The fabulous team from Scienceworks Museum showing off the Cowley Steam Traction Engine at the Newport Workshops Open Days, held over the Labour Day long weekend.
Shout out to Steamrail Victoria for putting on a fantastic event.
#steam #heritage #museumsvictoria
A bright orange pangolin (a small mammal completely covered in armoured plates) climbing down a branch.
A yellowed page from an historic book
In recognition of #WorldPangolinDay, we share this beautiful Chinese pangolin (Manis pentadactyla), now critically endangered. #SciArt by Frederick Polydore Nodder from George Shaw's The Naturalist's Miscellany V. 1 (1789-1813) in #BHLib via #MuseumsVictoria www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/40297096
So excited to hear this lecture with Dr Martin Goldberg!
#sciencesky #GallowayHoard #MuseumsVictoria
For 5 years David Paul took photos of hard-to-photograph and rarely seen Victorian animals. Our Museum holds these images in its collections and you can look through them online. What a wonderful project. #MuseumsVictoria #WildOz
An historic illustration of a (very elongated) wombat.
Happy #WombatDay! "This animal has not any claim to swiftness of foot". This is one of our favourite quotes from the historic literature ("An account of the English colony in New South Wales", David Collins, 1804) biodiversitylibrary.org/page/45924805 via
#MuseumsVictoria #Wombat #ILoveBHL 📖 🧪
This week our BHL Australia collection surpassed 700,000 pages! A huge thank you to the 64 Australian orgs who've allowed us to upload their collections online, and to #AtlasofLivingAustralia for funding @bhl-au.bsky.social and to #MuseumsVictoria for hosting our national digitisation lab.
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I will never stop getting a little emotional seeing Horridus, the little girl who loved dinosaurs is still alive and well
#Horridus
#MuseumsVictoria
I felt a bit emotional being able to see items from the #GallowayHoard up close. So incredibly detailed, I feel very privileged. I would have completely dropped my bundle if I’d been allowed to hold any of the items! #MuseumsVictoria
This presentation is so good! Thanks for sharing #MuseumsVictoria #NaturalHistory www.youtube.com/watch?v=We23...
🌊 #museumsvictoria has revealed that beneath the cold, dark, pressurised world of the deep sea, marine life is far more globally connected than previously imagined
A curled black snake with yellow and red stripes all along its belly (most likely so curled because it was drawn from a specimen pulled out of a jar)
This #SciArt by James Sowerby of the red-bellied black snake (Pseudechis porphyriacus) accompanied the 1st description of the species by George Shaw in "Zoology of New Holland" (1794), in #BHLib via #MuseumsVictoria & @bhl-au.bsky.social
www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/40653631 #WorldSnakeDay 🐍
An opening powerpoint slide showing 5 historic images of Australian animals and plants.
A images, each featuring a librarian standing behind a large rare book, each featuring a beautiful historic illustration.
A map of Australia completely covered in red dots. Each red dot represents a latitude and longitude pair from a journal article on the Biodiversity Heritage Library website.
Screenshots from the Biodiversity Heritage Library website: the first featuring 2 photos of two women (Kelli Trei and Nicole Kearney), the second text about how people can help with the BHL transition.
Tomorrow I'm speaking at the #MuseumsVictoria all-staff meeting about the 200,000+ pages from their collection now freely accessible online on @biodivlibrary.bsky.social + the challenges & opportunities created by the #BHLTransition.
🌱 #ILoveBHL 🧪 @bhl-au.bsky.social #AtlasLivingAustralia
Speech Pathology Australia Book of the Year Awards 2025, 5-8 years. There are ten books listed, including When the Stars Come Out, by Tanya Hill and Sylvia Morris.
YAY! When The Stars Come Out has been shortlisted in the Speech Pathology Australia Book of the Year Awards! Congrats to Tanya Hill and the #MuseumsVictoria team! And to all the other shortlistees - it's esp fun to be on any list with Lucia Masciullo and Jess Racklyeft <3 #SPABookOfTheYear
An open book. On the right hand page there is an historic illustration of a large grey possum with pink ears, a pink nose, a black stripe down its back and a fat bushy tail. The left hand page is blank.
An open book with an historic illustration of a green snake with a yellow belly curled around a tree branch on the right hand page. The left hand page is blank.
Agreed. BHL Australia always scans the blank pages. Of course we do! These examples are from:
"The Zoology of New Holland" (1794) www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/40653633 &
"The snakes of Australia" (1869) www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/58853329
both from the #MuseumsVictoria library. #ILoveBHL
An historic illustration of a large white parrot with a yellow crest, on a wooden perch in front of a red curtain.
An historic illustration of a white parrot with a pink head and a red/yellow/white crest, perched on a tree branch.
An historic illustration of two colourful parrots on a branch.
🦜 Happy #WorldParrotDay! 🦜 Only four copies of J.J. Halley's "A Monograph of the Psittacidae or Parrot Family of Australia" (1871) are known to exist today. Explore one of those copies for free in #BHLib thanks to #MuseumsVictoria. www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/56681272 #RareBooks
New to BHL this month: "Histoire naturelle des mollusques terrestres et fluviatiles de la France" (1805) from the #MuseumsVictoria Rare Book Collection: 🐚 🧪 📖 www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/64715649 #BHLib
An historic illustration of a possum and a koala, each holding onto a branch (no background).
An historic illustration of a the greater and lesser bilby.
An historic illustration of a numbat and a phascogale.
An historic illustration of a Honey Possum and a Pygmy-possum
"The order Marsupiala embraces a large assemblage of
quadrupeds...the great metropolis of the order is Australia." A natural history of the mammalia, George Waterhouse, 1846-48, from the rare book collection of #MuseumsVictoria www.biodiversitylibrary.org/bibliography... @biodivlibrary.bsky.social
If you missed BHL Australia’s Digitisation Coordinator Jack Eastaugh speaking about the Biodiversity Heritage Library on ABC radio, you can catch it again here (scroll to 35:30 minute mark) www.abc.net.au/listen/progr... #OpenAccess #BHL_AU #Biodiversity #MuseumsVictoria
🦕 #museumsvictoria @monashuniversity.bsky.social have found fossils of the world’s oldest known megaraptorid and the first evidence of carcharodontosaurs in Australia
Large wooden clock hanging on white tiled wall.
The VR No 1 clock is now on display at the entrance to the Pauline Gandel Children’s Gallery at Melbourne Museum.
#MuseumsVictoria
#VictorianRailways
Large wooden clock.
Victorian Railways, No 1 Clock from Spencer Street Station, was controlled by a telegraph signal from the Melbourne Observatory.
(Museums Victoria Collections collections.museumsvictoria.com.au/items/399915)
#MuseumsVictoria
#VictorianRailways
Two men on back of flat bed truck holding up large clock.
In 1964, Victorian Railways Commissioners made available in perpetuity to the Institute or Applied Science, the Departmental Clock that was known as “the main line starter clock”
(VR NewsLetter April 1964, p 56)
#VictorianRailways
#MuseumsVictoria
A black and white lithograph of three species of Lialis, or Australian legless lizards
A black and white lithograph of a Hatteria punctata, or Tuatara, native to New Zealand
Recently added to #BHLib from the #MuseumsVictoria Rare Book Collection: The lizards of Australia and New Zealand published by J.E. Gray (1867). This book contains images of various native species, including legless lizards and the tuatara!
Find it here: www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/64095461
Move over Lara Croft...the Cave Clan are here to save the day!
#TheArtNewspaper #artindustrynews #museums #preservation #flooding #artifacts #Australia #Melbourne #MuseumsVictoria
Here is the long lost brittle star Asteroschema monobactrum, last collected over a hundred years ago, from the SE seamounts of Chile. Merry Christmas!! #oceancensus #museumsvictoria
★★★★★ A multimedia exhibition that showcases the strength of the Māori matriarchy.
On display now at the @ImmigrationMuseum:
#immigrationmuseum #museumsvictoria #review #maori #whatsonmelbourne #exhibition
