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Opening soon: DISTRACTION
Opening soon: DISTRACTION

Focusing on interactive games, play and technology, our new exhibition DISTRACTION explores the ways we might harness the cacophony of digital content and find meaning within it.

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AnnouncementsHannah Miller20 May 2025Media Release
Meet Science Gallery Mediator Ashlen Campbell
Meet Science Gallery Mediator Ashlen Campbell

We sat down with Ashlen Campbell to chat about her enriching role as Mediator as she finishes her PhD in Ecology.

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SHELLEY Matulick12 May 2025mediators
Laying Down the Lore of First Nations speculative fiction
Laying Down the Lore of First Nations speculative fiction

Leading voice in Indigenous storytelling, Dr Mykaela Saunders, explored her groundbreaking research on First Nations speculative fiction at our annual Hugh D.T. Williamson Lecture.

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EventsHannah Miller9 April 2025first nations, SCI-FI, research
Merri-bek City Council high school students solve clean energy challenges
Merri-bek City Council high school students solve clean energy challenges

Students from four different schools collaborated on design thinking in the Merri-Bek Interschool Innovators Program.

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LearningHannah Miller4 April 2025Secondary
Meet Christian from the Science Gallery Mediator team
Meet Christian from the Science Gallery Mediator team

Christian Theodosiou shares what he loves about being a Mediator as he completes a Bachelor of Science (Honours) in the Infectious Disease Dynamics Unit.

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SHELLEY Matulick26 March 2025mediators
Gamifying the Science Gallery experience
Gamifying the Science Gallery experience

Discover how a team of cross-discipline students dove into a world of coding, storytelling, and sound design, to create a game inspired by our exhibition.

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ExhibitionHannah Miller12 February 2025Digital experience, SCI-FI, Tertiary
OPEN CALL: EMERGENCE(Y)
OPEN CALL: EMERGENCE(Y)

Science Gallery Melbourne is inviting proposals for projects to be included in our 2026 show EMERGENCE(Y).

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Announcements, OpportunitiesOlga Bennett16 September 2024Open Call
Let’s delve deeper into this edible Indigenous plant
Let’s delve deeper into this edible Indigenous plant

The murnong (yam daisy) was a staple food source for Wurundjeri people for tens of thousands of years!

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ExhibitionGabrielle Capes17 June 2024first nations, botany, NAIDOC, NOT NATURAL
Announcing our partnership with ArtScience Museum
Announcing our partnership with ArtScience Museum

Developed in collaboration with Singapore’s ArtScience Museum, our next exhibition offers fresh insights into science fiction as seen through the lens of women artists and collectives from the Asia Pacific Region.

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AnnouncementsHannah Miller4 June 2024SCI-FI, Media Release
The story of FIELDS
The story of FIELDS

Get to know our interactive wall label chatbot, and how FIELDS can help you connect, explore and make your mark in the conversation.

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Guest User28 March 2024Science Gallery MelbourneFIELDS, AI
OPEN CALL: DISTRACTION
OPEN CALL: DISTRACTION

Open call for our 2025 exhibition DISTRACTION.

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Announcements, OpportunitiesGuest User7 February 2024Open Call
Student podcasts respond to NOT NATURAL
Student podcasts respond to NOT NATURAL

Journalism students from The University of Melbourne used the NOT NATURAL theme as a prompt for short podcasts.

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ExhibitionGuest User25 January 2024NOT NATURAL, Digital experience, Tertiary
Coming soon: NOT NATURAL
Coming soon: NOT NATURAL

An exhibition exploring the growing friction between what we consider natural and artificial opens at Science Gallery Melbourne in February 2024.

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AnnouncementsHannah Miller21 November 2023Media Release
Meet the Curators of DARK MATTERS! 
Meet the Curators of DARK MATTERS! 

Mónica Bello is the Head of Arts at CERN in Geneva, Switzerland. Tilly Boleyn is Head Curator at Science Gallery Melbourne. 

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Gabrielle Capes15 November 2023
Breakthrough
Breakthrough

Written by Dr Jeremy Mould, part of a series commissioned by DARK MATTERS artist, Suzanne Treister.

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ExhibitionGuest User31 July 2023scientist stories, DARK MATTERS
Beginnings and Some Endings
Beginnings and Some Endings

Written by Maria Elena Angoletta, part of a series commissioned by DARK MATTERS artist, Suzanne Treister.

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ExhibitionGuest User17 July 2023scientist stories, DARK MATTERS
Four Episodes of Evolution
Four Episodes of Evolution

Written by B.K., part of a series commissioned by DARK MATTERS artist, Suzanne Treister.

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ExhibitionGuest User17 July 2023scientist stories, DARK MATTERS
Dark Nuggets
Dark Nuggets

Written by Dr. Michael Doser, part of a series commissioned by DARK MATTERS artist, Suzanne Treister.

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ExhibitionGuest User17 July 2023scientist stories, DARK MATTERS
The Prisoners
The Prisoners

Written by Redmond Barry Distinguished Professor Ray Volkas, part of a series commissioned by DARK MATTERS artist, Suzanne Treister.

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ExhibitionGuest User17 July 2023scientist stories, DARK MATTERS
To Probe A Soul
To Probe A Soul

Written by by Taylor Carnahan, part of a series commissioned by DARK MATTERS artist, Suzanne Treister.

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ExhibitionGuest User17 July 2023scientist stories, DARK MATTERS
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