Mr Research Highlights and produced in-house. John Kean, whose project ‘Victorian natural • In 2003/04, Museum Victoria researchers history illustration at the Museum’, includes a • The Memoirs of Museum Victoria Volume received funding support from a variety of study of an important collection of illustrations 60(2) was produced, featuring a series of sources including: the Australian Research of biological specimens commissioned by the scientific papers on marine and terrestrial Council; Australian Biological Resources Museum’s first Director, Professor Frederick invertebrates. Study; National Oceans Office; Department McCoy. • 104 papers, reports, books and theses were of the Environment and Heritage; Department produced, and 171 lectures and talks were of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry; Graduate and Postgraduate Student presented. Department of Infrastructure; Australian Academy of Sciences; Smart Water Fund; Supervision Highlights The Ian Potter Foundation; The Hermon Slade • Four honours and 30 postgraduate students Foundation; and the Global Biodiversity were supervised by Museum Victoria staff. Information Facility. • Museum Victoria has awarded three 1854 • Museum Victoria received funding for a further Student Scholarships, to encourage the Phar Lap portrait three years from the Smart Water Fund for involvement of graduate and postgraduate Treasures of the Museum ongoing support of the Water Smart House students in research on the Museum’s Museums Board of Victoria Annual Report 2003/2004 69

Visitors looking at display of Indigenous baskets Bunjilaka, Melbourne Museum

Research and Collections

Australian Society and Technology

Through the Australian Society and Technology • A Curator of Design was appointed as part Department, Museum Victoria conducts research of the Museum’s designed to inspire program, and develops collections that document Victoria’s with funding from the Victorian Government’s history in a national and international context, State of Design initiative. An extensive program to facilitate the community’s understanding of of design forums, events and family activities Greek shadow puppetry evolved from the the past and engagement with issues affecting was developed. This brought together design Turkish model, which dates back to at least the our future. educators, professional designers, students 16th century. Dimitris Katsoulis, a master of the and manufacturers, as well as participants genre, migrated to Melbourne in 1974, hoping Highlights from Italy, England and Sweden. to foster the tradition in Australia. The central • Two websites were completed. The new figure is the roguish Karaghiozis (main image), • Museum Victoria is developing a web project Phar Lap website features historical pages, and he and a variety of characters are involved to celebrate the 150th Anniversary of the in humorous moral tales that make satirical collections and multimedia, and has won Victorian Railways. The Tracks through Time observations about social and political life. a multimedia design award from Museums website will draw on the Museum’s rich Australia. The Customs House website is a new image collections, as well as images held feature of the Immigration Museum website, by the Public Record Office, and provide a outlining the history of the building and some valuable public and educational resource on of the extraordinary stories associated with the impact of the railways on Victoria’s history customs and migration history. and communities. The project, scheduled for completion in September 2004, has been • The Museum participated in the 15th Women supported by the Department of Infrastructure. on Farms Gathering held at Horsham in March 2004, which was attended by over 250 women • Curatorial staff provided content and direction from across Victoria. In partnership with the for development of the Melbourne Museum Gathering, the Museum developed two exhibitions, Etched on Bark, 1854: Kulin barks portable display units that present artefacts, from Northern Victoria and CSIRAC: presenting images and oral histories of past gatherings, the world’s only surviving intact first generation and can be transported to future gatherings. computer. Additionally, two new migration stories featured at the Immigration Museum as well as a Treasures display at each Museum campus.

Puppet representing Karagiozis from the traditional Greek shadow puppet theatre. Donated to the Museum by Dimitri Katsoulis Treasures of the Museum Museums Board of Victoria Annual Report 2003/2004 71

• A project to improve the documentation of the Australian Racing Museum, the saddle the Museum’s major collection of Australian was acquired with support from the National Medals was undertaken, drawing on the Cultural Heritage Account. A major acquisition expertise of a numismatics specialist and of documentary and photographic material a social historian. Over 2,200 medals were relating to agricultural equipment manufacturer photographed and given detailed numismatic H.V. McKay was obtained from AGCO Australia - Studying the weather of Antarctica has been and historical descriptions on the new EMu the McKay collection now spans from 1884 to an important scientific goal since the earliest collection database. the end of the 20th century. A cast-iron steam days of exploration, and one that could help cylinder and steam chest from a stationary ensure an expedition’s survival. This barometer • A review of the Printing Machinery and Type was used by Andrew Keith Jack on the western steam engine made by Langlands Bros & Co’s Collection was undertaken with advice from party of Shackleton’s 1914–17 Transcontinental Port Phillip Foundry, circa 1863, and used on printing industry specialists. The report will Expedition. Disaster struck this party when its enable detailed registration of significant Woods Point goldfields, was acquired with ship was driven from shore before adequate items, and the de-accession of duplicate the assistance of Heritage Victoria. As a result supplies could be landed. The expeditioners and less significant material. of the Victorian Government’s handgun buyback spent two winters on minimal supplies before scheme, 45 firearms were added to the collection; being rescued. • Curators undertook a wide range of research primarily 19th century pistols, many with high projects, many of which will lead to publication levels of workmanship and decoration. and exhibition. They include: Women in agriculture; Sustainable water practices; Photography in the late 19th and early 20th Advisory Committee centuries; the Royal Exhibition Building; • Professor Kate Darian-Smith, Director, Development of ; War The Australian Centre, University of Melbourne. and public memory; Glory boxes of immigrant • Professor Graeme Davison, School of women; History of telegraphy; Immigrant Historical Studies, Monash University. ships; History of computing in Victoria; Lives of women in Melbourne’s “Little Lon”; and • Professor Peter Thorne, Computer Science the . & Software Engineering, University of Melbourne. • Significant acquisitions included Phar Lap’s racing saddle, used by jockey Billy Elliott, • Dr David Turnbull, School of Humanities, including at his final win in the Agua Caliente Deakin University. Handicap, Mexico in 1933. Held under a joint arrangement between Museum Victoria and

Barometer used for the Australian Antarctic Expedition (c 1910) Treasures of the Museum Research and Collections

Indigenous Cultures

Museum Victoria works with Indigenous peoples • Fieldwork was undertaken on the Australian • Major acquisitions during the year included in Australia and the South Pacific to improve Research Council Linkage Grant project David Morrisey’s Lake Tyers collection of our understanding of Indigenous people and Anthropological and Aboriginal perspectives photographs and children’s works. The their cultures. on the Donald Thomson Collection: material department also finalised the acquisition culture, collecting and identity, and supported of the Gantner-Myer collection. The Aboriginal people of Central Australia Highlights by significant input from the collection • There continues to be a very high demand produced a variety of body ornaments for both management team. Research was also carried for external access to the collections and ceremonial and decorative purposes. Headbands, • The Museum Victoria touring exhibition out on the Officer collection (Solomon Islands) for copies of photographs. Scanning and armlets, aprons, pubic tassels, pendants, neckbands Thookay Ngaweeyan, which features and the Aboriginal registration of 3,500 images in the Donald and other ornaments were made from materials Aboriginal children’s art, ended its regional community organisations. Thomson Pintupi Collection was completed. such as human-hair string, feathers, animal bones tour at Melbourne Museum. and spinifex resin. In some cases, these ornaments • During 2003/04, the Roving Curator program Further work was also completed on were ‘sung’ to give them certain magical powers • Development of the exhibition Our Place: developed and managed the Twined Together Thomson’s map collection, and significant and were traded between neighbouring groups. Indigenous Australia Now, in conjunction Weaving Workshop; developed and ran an progress towards a full data enhancement with the Powerhouse Museum, Sydney. Aboriginal Jewellery Workshop; undertook of the manuscript collection was achieved. Indigenous Cultures staff also contributed discussions with the Koori Records Taskforce, • Loans from the Indigenous Cultures collection to the exhibitions Etched on Bark, 1854 at Public Records Office and Australian Archivist were processed at the request of the National Melbourne Museum, and Boorong Night Society regarding an Aboriginal community Art Gallery and the Art Gallery of New South Sky for the Planetarium (scheduled to open archive project; developed a portable display Wales. in November 2004). Other exhibitions in for south-western Victorian communities; and development include Twined Together, an barcoded Museum Victoria assets in use exhibition promoting contemporary fibrecraft at regional Aboriginal organisations. from northern Australia, and Colliding Worlds: • Donald Thomson in Arnhem Land was Episodes of first contact between the Pintupi published and launched in early 2004. A and Europeans: 1956–1984. draft reprint of The Aboriginal Photographs of Baldwin Spencer is currently being revised for publication in 2005. Preparations for the web publication of the Fiji Online project were finalised, and the site will be launched in the upcoming year.

Headband (1902) made from Kangaroo teeth embedded in a resin pendant with hair-string Treasures of the Museum Museums Board of Victoria Annual Report 2003/2004 73

Repatriation Research into the provenance of remains included in the Berry Collection was pursued With funding assistance from the Commonwealth by Museum Victoria staff in conjunction Department of Communications, Information with representatives from the University of Technology and the Arts (DoCITA), Museum Melbourne, under a funding arrangement with Victoria repatriated Aboriginal ancestral remains the University. Data recorded on some of the Bicornial baskets, made of split lawyer vine, come and associated grave goods from the State currently unprovenanced remains should enable from the rainforest and adjacent coastal areas of Collection to representatives of the Dja Dja the estimation of their provenance to at least north-eastern Queensland around Cairns. Both Wurrung, Framlingham, Gunditjmara, Kirrae a regional level, thereby assisting in their men and women made these baskets, and carried Wurrung (all Victoria) and Barkindji (NSW) food and personal belongings in them. The two- appropriate repatriation to the Aboriginal Aboriginal communities. Approval was also cornered base made the basket ideal to use as a community. obtained to repatriate ancestral remains to the trap and sieve when secured in a stream. They Ngarrindjeri community (SA) and to communities A collection of Aboriginal ancestral remains were traded from Cardwell north to Port Douglas and exchanged for bark blankets with people in the Pilbara and the Kimberly regions (WA), via has also been received from Freemasons from the Tully River area. Anthropologist Ursula the Western Australian Museum. Further archival Victoria, and negotiations are in progress to McConnell recorded an important story place obtain financial support for their management research of the State’s ancestral remains at Mission Bay that includes a representation collection was conducted in support of the and eventual repatriation. of a ‘lawyer cane dilly bag’. repatriation effort. Advisory Committee Supported by new agreements recently negotiated with the Strehlow Research Centre Museum Victoria continued to receive advice in Alice Springs, Museum Victoria has finalised through the following committees: arrangements for the repatriation of 105 secret- • Aboriginal Cultural Heritage Advisory sacred objects to a number of Central Australian Committee (ACHAC). Aboriginal communities. Eighty-five restricted objects have also been forwarded on loan • Pacific Islands Advisory Group. to the Western Australian Museum for future • Donald Thomson Collection Administration repatriation (nine of which have since Committee (in association with the University been repatriated). of Melbourne).

Painted Bi-cornial basket made from split lawyer vine, 1980s (Wragge Collection). From coastal regions of north-eastern Queensland Treasures of the Museum Research and Collections

Sciences

Museum Victoria aims to promote an • Staff continued to develop and improve the understanding of the natural sciences, the human OZCAM (Online Zoological Collections in mind and body, and science communication. Australian Museums) project with the addition of public access to this distributed database Highlights platform. The establishment of the OZCAM The Pig-footed Bandicoot was collected from website led to the successful application for north-western Victoria and first described in • Sciences staff provided content and played funding for the Global Biodiversity Information 1836 by Sir Thomas Mitchell. The Blandowski leading roles in the successful development at Facility (GBIF) to image capture the primary Expedition collected a specimen in 1857, Melbourne Museum of Bugs Alive!. Staff also types of Australian Vertebrate and Mollusca across the Murray River, in New South Wales. contributed to the display of Treasures at species. These images and their associated The bandicoot was noted by one member of Melbourne Museum, in particular with a range data are freely available through the OZCAM the expedition, Gerard Krefft, as becoming of type specimens named after Museum staff; scarce in areas where it grazed. It became website. Toys: Science at Play; and the Big Bang show extinct in this area in the 1860s but lasted • Significant funding was received from the at the Planetarium. until 1907 in Central Australia. It is believed Department of Environment and Heritage to that competition for grazing by introduced • Staff were involved with two major publications. data capture sections of the entomology stock hastened its extinction. Very little of In Geology of Victoria, Museum staff edited collection. This data will be used to assess the biology of this species was ever recorded. and contributed a number of chapters. This major conservation issues confronting Australia. publication is now the primary reference source • The successful ongoing monthly seminar for Victorian geology. An interactive guide to the series, the Melbourne Systematics Forum, identification of polychaete marine worms was continued with participants from Museum also produced on CD-ROM. Victoria, several Melbourne universities, • Upgrading of the X-ray Diffraction Laboratory Royal Botanic Gardens and the Department in Geosciences took place in December 2003, of Sustainability and Environment. with the purchase of a new diffractometer • High international interest continued in system equipped with state-of-the-art, southern marine wildlife and the specific computer-based analysis and identification research activities of Museum Victoria software. This equipment underpins research research staff and students. A number of programs based on the mineralogical film production networks visited Melbourne collections. and/or attended field research trips organised by marine staff, including: National Geographic Film and TV, Channel 5 ITV (UK), PBS (USA), Japan Underwater Films/NHK, and TBS Japan. Research staff also provided scientific advice for BBC productions. Pig-footed Bandicoot (Chearopus ecaudatus) collected by William Blandowski (c. 1857) Treasures of the Museum Museums Board of Victoria Annual Report 2003/2004 75

• National television networks also Advisory Committee demonstrated their interest in the marine • Associate Professor Janet McCalman, research group, with segments and specials Department of History & Philosophy of on ABC TV (From the Heart, series special Science, and, Centre for the Study of on the south coast and George Negus Tonight, Heath & Society, University of Melbourne. program segment on deep-sea life), Channel 7 The Commonwealth Serum Laboratories (CSL) (Coxy’s Big Break, a marine parks special) and • Professor John McKenzie, Faculty was founded in 1916 to provide life-saving products Channel 10 (Totally Wild, a children’s program). of Sciences, University of Melbourne. to a country isolated by war. The organisation is renowned for its work in the areas of penicillin, • Professor Fred Mendelsohn, Howard • Staff undertook fieldwork at locations antivenoms, hormones, vaccines and blood in Victoria, New South Wales and South Florey Institute, University of Melbourne. products. In 1994, CSL Ltd was listed on the Australia, as well as deep-sea sampling off • Dr Gareth Nelson, School of Botany, Australian Stock Exchange and has achieved western Tasmania. Overseas fieldwork was University of Melbourne. considerable success in the international market undertaken on Chatham Island, New Zealand, for bioproducts. The museum’s CSL collection and in Alaska, USA. covers the period from 1916 to 1984. The objects were originally collected by CSL staff • Science collections accessioned more than and volunteers for the CSL Museum, which 39,408 lots. Highlights of these include: over was once located at the CSL site at Parkville. 1,200 lots of deepwater specimens from the NORFANZ cruise to the eastern Tasman Sea; a 2.5 m great white shark from eastern Bass Strait; a 522 carat faceted citrine (yellow quartz) from Beechworth; a tooth of a multi- tuberculate mammal from the Cretaceous of South Gippsland (this was the first record of multi-tuberculates from the southern hemisphere); and an excellent selection of objects from the Commonwealth Serum Laboratories (CSL).

CSL collection, Tiger snake anti-venom, 1956 Treasures of the Museum Research and Collections

Collection Management

The Bornemissza Collection in Bugs Alive! Museums Board of Victoria Annual Report 2003/2004 77

The Museums Board of Victoria endorsed a The Collection Inventory System (CIS) was Production Collections Strategy and Action Plan. Some of implemented according to plan. The Australian • Design and production of the exhibitions Bugs the major projects to emerge from the Strategy, Society and Technology collection at Moreland Alive! at Melbourne Museum; the Muck Bunker such as the Collection Inventory System, the was completed, along with part of the same Stormwater Experience at Scienceworks; and EMu database transfer program, and web collection at Scienceworks, creating 10,900 new Treasures: Museum Victoria Celebrates 150 collection projects continue to be implemented inventory records. As well as providing accurate The Murray Spiny Crayfish (Euastacus armatus) years at all three museums. according to plan. Museum Victoria is currently location data in real-time, the implementation was drawn by Ludwig Becker and labelled planning to implement Collection Registration as of CIS also provides accurate figures for • Design and production commenced on Astacopsis serratus. The specimen drawn for the a major project from July 2004 through to 2014. unregistered and unidentified collection items. the Station Pier exhibition at the Immigration Prodromus is the largest known at 32 centimetres Museum. long. Although the species can still be found The Treasure House concept is being developed in the Murray River and its tributaries, it is no • Photography, design and publication of a as a major strategy to open the collections to Conservation longer ‘very common’ as McCoy reported, and commemorative book entitled Treasures of fishing has ensured that none this big remains the public and to address long-term collection Museum Victoria conserved the Victorian the Museum to mark the 150th Anniversary today. McCoy’s interest in the crayfish was perhaps storage needs. Various measures were Railways Union Eight Hour Day banner as a major and promote the institution’s extensive and stimulated by the ‘considerable quantity’ sent implemented in a concerted effort to increase project, with funding from the Department of diverse collection. to the Melbourne market. security for the collections. Infrastructure and the Bus, Rail and Tram Union, Victorian Branch. The banner was stabilised and • Design and photography for the special 150th Museum Victoria loaned sets of the 2001 Anniversary issue of the Museum Magazine. Federation Handbells to over 80 organisations consolidated for display purposes. • Image capture of the Museum Victoria’s major and individuals. Artworks from the Spirit Country collection collection of Australian medals, involving over were prepared for travel and exhibition in 4,000 images. Collection Information Systems Matsumoyama, Tokyo, and Kushiro, Japan. The exhibition Our Place: Indigenous Australia Now, • Preparators travelled to Nagle College, The EMu project continued to be implemented was prepared for display in Athens. Conservation Bairnsdale to mould and cast Aboriginal according to plan, with 12 collection databases, staff travelled to Japan and Greece to install and Grinding Grooves for the Gippsland/East including the Technology, Herpetology, Marine, demount the works. Gippsland Aboriginal Cooperative and and associated loan databases transferred from Aboriginal Affairs Victoria. old electronic systems into EMu. Seventy-five Major treatments and preparations were • A new centralised design unit was created in percent of the Museum’s disciplines now have undertaken for objects featuring in the Treasures our production studio and a Design Manager their main collection databases on EMu. The exhibition. These included the Melbourne recruited. Exhibition Fabrication was also Entomology, Image, Sound and Document stained glass window and CSIRAC for display established in the department. collections, as well as the exhibition collection, at Melbourne Museum, and the Symphonion, conservation and location databases, are due to currently displayed at Scienceworks. be transferred into EMu in the forthcoming year. The entire collection of natural science specimens located at the Moreland store was

treated by freezing as part of an integrated pest McCoys specimen, Murray Spiny Crayfish (Euastacus armatus) management program. Treasures of the Museum

Viewing Australian Polar Dinosaurs, The Virtual Room, a state-of-the-art multimedia display environment located in Melbourne Museum’s Science and Life Gallery

Corporate Activities

98,593 sets of 3D glasses have been worn

Corporate Activities

Corporate Services

The Corporate Services Division is responsible included in the new Museum Victoria Staff • Employee Hearing Tests were undertaken for the development, support and welfare of three Partnership Agreement. The Agreement in accordance with the Occupational Health of our essential resources: the people who work between staff, Museum Victoria and the and Safety (Noise) Regulations 2003. for Museum Victoria, the financial resources Community and Public Sector Union is all • Museum Victoria’s Contractor Safety necessary to get things done and the buildings, but finalised and will herald implementation Management Plan was applied across all plant and equipment entrusted to Museum of a new pay and classification structure campuses resulting in no lost time incidents. Victoria. It is also responsible for the management throughout Museum Victoria. • The Melbourne Museum Cooling Tower Risk of risk, of legal services, and the provision of A significant program of corporate training Management Plan was audited and approved a framework for good planning and reporting. and development commenced. The program in accordance with the Health (Legionella) focused on three areas: leadership and Regulations 2001. Human Resources Management management development; understanding • Museum Victoria in consultation with Hazcon Museum Victoria continued to implement organisation systems; and skills enhancement. Pty Ltd developed a Manual Handling Training a new model of organisation structure which The program attracted over 350 participants. Program in accordance with WorkSafe Victoria will enable greater collaboration and open guidelines. The employee training program communication across the organisation. Occupational Health and Safety was put into practice across all museums. A Leadership Team comprising twenty-six Museum Victoria continued to apply rigorous • Museum Victoria provided employee Department Heads and five Executives was standards in managing health and safety across operator training (plant & equipment) to established and appointments made to all all museums and facilities. Museum Victoria’s meet competency or licensing standards leadership positions. Following this, health and safety program is managed in in accordance with the Occupational Health Departmental reviews commenced and accordance with the Occupational Health and and Safety (Plant) Regulations 1995. realignments processes were developed Safety Act 1985, Regulations and the Board of • Hazards and safety risks identified across and implemented. This work is ongoing. Museum Victoria approved policy and Safety all campuses were treated or eliminated in The biennial Staff Survey was conducted and Management Plan. accordance Museum Victoria’s established provided an overwhelmingly positive response. procedure. Museum Victoria’s management of Occupational Areas for improvement included staff training Health and Safety included the following • Museum Victoria’s Occupational Health and and development, the application of merit, equity achievements: Safety Committee continued to meet regularly and fairness, the performance of senior leaders and provide advice and direction on safety and staff recognition. These were taken up by • Maintenance and testing programs were procedures and practice across all museums. the Staff Consultative Committee and relevant carried out in accordance with the Building organisation development initiatives Essential Services Act 1994. A process of hazard identification and risk control shall continue to be applied across • Emergency evacuation drills were undertaken all Museum Victoria museums. during the 2003/04 financial year. Museums Board of Victoria Annual Report 2003/2004 81

Immigration Museum facade at night

Finance and Administration The Strategic Facilities Management Plan is almost complete, with further detailed work The additional support from government to being done on options and costs throughout develop new exhibitions at Melbourne Museum the year. The Plan will look ahead at predicted and the Immigration Museum and to reduce facilities maintenance costs over 25 years and entry prices, achieved the desired result with will contain strategies for meeting Museum strong attendance numbers and revenue for Victoria’s facilities needs into the future. It will each campus. From an organisational be an important planning and management tool perspective, expenditure has been well and will be a dynamic document, with regular managed in accordance with forecast, and reviews and updates. directed towards the achievement of the objectives stated in the 2003/04 Business Plan. There are still a number of unresolved defects During the year, there was a major upgrade relating to the construction of Melbourne to the financial reporting system which has Museum. Rectification solutions are still being provided additional functionality and investigated by Major Projects Victoria for the reporting capability. two major outstanding defects, the concrete paving and the Plaza water leaks. Once Buildings and Facilities appropriate solutions have been determined, a strategy for rectification works will be A long-term storage strategy has been developed and implemented. determined and a proposal for a new collection store is being developed for submission in the Environmental management remains a priority, 2005/06 Budget cycle. The store would have with continuing investigations into methods expansion capacity for the next 25 years and of reducing energy consumption and accessing would incorporate public access, research green power. Water audits of all campuses have facilities and a Discovery Centre. Treasure House been commissioned. The audits will identify would offer an innovative solution to meet the the patterns of water consumption and public demand for access to the State’s hidden recommendations will be made for reducing collections. The project would combine a large- water use, including the capture and re-use scale publicly accessible storage facility with of rainwater. Two sites already have rainwater an existing museum. tanks installed. Museum Victoria is part of the Commonwealth Government’s ‘Greenhouse Challenge’. Energy and water efficiency and conservation initiatives across all museums resulted in the following outcomes: Corporate Activities

• Museum Victoria was given a ‘Green Light’ Compliance and Risk Management status by Sustainable Energy Authority Museum Victoria participated in the State Public Victoria for achieving its 15% mandatory Sector Site Risk Survey Program undertaken by energy reduction targets set by the the Victorian Managed Insurance Authority (VMIA). State Government in November 2001. • An over 9% overall reduction in water The VMIA program seeks to create an consumption through efficiency and organisational risk profile where life safety, conservation. property damage, public and other liabilities, environmental, security and operational risk • An over 5% reduction in electricity exposures are identified and risk mitigation consumption at Scienceworks and options are recommended. Moreland Store. • An over 4% reduction in electricity Museum Victoria works closely with the VMIA consumption and greenhouse emission in the development of an effective risk mitigation at Immigration Museum. program across all campuses which has resulted in Museum Victoria retaining its VMIA Gold Medal Rating for all campuses.

Museum Victoria also undertook a comprehensive corporate risk assessment with the assistance of Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu in May 2004. The corporate risk assessment process updated the 2003 risk register to reflect progress against its program of risk reduction, identified any new risks assessed the risk, developed a risk control plan and assigned management responsibility.

The Finance Audit and Risk Committee of the Board of Museum Victoria will hold a copy of the 2004 risk register and receive regularly updates against the corporate risk control program.

Scienceworks facade

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Marketing, Public Relations and Partnership Development

The Marketing and Public Relations teams strive • A concerted effort towards expanding the • Successful marketing campaigns were Partnership Development to positively manage Museum Victoria’s profile Museums’ coverage in community, ethnic and developed and delivered for the launch of the Museum Victoria is committed to developing with the media, general public and stakeholders. other language media significantly increased High Voltage Theatre, Bugs Alive!, Treasures, long-term corporate and philanthropic the Museums’ exposure. and Toys: Science at play. partnerships, which greatly contribute towards Public Relations the ongoing growth of Museum Victoria. Marketing Membership Public Relations successfully implemented Partners include corporate sponsors, communication strategies for Museum Victoria’s Museum Victoria undertakes strategic marketing The Museum Victoria membership program was philanthropic organisations and individuals, three museums. activities to maximise visitation and resources relaunched on 15 June to reflect the museum’s government funding bodies, media and suppliers. across each venue. reduced pricing structure. The relaunch has had The Museum Victoria Patrons Program is Highlights an immediate result, with a total membership designed for individuals and corporate entities Highlights at the end of the financial year of 7,568. • Independent analysis of Museum Victoria’s who want to belong to the Museum Victoria 2003/04 media coverage revealed the value • Museum Victoria won the following Victorian The Museum Victoria stakeholder and member community and contribute towards its future. to be $12,516,641. Of this, 95.5% involved Tourism awards: Aboriginal and Torres Straight publication, Museum, was dedicated to a 150th The Program consists of two subscription positive reporting, with a further 3% neutral Islanders (Melbourne Museum), Significant anniversary souvenir edition. programs: Museum Victoria Patrons and and 1.5% negative. Tourist Attraction (Scienceworks and Melbourne Museum Victoria Corporate Patrons. Planetarium), and Cultural Attraction • The launch of Bugs Alive! by John Landy, Market Research & Evaluation Museum Victoria has established a number of Governor of Victoria, generated both print (Immigration Museum). Understanding and satisfying our visitors partnership opportunities, including sponsorship and television coverage. • Media support for the financial year was valued continued to be the focus for the museum’s of galleries, exhibitions, collections and programs. at over $600 000, with support from Seven • Media launch highlights at the Immigration audience research program. Thirty-two audience Network, The Age, Prime Television, ABC Radio Museum included the launch of The Heart research and evaluation studies investigated Highlights included is Highland by Sir Rupert Hamer in one of and Network Ten. potential and existing audiences, exhibitions • The 150th Anniversary Cocktail party was held his last public appearances, and the highly • Melbourne Museum and the Immigration and programs. in January to officially launch this special year successful launch of Cooking Stories. Museum undertook Barriers and Drivers Major studies included: visitor profile tracking and to thank supporters for their contributions • The Victoria University High Voltage Theatre, research to determine new audience to identify changes resulting from the reduced in the past. Over 700 supporters of Museum officially opened by The Hon. John Brumby segmentation. As a result, Melbourne Museum entry initiative; a barrier and motivation study Victoria attended, including sponsors, patrons MP, was a media success for Scienceworks. launched a new positioning campaign Come at the Immigration Museum to inform potential and Government representatives. Media outlets that reported this event and See the Real Thing, and the Immigration audiences; and a proposed exhibition and • An exclusive tour of the collection store at included the Herald Sun, MX, Good Morning Museum launched Moving Stories. programs popularity sort. Moreland Annexe was also held for supporters Australia with Bert Newton, Channel Nine, • The designed to inspire program continued of Museum Victoria. Channel 10 and Totally Wild. with the aim of positioning Melbourne To facilitate a program of continuous • Museum Victoria hosted 200 international Museum as a centre for excellence in design. improvement, existing exhibitions were also A full list of Museum Victoria’s supporters, visiting journalists from countries including evaluated in relation to their interest and including Partners, Patrons and Ambassadors, Japan, the United Kingdom, Malaysia, France, relevance to our visitors. appears on page 98 of this report. United Arab Emirates, Egypt and China.

Corporate Activities

Information, Multimedia and Technology

Information Technology Services • Completion of an Information Technology Museum and the Immigration Discovery Centre • The Bugs Alive! website was launched prior Business Impact Analysis, which outlines at the Immigration Museum. The purpose of to the exhibition’s opening at Melbourne Over the past twelve months, a number of key risk areas and identifies prioritised the department is to position the organisation Museum, assisting exhibition promotion and efficiency improvements have occurred to enhancements. Key enhancements already to creatively deliver dynamic information to delivering education materials for schools ensure internal information technology costs been implemented include: upgrades to Museum visitors and online audiences. visiting Melbourne Museum. The BugCatcher are minimised, whilst maintaining or enhancing the security of the central computer room online learning game was developed - this existing services. Advances in technology and and the establishment of a secondary Website Development: is about classification and features the business processes have resulted in financial computer room for use in the event of Entomology collection. savings in the following areas: http://www.museum.vic.gov.au a serious disaster. • The Phar Lap website was redeveloped and The last financial year saw the Online Publishing • Wide Area Network (WAN) replacement – • The continuing conversion of disparate this popular site won the Museums Australia team implement Microsoft’s new .NET platform expensive redundancy and bandwidth has collection databases into the corporate Publication Design Awards 2004 in the for website and system development. This new been replaced by a lower cost, yet equally KE EMu collection management system. Website category (Level C). effective, managed Ethernet service, technology enables faster project development This project is due for completion in 2006. • Redevelopment of the existing Royal achieving savings of $300,000 per year. and deployment, as well as allowing significant • The establishment of a fee-paying support improvements in our delivery of interactive Exhibition Building website was conducted • Local Area Network (LAN) replacement – all service for institutions that choose to use and accessible websites. This technology was to support the World Heritage nomination network equipment has been replaced with the internally developed Museum Victoria used to develop the Bugs Alive! and Treasures process. This included adding information on equipment that significantly improves function Collection Inventory System (MVCIS). In June websites, and in the redeveloped Museum Wide the history of the buildings and gardens, and while achieving savings of $20,000 per year. 2004, MVCIS was installed at the Powerhouse Enquiries, E-News and Design competition publishing the nomination booklet and venue • Server consolidation – centralised servers Museum, Sydney. systems listed below. hire details. have been replaced and consolidated to • Improved integration of key Museum Victoria • The Virtual Room website was delivered prior Key websites developed and upgraded include: improve service levels, while reducing lease business systems. to opening of the exhibit, assisting project and maintenance costs by approximately • Implementation of a Storage Area Network • The Treasures website, which enhances communication and promotion. The site won $30,000 per year. (SAN) solution to provide corporate disk access to the Museum’s collections, promotes the Museums Australia Publication Design • Desktop computers – 80% of the old, capacity for the next four years. the150th Anniversary events, and promotes Awards 2004 in the Multimedia category ineffective Museum Victoria computers have the Treasures exhibition and book. This site (Level C). been replaced by new desktops that are Public Information Delivery includes the Behind the Scenes online game, • Delivery of online case studies for design considerably cheaper (due to falling desktop which provides an interactive experience students, including Top Design, Design hardware prices) and offer far greater As part of the Museum Victoria staff realignment, featuring Musuem objects and bar-code access Innovation and Design in Italy. performance. a new department, Public Information Delivery, to collection management information. • Development and delivery of online learning was created within the Information Multimedia materials for schools, supporting SOSE, Other achievements include: and Technology Division. This new department LOTE Italian, and Science curricula. • Completion of an Information Technology comprises: Online Publishing (responsible Strategic Plan in August 2003, which outlines for Web-based program delivery); Multimedia key objectives and initiatives for the next (responsible for Museum venue multimedia three years. development & delivery); and Information Centres, including InfoZone at Melbourne Museums Board of Victoria Annual Report 2003/2004 85

Melbourne Museum plaza lit for 150th anniversary celebrations

Corporate Activities

A number of infrastructure and system Multimedia • The numerous temporary and touring InfoZone: Melbourne Museum development projects were undertaken, including: exhibitions that appeared at Museum Victoria, The past twelve months have been busy for the This financial year approximately 50,900 people such as Design in Italy, Top Designs 2004 • Introduction of Microsoft’s new .NET Multimedia Unit, with extensive involvement in visited the InfoZone research centre. A team of and Outlawed have required considerable development platform. a number of high profile projects. These ranged 18 volunteers contributed 1,168 hours of work. involvement from the Multimedia Unit. from the development of exhibition multimedia • Upgrade of web-servers hardware and software. An active partnership has been developed with to stand-alone multimedia experiences. In all In addition to presenting great multimedia • The development and quarterly delivery of Charles Sturt University, which for the last three cases the multimedia unit has been an integral experiences for the visitor, the Multimedia Unit E-News, Museum Victoria’s online newsletter years, has featured InfoZone on its annual study part of the exhibition planning process from the has been continually improving and reviewing and a website subscription database with tour. Several librarian and University alumni beginning and have made use of cutting-edge the Museums’ systems and processes, including around 5,500 current subscriptions. groups have organised visits to InfoZone during technology to deliver high-quality experiences the replacement of two multimedia servers at the year. • Updating of the Museum-wide online public to the visitor. a saving of $100,000 per year. enquiries system. Program highlights for the year include: • As a groundbreaking new exhibit for the • Development of an online exhibition Information Centres Museum, The Virtual Room pushes the • Inside Stories program, showcasing staff competition and entrant database for Design boundaries of multimedia presentation by activities from behind the scenes. Featured in Italy. InfoZone and the Immigration Discovery Centre displaying 3D visualisation in the round. service the research and information needs of a staff members included: Gary Foley, Skeletons • Participation in the pilot Victorian Government • Federation Bells is an example of a stand-alone diverse range of visitors to Melbourne Museum in the Closet; Dermot Henry, Alien Rocks with website survey, including implementation exhibit, which has been enhanced by the use and the Immigration Museum. A realignment Impact; Penny Ikinger and Crispin Howarth, of website code and liaison with project of multimedia. The addition of a multimedia initiative for 2004 saw the Immigration Pacific Impressions; Wayne Gerdtz, It came consultants to improve data collection. PC and speakers gives the visitor a sample of Discovery Centre operations adopt the InfoZone from the Firehole; David Demant, In 90 years, • Copyright verification and data entry for over these unique musical instruments on the hour, public enquiries service and systems. All there’s bound to be a bit of fluff and Just 12,000 Bioinformatics multimedia files and every hour. enquiries received by the information centres because its Technology doesn’t mean it can’t subsequent transfer into EMu MMR. via telephone, email, in-person, fax and post are be warm and fuzzy; Liza Dale-Hallett, Making • Bugs Alive! is the Museum’s most now logged into a centralised web-based public Peace with the Past – Commemorating the Visitation figures for all Museum Victoria multimedia-intensive gallery experience enquiries database. The database, developed Coniston Massacre; Alan Henderson and websites: 2,841,694 and uses multimedia technology to present by the Online Publishing team, is used to track Nicole Kearney, Bugs Alive!; Lindy Allen and information in a way that engages young progress of an enquiry and to identify frequently Ron Vanderwal, Gulf, Gove and Garma; Crispin and old visitors alike. asked questions. This financial year, InfoZone Howarth, Collecting Artificial Curiosities; and • Max Muck’s Stormwater Experience, and the Immigration Discovery Centre logged Yolande Kerridge and David Jay, From Bog based in Scienceworks’ pumping station, 5,000 enquiries. Of these, 60% were completed Man to Saint Oliver Plunkett: exhibiting ‘the uses multimedia to set the scene as well by using information centre resources and 40% object’ around Europe. as presenting educational material in an were referred to Museum expert staff. • Adult Learners Week September 2003. entertaining manner. • Internet for Seniors sessions were held during Senior Citizens Week in March 2004

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• Military Memorabilia Day featuring the Military Program Highlights for the year include: Information Management The Library began an operations review to Historical Society of Australia and Lt Col Neil improve organisation service provision. A new • Sri Lankan Festival - 16 May 2004. Of the The information management realignment Armstrong AM was organised to celebrate Library Management System was purchased 1,302 visitors who visited the Immigration brought the functions of Records and the ANZAC Day in April 2004 and will be implemented in 2004/05. Museum, 500 visited the Immigration Research Library together into the new • Object Day with Conservation staff, held Discovery Centre, providing an overwhelming Information Management Department. Museum Victoria Archive on International Museums Day on 18 May response to the cultural-group-specific 2004, saw many personal collections brought information normally unavailable in the Records The completion of an archival project focusing to Melbourne Museum for free advice on mainstream media. on the records of the National Museum of restoration and caring for personal collections. Museum Victoria staff added both hard-copy • Ship Reunion Day - 30 May 2004. With a Victoria and Science Museum of Victoria (the and electronic documents to TRIM, the records presentation by shipping enthusiast, Rod predecessors of Museum Victoria) has resulted Immigration Discovery Centre management system. All staff members can Fraser, on the two clipper ships, the program in a total of 4,413 archival records being made access Museum Victoria records using a web- attracted 120 people who accessed ship lists available to staff via the TRIM Records This financial year, 28,741 people visited the based interface, via the Museum’s intranet. and information using the Management System. These records have Immigration Discovery Centre (IDC) to research At the end of the 2003/04 year, there were indexes online. proven to be an important source of information family and immigration history. 18,689 records in TRIM. for curatorial and collection management staff • Ship Reunion Day - 5 October 2003. Including Innovations in the Immigration Discovery Centre and external researchers. include: a presentation by curator Matthew Churchward Research Library on postwar liners; the program attracted over • The recruitment of four volunteers in the 200 people. The Research Library provides reference Immigration Discovery Centre added value materials and undertakes bibliographic searches • Internet workshops for Seniors Week Festival to service within the centre. for Museum Victoria staff. These are performed (14-21 March 2004) saw 25 people attend one when assisting the following: research and • The implementation of an enquiries system, hour workshops each day. professional development; the development that enabled all enquiries to be logged and and management of the collections; the planning monitored onto the InfoZone enquiries Partnerships with related organisations are and preparation of public programs; and the database. being developed by the Immigration Discovery Centre and include: The State Library of Victoria, development of education programs. The • An increase in security with the installation The Victorian Archives Centre, Geneological Research Library also provides access to the of computer terminal enclosures. Societies, The Department of Immigration and collection for external researchers and members • The installation of a photocopying system. Multicultural Affairs, and the Genelogical Society of the public, by appointment. of Victoria. These partnerships assist the IDC In the past year, the library added 1,315 new by providing informed answers and referrals books to the collection and accessioned 2,470 to public enquiries. new journals. Staff made 622 loans from the collection. Fifty-three staff members attended Library induction sessions. Forty-three external visitors used the Library for research purposes.

Volunteers in the Scienceworks machinery workshop

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48,999 hours were contributed by volunteers People in Museum Victoria

Left to Right Members of the Museums Board of Victoria Terry Garwood, Sheila O'Sullivan, Bob Weis, Prof Janet McCalman, Harold Mitchell, Dr Gael Jennings, Susan Heron and Peter Hiscock. Absent: Peter McMullin, Prof Daine Alcorn, The Hon

Harry Johns was a boxing and wrestling entrepreneur who toured the agricultural shows of Australia’s eastern states between the 1930s and 1960s. This vehicle reflects his lengthy involvement in the business. The cabin and chassis, from the International AR 160 Series, were purchased new by Johns around 1954; the rear section was grafted from his previous truck.

Harry John’s Boxing truck. International AR 160 series truck (c. 1953) restored to how it would have looked when the show ended in 1969 Treasures of the Museum

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Corporate Governance

The Museums Board of Victoria • To promote use of those collections for Deputy President Treasurer (Acting) scientific research Museum Victoria is governed by the Museums Mr Peter McMullin Ms Susan Heron Board of Victoria, a statutory body established • To promote the use of Museum Victoria’s LLB BCom (Melb) FAIM BEc Dip Appl Sc under the Museums Act 1983 (Vic). It consists resources for education in Victoria Appointed 2001 Appointed 2001 • To research, present and promote issues of a maximum of 11 members appointed for a Peter is a practising solicitor specialising in Susan is currently Interim Chief Executive, of public relevance and benefit three-year term (for a maximum of three terms) mediation, administrative and commercial law. Australian Institute of Management. Susan by the Governor-in-Council and subject to the • To act as a repository for specimens upon He is a former Deputy Lord Mayor of Melbourne, has extensive management experience across direction and control of the Victorian Minister which scientific studies have been made and is involved with a number of community diverse industry sectors, including medical, for the Arts. or which may have special cultural or organisations, holding the following positions: shipping, finance and higher education. She The Board is directly accountable to the historical significance Fellow of the Australian Institute of Management; is currently on a number of boards, including Government of Victoria through the Minister • To provide leadership to museums in Victoria Chairman of Melbourne International Comedy Deputy Chair of the Country Fire Authority. Festival Board; Council Member of Philanthropy for the Arts, and works closely with Arts Victoria • To advise the Victorian Minister for the Australia and Victoria University; Board Member to deliver policy objectives. Arts on matters relating to museums, and Professor Daine Alcorn of Melbourne Community Foundation, Turning co-ordination of museum services in Victoria. PhD, MSc, BSc (Hons) Role Point, Melbourne Convention and Visitors' Board, Appointed 2002 Victorian Employers' Chamber of Commerce Museums Board of Victoria Daine is currently a Professor of Anatomy The Museums Board of Victoria is responsible & Industry and Education Foundation; and Pro Vice-Chancellor (Science, Engineering for the good management of Museum Victoria President Commissioner, Local Government Best Value & Technology) at RMIT University. Daine has and has the following functions: Commission; Member, Victorian Casino and Mr Harold Mitchell AO a background in research and teaching and has Gaming Authority; and Member, Victorian • To control, manage, operate, promote, develop Appointed 2001 been published over 100 times specialising in Curriculum and Assessment Authority. Peter and maintain Museum Victoria the biomedical sciences, including embryology, Harold is the Chairman and CEO of Mitchell & was also awarded the Centenary Medal in 2003 • To control, manage, operate, promote, develop cell biology, and developmental biology. Daine Partners, Australia's largest independent media for service to the Centenary of Federation and maintain the Exhibition land as a place has extensive experience serving on Boards and consultancy, established in 1976. Mitchell & celebrations in Victoria. for the holding of public exhibitions and for the Partners was voted 'Media Agency of the Year committees and is currently a Member of the assembly, education, instruction, entertainment 2000'. His work in establishing the Harold Baker Medical Research Institute Board, and is or recreation of the public Mitchell Foundation, which supports the health the former Chair of the Research Fellowships • To develop and maintain the State collections and arts sectors, has earned him wide-ranging Committee and Member of the Research of natural sciences, Indigenous culture, social respect throughout the community. He is Committee of the National Health and Medical history and science and technology actively involved in a number of significant Research Council. • To exhibit material from those collections for community and arts organisations and holds the the purposes of education and entertainment following positions: Chairman, National Gallery of Australia; and Board Member of the Opera Australia Council. People in Museum Victoria

Mr Terry Garwood Dr Gael Jennings During 1994-1996 her activities included: President Sheila has extensive knowledge of and Diploma of Arts GradDipEd (Secondary) B.Sc (Hons.), Dip.Ed., Ph.D. of the ALP in Victoria; Chair of the Prime Minister’s experience in issues management in the public Appointed 1997 Appointed 2002 Centenary of Federation Advisory Committee; and community sectors. She has served as a and Chair of the Employment Services Regulatory member of many advisory bodies including the Terry is a member of the Yorta Yorta people Gael is a former research scientist with a PhD Authority. She is currently a member of the Administrative Review Council and the Ministerial and was Director of Aboriginal Affairs Victoria for in Immunology from the Walter and Eliza Hall following boards: Australian Children’s Television Advisory Council of the Arts. seven years, concluding at the end of 1996. He Institute and is a multi-award winning television Foundation and the Malthouse Playbox Theatre. has long been involved with Museum Victoria in current affairs presenter, radio host, science and She is also a Patron of many organisations, Mr Bob Weis the area of Indigenous communities and culture. medical journalist, author, speaker, media and including; The Living Museum of the West, the BA Now a Regional Director of the Department of documentary consultant and university lecturer. Women’s Circus and Positive Women; and she Appointed 1998 Human Services, he also serves as the Chair She has anchored the national TV current affairs is a Matron of the Women’s Electoral Lobby of the Museums Board’s Aboriginal Cultural Bob is the Director of Generation Films and has programme ‘Insight’ on SBS, ABC Radio Metro and Co-Convenor of EMILY’s List (Australia). Heritage Advisory Committee and is a member been producer and executive producer of feature programs, and made thousands of of Victoria’s Centenary of Federation Committee. films and television programs in Australia, Europe science/medical reports on national ABC TV for Professor Janet McCalman Terry has a keen interest in Aboriginal and the United States of America. Bob was News, ‘The 7.30 Report’ and ‘Quantum’. She has BA PhD FAHA community development issues, particularly Chairman of the Australian Film Institute and won 14 national and state journalism awards, Appointed 2000 with respect to cultural heritage and economic President of the Screen Producers Association and written the award-winning book Sick As – development. Terry has been involved with many Janet is Head of the Department of History of Australia, a Council member of the Australian Bloody Moments in the History of Medicine. Aboriginal community organisations and is a Life and Philosophy of Science and Professor in the Film, TV and Radio School, a Board member of Member of the Koorie Heritage Trust. Gael has held many honorary community and Centre for the Study of Health and Society at the Film Victoria and is currently Chairman of the corporate positions and is currently on the Board University of Melbourne. Published widely in Australian Art Orchestra. Mr Peter Hiscock AM of the Cancer Council Australia, the Old Treasury Australian and British social history, she has won FCPA FCIS Building and Gold Museum Board, and the North a number of literary and scholarly awards. She is Committees Appointed 1996 Carlton Primary School Council. chair of the Museum Victoria Research Committee. The Board has established a number of Peter was Director of Sovereign Hill at The Hon. Joan Kirner AM Ms Sheila O’Sullivan committees under the Museums Act 1983. Ballarat for 22 years. In that time he vigorously Appointed 2003 BA FPRIA promoted the cause of regional museums Finance Audit and Risk Committee: assists Appointed 2000 through the Museums Advisory Board of which Joan has been a community activist for 37 years. the Board in fulfilling its responsibilities with he was Chair. He is a former Chairman of the Joan became a Member of Parliament in 1982, A highly-regarded leader in communications and regard to financial reporting, audit activities, Victorian Tourism Commission and chaired the served as Minister for Conservation from 1985-88 public relations, with multiple awards from the accounting and reporting practices, and financial Immigration Museum through its building phase and was instrumental in establishing LandCare. Public Relations Institute of Australia (PRIA), and operational risk management as prescribed and its initial two years of operations. He currently In 1988 Joan moved to the Lower House and Sheila has a strong commitment to developing by the Museums Act 1983. chairs the Regional & Specialist Museums Advisory became Minister of Education, then Deputy excellence in the public relations profession. She Committee of Museum Victoria. An accountant Premier. Between August 1990-1992 she was is Chair of the RMIT Public Relations Advisory by profession, Peter spent 15 years in financial the first female Premier of Victoria and Minister Committee and Chair of the Public Relations and general management positions with for Women’s Affairs. After a short time as Leader Institute of Australia National Examination Board. Petersville Limited. of the Opposition, she left Parliament in 1994. Museums Board of Victoria Annual Report 2003/2004 93

Organisational Structure

Members: Technology and Information Committee: Ms Susan Heron (Chair) responsible for advising the Board on information Mr Bob Weis management, technology and multimedia Ms Sally Sinton utilisation throughout Museum Victoria. Professor Daine Alcorn Research Committee: responsible for advising Nominations, Remuneration and Governance the Board on strategic matters relating to Committee: responsible for advising the Board research and collection development, and on all staffing and governance matters. oversees the implementation of the Board's Research Strategy. Aboriginal Cultural Heritage Advisory Committee: responsible for advising the Board The Museums Board of Victoria is also on all matters relevant to Aboriginal cultural represented on the following Committees: heritage. The members of the Committee include Donald Thomson Collection Administration representatives of Aboriginal communities Committee: established to administer the legal throughout Victoria, as listed in the Aboriginal agreement between The University of Melbourne, and Torres Strait Islander Heritage Protection Mrs Dorita Thomson and Museum Victoria for Amendment Act 1987, Part 2(a). the placement on long-term loan of the Donald Regional and Specialist Museums Advisory Thomson Collection at Museum Victoria. Committee: responsible for advising the Museums Project Control Group: responsible Minister on matters relating to museums and the for planning and implementation of Museum co-ordination of museum services, to stimulate Victoria major projects. collaborative approaches and provide leadership to museums in Victoria.

Thomas Ramsay Science and Humanities Committee: responsible for the awarding of the Thomas Ramsay Science and Humanities Fellowship and conducting the Crosbie Morrison Memorial Lecture.

Immigration Museum Advisory Committee: responsible for providing advice to the Board on the ongoing programming and management of the Immigration Museum. The Committee provides advice on all matters relevant to the interpretation of the migration experience and issues of cultural diversity.

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Left to Right Museum Victoria's Executive Management Team Tim Hart, Patrick Greene, Robin Hirst, Gaye Hamilton and Joe Corponi

Vinyl car seats sticky with sweat and gritty with sand; tripping over guy ropes while weaving between camp sites; the hiss of the gas light; and the smell of fresh fish cooking on small stoves – memories of the great Aussie holiday. In 1957, Richard and Jean Hayes paid £183 for a modest cream-coloured caravan with a mint-green roof and black trim from Skyline Caravans in Caulfield, Melbourne.

Caravan (1957), plywood, Skyline Caravans Treasures of the Museum

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Executive Management Team

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

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Museum Victoria Supporters

Museum Victoria undertakes various corporate Bronze Partners Public Partners Research Supporters and philanthropic partnerships. These partnerships 774 ABC Arts Victoria Museum Victoria undertakes an extensive greatly contribute towards the ongoing growth research program with generous support from of Museum Victoria. Agility Australia Council for the Arts various funding organisations. Amersham Biosciences Australian Research Council Gold Partners The Jack Brockhoff Foundation City of Melbourne Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Commission The Age Catholic Education Office Commonwealth Government through Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, USA Channel Seven Melbourne The Danks Trust the National Cultural Heritage Account Alfred Wegener Institute, Germany Commonwealth Bank The Myer Foundation Community Support Fund The American Malacological Society Melbourne Water Peter Rowland Catering Department of Communication Arts Victoria Information Technology and the Arts The Sidney Myer Fund Sofitel Melbourne Australian Academy of Sciences Department of Education, Employment Tattersall’s Dame Elisabeth Murdoch AC DBE Australian Antarctic Division and Training The Grollo Family Mr Baillieu and Mrs Sarah Myer Australian Biological Resources Study Department of Innovation, Industry The Australian Racing Museum Western Region Waste Management Group The Onbass Foundation and Regional Development Australian Research Council Rugs Carpets By Design Environment Protection Authority Silver Partners Cooperative Research Centre for Freshwater Heritage Victoria Supporting Partners Ecology Ansell Limited State Government of Victoria CSL Ltd Bristol-Myers Squibb ACI University of Melbourne Deakin University Cadbury Schweppes AGL VicHealth for SmokeFree Department of Agriculture, Fisheries GlaxoSmithKline BP Oil Australia Limited Victoria Police and Forestry The Ian Potter Foundation Esso Australia Pty Ltd Department of Communication, Information The Helen MacPherson Smith Trust Mobil Oil Australia Pty Ltd Cultural Partners Technology and the Arts The Menzies Foundation The Harold Mitchell Foundation The Boite World Music Department of the Environment and Heritage Nestle Peters Ice Cream JC Decaux The Melbourne Early Music Festival Department of Infrastructure Network Ten Melbourne Port Corporation Melbourne International Arts Festival Geological Society of Victoria Telstra Mr Richard and Mrs Catherine Price Global Biodiversity Information Facility, Denmark Tooheys New The Russell and Mab Grimwade Miegunyah The Hermon Slade Foundation Fund Committee of the University of Melbourne Victoria University The Ian Potter Foundation SPI Powernet Linnean Society of New South Wales TXU The Malacological Society of London Museums Board of Victoria Annual Report 2003/2004 97

Melbourne Museum plaza lit up for 150th anniversary celebrations

National Geographic Society Natural Heritage Trust National Oceans Office Palaeontological Association, UK Plant Health Australia Royal Society of London, UK Smart Water Fund The University of Melbourne Victorian Folklife Association Public Fund Visions of Australia

Other Supporters

A number of other organisations have supported Museum Victoria during 2003/04.

Ed Bondarenko & Associates Gobotech Harry the Hirer Lightmoves Australia Olex Cables Resolution X Royal Australian Chemical Institute Telstra Universal Peace Charity Foundation Unique Electrical

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Museum Victoria Patrons and Museum Victoria Museum Victoria Patrons Mr George Kypraious Prof. Rod Home Corporate Patrons programs are designed for Anonymous (2) Mr Cesare Leonardi Mr Steve Howard those who wish to belong to the Museum Mr Peter McMullin Mr John Kendall AM Victoria community and contribute towards Mr Peter and Mrs Marlyn Bancroft its future. Mr Anthony Berger and Ms Marita Quinn Mr Ken Mahlab Dr Phillip Law AC AO CBE Mr John and Mrs Janet Calvert-Jones Ms Gabrielle Pizzi Prof. Daryl Le Grew Museum Victoria Corporate Patrons Ms Joyce Flowers Mr Richard Price Ms Jenny Love Foundation Gold Patrons Mr Geoff and Mrs Helen Handbury Ms Maria Prendergast Ms Tina McMeckan Ms Margaret Heffernan Mr Jack Scanlan Dr Ray Marginson AM Distinguished Vineyards Mrs Tina McMeckan Ms Lousje Skala Dr Angus Martin Langdon Ingredients Dame Elisabeth Murdoch AC DBE Mrs Doreen Stockdale Mr Graham Morris Interprint Digital Ms Patricia Quinn Mr Robert Wallace Mr Phillip Morrison Millmaine Entertainment Mr Ralph and Mrs Ruth Renard Mr Simon Westcott Prof. John Mulvaney AO Mitchell & Partners Ms Rosiland Russell Mrs Sarah Myer Honorary Appointments Peter Rowland Catering Ms Julie Skewes Prof. David Penington AC Honorary Life Fellows (33) Ms Ricci Swart Prof. Marian Quartly Gold Patrons Mr Ralph and Mrs Barbara Ward-Ambler Granted to those individuals of high academic Mrs Caroline Searby distinction or public standing, considered to have Arts Events Management Australasia Mrs Lyn Williams AM Mr Richard Searby made a significant contribution to the intellectual Mr Ian Sinclair Silver Patrons standing or other significant development Museum Victoria Ambassadors of Museum Victoria. The Hon. Haddon Storey QC Baci Prof. John Swan Museum Ambassadors are a dedicated group Prof. Margaret Cameron AM Freehills of people from diverse backgrounds who act Prof. James Warren Prof. John Coghlan AO Haycom Staging Pty Ltd as advocates for Museum Victoria. Ms Deanne Weir Mr Graham Cunningham Kevin O’Neill Florist Dr Barry Wilson Ambassadors Mrs Amanda Derham KPMG Mr Garry Woodard Ms Sally Browne Mr Bob Edwards AO Melbourne Magazine Ms Ita Buttrose AO Mr Jack Ellis Bronze Patrons Mrs Margot Capp Ms Phyllis Fry The Sarah & Baillieu Myer Family Foundation Mr Ray D’Cruz Ms Jill Gallagher Ms Helen Gee Prof. Jennifer Graves

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Curators Emeritus (8) Mr Ken Porter Assoc. Prof. Murray Littlejohn Research Associates (18)

Granted to those curators who retire after having Mr Gary Presland Mr William Loads Granted to scholars who undertake research given distinguished service to the Museum for Prof. Peter Thorne Prof. John Lovering work at Museum Victoria for a finite period, and a minimum of 10 years, and have made a Mr Charles McCubbin who require some official status in the building distinguished contribution in an appropriate Indigenous Cultures and some degree of administrative support. Dr James MacDonald curatorial or research field. Dr Anthony Birch Mrs Mary Lee MacDonald Australian Society and Technology Mrs J. Hope Black Dr David Dorward Mr John Neil Mr John Coventry Ms Debbie Anderson Mr Mark Dugay-Grist Dr Gareth Nelson Dr Thomas Darragh Ms Christine Deftereos Dr Louise Hamby Dr Tim New Ms Joan Dixon Dr Sara Wills Dr Colin Hope Mr Ken Norris Dr Chung-Cheng Lu Prof. Marcia Langton P. Mark O’Loughlin Indigenous Cultures Dr Arturs Neboiss Ms Joanne MacDonald Dr Robert Paddle Ms Penelope Edmonds Mr John Sharples Dr John Morton Dr Joyce Richardson Dr Brian Smith Sciences Dr Gaye Sculthorpe Dr Richard Schodde Dr Melanie Archer Honorary Associates (62) Dr Bronwen Scott Sciences Dr Christopher Burridge Mr John Seebeck Granted to those individuals who can be called Prof. Neil Archbold Mr Mark Dupal upon to provide specialist professional advice Mr David Staples Mr Ken Bell Dr Bryan Fry and assistance to the Board, management Assoc. Prof. Roy Swain Mr Philip Bock Mr Francis Crome or staff on an honorary basis. Prof. John Talent Ms Suzanne Boyd Mr David Pickering Ms Elizabeth Thompson Australian Society and Technology Mr Robert Burn Ms Rhyllis Plant Prof. Patricia Vickers-Rich Major Royston (Bill) Billett Dr Patricia Cook Dr Beverley van Praagh Mr Robert Warneke Dr Andrew Brown-May Dr Lawrence Cookson Ms Wendy Roberts Dr Jeanette Watson Mr Eddie Butler-Bowdon Dr John Douglas Dr Martin Tymms Mr H. Eric Wilkinson Dr Kate Darian-Smith Dr Andrew Drinnan Assoc. Prof. Michael Westerman Dr Alan Yen Dr Gwenda Davey AM Dr Ross Field Scienceworks (VUHVT) Prof. Graeme Davison Dr Dean Hewish Museology: IT and Multimedia Mr Edward Bondarenko Dr June Factor Dr Jean Just Prof. Gregory Egan Ms Sandra Charles Dr Geoffrey Holden Mr Rudie Kuiter Dr Gregor Kennedy Mr Euan McGillivray Dr Anthony Lee Prof. Akhtar Kalam

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Volunteers

Museum Victoria’s Volunteer Programs offer Scienceworks Immigration Museum a means by which the Victorian community At Scienceworks volunteers contributed 21,413 The Melbourne Museum Volunteer Program has can support their State Museum. hours. Apart from regular programs (such as recently expanded their program to incorporate Museum Victoria Volunteer Programs are tour guiding, explaining, activities, hosting school regularly-rostered volunteers at the Immigration accessible to people with a variety of skills, groups, Planetarium and Telescope attendants), Museum. In June 2004 regularly rostered experience and knowledge. The work of volunteers made significant contributions to a dedicated volunteers were recruited to assist volunteers enhances and augments the visitor number of special events including: Machines in the Information Discovery Centre. In addition experience and care of collections for all of in Action days, Model Solar Vehicle Challenge, to these volunteers, a dedicated longstanding Museum Victoria’s museums. Great Australian Science Show, Moomba, Flower administration volunteer who has completed & Garden Show and festivals at Immigration almost 700 hours has also become part of In 2003/04 a toatal of 425 volunteers contributed Museum. In addition, volunteers were trained the program. their time and skills to Museum Victoria. as Victoria University High Voltage Theatre The Immigration Museum also draws on attendants, Video Microscope attendants and to Melbourne Museum volunteers on an ad hoc basis from both the conduct Symphonion demonstrations. Volunteers Scienceworks and Melbourne Museum volunteer In 2003/04 volunteers contributed a total of provided collections and curatorial assistance, pools to assist with the delivery of Cultural 27,243 hours at Melbourne Museum, providing with a new Telecommunications team being Festivals. These great festivals represent the assistance in a range of areas and activities. recruited. Volunteers also assisted with richness and diversity of Victoria’s broader These include: tour guiding, collections and engineering & restoration projects. Volunteers community. In total, 343 hours were contributed research tasks, assisting with administration working with Sleepovers were also recognised by volunteers. and School Education groups, Gallery for their special team role with a Certificate of Explainers and supporting special events Appreciation under the Victorian 2003 Arts and performances. Portfolio Leadership Awards.

In addition to regular roles there have been a number of opportunities for volunteers to be involved in the Museums 150th Anniversary Celebrations. Some of these opportunities have included participation in the Moomba Parade, 150th Events, Bugs Alive! and Treasure Exhibition briefings; and volunteer tour guides have been delivering special ‘Treasure Highlights Tours’ for Museum visitors.

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Financial Statements

Museums Board of Victoria MUSEUMS BOARD OF VICTORIA

We certify that the attached financial statements for the Museums Board of Victoria have been prepared in accordance with Standing Direction 4.2 of the Financial Management Act 1994, applicable Financial Reporting Directions, Australian accounting standards and other mandatory professional reporting requirements.

We further state that, in our opinion, the information set out in the statement of financial performance, statement of financial position, statement of cash flows and notes to and forming part of the financial statements, presents fairly the financial transactions during the year ended 30 June 2004 and financial position of the Board as at 30 June 2004.

However, the Board believes that it should be noted that the revenue as stated in the Financial Statements includes revenue of the nature of specific purpose donations and grants which are brought to account when received and not matched with expenditure which may occur in subsequent financial periods.

Museum Victoria receives a substantial proportion of its revenue from Government. The revenue received does not fully fund depreciation, and accordingly Museum Victoria will inevitably show a deficit result for the year. This does not impact on Museum Victoria’s ability to operate as a going concern.

We are not aware of any circumstance which would render any particulars included in the financial statements to be misleading or in accurate.

Mr Harold Mitchell Ms Susan Heron PRESIDENT BOARD MEMBER

Dr J Patrick Greene Mr Joseph Corponi CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER CHIEF FINANCIAL OFFICER

DATED

Financial Statements

Statement of Financial Performance Statement of Financial Position

For the year ended 30 June 2004 As at 30 June 2004

Notes 2003/04 2002/03 Notes 2003/04 2002/03 $’000 $’000 $’000 $’000

Revenue From Ordinary Activities Current Assets Victorian Government Grants 2 73,312 66,886 Cash Assets 6,15.1 11,764 6,851 Fees & Charges 5,304 9,679 Receivables 7 2,247 1,881 Sales 1,982 2,752 Inventories 8 &1(c) 672 838 Grants 3 3,321 2,911 Total Current Assets 14,683 9,570

Other Income 4 2,756 3,296 Non-Current Assets Donations 274 291 Property, Plant & Equipment & Exhibitions 9(b),(c)& (d) 409,709 424,063 Rent 1,609 1,937 Collections 9(a) 228,791 228,682 88,558 87,752 Total Non-Current Assets 638,500 652,745 Expenses From Ordinary Activities Total Assets 653,183 662,315

Employee Benefits 1(f) 23,873 22,456 Current Liabilities Other Operating Expenses 5 26,417 24,262 Payables 10 3,215 898 Cost of Goods for Resale 713 957 Provisions 11(a) 2,241 2,051 Capital Charge 1(i) 30,885 32,337 Interest Bearing Liability 12(a) 60 Depreciation & Amortisation 9 20,655 19,905 Total Current Liabilities 5,462 2,949 102,543 99,917 Non-Current Liabilities Net Result For The Year 13(b) (13,985) (12,165) Provisions 11(b) 2,992 2,603 Net Increase in Asset Revaluation Reserve 13(c) 0 2,070 Interest Bearing Liability 12(b) 45 0 Total changes in equity other than those Total Non-Current Liabilities 3,037 2,603 resulting from transactions with Victorian State Government in its capacity as owner (13,985) (10,095) Total Liabilities 8,499 5,552 The above statement of financial performance should be read in conjunction with the accompanying notes. Net Assets 644,684 656,763

Equity Contributed Capital 13(a) 587,770 585,864 Accumulated Deficit 13(b) (42,310) (28,049) Reserves Trust Funds 13(c) 4,229 2,917 Externally Funded Special Projects 13(c) 2,795 3,831 Asset Revaluation Reserve 13(c) 92,200 92,200 Total Equity 644,684 656,763

The above statement of financial position should be read in conjunction with the accompanying notes.

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Statement Of Cash Flows

For the year ended 30 June 2004

Notes 2003/04 2002/03 Notes 2003/04 2002/03 $’000 $’000 $’000 $’000

Cash Flows from Operating Activities Cash Flows from Investing Activities Receipts Receipts Grants & Donations 3,595 3,202 Sale of Plant & Equipment 0 45 Interest 551 206 Payments Fees & Charges 5,269 9,706 Great Hall (408) (514) Sales – Commercial Operations 2,001 2,748 Scienceworks (110) 0 Other 3,332 4,072 Melbourne Museum Development (1,906) 0 Goods and Services Tax on Receipts 1,013 1,089 Property, Plant & Equipment (1,317) (827) Goods and Services Tax recovered from the ATO 1,498 1,242 Exhibitions (2,519) (405) Government Grants: recurrent 73,312 66,886 Collections (108) 0 Total Receipts 90,571 89,151 Net Cash (Outflow) from Investing Activities (6,368) (1,701)

Payments Cash Flows from Financing Activities Salaries & Associated Costs (22,854) (21,835) Receipts Operating Expenses (51,993) (55,863) Government Contributed Capital 13(a) 1,906 0 Building Repairs & Maintenance (2,942) (1,397) Payments Cost of Goods for Resale (557) (882) Finance Lease (2) 0 Goods and Services Tax on Expenditure (2,848) (2,431) Net Cash Inflow from Financing Activities 1,904 0

Total Payments (81,194) (82,408) Net Increase in Cash Held 4,913 5,042 Cash at the Beginning of the Financial Year 6,851 1,809 Net Cash Inflow from Operating Activities 15.2 9,377 6,743 Cash at the End of the Financial Year 15.1 11,764 6,851

The above statement of cash flows should be read in conjunction with accompanying notes.

Financial Statements

Notes to the Financial Statements

For the year ended 30 June 2004

1. Significant Accounting Policies A net revaluation decrement relating to a class of non- Depreciation (e) Revenue Recognition current assets is recognised as an expense – except that, (a) This general-purpose financial report has been prepared to the extent that a credit balance exists in the asset Depreciation is charged on non-current assets, other than Revenue from the sale of goods and services is recognised in accordance with the Financial Management Act 1994, revaluation reserve in respect of that same class of assets, land, at rates assessed to match the cost of these assets upon delivery of the goods and services to the customer. Australian Accounting Standards, Statement of Accounting against their estimated economical lives to the entity. the revaluation decrement is debited directly to the Interest revenue is recognised on the proportional basis Concepts and other authoritative pronouncements of the revaluation reserve. Depreciation is calculated on the straight-line method. No taking into account interest rates applicable to the financial Australian Accounting Standards Board, and Urgent Issues provision is made for the depreciation of the Collections or assets. Group Consensus Views. Revaluations are assessed annually and supplemented for the Library – rare books collection as they are heritage by independent valuations at least every three years. Grants from Government and other sources are brought The financial report has been prepared under the historical assets and are deemed to have an indefinite useful life. to account as revenue as and when received, with the cost convention and has not been adjusted to take account Collections Estimates of remaining useful lives to the entity are made exception of Government grants for the construction of of changing money values, or except where stated, the During the 2001-2002 financial year Museum Victoria on a regular basis for all assets, with annual reassessments the new Melbourne Museum and Immigration Museum current cost of specific assets or the impact of that cost on arranged for the revaluation of its collections using a for major items. The expected useful lives are as follows: building and fitout costs which have been treated as the operating result. The financial report has been prepared stratified valuation method. This project formed the basis contributed capital in line with Note 1 (h). Expenditure on an accrual and going concern basis. Buildings 20-100 years for the valuation of all the Museum collections. The from such grants is recognised when incurred. Plant and equipment 3-10 years Museum Victoria is economically dependent on the Victorian collections have been valued in accordance with the Specific donations, for exhibition development have State Government grant to assist in funding its operations. principles set out in the Australian Accounting Standard Library – general collection 3-5 years been treated in these financial statements as revenue. AASB 1041- Revaluation of Non-Current Assets. Exhibitions 3-5 years (b) Non-Current Assets The collection was valued utilising the fair value method Exhibitions with a life of one year or less are expensed (f) Employee Benefits of valuation. The effect of this valuation is disclosed Museum Victoria has progressively valued all its assets under immediately. Exhibitions with an anticipated life of more in note 9(a). Provision is made in respect of the Museum Victoria’s liability the provisions of Victorian Government Policy – Revaluation than one year are capitalised and depreciated over their remaining useful life. for annual leave and long service leave at balance date. of Non-Current Physical Assets – June 2002. Since the policy Museum Victoria intends revaluing its collections every was issued, Museum Victoria has completed revaluation of three years with any future acquisitions being valued Annual Leave its land, buildings and its collections. at cost until the next valuation. (c) Inventory Annual leave entitlements for employees are measured Property, Plant & Equipment Library Stocks have been valued at the lower of cost and net at nominal value and are determined after taking into realisable value. consideration the estimated future increase in wages Museum Victoria periodically values its property using During the 2002-2003 financial year Museum Victoria and salaries. Related on-costs are included. the services of independent valuers. Any costs incurred arranged for the revaluation of its library collections. The (d) Receivables between valuations are deemed to an increase in the valuation included an itemised valuation of individual items Long Service Leave fair value of the property and are recorded at cost. which exceeded a defined threshold value, an index taken Trade debtors are recognised at the amount receivable, A liability for long service leave is recognised, and from these items has been applied to the remaining rare as they are due for settlement no more than 30 days from Plant and equipment is valued at cost. is measured as the present value of expected future books collection. The general collection has been revalued the date of recognition. Collectibility of trade debtors is payments to be made in respect of services provided by A net revaluation increment relating to a class of non-current by reference to the acquisition records maintained by the reviewed on an ongoing basis. A provision for doubtful employees to 30 June 2004. Consideration is given, when assets is credited to an asset revaluation reserve except Museum since the 1997 valuation. The collections have debts is raised where some doubt as to collection exists. assessing expected future payments, to expected future that, to the extent that the increment reverses a revaluation been valued using the fair value method of valuation. A debt is written off when there appears no possibility wage and salary levels, experience of employee departures decrement previously recognised as an expense in respect of the account being collected. and period of service. of the same class of assets, it is recognised as revenue. The current liability proportion of the provision represents those employees who are anticipated to take long service leave within twelve months.

Long Service Leave is financed by the Department of Treasury and Finance.

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Notes to the Financial Statements

For the year ended 30 June 2004

(g) Rounding (k) Payables 2. Victorian Government Grants

All figures in the financial statements and notes thereto These amounts represent liabilities for goods and services The Museums Board of Victoria received have been rounded to the nearest $1,000. provided prior to the end of the financial year and which are the following grants from the Victorian Government unpaid. The amounts are unsecured and are usually paid 2003/04 2002/03 within 30 days following the month of recognition. (h) Treatment Of Capital Contribution $’000 $’000

Consistent with UIG Abstract 38 Contributions by Owners (l) Leased Assets Recurrent Grant to Wholly-owned Public Sector Entities appropriations for Applied to Operations 42,427 34,549 additions to net assets have been designated as contributed Operating lease payments are charged to the statement capital. Other transfers that are in the nature of contributions of Financial Performance in the periods in which they are Capital Charge 30,885 32,337 or distributions have also been designated as contributed incurred, as this represents the pattern of benefits derived 73,312 66,886 capital. from leased assets. Melbourne Museum Funding Finance leases are capitalised. A leased asset and liability Applied to Contributed Capital 1,906 0 (i) Capital Charge are established at the present value of minimum lease Total 75,218 66,886 In accordance with Government policy, a capital charge has payments. Lease payments are allocated between the been applied to distribute the centrally-funded annual cost principal component of the lease liability and the interest of capital. The rate charged for the 2003/04 financial year expense. The finance lease facility was ratified by Cabinet 3. Grants as part of the new Vic Fleet facility as is restricted to vehicle was 8 per cent. This charge represents the interest which Grants from other Agencies 2,671 1,980 Museum Victoria would have paid for the capital works acquisitions. Commonwealth Grants 468 687 portion of its grant. This charge has been recognised as revenue within the Government grant and disclosed (m) Events After Balance Date Other Grants 182 244 separately as an expense within the financial statements. Total 3,321 2,911 Museum Victoria is not aware of any material events after balance date which would effect these financial statements. (j) Other Financial Assets 4. Other Income Investments are held for the purpose of gaining income (n) Impact Of Adopting AASB Interest 625 222 “and are not normally sold before maturity. They are Equivalents To IASB Standards recorded in the Statement of Financial Position at cost. Miscellaneous Income 2,131 3,074 For interim and annual reporting periods ending on or No provision for diminution in value is made. Total 2,756 3,296 after 30 June 2004, AASB 1047 Disclosing the Impacts of Adopting Australian Equivalents to International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) requires an explanation of how the transition process is being managed and a narrative explanation of the key differences in accounting policies that are expected to arise from the adoption of Australian equivalents to IFRS. Refer to Note 21 for further details.

Financial Statements

Notes to the Financial Statements

For the year ended 30 June 2004

5. Other Operating Expenses 7. Receivables 2003/04 2002/03 2003/04 2002/03 $’000 $’000 $’000 $’000

Building and Equipment Maintenance 2,942 1,397 Debtors 2,732 1,977 Administration Less Provision for Doubtful Debts (659) (180) Consumables 12,615 10,422 2,073 1,797

Miscellaneous* 6,002 4,678 Accrued Revenue 174 84 Consultants** 14 96 Total Receivables 2,247 1,881 Audit Fees *** - External 38 40 - Internal 136 67 8. Inventories Bad/Doubtful Debts 515 160 2003/04 2002/03 Interest 10 $’000 $’000 Exhibitions Stock of Goods for Resale 915 925 Contractors & Display Costs 3,880 6,978 Less Provision for Stock Obsolescence (243) (87) Research and Collections Total 672 838 Collection Management 274 244 Accelerated Move 0 180 9. Non Current Assets Total 26,417 24,262 9(a) Collections *The majority of the expenses in this category fall into two areas: Corporate Charges and Advertising. **No Consultants were engaged or paid over $100 000 during the year. At Valuation *** Audit Fees payable to the Victorian Auditor- General’s Office relating to the audit for the year ended 30 June 2004 Indigenous Collections 77,100 77,100 were $38,530 ($39,800 2002/03). History & Technology Collections 20,900 20,900 Natural Science Collections 123,000 123,000 6. Cash Assets Library 7,682 7,682 At Cost 109 0 Cash Assets Total Collections 228,791 228,682 Cash 1,217 800 Negotiable Certificates of Deposit and Interest Bearing Deposits 10,547 6,051 Total 11,764 6,851

Museums Board of Victoria Annual Report 2003/2004 107

Notes to the Financial Statements

For the year ended 30 June 2004

9(b) Property 9(c) Plant, Equipment & Exhibitions 2003/04 2002/03 2003/04 2002/03 $’000 $’000 $’000 $’000

Property At Valuation (i) Plant & Equipment Land 97,090 97,090 Plant & Equipment at cost 60,824 59,723 Buildings Less accumulated depreciation (23,163) (16,116) Abbotsford Building 4,000 4,000 Total 37,661 43,607

Scienceworks Museum 15,724 15,724 Plant & Equipment under finance lease Royal Exhibition Building 23,000 23,000 Plant & Equipment under finance lease Immigration Museum 15,014 15,014 at cost 53 0 Moreland Store 5,500 5,500 Less accumulated amortisation (3) 0 IMAX 16,400 16,400 Total 50 0 Melbourne Museum 183,200 183,200 Total Plant & Equipment 37,711 43,607 359,928 359,928 At Cost Exhibitions Scienceworks Museum 110 0 Melbourne Museum at cost 46,323 44,875 Royal Exhibition Building 922 515 Less accumulated depreciation (32,011) (23,024) Melbourne Museum 1,906 0 Scienceworks Museum at cost 2,369 1,359 2,938 515 Less accumulated depreciation (1,145) (899) 362,866 360,443 Immigration Museum at cost 4,723 4,663 Less Accumulated Depreciation Less accumulated depreciation (4,663) (3,732) Abbotsford Building (400) (200) Total Exhibitions 15,596 23,242 Scienceworks Museum (786) (393) Total Property, Plant & Equipment, & Exhibitions 409,709 424,063 Royal Exhibition Building (465) (230) Immigration Museum (601) (300) Moreland Store (220) (110) IMAX (328) (164) Melbourne Museum (3664) (1,832) (6,464) (3,229)

Total Land and Building at Valuation net of Accumulated Depreciation 356,402 357,214

(i) Abbotsford, Scienceworks, Royal Exhibition Building, Moreland, Immigration Museum, IMAX & Melbourne Museum. The Australian Valuation Office undertook a valuation of Museum Victoria’s land and buildings at fair value in June 2002.

Financial Statements

Notes to the Financial Statements

For the year ended 30 June 2004

9(d) Property, Plant & Equipment Reconciliation 10. Payables Crown Freehold Buildings Plant & Exhibitions Total 2003/04 2002/03 land land Equipment $’000 $’000 $’000 $’000 $’000 $’000 $’000 $’000 Trade Creditors 1,864 335 2004 Other Creditors 799 450 Carrying amount Accrued Salaries 552 113 at start of year 91,005 6,085 260,123 43,607 23,243 424,063 Total Payables 3,215 898 Additions 0 0 2,424 1,369 2,518 6,311 Disposal 0 0 0 (10) 0 (10) 11. Provision For Employee Benefits Depreciation 0 0 (3,235) (7,255) (10,165) (20,655) Carrying amount 11(a) Current Liabilities at end of year 91,005 6,085 259,312 37,711 15,596 409,709 Employee Benefits 2003 Annual Leave 1,909 1,762 Carrying amount Long Service Leave 332 289 at start of year 91,005 6,085 262,838 49,502 32,801 442,231 Total 2,241 2,051 Additions 0 0 514 826 405 1,745 Disposal 0 0 0 (9) 0 (9) 11(b) Non-Current Liabilities

Depreciation 0 0 (3,229) (6,712) (9,963) (19,904) Employee Benefits Carrying amount Long Service Leave 2,992 2,603 at end of year 91,005 6,085 260,123 43,607 23,243 424,063 Total 2,992 2,603

Total (including on-costs) – Refer Note 1 (f) 5,233 4,654

Museums Board of Victoria Annual Report 2003/2004 109

Notes to the Financial Statements

For the year ended 30 June 2004

12. Interest Bearing Liabilities 13 (b) Accumulated Deficit 2003/04 2002/03 2003/04 2002/03 $’000 $’000 $’000 $’000

Balance at beginning of year (28,049) (14,013) 12(a) Current Deficit for the Year (13,985) (12,165) Secured Transfers Between Reserves Lease liabilities (Note 19) 6 0 Transfer (to) from Trust Funds (1,312) 81 Total 60 Transfer from (to) Externally Funded Special Projects 1,036 (1,952)

12(b) Non - current Balance at End of the Year (42,310) (28,049) Secured Lease liabilities (Note 19) 45 0 13 (c) Reserves Total 45 0 Trust Funds** Balance at beginning of the year 2,917 2,998 Total interest bearing liabilities 51 0 Transfer Between Reserves Lease liabilities are effectively secured as the rights to the leased assets revert to the lessor in the event of default Transfer from (to) Accumulated Deficit 1,312 (81) Balance at End of the Year 4,229 2,917 12(c) Assets pledged as security Externally Funded Special Projects*** The carrying amounts of non – current assets pledged as security are: Balance at beginning of year 3,831 1,879 Finance lease Transfer between Reserves Plant & equipment under finance lease Transfer (to) from Accumulated Deficit (1,036) 1,952 (Note 9(c)) 50 0 Balance at end of the year 2,795 3,831 Total non – current assets pledged as security 50 0 Asset Revaluation Reserve 13. Equity Balance at beginning of year 92,200 90,130 Add Increment 0 2,070 13 (a) Contributed Capital* Balance at end of the year 92,200 92,200 Balance at beginning of year 585,864 585,864 * ‘Contributed Capital’consists of capital funds provided by the Victorian Government for the building of the new Capital Receipts Melbourne Museum, Immigration Museum and Royal Exhibition Building. Ministerial approval has been received for the Victorian Government treatment of these amounts as Contributed Capital.

Melbourne Museum Development 1,906 0 ** ‘Trust Funds’ consist of those funds which may be used by the Museums Board of Victoria for Museum purposes Balance at End of the Year 587,770 585,864 defined by the relevant Trust deed or will.

*** ‘Externally Funded Special Projects’ consist of unexpended Government and other grants tied to a specific purpose.

Financial Statements

Notes to the Financial Statements

For the year ended 30 June 2004

14. Contingent Liabilities And Contingent Assets 16. Related Party Transactions

Building works have now been completed, however, additional costs may be charged to the Melbourne Museum project due to outstanding contractual disputes with the builder. At this time the quantity is undetermined. (a) The Minister, the Director & Board Members of the Museum Board of Victoria

The Melbourne Museum believes that there are no contingent assets. The Minister for the Museums Board of Victoria is 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 Harold Mitchell, Mr Peter McMullin, Ms Sheila O’Sullivan, Mr Terry Garwood, Mr Peter Hiscock AM, Dr Janet McCalman, Ms Tina McMeckan, Dr Gael 15. Notes To The Cash Flow Statement Jennings, Professor Daine Alcorn, Mr Bob Weiss, Ms Susan Heron and the Hon. Joan Kirner AM (appointed October 2003). The Chief Executive Officer of the Museum is Dr J Patrick Greene. There were no related party transactions 15.1 Reconciliation of Cash by the Minister, the Chief Executive Officer and Board Members. 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, as shown (b) There are no other related party transactions in the Statement of Cash Flows, is reconciled to the related items in the Statement of Financial Position as follows: 2003/04 2002/03 17. Responsible Persons Remuneration $’000 $’000 Cash 1,217 800 (a) Responsible Persons Other Financial Assets 10,547 6,051 Persons who hold positions of Responsible Persons in relation to the Board at any time during the reporting period are: Total (refer to Note 6) 11,764 6,851 Responsible Minister – Mary Delahunty MP Accountable Officer – Dr J Patrick Greene 15.2 Reconciliation of Operating Result to Net Cash Inflow from Operating activities Board Members – As disclosed in note 16 (a). Operating Deficit (13,985) (12,165) (b) Remuneration of Responsible Persons Add (Less) items classified as Investing/Financing activities (Profit) Loss on Sale of Non-current Assets 10 (36) Members of the Board act in an honorary capacity. The remuneration of the Accountable Officer, who is not a Member of the Board, is reported below. Add non cash items: Depreciation & Amortisation 20,655 19,905 (c) Executives Officers Remuneration Provisions 1,215 797 Income Band Total Remuneration Base Remuneration Net cash provided by operating activities before change in Assets and liabilities 7,895 8,501 2004 2003 2004 2003 No. No. No. No. Increase/(Decrease) in Creditors & Accruals 2,317 (641) $100 000 - $109,999 0 1 0 1 (Increase)/Decrease in Receivables (755) (1,003) $110,000 - $119,999 0 0 2 3 (Increase)/Decrease in Inventories 10 (121) $120,000 - $129,999 2 3 2 1 (Increase)/Decrease in Accrued Revenue (90) 7 $130,000 - $139,999 1 1 0 0 Net cash provided by operating activities 9,377 6,743 $140,000 - $149,999 1 2 0 1 $150,000 - $159,999 0 1 0 0 $180,000 - $189,999 1 0 1 0 Total Numbers 5 8 5 6

Total amount $716,000 $1,065,000 $667,000 $855,000

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Notes to the Financial Statements

For the year ended 30 June 2004

18. Superannuation 20. Financial Instruments

Museum Victoria has, in its staffing profile, a number of employees who are members of the following public sector superannuation schemes: (a) Credit Risk Exposures The credit risk on financial assets which have been recognised on the Statement of Financial Position, is generally (a) State Superannuation Fund (Revised Scheme & New) the carrying amount, net of any provisions for doubtful debts.

Employer contributions paid to the above Schemes were $638,268 (2002/03 $614,385). Contributions outstanding at 30 June 2004 were $Nil. The contributions rate for the above Schemes is not available to Museum Victoria. (b) Interest Rate Risk Exposure Museum Victoria’s exposure to interest rate risk and the effective weighted average interest rate for each class (b) State Superannuation Fund (VicSuper Scheme) of financial assets and liabilities is set out below.

Employer contributions paid to the above Scheme were $1,268,298 (2002/03 $1,175,334). Contributions outstanding at Exposures arise predominantly from assets and liabilities bearing variable interest rates as the economic entity intends 30 June 2004 were $Nil. This represented a contribution rate of 9% of normal salary. Employee contributions were $Nil. to hold fixed rate assets and liabilities to maturity.

Museum Victoria is required to recognise all superannuation payments as expenses in its operating statement. Fixed interest maturing in: The Department of Treasury and Finance shall recognise the aggregate unfunded superannuation liability relating to 2004 Floating 1 year Over 1 More Non- Total employing entities in its financial statements of 30 June 2004 as the Victorian Government has assumed responsibility Interest or to 5 than 5 interest for this liability. rate less years years bearing Notes $’000 $’000 $’000 $’000 $’000 $’000 19. Leasing Commitments Financial Assets 2003/04 2002/03 Cash and deposits 6 1,173 0 0 0 44 1,217 $’000 $’000 Receivables 7 121 0 0 0 2,126 2,247 Operating Leases Investments 6 5,547 5,000 0 0 0 10,547 Non-Cancellable Operating Leases contracted for 6,841 5,000 0 0 2,170 14,011 but not capitalised in the accounts Weighted average Payable: interest rate 5.27% 5.44% 0% 0% not longer than 1 year 624 1,110 Financial liabilities longer than 1 year but not longer than 5 years 1,011 612 Trade and other creditors 0 0 0 0 3,215 3,215 Total 1,635 1,722 Finance lease 0 6 45 0 0 51 Finance Leases 0 6 45 0 3,215 3,266 Commitments in relation to finance leases are payable as follows: Weighted average within 1 year 90interest rate 0% 6.50% 6.50% 0% longer than 1 year but not longer than 5 years 49 0 Net Financial Minimum lease payments 58 0 Assets (Liabilities) 6,841 4,994 (45) 0 (1,045) 10,745 Less future finance charges 7 0 Recognised as a liability 51 0 Representing lease liabilities: Current (Note 12) 60 Non–Current (Note 12) 45 0 Total 50 0

Financial Statements

Notes to the Financial Statements

For the year ended 30 June 2004

Fixed interest maturing in: (c) Net Fair Value Museum Victoria has taken the following steps in managing 2003 Floating 1 year Over 1 More Non- Total of Financial Assets and Liabilities the transition to Australian equivalents to IFRS: Interest or to 5 than 5 interest • established a steering committee for the oversight of rate less years years bearing On–balance sheet the transition to and implementation of the Australian Notes $’000 $’000 $’000 $’000 $’000 $’000 The net fair value of cash and cash equivalents and non- equivalents to IFRS; Financial Assets interest bearing monetary financial assets and financial • commenced a review of Museum Victoria’s current Cash and deposits 6 800 0 0 0 0 800 liabilities of Museum Victoria approximates their carrying value. accounting policies and the proposed new standards Receivables 7 47 0 0 0 1,834 1,881 to identify key issues and the likely impacts resulting Investments 6 5,298 753 0 0 0 6,051 The net fair value of other monetary financial assets is from the adoption of Australian equivalents to IFRS; based upon market prices where a market exists or by 6,145 753 0 0 1,834 8,732 discounting the expected future cash flows by the current • commenced an education and training process for Weighted average interest rates for assets with similar risk profiles. In the all stakeholders to raise awareness of the changes interest rate 4.54% 4.84% 0% 0% 2003-04 financial year Museum Victoria did not have any in reporting requirements and the processes to be financial assets in this class. undertaken; and Financial Liabilities • commenced a review of Museum Victoria user systems Trade and other creditors 0 0 0 0 898 898 21. Impact Of Adopting AASB Equivalents and processes to meet new requirements. 0 0 0 0 898 898 To IASB Standards Museum Victoria has identified a number of changes to the Weighted average For reporting periods beginning on or after 1 January 2005, existing accounting policies that may have a material impact interest rate 0% 0% 0% 0% all Australian reporting entities are required to adopt the on the future financial position and performance following financial reporting requirements of the Australian equivalents the adoption of the requirements of Australian equivalents Net Financial to International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS). to IFRS (the new standards). These include: Assets (Liabilities) 6,145 753 0 0 936 7,834 This requirement also extends to any comparative financial information included within the report. The first day of the Reconciliation of Net Financial Assets to Net Assets comparative period, 1 July 2004, effectively becomes the 2003/04 2002/03 transition date for Museum Victoria. Any adjustments $’000 $’000 arising from changes in the recognition or measurement of assets and liabilities at the transition date arising from Net Financial Assets as above 10,745 7,834 the adoption of IFRS will be made against accumulated Non-Financial Assets and Liabilities: funds at the transition date. Inventories 672 838 Property, Plant & Equipment 409,709 424,063 Collections 228,791 228,682 Provisions (5,233) (4,654) Net Assets per Statement of Financial Position 644,684 656,763

Museums Board of Victoria Annual Report 2003/2004 113

Notes to the Financial Statements

For the year ended 30 June 2004

• Valuation of assets • Finance Leases

In accordance with the Victorian Government Policy – Existing Australian accounting standards require a lessee Revaluation of Non-Current Physical Assets, Museum of a finance lease to recognise a lease asset and a lease Victoria currently measures its non-current physical liability equal to the present value of minimum lease assets, other than plant, equipment and vehicles, at fair payments at the beginning of the lease term. Under the value subsequent to initial recognition. Plant, equipment new standard on leases, the asset and liability recognised and vehicles are measured on a cost basis. Revaluations would be equal to the lower of the present value of are assessed annually and supplemented by independent minimum lease payments and fair value of the leased assessments at least every three years. The new asset. This may result in a write down of Museum Victoria’s standard continues to offer a choice for measuring each lease assets and liabilities at the date of transition if the class of non-current physical assets either at cost or at present value of minimum lease payments exceeds the fair fair value. However, non-current assets measured at fair value of the leased asset with the resulting adjustment value will only be required to be revalued at least every made against accumulated funds. In addition, the guidance three to five years and all assets in a class must be on whether a lease is a finance or operating lease is less revalued at the same time. The Victorian government has prescriptive and there is a greater emphasis on the not yet concluded whether it will make any changes to the substance of the transaction when making a judgement. valuation basis of any class of asset or the methodology In addition, a number of other changes in requirements or frequency at which revaluations are performed. The have been identified which are expected to lead to changes financial effects of any such changes are unknown. in methodology or processes, increased disclosures and possibly changes in measurement of assets or liabilities. • Impairment of assets The changes are not expected to have a material impact. Under the new standards, an asset will be required to be assessed for impairment each year. If indicators of impairment exist, the carrying value of an asset will need to be assessed to ensure that the carrying value does not exceed its recoverable amount, which is the higher of its value-in-use and fair value less costs to sell. For Museum Victoria, value-in-use of an asset is its depreciated replacement cost. Other than inventories, financial assets and assets arising from construction contracts, impairment testing will apply to all assets regardless of whether they are measured on a cost or fair value basis. Where the carrying value of an asset exceeds its recoverable amount, the difference will be written-off as an impairment loss to the statement of financial performance except to the extent that the write- down can be debited to an asset revaluation reserve amount applicable to that class of asset. Any impairment losses at transition date will be adjusted against the accumulated funds.

Financial Statements

Auditor-General’s Report

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Financial Review of Operations and Financial Condition

Five year financial summary

2003/04 2002/03 2001/02 2000/01 1999/00 $’000 $’000 $’000 $’000 $’000 Revenue 88,558 87,752 81,219 76,093 75,635 Expenditure 102,543 99,917 93,835 89,360 69,293 (Deficit)/Surplus (13,985) (12,165) (12,616) (13,267) 6,342 Assets 653,183 662,315 672,489 594,956 599,039 Liabilities 8,499 5,552 5,631 5,332 5,444 Equity 644,684 656,763 666,858 589,624 593,595

The Museums Board of Victoria significant changes in its financial position throughout the year are as follows:

Museum Victoria

Museum Victoria received additional contributions from the Victorian Government of $8.7 million which will put Museum Victoria on a sustainable footing and assist with broadening access for all three museums. A key component of this contribution was to enable Museum Victoria to lower adult admission prices and remove all other admission prices.

New Capital Funding Initiatives

Museum Victoria received contributions of $2.6 million from the Victorian Government to assist with the redevelopment and renewal of exhibitions at Melbourne Museum and the Immigration Museum to ensure that the two museums remain vibrant and relevant and to facilitate greater return visitation.

Financial Statements

Disclosure Index

The Annual Report of Museum Victoria is prepared in accordance with all relevant Victorian legislation. This index Financial and other information has been prepared to facilitate identification of the Museum’s compliance with statutory disclosure requirements. FRD 22 Statement of workforce data and merit and equity 126 Legislation Requirement Page reference FRD 22 Summary of the financial results for the year 115 FRD 22 Significant chances in financial position during the year 101 Ministerial Directions FRD 22 Operational and budgetary objectives and performance against 13, 24-33, Report of Operations objectives 36-77 FRD 22 Major changes or factors affecting performance 6-9, 24-33 Charter and Purpose FRD 22 Subsequent events 105 FRD 22 Manner of establishment of the relevant Ministers 4, 91-93 FRD 22 Application and operation of Freedom of Information Act 1982 125-6 FRD 22 Objectives, functions, powers and duties 4-5, 24-33, 91 FRD 22 Compliance with building and maintenance provisions of Building Act 1993 127 FRD 22 Nature and range of services provided 4, 91 FRD 22 Statement on National Competition Policy 126 FRD 22 Application and operation of the Whistleblowers Protection Act 2001 127-131 Management and structure FRD 22 Details of consultancies over $100,000 126 FRD 22 Organisational structure 93 FRD 22 Details of consultancies under $100,000 126 FRD 12 Disclosure of major contracts 127 FRD 22 Statement of availability of other information 126 FRD 22 Occupational health and safety 80 FRD 15 Executive officer disclosures 111 FRD 10 Disclosure index 116-117 FRD 24 Reporting of office-based environmental impacts N/A FRD 8 Budget portfolio outcomes 24-33

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Financial Statements Legislation

Financial statements required under Part 7 of the FMA Freedom of Information Act 1982 125-6

SD 4.2(c) Compliance with Australian accounting standards Building Act 1983 127 and other authoritative pronouncements 104 Whistleblowers Protection Act 2001 127-131 SD 4.2(c) Compliance with Ministerial Directions 91 Information Privacy Act 2000 126 SD 4.2(d) Rounding of amounts 105 SD 4.2(c) Accountable officer’s declaration 101 SD 4.2(b) Statement of financial performance 102 SD 4.2(b) Statement of financial position 102 SD 4.2(b) Statement of cash flows during the year 103

Other disclosures in notes to the financial statements

FRD 9 Departmental disclosure of administered assets and liabilities 106-109 FRD 11 Disclosure of ex-gratia payments N/A FRD 13 Disclosure of parliamentary appropriations 105 FRD 21 Responsible person and executive officer disclosures 111 FRD 23 Superannuation liabilities and disclosure 111

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Research Grants Marchant, Richard. Analysis of aquatic insect Veis, Nurin. Cataloguing and storage of the Holloway, David. Trilobites of the Family Cohn, Helen: PhD, University of Melbourne. biodiversity in Victorian streams. Cooperative Commonwealth Serum Laboratories collection. Scutelluidae from the Silurian of central Supervisors: Thomas Darragh, Rod Home. Externally Funded Projects: Research Centre for Freshwater Ecology. CSL Ltd. western New South Wales. Two grants from: Project: Novelty to rarity: a history of the Palaeontological Association (UK); and Royal National Herbarium of Victoria. The following projects received external Melville, Jane. A molecular phylogenetic study Walker, Ken. Pest and disease library project. Society of London. These grants are funding and were underway during the year: of the evolution of ecological specialisation in Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Consoli, Christopher: PhD, Monash University. administered by Keele University, UK. Birch, William. Geology and mineralogy of Amphibolurinae agamid lizards. Discovery Forestry. Supervisors: Thomas Rich, Jeffrey Stilwell, Project. Australian Research Council. Norman, Janette. Molecular evolution Patricia Vickers-Rich. Project: Late Cretaceous Victoria project. Geological Society of Victoria. Walker, Ken. Pest and disease image library of colubrid snake venom toxins. Australian environments and biotas of the Chatham Melville, Jane. 2004 Award for Research on training. Plant Health Australia. Churchward, Matthew. 150 years of Victorian Research Council Discovery Project. This Islands: Old fragments of the Gondwana the Conservation of Endangered Australian Railways project grant: Sandridge Railway Line. Walker, Ken. Databasing of Australian carabid grant is administered by The University supercontinent. Vertebrate Species: Conservation genetics and Department of Infrastructure. beetles. Department of the Environment of Melbourne. ecology of Victoria’s earless dragons. Australian Deftereos, Christine: PhD, University of and Heritage. Churchward, Matthew. 150 years of Victorian Academy of Sciences. Norman, Janette. Genetic assessment Melbourne. Supervisors: Richard Gillespie, Railways project grant: Tracks Through Time Walker, Ken. Databasing of entomology type of breeding structure and dispersal in the Kate Darian-Smith. Project: Australian Norman, Mark. Databasing of Australian land website. Department of Infrastructure. collection. Department of the Environment Powerful Owl. Deakin University Collaborative Children’s Folklore Collection. snails. Department of the Environment and and Heritage. Research Grants Scheme. This grant is Dale-Hallett, Liza. Water Smart Lifestyles in and Heritage. Dolman, Gaynor: PhD, University of Queensland. administered by Deakin University. around Melbourne project. Smart Water Fund. Watson, Jeanette. Hydroids of the British, Supervisors: Jeremy Austin, Sandie Degnan, Poore, Gary. Travel grant to attend the Census Australian and New Zealand Antarctic Research Rich, Thomas. Origin and early history Craig Moritz. Project: Speciation in Carlia skinks Finn, Julian. Australia’s Argonauts: of Marine Life workshop on deep sea diversity, Expeditions (BANZARE), 1916-1931. Australian of Australian mammals and birds. National from the wet tropics. taxonomy, biology and a revision of the Family Coos Bay, Oregon, USA, August 2003. Alfred P. Antarctic Division. Geographic Society Expeditions Council. This Argonautidae. Four grants from: The American Sloan Foundation, USA. Finn, Julian: PhD, La Trobe University. grant is administered by Monash University. Malacological Society; The Hermon Slade Wilson, Robin. Australian Nereididae Supervisors: Mark Norman, Simon Poore, Gary. Travel grant to attend the Foundation; Linnean Society of New South bioinformatics: PARTNER project. Australian Goldsworthy. Project: Systematics and Antarctic-Magellanic marine biology meeting, Research Supervision Wales; and The Malacological Society Biological Resources Study. biology of argonauts (Family Argonautidae). Ushuaia, Argentina, November 2004. Alfred of London. Graduate and Post-Graduate Wegener Institute, Bremerhaven, Germany. Wilson, Robin. Feasibility study for Australian Fitzgerald, Erich: PhD, Monash University. Supervision: Gillespie, Richard. Contribution from the port survey data integration into Australian Supervisors: Thomas Rich, Patricia Vickers-Rich. Schmidt, Rolf. Travel grant to attend the 13th National Cultural Heritage Account towards the museums. Natural Heritage Trust, Department Project: The morphology, palaeobiology, and International Bryozoology Conference, Chile, Anderson, Debbie: PhD, University of purchase of the Phar Lap Saddle. The Australian of the Environment and Heritage. phylogeny of Oligocene Cetacea (Mammalia) January 2004. The Ian Potter Foundation. Melbourne. Supervisors: Liza Dale-Hallett, Racing Museum; and Department of the from Australia. Kate Darian-Smith, Peter Christoff. Project: Environment and Heritage. Wilson, Robin. Travel grant to attend The New Sciences Department. Digitisation of Drought, risk and rural endurance: rethinking Concepts in Global Tectonics Workshop, Italy, Gallego-Martínez, Susana: BSc(Hons), vertebrate and mollusc primary types held the Australian climate. Gillespie, Richard. Contribution towards the August 2004. The Ian Potter Foundation. Department of Zoology, University of in Australian institutions. Grant awarded to Dorothy Howard publication. Victorian Folklife Melbourne. Supervisors: Gary Poore, David the Council of Heads of Australian Faunal Blamey, Libby: MA, Public History, Monash Association Public Fund. MacMillan. Project: New genera of antarcturid Collections, administered by Museum Victoria. The following collaborative projects University. Supervisors: Deborah Tout-Smith, isopods from deep water in Australia and their Henry, Dermot. Travel grant to attend the Global Biodiversity Information Facility. Seamus O’Hanlon. Project: Material evidence administered by other institutions relationships (Crustacea). 5th International Mineralogy and Museums received external funding and were of immigrant depots and camps in mid-19th Sciences Department. Contribution to the Conference, France, September 2004. The Ian underway during the year: century Victoria. Hansen, Amber: MEnvSc, University of New digitisation of vertebrate and mollusc primary Potter Foundation. South Wales. Supervisors: Tim O'Hara, Ronnie types held in Australian Institutions Project. Buchanan, Lucas: PhD, Monash University. Gomon, Martin. Validation of national demersal Harding. Project: Cryptic speciation in the Indigenous Cultures Department. Operational National Oceans Office. Supervisors: Thomas Rich, Patricia Vickers-Rich. fish datasets for the regionalisation of the eleven-armed seastar, Coscinasterias muricata. Project: Australian fossil crocodiles from the grant to support the Roving Curator Program. Australian continental slope and outer shelf. Strategic Collection & Information Rundle Oil Shale of Queensland: mirrors of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander National Oceans Office. This grant is Management Department. Storage and past climate & ecological associations. Commission – Aboriginal and Torres Strait administered by CSIRO Marine Research. Islander Services. community loan program for the Federation 2001 Bells. Arts Victoria.

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Harding, Lucy: PhD, University of Melbourne. Maroske, Sara: PhD, University of Melbourne. the Upper Silurian–Lower Devonian of central Allcock A.L., Hochberg, F.G. & Stranks, T.N. Frost, R.L., Erickson, K.L., Weier, M.L. Supervisors: Thomas Darragh, Stephen Supervisors: Thomas Darragh, Rod Home. Victoria, Australia. 2003. Re-evaluation of Graneledone setebos & Mills, S.J. 2003. Raman spectroscopy of the Gallagher. Project: Early Pliocene molluscan Project: Science by correspondence: Ferdinand (Cephalopoda: Octopodidae) and placement phosphate minerals: cacoxenite and gormanite. Schwartz, Leah: PhD, Monash University. palaeontology and palaeoenvironments of Mueller (1825-1896). in the genus Megaleledone. Journal of the Asian Chemistry Letters, 7, 197–203. Supervisors: Thomas Rich, Patricia Vickers-Rich. the Marine Plain Area (Antarctica). Marine Biological Association, United Kingdom, Mills, Stuart: PhD, University of Melbourne. Project: The Bullock Creek mid-Cainozoic small Frost, R.L., Henry, D.A. & Erickson, K. 2004. 83, 319-328. Harris, Collette: MA, Public History, Monash Supervisors: Bill Birch, David Phillips, Ian Grey. mammal assemblage. Raman spectroscopic detection of wyartite in University. Supervisors: Richard Gillespie, Project: Secondary minerals in the Broken Hill Austin, J.J., Arnold, E.N. & Jones, C.G. 2003. the presence of rabejacite. Journal of Raman Storey, Melissa: PhD, University of Melbourne. Seamus O’Hanlon. Project: The relationship deposit, New South Wales. Reconstructing an island radiation using Spectroscopy, 35, 255-260. Supervisors: Gary Poore, David Macmillan. between design and manufacturing in ancient and recent DNA: the extinct and living Nicholls, James: PhD, University of Project: Systematics and biogeography of the Forest, J. 2004. Obituary: Michèle de Saint Victorian industry. day geckos (Phelsuma) of the Mascarane Queensland. Supervisors: Jeremy Austin, isopod family Serolidae (Crustacea). Laurent (translated from French by G.C.B. islands. Molecular Phylogenetics & Evolution, Hogan, Fiona: PhD, Deakin University. Anne Goldizen, Craig Moritz. Project: Poore). Journal of Crustacean Biology, 24, Syme, Anna: PhD, University of Melbourne. 31, 109-122. Supervisors: Janette Norman, Raylene Cooke, Examining the ecological and evolutionary 217-223. Supervisors: Gary Poore, David Macmillan. Chris Burridge, Chris Austin. Project: Genetic causes of call variation in Satin Bowerbirds. Birch, W.D. & Samuels, L. 2003. The Ballarat Project: Systematics and biogeography of Gallego-Martínez, S. & Poore, G.C.B. 2003. variability of Powerful Owls in the south-east meteorite, a fossil 1AB iron from Victoria. Piper, Katarzyna Julia: PhD, Monash University. cylindroleberidid ostracods (Crustacea) in A new species of ingolfiellid amphipod Australian forests. Proceedings of the Royal Society of Victoria, Supervisors: Thomas Rich, Patricia Vickers-Rich. southern Australia. (Crustacea: Amphipoda) from Western 115, 67–75. Hoskin, Conrad: PhD, University of Project: Analysis of the early-mid Pleistocene Australia. Records of the Western Australian Taylor, Joanne: PhD, University of Melbourne. Queensland. Supervisors: Jeremy Austin, Portland mammalian fauna. Brandt, A. & Poore, G.C.B. 2003. Higher Museum, 22, 75-80. Supervisors: Gary Poore, David Macmillan. Hamish McCallum, Craig Moritz. Project: classification of the flabelliferan and related Plant, Rhyllis: MA, Visual Arts, La Trobe Project: Systematics and biogeography of the Gambaryan, P.P., Aristov, A.A., Dixon, J.M. The roles of historical isolation and ecological Isopoda based on a reappraisal of relationships. University. Supervisors: Thomas Darragh, amphipod family Phoxocephalidae (Crustacea). & Zubtsova, G.Y. 2002. Peculiarities of the gradients in generating reproductive isolation Invertebrate Systematics, 17, 893-923. James McArdle, John Robinson. Project: hind limb musculature in monotremes: in wet tropics frogs. Walker-Smith, Genefor: PhD, University of Natural history illustration: woodblock to Chapple, D.G., McCoull, C.J. & Swain, R. 2004. an anatomical description and functional Melbourne. Supervisors: Gary Poore, David Kefford, Ben: PhD, RMIT University. website. Effect of tail loss on sprint speed and growth approach. Russian Journal of Theriology, Macmillan. Project: Harpacticoida (Copepoda) Supervisors: Richard Marchant, Dayanthi in newborn skinks, Niveoscincus metallicus. 1, 1-36. Raadik, Tarmo: PhD, University of Canberra. of Port Phillip Bay and their utilisation by post- Nugegoda. Project: The role of salinity in Journal of Herpetology, 38, 137–140. Supervisors: Martin Gomon, Arthur Georges, settlement King George Whiting. Gerdtz, W. & Archbold, N. 2003. An early structuring stream invertebrate communities. Mark Adams. Project: Conservation biology Churchward, M. 2001. Foundries, federation occurrence of Sarcophilus laniarius harrisii York, Kate: BSc(Hons), Department of Lees, Joannah: PhD, University of Canberra. and systematics of the mountain galaxias. and free trade. Australian Journal of Multi- (Marsupialia, Dasyuridae) from the early Genetics, University of Melbourne. Supervisors: Janette Norman, Stephen Sarre, Disciplinary Engineering, 2, 27-44. Pleistocene of Nelson Bay, Victoria. Rheindt, Frank: PhD, University of Melbourne. Supervisors: Janette Norman, Belinda James Robertson, Terry Chesser. Project: Proceedings of the Royal Society of Victoria, Supervisors: Janette Norman, Les Christidis, Appleton. Project: Microsatellite analysis Dale-Hallett, L., Fahey, C. & Lack, J. 2003. Molecular methods for the diagnosis of Glossy 115, 45-54. Jon Martin. Project: Speciation in neotropical of the Bentwing Bat, Miniopterus schreibersii. Resurrecting the Sunshine Harvester Works: Black-Cockatoo populations and their application tyrannids: the Eleania complex. re-presenting and reinterpreting the experience Gerdtz, W. & Archbold, N. 2003. Glaucodon in forensics. of industrial work in twentieth-century ballaratensis (Marsupialia, Dasyridae), a late Robinson, Lynette: BSc(Hons), Department Research Publications Lockett, Matthew: PhD, University of Australia. Labour History, 85, 9-28. Pliocene 'Devil' from Batesford, Victoria. of Zoology, La Trobe University. Supervisors: Technology, Sydney. Supervisors: Martin Publications – Refereed Journals Proceedings of the Royal Society of Victoria, Tim O’Hara, Fiona Bird. Project: The cryptic Ericson, P.G.P, Envall I., Irestedt M. & Norman, Gomon, David Booth. Project: Comparative 115, 35-44. speciation of the Brittle Star, Clarkcoma Ahyong, S.T. & Poore, G.C.B. 2004. The J.A. 2003. Inter-familial relationships of the biology of introduced gobies in Sydney and canaliculata (Echinodermata: Ophiuroidea). Chirostylidae of southern Australia (Crustacea: shorebirds (Aves: Charadriiformes) based on Henry, D.A. 2003. Star dust memories: a Melbourne estuaries. Decapoda: Anomura). Zootaxa, 436, 1-88. nuclear DNA sequence data. BMC brief history of the Murchison carbonaceous Sandford, Andrew: PhD, University of Mangnall, Elizabeth: BSc(Hons), School Evolutionary Biology, 3, 16. chondrite. 6th Torino Workshop, Publications of Melbourne. Supervisors: David Holloway, Ahyong, S.T. & Poore, G.C.B. 2004. Deep- of Biological Sciences, Monash University. the Astronomical Society of Australia, 20, 1-3. Stephen Gallagher, Malcolm Wallace. Project: water Galatheidae (Crustacea: Decapoda: Supervisors: Janette Norman, Les Christidis, Stratigraphy, environments and systematics of Anomura) from southern and eastern Australia. Allan Lill. Project: Geographic variation in the the homalonotid and phacopid trilobites from Zootaxa, 472, 1-76. Variegated Fairy-wren Malurus lamberti.

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The evolution of tribospheny in Mesozoic D.R., Gomon, M.F., Keough, M.J., Lewis, J.A., migration and material culture in Australia Poore, G.C.B. & Humphreys, W.F. 2003. Schmidt, R. & Bone, Y. 2004. Enigmatic mammals. Molecular Phylogenetics & Lockett, M.M., Mays, N., McArthur, M.A., 1930-1960. Crossings, e-bulletin of the Second species of Mangkurtu environments of Eocene bryozoans from the Evolution, 28, 360-385. O'Hara, T.D., Poore, G.C.B., Ross, D.J., Storey, International Australian Studies Association, (Spelaeogriphacea) from north-western St Vincent Basin, South Australia. Boletin de la M.J., Watson, J.E. & Wilson, R.S. (2004). 9(1) (online at: Australia. Records of the Western Australian Sociedad de Biologia de Concepcion, 74, 108. Non-refereed Journals and Reports Introduced and cryptogenic species in Port http://www.asc.uq.edu.au/crossings/). Museum, 22, 67-74. Vanderwal, R. 2004. Early historical sources for Phillip Bay, Victoria, Australia. 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Rauhut, O.W.M., Cladera, G., Rich, T.H. & Rediagnosis of Palaemon and differentiation Darragh, T.A. 2003. My journeys in South Marine and Freshwater Research, 55, 79-82. Melville, J. & Swain, R. 2003. Evolutionary Vickers-Rich, P. 2003. Dinosaur remains from of south-eastern Australian species (Crustacea: Australia: Lecture by Carl Wilhelmi, 14 Just, J. 2003. Haplodendron buzwilsoni gen. correlations between escape behaviour and the Lower Cretaceous of the Chubut Group, Decapoda: Palaemonidae). Memoirs of September 1857 [Translation and introduction]. nov., sp. nov., the first record of Haplomunnidae performance ability in eight species of snow Argentina. Cretaceous Research, 24, 487-497. Museum Victoria, 60, 243-256. Journal of Friends of Lutheran Archives, 13, from the southern Indo-Pacific (Isopoda: skinks from Tasmania (Niveoscincus: 5-24. Rich, T.H., Darragh, T.A. & Vickers-Rich, P. 2003. Wapstra, E., Olsson, M., Shine, R., Edwards, Asellota). Zootaxa, 372, 1-10. Lygosominae). 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Lectures and Presentations Greene, J.P. 2004. Of material advantage: the Melville, J. 2003. Community of desert lizards Poore, G. 2003. A new analysis of relationships Austin, J. 2003. Dodos to DNA. Victorian evolution of Museum Victoria's purpose from or Australia and North America. Australian of peracarid orders. The Crustacean Society Ornithological Research Group (Melbourne, Conference Presentations 1854 to 2004. Museums Australia National Society of Herpetologists Meeting (Darwin, Annual Meeting (Williamsburg, Virgina, USA, 5 November) Conference (Melbourne, 17 May). December). 3 June) Batty, P. 2004. White redemption rituals: Batty, P. 2003. The Coniston Massacre. Public the repatriation of Aboriginal cultural heritage. Greene, J.P. 2004. Roundtable discussion: Melville, J. 2004. Using comparative Poore, G. 2003. Phylogenetic and biogeographic Lecture Series commemorating the Coniston Museums Australia National Conference Design or content? Putting museum objects in phylogenetics to investigate transcontinental relationships between the deep-sea faunas Massacres of 1928 (InfoZone, Melbourne (Melbourne, 18 May). context. Perspectives: the future of museums community convergence in desert lizards. of two Gondwanan continents, Australia and Museum, 12 December). in the 21st Century Symposium. Foundation American Society of Ichthyologists and Antarctica. IMBANT-ANDEEP meeting (Ushuaia, Christidis, L. 2004. Southern continents and Batty, P. 2004. But is it Art? Public Symposium Museum of Contemporary History of the Herpetologists Meeting (Normam, Oklahoma, Argentina, 20-24 October). the evolutionary diversification of birds. 4th on Clifford Possum. NGV Australia (Melbourne, Federal Republic of Germany (Bonn, Germany, USA, May). Southern Connections Conference (Capetown, Thorn, S. 2004. Circles and cycles. April). 14 June). South Africa, 19-23 January). Norman, J. 2003. DNA-based species Keynote address at The Young Designers Batty, P. 2004. Colliding worlds: first meetings Kearney, M. 2003. Calculating the fundamental identification in birds. 16th Australasian Wildlife Month, Leading Voices Forum 2004 (Hobart, Dale-Hallett, L. 2003. Crossing boundaries between the Pintupi people of Central Australia niche: physiology, climate, global warming Enforcement Conference (Brisbane, 21-22 13 February). and creating links: the Women on Farms and Europeans, 1931-1984. Archaeological and and the distribution of nocturnal lizards across October). Gatherings Project. Royal Agricultural Society Thorn, S. 2004. Capitalizing on culture. Keynote Anthropological Society of Victoria (Melbourne, Australia. Australian Society of Herpetologists Symposium: Bringing the City and Country Norman, J. 2004. Evolution of Australia’s address at VISTA: Association of Vocational May). Conference (Darwin, 3-7 December). Together (Ballarat, August). arid-adapted avifauna. 4th Southern Education & Training (VET) Professionals Forum Birch, W. 2003. The allanite subgroup, minerals King, R. & Poore, G. 2003. A phylogenetic Connections Conference (Capetown, (Melbourne, 21 April). Dale-Hallett, L. 2003. Keynote address to in need of revision. Joint Annual Mineralogical review of the Arcturidae (Isopoda: Valvifera). South Africa, 19-23 January). the Clearwater Summit (Echuca, November). Tout-Smith, D. 2004. Museum Victoria’s clothing Societies Seminar (Adelaide, 7-8 June). The Crustacean Society Annual Meeting Norman, M. 2004. Our deep-sea life. and textiles collection. Costume Special Interest Dale-Hallett, L. 2004. Sustainable futures: (Williamsburg, Virginia, USA, 3 June). Birch, W. 2004. Pegmatite minerals in alkaline Coastcare/Coast Action Conference Group, Museums Australia National Conference sustainable museums. Museums Australia rocks in Greenland and . Joint Annual Kinsey, F. 2003. In focus: women, cycling and (Queenscliff, 2 May). (Melbourne, 15 May). National Conference (Melbourne, 17 May). Mineralogical Societies Seminar (Melbourne, photography at the turn of the 20th century. O’Hara, T. 2003. The Ophiocoma erinaceus Unger, I. 2004. Rights management for images. 12-13 June). Demant, D. 2003. Hitting the audience where Art Association of Australia and New Zealand complex: another case of cryptic speciation Museums Australia National Conference they really are. CIMUSET Conference on the Annual Conference (Canberra 5-6 December). Bray, D. 2003. Managing Museum Victoria’s in echinoderms. 11th International Echinoderm (Melbourne, 20 May). Future of Science and Technology Museums fish collection with KE EMu. Te Papa National McFadzean, M. 2004. Beyond the label: Conference (Munich, Germany, 9 October). (Ljubljana and Zagreb, Slovenia, 12-18 Wallis, E. 2004. Online zoological collections Museum of New Zealand (Wellington, NZ, museums, histories and new technologies. September). O’Hara, T. 2004. Gondwana: a marine myth. of Australian museums: towards a national 2 July). The Getting In interactive theatre experience Conference on Evolution, Spéciation et distributed research museum. Museums Demant, D. 2004. What has posterity done at Melbourne’s Immigration Museum. Bray, D. 2004. The NORFANZ expedition: a Adaptation: l'exemple des Echinodermes. Australia National Conference (Melbourne, for us? Making collection documentation Festival Audiovisuel International Musees et survey of seamount biodiversity along the Muséum national d'Histoire Naturelle 20 May). accessible to users in the future. Museums Patrimoine, Committee for Audiovisual Image Norfolk Ridge and Lord Howe Rise, Tasman (Paris, France, 10 May). Australia National Conference (Melbourne, and Sound New Technologies (AVICOM), Wilson, R. 2003. Trans-Tasman biogeography. Sea. Marine Zoology course, University of 21 May). International Council of Museums (ICOM) O’Hara, T. 2004. Cryptic speciation in 7th Australian Bryophyte Workshop (Rawson, Melbourne (Queenscliff, 7 February). (Taipei, Taiwan, 3-7 May). echinoderms. Conference on Evolution, Victoria, 7 October). Fitzgerald, E. 2003. Oligocene Cetacea Christidis, L. 2003. Three lectures: Methods Spéciation et Adaptation: l'exemple des (Mammalia) from the southern margin of Melville, J. 2003. Using molecular of Phylogenetic Reconstruction, Case Studies Echinodermes. Muséum national d'Histoire Australia. 17th Victorian Universities Earth phylogenetics to investigate evolutionary Lectures in Phylogenetics; and Phylogeography. Naturelle (Paris, France, 17 May). Sciences Conference (Melbourne, convergence of ecology and morphology Department of Genetics, University of Allen, L. 2003. The Donald Thomson ARC 5 September). in desert lizard assemblages. International O’Hara, T. 2004. Evolution and diversity Melbourne (Parkville, October). Project. Garma Festival of Traditional Culture Congress of Genetics (Melbourne, July). in ophiuroids. Conference on Evolution, Greene, J.P. 2003. Context and contention: (Gulkula, Arnhem Land, 11 August). can museums present controversial issues? Spéciation et Adaptation: l'exemple des Contest and Contemporary Society: Redefining Echinodermes. Muséum national d'Histoire Austin, J. 2003. Dodos to DNA. Bird Museums in the 21st Century Symposium Naturelle (Paris, France, 24 May). Observers Club of Australia (21 August). (University of Sydney, 28 November). Museums Board of Victoria Annual Report 2003/2004 123

Churchward, M. 2003. Herbert Thomson and Fitzgerald, E. 2004. Fossil whales in southeast Foley, G. 2004. Lecture to ‘Students for Greene, J.P. 2004. The museum has come Kean, J. 2004. Clifford Possum at Papunya: the story of the Thomson Motor Company. Australia. Field Naturalists Club of Victoria Change.’ University of Melbourne (Parkville, a long way in 150 years – so where to next? re-collections. Art Gallery of New South Wales Geelong Historical Society (5 November). (Melbourne, 24 March). 11 March). (Royal Society of Victoria, 13 May). (Sydney, 10 May).

Churchward, M. 2004. Of pumps, pipes and Foley, G. 2003. Race from a Koori perspective. Foley, G. 2004. The Aboriginal rights Henry, D. 2003. Uranium minerals in the Kean, J. 2004. Working with communities. people. History and the Meaning of Things Koori Interactions Lecture Series. Leo Baeck movement. Politics Department, University Northern Territory. Joint Annual Mineralogical Department of Fine Arts, University of Seminar Series (InfoZone, Melbourne Synagogue (Kew, 20 July). of Melbourne (Parkville, 22 March). Societies Seminar (Adelaide, 7-8 June). Melbourne (Parkville, 26 May). Museum, 9 June). Foley, G. 2003. Aboriginal political movement Foley, G. 2004. Memory and oral history. Henry, D. 2003. Kongsberg: another Silver Kearney, M. 2003. Why give up sex in the Dale-Hallett, L. 2003. Capturing history while in Australia. Social Work course, RMIT History Department, University of Melbourne City. Mineralogical Society of Victoria desert? Melbourne Museum (11 July) (also it happens: community partnerships and University (Melbourne, 12 August). (Parkville, 22 March). (Melbourne, 2 July). presented at South Australian contemporary collecting. Museum Studies, Museum/University of Adelaide, 12 November). Foley, G. 2003. Protocol arrangements and Foley, G. 2004. Lecture to Faculty of Education Horvath, A. 2003. Presenting with impact. Deakin University (September). Indigenous film. Masters of Arts Management students. Monash University (Clayton, School of Graduate Studies, University Kearney, M. 2004. The origin and spread of Dale-Hallett, L. 2004. Water Smart Lifestyles. students, University of Melbourne (Parkville, 29 March). of Melbourne (Parkville, 13 August). the parthenogenetic grasshopper, Warramaba Water Education Forum, Melbourne Museum 9 September). virgo. Genetics Department, La Trobe Foley, G. 2004. Two lectures to students and Horvath, A. 2003. Everyday inventions (April). University (31 May). Also presented at School Foley, G. 2003. Ideas at the Powerhouse: staff. School of Education, La Trobe University and major medical research achievements. of Botany and Zoology, Australian National Dale-Hallett, L. & Batty, P. 2003. Making peace ‘The 2003 ideas game show’and ‘When will (Bendigo, 24 March). University of Melbourne Summer School University (11 June), and School of Biological with the past: the 75th Commemoration of we ever learn.’ Powerhouse Museum (Sydney, (Scienceworks, 8 December). Foley, G. 2004. The Indigenous Rights Struggle Sciences, University of Sydney (17 June). the Coniston Massacre. Public Lecture Series 16 August). 1938-1988. Victorian College of the Arts Horvath, A. 2004. The seven habits of commemorating the Coniston Massacres Kinsey, F. 2003. In focus: women, cycling Foley, G. 2003. Lecture and screening of (Melbourne, 19 April). highly effective medical scientists in history. of 1928 (InfoZone, Melbourne Museum, and photography in late-nineteenth century “Backroads”. Australians for Native Title and Walter and Eliza Hall postgraduate program 12 December). Foley, G. 2004. Koori history. Victorian Trades Australia, History and the Meaning of Things Reconciliation (ANTaR) (Fitzroy, 20 September). (Mornington Peninsula, 30 April). Hall (Carlton, 20 April). Seminar Series (InfoZone, Melbourne Demant, D. 2003-04. Museum Victoria’s Foley, G. 2004. Lecture for Introductory Horvath, A. 2004. Medical research to science Museum, 8 October). information and communication collection: Gertsakis, J. 2003. Design for H20: innovations Academic Program for international postgraduate communication. Baker Institute of Medical an interactive presentation. Nine lectures in water conservation and the evolution of Longmore, N.W. 2004. Feathered facts. students. Language and Learning Skills Unit, Research Postgraduate Program (Mornington to: East Brighton Probus Club (8 August); household objects. History and the Meaning Birds Australia (Melbourne, 10 June). University of Melbourne (Parkville, 5 February). Peninsula, 11 May). Bundoora VIEW Club (12 August); Castlemaine of Things Seminar Series (InfoZone, Melbourne McFadzean, M. 2003. Rushing from all VIEW Club (28 October); Rotary Club of Eltham Foley, G. 2004. Current issues for Indigenous Museum, 9 July). Horvath, A. 2004. Communicating with peers, corners …Gold and immigration: an overview. (30 October); Probus Club of Brighton (10 Australians. Lecture for US overseas students. public and the media. Australian Society of Gillespie, R. 2003. Treasures of the Museum. Melbourne’s Golden Mile Lecture Series March); Ashburton Legacy Widows Club (17 Australian Centre, University of Melbourne Medical Research (Parkville, 9 June). Kew Historical Society (10 September). (Melbourne Museum, 23 July). March); Hall and Wilcox Lawyers Lunchtime (Parkville, 16 February). Talk (16 April); Combined Probus Group of Kean, J. 2003. Spatial representation of Gomon, M. 2003. Australian initiatives in McFadzean, M. 2003. Gold, immigration Woodend and District (6 May); Victorian Gas Foley, G. 2004. Representations of Culture Victorian environments at Museum Victoria. areas of cooperative ichthyological research, and the Immigration Museum. Rye Beach Association (3 June 2004). and Identity. Lecture for US overseas students. Museum Studies course, University of OZCAM and the CAAB system. Te Papa Probus Club (14 October). Australian Centre, University of Melbourne Melbourne (Parkville, August). National Museum of New Zealand Demant, D. 2004. Exhibitions and learning. (Parkville, 19 February). McFadzean, M. 2003. The Glory Box: the (Wellington, NZ, 2 July). Kean, J. 2003. Clifford Possum Tjapaltjarri Deakin University (Melbourne Museum, object of memory. History and the Meaning 22 March). Foley, G. 2004. Lecture for Government and the Papunya painters. Art Gallery of Green, M. 2004. Recent experiences of of Things Seminar Series (InfoZone, Melbourne and Society Seminar Series. Department South Australia (Adelaide, 22 November). anthropological field work in Papua New Museum, 12 November). Fitzgerald, E. 2003. Oligocene Cetacea for Victorian Communities (Melbourne, Guinea. Archaeological and Anthropological Kean, J. 2004. Clifford Possum Tjapaltjarri: (Mammalia) from the southern margin of 24 February). McFadzean, M. 2004. Representations of Society of Victoria (The Age Theatre, mapping . NGV Australia Australia. Melbourne Systematics Forum migration at Melbourne’s Immigration Museum. Melbourne Museum, 6 May). (Melbourne, 24 April). (Melbourne Museum, 4 September). Migrant Nation course (Australian Centre, University of Melbourne, 6 April). Additional Information

McFadzean, M. & Reeves, A. 2004. Museums Norman, M. 2003. Deep-sea life. Victorian Rich, T. 2003. Victoria’s polar dinosaurs. Additional Publications Presentations and public history. Cultural Heritage Unit, Malacological Society (South Melbourne, McKinnon High School (20 November). and Presentations Department of History, University of 20 October). Birthisel, D. 2004. Museums: sustainability in Rich, T. 2004. Victoria’s polar dinosaurs. Melbourne (Parkville, 22 April). Publications a corporate environment. Museums Australia Norman, M. 2003. Identifying Victorian marine A series of 32 lectures at high schools in National Conference (Melbourne, 17 May). Marchant, R. 2003. Secondary production. life. Reef Watch training series (Marine north-western Victoria (5-28 May). Byrne, T. 2004. Shadow phenomena. Let’s Find Department of Biological Sciences, Monash Discovery Centre, Queenscliff, 25 October). Out, Science Teachers of Victoria, 20(3), 9-12. Byrne, T. 2003. Earth, moon and sun. Annual Rich, T. 2004. Recent developments in University (Clayton, 7 & 11 August, 2 lectures). Conference of the Australian Science Teachers Norman, M. 2004. Introducing the marine life mammalian evolution. Department of Byrne, T., Christies, P., Dunstan, R., Hammond, Association (CONASTA) (University of the Marchant, R. 2004. Dams and stream of Wilsons Promontory. Parks Victoria (Wilsons Genetics, La Trobe University (Bundoora, R., Horvath, A., Pentland, P., Stoyles, P. & Watt, Sunshine Coast, 6-11 July) (Also presented at invertebrate communities. Field Naturalists Promontory National Park, 2 January). 10 May). P. 2004. Science supplements in The Sunday the Conference of the Laboratory Technicians Club of Victoria (8 April). Age: Poster #1, Exploring Mars (23 May); Branch of the Science Teachers Association Norman, M. 2004. Deep-sea life and the Thorn, S. 2004. Design and Designed to Poster #2, Science and Technology of Sport of Victoria (LABCON), Monash University, Melville, J. 2003. Using molecular systematics NORFANZ voyage. Rural Australians for Inspire at Melbourne Museum. Northern (30 May); Poster #3, Home Science (6 June); 4-5 December). and field ecology to investigate evolution in Refugees (Torquay, 13 January). Melbourne Institute of TAFE (Fairfield, and Poster #4, Crime Scene Science (13 June). desert lizard communities. Department of 5 February). Byrne, T. 2003. Toying with science. Science Norman, M. 2004. Victoria’s shallow and Zoology, University of Melbourne Dalton, S. 2003. A collaborative journey Teachers Association of Victoria Primary deep-sea marine life. Parks Victoria (Wilsons Veis, N. 2003. Museum Victoria: in and (Parkville, 13 August) through adult learning. ARIS Bulletin, Quarterly Science Teachers Conference (Richmond, Promontory National Park, 21 January). out of fashion. The Optimists Society Journal of the Adult Basic Education Resource 20-21 July). Melville, J. 2004. Using comparative (Queenscliff, 18 November). and Information Service, July. Norman, M. 2004. Cephalopods: from pygmy phylogenetics to investigate transcontinental Byrne, T. 2003. Simple machines. Science octopuses to giant squid. Queen Victoria Willis, E. 2003. Women of Little Lon: objects community convergence in desert lizards. Dalton, S. 2004. From there to here: a reflection Teachers Association of Victoria Annual Museum (Launceston, 2 April). and stories. History and the Meaning of Melbourne Systematics Forum (InfoZone, on the journey. ARIS Bulletin, January. Conference (STAVCON) (Melbourne, Things Seminar Series (InfoZone, Melbourne Melbourne Museum, 4 March). Norman, M. 2004. Identifying cephalopods. 27-29 November). Museum, 13 August). Dalton, S. 2004. Cooking stories: a journey Reefwatch training series, Melbourne Melville, J. 2004. Desert dragons: insights from the stomach to the heart. ARIS Byrne, T. & Christies, P. 2003. Sundials. Aquarium (Melbourne, 26 April). Willis, E. 2004. Creating, remembering and into the remarkable lizard diversity on two Bulletin, April. Mathematical Association of Victoria Annual celebrating: The Deans Marsh Hall curtains, continents. Field Naturalists Club of O'Hara, T. 2003. Gondwana: a marine myth? Conference (Monash University, 4-5 December). 1948 and 2000. Ian Potter Centre, NGV Kenderdine, S. 2003. Parables for the virtual Victoria (April). Melbourne Systematics Forum (InfoZone, Australia, 26 May. museum. Proceedings of the Workshop on Christies, P. 2003. Teaching astronomy in a fun Melbourne Museum, 4 December). Norman, J. 2003. Wildlife forensics. Two Dramaturgy in the Virtual Museum. Swiss and creative way. Science Teachers Association Wilson, R. 2003. The NORFANZ cruise to National Museum, Zurich, Switzerland. lectures to the Department of Biological O'Hara, T. 2004. Victorian marine biodiversity. of Victoria Annual Conference (STAVCON) Tasman Sea seamounts. Australian Marine CD-ROM. and Chemical Sciences, Deakin University Geelong Field Naturalists Club (Geelong, (Melbourne, 27-29 November). Sciences Association, Victorian Branch (Geelong, 8 September). 3 February). (Queenscliff, 15 August). Kenderdine, S. & Hart, T. 2003. This is not a Christies, P. 2004. Using the planetarium Peep Show! The Virtual Room at the Melbourne Norman, J. 2003. Phylogenetic tests of Poore, G. 2003. Estimating the species as a valuable resource. Science Teachers Wilson, R. 2003. Identifying marine Museum. Proceedings of the International avian speciation. Academy of Natural universe in the deep sea. Census of Marine Association of Victoria Primary Science invertebrates. Marine Naturalist Workshop Cultural Heritage Informatics Meeting (ICHIM). Sciences (Philadelphia, USA, 8 August). Life Workshop (Newport, Oregon, USA, Teachers Conference (Richmond, 20-21 July). (Queenscliff, 25 September). Museum Archives and Informatics, Paris, 21-24 August). Norman, J. 2004. Wildlife forensics: France. CD-ROM. Corponi, J. 2003. Building the Melbourne Wilson, R. 2004. Seamounts. Field Naturalists combating wildlife crime. Genetech 2004, Poore, G. 2004. Crustacea of southern Museum. International Council of Club of Victoria (Blackburn, 9 February). Thompson, B. 2004. InfoZone: a library with a Melbourne Museum (Melbourne, 20 May). coasts. Reefwatch training series, Museums (ICOM) International Committee difference. Connections, Quarterly Newsletter Melbourne Aquarium (Melbourne, 28 June). Wilson, R. 2004. Nudibranchs and flatworms: on Management Conference (Canberra, Norman, M. 2003. The deep-sea life of of the Schools Catalogue Information Service, ‘butterflies of the sea.’Reefwatch training 18 November). the Tasman Sea: the NORFANZ voyage. Rich, T. 2003. Origin and history of the 49, 12. series (Melbourne, 31 May). BHP Billiton Science Students, Melbourne Australian mammal fauna. Two lectures Dalton, S. 2003. Through the eyes of Museum (6 October). at Monash University (Clayton, September). an immigrant: cross cultural awareness. Ashburton Volunteer Alliance (July).

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Dalton, S. 2003. Old Customs House: the Kenderdine, S. & Hart, T. 2003. This is not Stewart, J. 2003. Minibeasts in the classroom. Zarro, R. 2004. Design in Italy. Victorian • personnel and salary records journey through time. Ladies Probus Club a Peep Show! The Virtual Room at the Science Teachers Association of Victoria Association of Teachers of Italian (VATI) • Board member records of Stonnington (September). Melbourne Museum. International Cultural Primary Science Teachers Conference Congress 2004 (Bulleen, 14 May). • Museum Member records Heritage Informatics Meeting (ICHIM) (Ecole (Richmond, 20-21 July). Dalton, S. 2004. From Customs House to du Louvre, Paris, France, 12 September 2003). Freedom of Information Immigration Museum: a story of evolving Stewart, J. 2003. Melbourne museum online. Requests for Access to Documents Melbourne. Stonnington Activities Club (May). Kerridge, Y. 2004. The museum exhibition Science Teachers Association of Victoria The Freedom of Information Act 1982 entitles as text: the art of reading between the lines Annual Conference (STAVCON) (Melbourne, Access to documents (as defined in section Hiscock, R. 2004. Developing marketing members of the public to obtain information, meet inside main entrance. Museums Australia 27-29 November). 5 of the Act) may only be obtained through a and branding strategies using motivational other than information that is exempt under the National Conference (Melbourne, 17 May). written request to the Freedom of Information Act, held by Museum Victoria. Three Freedom segmentation. Museums Australia National Stewart, J. 2004. Top Designs features of Officer. A fax will be sufficient. However, each of Information requests were received in the Conference (Melbourne, 20 May). Marlow, J. 2003. Integrating Information and excellence. Technology Education Association request should be accompanied by a $20.50 Communication Technologies (ICT) workshops. of Victoria (TEAV) Annual Conference reporting year. Two were accepted and Hvala, L. 2004. VCE Biology at Melbourne application fee. An applicant may request Museum Victoria's ed-online (July and August). (Northcote, 14-15 May). completed, one is pending. Museum. Science Teachers Association of photocopies of documents, inspection of Victoria VCE Biology Conference (Monash Moore, G. 2003. Teaching about dinosaurs. Stewart, J. & Hvala, L. 2003. Behind the The information below is required to be specific documents at Museum Victoria University, 23 February). Science Teachers Association of Victoria scenes. Conference of the Laboratory published annually under Part II of the Freedom or other access arrangements as may be Primary Science Teachers Conference Technicians Branch of the Science Teachers of Information Act 1982. The information appropriate to the application. Hvala, L. 2004. Forensic futures: solving crime required to be published under sections 7(1)(a)(i), (Richmond, 20-21 July). Association of Victoria (LABCON), Monash Applications should be as specific as possible in a genomic world. Genetech 2004 Teachers 7(1)(a)(iii), 7(1)(a)(iv), 7(1)(a)(vii) and7(1)(a)(viii) University, 4-5 December). to enable Museum Victoria to identify the Conference (Melbourne Museum, 20 May). Mountford, D. 2004. Museum floor staff: is located elsewhere in this annual report. a vital link in the chain. Museums Australia Stewart, J. & Moore, G. 2003. Science documents sought. Where a request does not Jay, D. & Meehan, C. 2004. Sustaining student National Conference (Melbourne, 21 May). education at Melbourne Museum. Science Contacts sufficiently identify the documents sought, the learning: from research to action. Museums Teachers Association of Victoria Annual Principal Officer: Dr J. Patrick Greene applicant will be advised and provided with an Australia National Conference (Melbourne, Pentland, P. 2003. Take it easy: simple machines. Conference (STAVCON) (Melbourne, (Chief Executive Officer) opportunity to consult with Museum Victoria 21 May). Science Teachers Association of Victoria Primary 27-29 November). FOI Officer: Rose Bollen in order to redefine the request. Science Teachers Conference (Richmond, Address: GPO Box 666E Melbourne 3001 Jay, D. & Meehan, C. 2004. Evidence Section 21 of the Act requires that all reasonable 20-21 July). Watt, P. 2003. Our closest scientists on the Telephone: 8341 7777 of learning: student behaviour at Melbourne steps be taken to enable an applicant to be International Space Station. Central Highlands Fax: 8341 7778 Museum. Museums Australia Education Pentland, P. 2004. 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We actively encourage significant Indigenous Cultures collection • Develop and open one new exhibition • Museum Victoria magazine undertaken to improve the occupational access and participation, and embrace the through best-practice collection management. pertaining to Victoria’s immigration history • Memoirs of Museum Victoria health and safety of employees. principles of sustainability, social justice • Continued repatriation program of Ancestral • Undertake research and develop concepts and reconciliation. • Calendar of Events • A general statement on industrial relations remains and secret and sacred objects to for four immigration story exhibits. within Museum Victoria and details of Aboriginal communities. • E-news • Present two touring exhibitions at the time loss through industrial accidents Relevant Activities undertaken during Immigration Museum • Play & Folklore and disputes. the 2003/04 financial year Relevant Strategies for the 2004/05 • Undertake research relating to the history • Museum Bites • A list of major committees sponsored financial year • Implementation of an Aboriginal Recruitment of gay and lesbian communities in Victoria, by Museum Victoria, the purpose of each • Melbourne Museum Volunteer Newsletter Strategy by Customer Services each time with a view to developing a cross-community committee and the extent to which the In 2004–2005 Museum Victoria intends to: • Volunteer Program Email Bulletin it recruits new staff. This approach has been and institution collection strategy. purposes have been achieved. very successful and the team includes • Continue to deliver public programs and • Museum Victoria Members Email Bulletin • Improve our recruitment processes to approximately 10% Indigenous staff. exhibitions that explore themes of cultural encourage the development of a workforce Information Privacy Customer services also works with CRS diversity in Australia that reflects the diversity of the Victorian Availability of Additional Information to bring on work placements. • Develop three community based exhibitions population. Museum Victoria complies with the Information for presentation in the Birrarung Gallery at The following information relating to Museum Privacy Act 2000 (Victoria). The Information • Employment of a teaching graduate as Melbourne Museum. Victoria, relevant to the financial year, has Privacy Principles contained within the Act part of the National Indigenous Cadetship National Competition Policy been prepared and is available to the Minister, establish standards for the use of personal Program. • Develop and open two exhibitions pertaining Museum Victoria is committed to competitive Members of Parliament and the public information in the public sector. Museum • Delivery of both formal and informal to Indigenous Cultures. on request. neutrality principles ensuring fair and open Victoria received no complaints in relation education programs pertaining to Aboriginal • Undertake research and develop concepts competition. 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Legislative Changes cultural materials. • Continue to develop links with the local of $14,000. • Details of changes in prices, fees, charges, There were no amendments to the Museums • Provision of culturally appropriate access Pacific Island community. rates and levies charged by Museum Act 1983 in the 2003-2004 financial year. to genealogical material to Aboriginal Victoria. • Strengthen partnerships with other individuals and families. Indigenous communities from across • Details of major research and development Merit and Equity • Development of three community-based Australia and overseas. activities undertaken by Museum Victoria. exhibitions for presentation in the Birrarung • Continue to implement a program of • Details of overseas visits undertaken During the 2003-2004 financial year, Museum Gallery at Melbourne Museum. repatriation of significant Indigenous cultural including a summary of the objectives Victoria complied with Section 7 and Section 8 property. and outcomes of each visit. of the Public Sector Management and Employment Act 1998.

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Building and Immigration Museum 2. Purpose of these Procedures 4. The reporting system All correspondence, phone calls and emails Upgrading of the foyer facilities and main from internal or external whistleblowers Maintenance Compliance These procedures establish a system for The reported system is represented as follows: ticket desk to enhance operations and visitor will be referred to the Protected Disclosure reporting disclosures of improper conduct or services - $30,000 Co-ordinator. Building Works (over $50,000) detrimental action by Museum Victoria or its CEO or President of Museums Board of Victoria Authority and Decision Making Alterations to the air-conditioning system in employee. The system enables such disclosures Where a person is contemplating making a Melbourne Museum to be made to the Protected Disclosure Co- disclosure and is concerned about approaching the theatrette to resolve temperature control Director Corporate Services Additional OH&S works on the roof - $70,000 ordinator or to the nominated Protected the Protected Disclosure Co-ordinator or a problems - $35,000 Protected Disclosure Co-ordinator Disclosure Officer. Disclosures may be made Protected Disclosure Officer in the workplace, Tattersalls children’s courtyard Reports to CEO or Board President in cases Security system upgrade - $ 30,000 by employees or by members of the public. he or she can call the relevant officer and improvements,including installation of a of disclosure. request a meeting in a discreet location away shaded sail roof, replacement of gravel with Moreland Annexe These procedures are designed to complement Human Resources Manager from the workplace. high density rubber tiles - $86,000 Installation of security grilles to external normal communication channels between Protected Disclosure Officer windows to improve security of the premises management and employees. Employees are Where the Protected Disclosure Co-ordinator, Scienceworks Museum Welfare Manager. and reduce risk to the collections - $24,000 encouraged to continue to raise appropriate Protected Disclosure Officer, CEO or President Restoration of the historic tin shed which matters at any time with their managers. As an Reports to Director Corporate Services is the subject of a claim, the internal reporting is part of the Pumping Station - $91,000 in cases of disclosure. Museum Victoria alternative, employees may make a disclosure system will be modified as follows: Construction of the High Voltage Theatre of improper conduct or detrimental action under Whistleblowers Procedures Investigator • Role of Protected Disclosure Co-ordinator exhibition space - $550,000 the Act in accordance with these procedures. Appointment authorised by the CEO & Protected Disclosure Officer will be 1. Statement of Support or Board President Royal Exhibition Building These procedures are not intended to replace combined. Therefore, if the claim is against to Whistleblowers Reports to Protected Disclosure Co-ordinator. Lift Installation Project - $525,000 (due for other existing Museum Victoria procedures the Protected Disclosure Officer, the that deal with grievances or complaints. Co-ordinator will carry out both roles and completion in late 2004) Museum Victoria is committed to the aims 4.1 Contact Persons within Museum Victoria and objectives of the Whistleblowers vice versa. These procedures may be amended from time North East Tower & Theatrette - $485,000 Protection Act 2001 (‘the Act’). It does not Disclosures of improper conduct or detrimental to time if necessary to comply with guidelines • If the CEO is the subject of a claim, the (due for completion in late 2004) tolerate improper conduct by its employees, action by Museum Victoria or its employees published by the Ombudsman under the Act. Protected Disclosure Co-ordinator will report officers or members, nor the taking of reprisals may be made to the following officers: The guidelines can be found at directly to the President of the Board. Minor Works (under $50,000) against those who come forward to disclose www.ombudsman.vic.gov.au. Protected Disclosure Officer – Human Resource such conduct. 4.2 Alternative contact persons Melbourne Museum Manager A disclosure about improper conduct or Installation of air-conditioning in the glazed car Museum Victoria recognises the value of 3. Objects of the Act Location: Level 1West detrimental action by Museum Victoria or its park lifts and shafts for the safety and comfort transparency and accountability in its Melbourne Museum administrative and management practices, and The purpose of the Act is to encourage and employees, may also be made directly to the of users and maintenance staff - $34,000 Carlton Gardens supports the making of disclosures that reveal facilitate the making of disclosures of improper Ombudsman: Phone: (03) 8 341 7746 Scienceworks Museum corrupt conduct, conduct involving a substantial conduct by public officers and public bodies. Fax: (03) 8 341 7273 The Ombudsman Victoria Urgent and essential OH&S works including: mismanagement of public resources, or The Act provides protection to whistleblowers who make disclosures in accordance with the Level 22, 459 Collins Street • Replacement of the Craig Street gate - conduct involving a substantial risk to public Protected Disclosure Co-ordinator – Director Act, and establishes a system for the matters Melbourne Victoria 3000 $15,000 health and safety or the environment. Corporate Services disclosed to be investigated and rectifying (DX 210174) Museum Victoria will take all reasonable steps Internet: www.ombudsman.vic.gov.au • Installation of shade cloth over the children’s action to be taken. Location: Level 1West to protect people who make such disclosures Email: [email protected] playground equipment - $9,000 Melbourne Museum from any detrimental action in reprisal for Tel: 9613 6222 • Repairs to the road around the oval - Carlton Gardens making the disclosure. It will also afford natural Toll Free: 1800 806 314 $15,000 Phone: (03) 8 341 7768 justice to the person who is the subject of Fax: (03) 8 341 7237 the disclosure. Additional Information

5. Roles and responsibilities 5.3 Protected Disclosure Officer 5.5 Welfare Manager However, the Act prohibits the inclusion of 7.1.1 Has the disclosure been made to the particulars in any report or recommendation appropriate person? 5.1 Employees • Receive all disclosures forwarded from The Welfare Manager is responsible for looking that is likely to lead to the identification of the Protected Disclosure Officer; after the general welfare of the whistleblower. For the disclosure to be responded to by • Employees are encouraged to report known the whistleblower. The Act also prohibits the The Welfare Manager will: Museum Victoria, it must concern an employee, or suspected incidents of improper conduct • Receive all phone calls, emails and letters identification of the person who is the subject member or officer of Museum Victoria. If the or detrimental action in accordance with from members of the public or employees • Examine the immediate welfare and of the disclosure in any particulars included disclosure concerns an employee, officer or these procedures. seeking to make a disclosure; protection needs of a whistleblower who in an annual report. member of another public body, the person • Refer all public interest disclosures to has made a disclosure and seek to foster • All employees of Museum Victoria have an Museum Victoria will ensure all files, whether who has made the disclosure must be advised the Ombudsman; a supportive work environment; important role to play in supporting those paper or electronic, are kept in secure storage of the correct person or body to whom the who have made a legitimate disclosure. • Be responsible for carrying out, or • Advise the whistleblower of the legislative and can only be accessed by the Protected disclosure should be directed. If the disclosure They must refrain from any activity that is, appointing an Investigator to carry out, an and administrative protections available Disclosure Co-ordinator, Protected Disclosure has been made anonymously, it should be or could be perceived to be, victimisation investigation referred to the public body to him or her; Officer, the Investigator or Welfare Manager (in referred to the Ombudsman. or harassment of a person who makes by the Ombudsman; • Listen and respond to any concerns of relation to welfare matters). All printed material a disclosure. Furthermore, they should 7.1.2 Does the disclosure contain the essential • Be responsible for overseeing and harassment, intimidation or victimisation will be kept in files that are clearly marked as protect and maintain the confidentiality elements of a protected disclosure? co-ordinating an investigation where an in reprisal for making disclosure; and a Whistleblower Protection Act matter, and of a person they know or suspect to have warn of the criminal penalties that apply to any Investigator has been appointed; • Ensure the expectations of the To be a protected disclosure, a disclosure made a disclosure. unauthorised divulging information concerning • Appoint a Welfare Manager to support the whistleblower are realistic. must satisfy the following criteria: a protected disclosure. All electronic files will be 5.2 Protected Disclosure Officer whistleblower and to protect him or her produced and stored in a secure environment. • The disclosure was made by a natural from any reprisals, where required, appoint • Be a contact point for general advice about 6. Confidentiality Backup files will also be kept secure. All person (that is, an individual person rather a welfare manager to carry out this role; the operation of the Act for any person materials relevant to an investigation, such as than a corporation); Museum Victoria will take all reasonable steps wishing to make a disclosure about • Advise the whistleblower of the progress tapes from interviews, will also be stored to protect the identity of the whistleblower. • The disclosure relates to conduct of a public improper conduct or detrimental action; of an investigation into the disclosed matter; securely with the whistleblower files. Maintaining confidentiality is crucial in ensuring body or public officer acting in their official • Make arrangements for a disclosure to • Establish and manage a confidential filing reprisals are not made against a whistleblower. Museum Victoria will not email documents capacity; be made privately and discreetly and, system; relevant to a whistleblower matter and will • The alleged conduct is either improper if necessary, away from the workplace; The Act requires any person who receives • Collate and publish statistics on disclosures ensure all phone calls and meetings are conduct or detrimental action has been information due to the handling or investigation • Receive any disclosure made orally made; and conducted in private. taken against a person in reprisal for making or in writing (from internal and external of a protected disclosure, not to disclose that • Liaise with the CEO or President of the a protected disclosure; whistleblowers); information except in certain limited Museums Board. circumstances. Disclosure of information in 7. Receiving and assessing disclosures • The person making a disclosure has • Commit to writing any disclosure breach of section 22 constitutes an offence reasonable grounds for believing the alleged made orally; 5.4 Investigator 7.1 Has the disclosure been made in accordance that is punishable by a maximum fine of conduct has occurred. with Part 2 of the Act? • Impartially assess the allegation and The Investigator will be responsible for carrying $6,000 or six months imprisonment or both. The Protected Disclosure Co-ordinator & determine whether it is a disclosure made out an internal investigation into a disclosure Where a disclosure has been received by The circumstances in which a person may Officer will determine whether the disclosure in accordance with Part 2 of the Act (that where the Ombudsman has referred a matter the Protected Disclosure Officer or by the disclose information obtained about a is a public interest disclosure. This assessment is, a protected disclosure); to the public body. An Investigator may be Protected Disclosure Co-ordinator, he or she protected disclosure include: will be made within 45 days of the receipt of a person from within an organisation or a • Forward all disclosures and supporting will assess whether the disclosure has been the disclosure. evidence to the Protected Disclosure consultant engaged for that purpose. • Where exercising the functions of the made in accordance with Part 2 of the Act Co-coordinator; and public body under the Act; and is, therefore, a protected disclosure. Where a disclosure is assessed not to be a protected disclosure, the matter does not need • Take all necessary steps to ensure the • When making a report or recommendation to be dealt with under the Act. The Protected identity of the whistleblower and the under the Act; Disclosure Co-ordinator & Officer will decide identity of the person who is the subject • When publishing statistics in the annual how the matter should be dealt with. of the disclosure are kept confidential. report of a public body; and • In criminal proceedings for certain offences in the Act.

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In reaching a conclusion as to whether 8. Investigations At the commencement of the investigation, • A decision should not be made until all 8.6 Referral of an Investigation to the a protected disclosure is a public interest the whistleblower should be: reasonable inquiries have been made; Ombudsman 8.1 Introduction disclosure, the Protected Disclosure Co- • The Investigator or any decision maker • Notified by the Investigator that he or The Protected Disclosure Co-ordinator will ordinator will consider whether the disclosure Where the Ombudsman refers a protected should not have a personal or direct interest she has been appointed to conduct the make a decision regarding the referral of an shows, or tends to show, that the public disclosure to Museum Victoria for investigation, in the matter being investigated; investigation; investigation to the Ombudsman where, on officer to whom the disclosure relates: the Protected Disclosure Co-ordinator will • All proceedings must be carried out fairly the advice of the Investigator: appoint an Investigator to carry out the • Asked to clarify any matters; and • Has engaged, is engaging or proposes to and without bias. Care should be taken to investigation. • Provide any additional material he or engage in improper conduct in his or her exclude perceived bias from the process; • The investigation is being obstructed by, she might have. for example, the non-cooperation of key capacity as a public officer; or The objectives of an investigation will be: and witnesses; or • Has taken, is taking or proposes to take The Investigator will be sensitive to the • The Investigator must be impartial in • To collate information relating to the detrimental action in reprisal for the making whistleblower’s possible fear of reprisals and assessing the credibility of the • The investigation has revealed conduct allegation as quickly as possible. This may of the protected disclosure. will make the whistleblower aware of the whistleblowers and any witnesses. Where that may constitute a criminal offence. involve taking steps to protect or preserve statutory protections provided to him/her. appropriate, conclusions as to credibility Where the Protected Disclosure Co-ordinator documents, materials and equipment; 8.7 Reporting requirements should be included in the investigation concludes that the disclosure amounts to a 8.4 Natural Justice • To consider the information collected and to report. The Protected Disclosure Co-ordinator will public interest disclosure, he or she will: draw conclusions objectively and impartially; The principles of natural justice will be ensure the whistleblower is kept regularly 8.5 Conduct of the Investigation 1. Notify the person who made the disclosure • To maintain procedural fairness in the followed in any investigation of a public informed concerning the handling of a of that conclusion; and treatment of witnesses and the person who interest disclosure. The principles of natural The Investigator will make contemporaneous protected disclosure and an investigation. is the subject of the disclosure; and justice concern procedural fairness and ensure 2. Refer the disclosure to the Ombudsman notes of all discussions and phone calls, and The Protected Disclosure Co-ordinator will a fair decision is reached by an objective for formal determination as to whether it • To make recommendations arising from the all interviews with witnesses will be taped. All report to the Ombudsman about the progress decision-maker. is indeed a public interest disclosure and conclusions drawn concerning remedial or information gathered in an investigation will be of an investigation. other appropriate action. stored securely. Interviews will be conducted further action to be taken. Museum Victoria will have regard to the in private and the Investigator will take all Where the Ombudsman or the whistleblower following issues in ensuring procedural Where the Protected Disclosure Co-ordinator reasonable steps to protect the identity of the requests information about the progress of an 8.2 Terms of reference fairness: concludes that the disclosure is not a public whistleblower. investigation, that information will be provided interest disclosure, he or she will: Before commencing an investigation, the • The person who is the subject of the within 28 days of the date of the request. Where disclosure of the identity of the Protected Disclosure Co-ordinator will draw disclosure is entitled to know the 1. Notify the person who made the disclosure whistleblower cannot be avoided, due to the up terms of reference and obtain authorisation allegations made against him or her and of that conclusion; and nature of the allegations, the Investigator will 9. Action taken after an investigation for those terms by the CEO. The terms of must be given the opportunity to respond. 2. Advise that person that he or she may warn the whistleblower and his or her welfare 9.1 Investigator’s Final Report reference will require the Investigator to make (This does not mean the person must be manager of this probability. request the public body to refer the regular reports to the Protected Disclosure advised of the allegation as soon as the • At the conclusion of the investigation, the disclosure to the Ombudsman for a formal Co-ordinator who, in turn, is to keep the CEO disclosure is received or the investigation It is in the discretion of the Investigator to Investigator will submit a written report determination as to whether the disclosure and Ombudsman informed of general progress. has commenced); allow any witness to have legal or other of his or her findings to the protected is a public interest disclosure, and that this representation or support during an interview. disclosure coordinator. request must be made within 28 days of 8.3 Investigation plan • If the Investigator is contemplating making a report adverse to the interests of any If a witness has a special need for legal the notification. Where the Investigator has found that the The Investigator will prepare an investigation person, that person should be given the representation or support, permission should conduct disclosed by the whistleblower has In either case, the Protected Disclosure plan for approval by the Protected Disclosure opportunity to put forward further material be granted. occurred, recommendations made by the Co-ordinator will make the notification and Co-coordinator. The plan will list the issues that may influence the outcome of the Investigator will include: the referral within 14 days of the conclusion to be substantiated and describe the avenue report and that person’s defence should being reached by the public body. Notification of inquiry. be fairly set out in the report; • The steps that need to be taken by Museum to the whistleblower is not necessary where Victoria to prevent the conduct from • All relevant parties to a matter should the disclosure has been made anonymously. continuing or occurring in the future; and be heard and all submissions should be considered; Additional Information

• Any action that should be taken by Museum 10. Managing the welfare of the Detrimental action includes: Disclosure Co-ordinator is satisfied that the In all cases where disciplinary or other action is Victoria to remedy any harm or loss arising whistleblower disclosure is a public interest disclosure, he being contemplated, the CEO must be satisfied • Causing injury, loss or damage; from the conduct. This action may include or she will refer it to the Ombudsman. If the that it has been clearly demonstrated that: bringing disciplinary proceedings against 10.1 Commitment to protecting whistleblowers • Intimidation or harassment; and Ombudsman subsequently determines the • The intention to proceed with disciplinary the person responsible for the conduct, • Discrimination, disadvantage or adverse matter to be a public interest disclosure, the Museum Victoria is committed to the action is not causally connected to the and referring the matter to an appropriate treatments in relation to a person's Ombudsman may investigate the matter or protection of genuine whistleblowers against making of the disclosure (as opposed to the authority for further consideration. employment, career, profession, trade refer it to another body for investigation as detrimental action taken in reprisal for the content of the disclosure or other available or business (including the taking of outlined in the Act. The report will be accompanied by: making of protected disclosures. The Protected information); Disclosure Co-ordinator is responsible for disciplinary action). 10.4 Whistleblowers Implicated in Improper • There are good and sufficient grounds that • The transcript or other record of any oral ensuring whistleblowers are protected from 10.2 Keeping the Whistleblower Informed Conduct would fully justify action against any non- evidence taken, including tape recordings; direct and indirect detrimental action, and that whistleblower in the same circumstances; and the culture of the workplace is supportive of The Protected Disclosure Co-ordinator will Where a person who makes a disclosure is and • All documents, statements or other exhibits protected disclosures being made. ensure the whistleblower is kept informed implicated in misconduct, Museum Victoria received by the officer and accepted as of action taken in relation to his or her will handle the disclosure and protect the • There are good and sufficient grounds that The Protected Disclosure Co-ordinator will evidence during the course of the disclosure, and the time frames that apply. whistleblower from reprisals in accordance justify exercising any discretion to institute appoint a Welfare Manager to all whistleblowers investigation. The whistleblower will be informed of the with the Act, the Ombudsman’s guidelines disciplinary or other action. who have made a protected disclosure. The and these procedures. Museum Victoria objectives of an investigation, the findings The Protected Disclosure Co-ordinator will Where the Investigator’s report is to include welfare manager will: acknowledges that the act of whistleblowing of an investigation, and the steps taken by thoroughly document the process including an adverse comment against any person, should not shield whistleblowers from the • Examine the immediate welfare and Museum Victoria to address any improper recording the reasons why the disciplinary or that person will be given the opportunity to reasonable consequences flowing from any protection needs of a whistleblower who conduct that has been found to have occurred. other action is being taken, and the reasons respond and his or her defence will be fairly involvement in improper conduct. Section 17 has made a disclosure and, where the The whistleblower will be given reasons for why the action is not in retribution for the included in the report. of the Act specifically provides that a person’s whistleblower is an employee, seek to decisions made by Museum Victoria in relation making of the disclosure. The Protected liability for his or her own conduct is not The report will not disclose particulars likely to foster a supportive work environment; to a protected disclosure. Disclosure Co-ordinator will clearly advise the affected by the person’s disclosure of that lead to the identification of the whistleblower. • Advise the whistleblower of the legislative whistleblower of the proposed action to be 10.3 Occurrence of Detrimental Action conduct under the Act. However, in some and administrative protections available taken, and of any mitigating factors that have 9.2 Action to be taken circumstances, an admission may be a to him or her; If a whistleblower reports an incident of been taken into account. mitigating factor when considering disciplinary harassment, discrimination or adverse If the Protected Disclosure Co-ordinator is • Listen and respond to any concerns of or other action. treatment that would amount to detrimental satisfied that the investigation has found that harassment, intimidation or victimisation 11. Management of the Person against action taken in reprisal for the making of the the disclosed conduct has occurred, he or she in reprisal for making disclosure; The CEO will make the final decision on whom a Disclosure has been made will recommend to the CEO the action that disclosure, the welfare manager will: the advice of the Protected Disclosure Co- • Keep a contemporaneous record of all must be taken to prevent the conduct from ordinator as to whether disciplinary or other Museum Victoria recognises that employees aspects of the case management of the • Record details of the incident; continuing or occurring in the future. The action will be taken against a whistleblower. against whom disclosures are made must whistleblower including all contact and Protected Disclosure Co-ordinator may also • Advise the whistleblower of his or her Where disciplinary or other action relates also be supported during the handling and follow-up action; and recommend that action be taken to remedy rights under the Act; and to conduct that is the subject of the investigation of disclosures. Museum Victoria any harm or loss arising from the conduct. • Ensure the expectations of the • Advise the Protected Disclosure Co- whistleblower’s disclosure, the disciplinary will take all reasonable steps to ensure the whistleblower are realistic. coordinator or Chief Executive Officer of or other action will only be taken after the confidentiality of the person who is the subject The Protected Disclosure Co-ordinator will the detrimental action. disclosed matter has been appropriately of the disclosure during the assessment and All employees will be advised that it is an provide a written report to the CEO, dealt with. investigation process. Where investigations do Ombudsman and the whistleblower setting offence for a person to take detrimental action The taking of detrimental action in reprisal for not substantiate disclosures, the fact that the out the findings of the investigation and any in reprisal for a protected disclosure. The the making of a disclosure can be an offence investigation has been carried out, the results remedial steps taken. maximum penalty is a fine of $24,000 or two against the Act as well as grounds for making of the investigation, and the identity of the years imprisonment or both. The taking of a further disclosure. Where such detrimental person who is the subject of the disclosure detrimental action in breach of this provision action is reported, the Protected Disclosure will remain confidential. can also be grounds for making a disclosure Co-ordinator will assess the report as a new under the Act and can result in an investigation. disclosure under the Act. Where the Protected Museums Board of Victoria Annual Report 2003/2004 131

The Protected Disclosure Co-ordinator will 12. Criminal Offences Fees and Charges Membership fees for Museum ensure the person who is the subject of any Victoria Members disclosure investigated by or on behalf of Museum Victoria will ensure officers appointed Museum fees a public body is: to handle protected disclosures and all other Price structure valid until 30 April 2004. employees are aware of the following offences The following museum fees and charges • Informed as to the substance of created by the Act: applied at Museum Victoria’s public museum Membership 1 Year 2 year the allegations; venues as at 30 June 2004. Category • It is an offence for a person to take • Given the opportunity to answer the detrimental action against a person in reprisal Adult Child Concession Family $90.00 $144.00 allegations before a final decision is made; for a protected disclosure being made. The Melbourne $6.00 $0.00 $0.00 • Informed as to the substance of any Joint Adult $80.00 $128.00 Act provides a maximum penalty of a fine of Museum adverse comment that may be included $24,000 or two years imprisonment or both. Adult $54.00 $86.00 in any report arising from the investigation; • It is an offence for a person to divulge Scienceworks $6.00 $0.00 $0.00 Senior $36.00 $57.00 and information obtained as a result of the handling Museum /Concession • Has his or her defense set out fairly or investigation of a protected disclosure Melbourne $6.30 $4.10 $5.10 in any report. without legislative authority. The Act provides Planetarium Child $18.00 $29.00 a maximum penalty of $6,000 or six months Where the allegations in a disclosure have imprisonment or both. Victoria $6.30 $4.10 $5.10 Price structure valid from 14 June 2004. been investigated, and the person who is University High the subject of the disclosure is aware of the • It is an offence for a person to obstruct the Voltage Theatre Membership Renewal/Rejoin allegations or the fact of the investigation, the Ombudsman in performing his responsibilities Protected Disclosure Co-ordinator will formally under the Act. The Act provides a maximum Immigration $6.00 $0.00 $0.00 Type Membership Prices penalty of $24,000 or two years imprisonment Museum advise the person who is the subject of the 1 Year Adult $25.00 disclosure of the outcome of the investigation. or both. • It is an offence for a person to knowingly 1 Year Child $12.00 Museum Victoria will give its full support to Notes provide false information under the Act with a person who is the subject of a disclosure 1 Year $12.00 the intention that it be acted on as a disclosed • Tours of the Royal Exhibition Building: where the allegations contained in a disclosure Concession matter. The Act provides a maximum penalty adult $5.00 or $3.00 add-on to Melbourne are clearly wrong or unsubstantiated. If the of $24,000 or two years imprisonment Museum ticket, child $1.00. 1 Year Family $49.00 matter has been publicly disclosed the CEO or both. • Special fees apply for various ticket will consider any request by that person to options such as combined IMAX Theatres, Joining Fee $11.00 (inc GST) issue a statement of support setting out Melbourne Planetarium, Victoria University that the allegations were clearly wrong 13. Review High Voltage Theatre and school bookings, Notes or unsubstantiated. These procedures will be reviewed every special activities and programs. Surcharges • New membership and renewals were not three years along with the policy statement apply for some special touring exhibitions. to ensure they meet the objectives of the Act processed during May in preparation for and accord with the Ombudsman’s guidelines. the roll out of the new program. • Membership provides: unlimited entry to In 2003/04 no incidents involving the all venues, discounts for touring exhibitions, Whistleblowers Protection Act 2001 were Melbourne Planetarium and retail outlets, recorded. member-only events and previews, free admission to a number of interstate museums and subscription to Museum Victoria’s Museum magazine.

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