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Annual Report 2001/2002

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Immigration Museum

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Museums Board of Victoria photoJoe Vittorio

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Front cover: Melbourne Museummain entrance.

Immigration Museum main entrance.

Aerial view of Scienceworks.

Cowley Steam Traction Engine.

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1TABLE OF CONTENTS –

2001/2002 ANNUAL REPORT

Introduction to Museum Victoria

Profile of Museum VictoriaPresident’s MessageActing Chief Executive

Officer’s MessageA Year of HighlightsAwards The Year in BriefPerformance OverviewFuture Priorities

Review of Campus Operations

Melbourne Museum - Exhibitions and Programs

Immigration Museum - Exhibitions and Programs

Scienceworks Museum - Exhibitions and Programs

EducationCommercial Operations

Beyond our Campuses

Regional OutreachMuseum Victoria Touring ExhibitionsMuseum in a VanMuseum Victoria WebsitesMelbourne’s Golden Mile Heritage Trail Regional Services (RASMAC)

Research and Collections

ResearchAustralian Science and Technology Indigenous CulturesSciencesCollection ManagementConservationProduction

Corporate Activities

Human Resources Management Finance and AdministrationBuilding and FacilitiesCompliance and Risk Management Corporate Marketing, Public Relations

and DevelopmentTechnology, Information and Multimedia

People in Museum Victoria

Corporate GovernanceExecutive Management TeamOrganisational StructureMuseum Victoria Partners,

Sponsors and PatronsMuseum Victoria AmbassadorsHonorary AppointmentsVolunteersMuseum Victoria Staff

Additional Information

Research GrantsResearch SupervisionResearch Publications Additional Publications and PresentationsConsultanciesFreedom of InformationLegislative ChangesAvailability of Additional Information National Competition PolicyBuilding and Maintenance Compliance Museum Victoria

Whistleblowers Procedures

Financial Statements

Introduction to the Financial StatementsFinancial StatementsIndex of ComplianceFees and Charges

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Pygmy Blue Whale, Melbourne Museum.

Leavings Gallery, Immigration Museum.

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PROFILE OF

MUSEUM VICTORIA

Museum Victoria, Australia’s largestpublic museum organisation, is the State museum for Victoria. It isresponsible for caring for the State’scollections, conducting research and, as a multi-campus educational andcultural institution, providing culturalprograms for the people of Victoria andvisitors from interstate and overseas.

The Museum’s origins date back to 1854 with the founding of the NationalMuseum of Victoria and the Industrial and Technological Museum of Victoria(later known as the Science Museum of Victoria) in 1870. By proclamation of the Museums Act 1983, these twoinstitutions were amalgamated to formwhat is today known as Museum Victoria, governed by the MuseumsBoard of Victoria.

Museum Victoria has a long history of research and collections and iscustodian of Victoria’s vast naturalscience, indigenous, social history andscience and technology collections. The size of these collections is estimatedat more than 16 million individual items.

Campuses and Facilities

Museum Victoria operates three vibrantcampuses and is custodian for theheritage-listed Royal Exhibition Building,Old Customs House and SpotswoodPumping Station. Museum Victoria also operates a separate collectionsstorage facility.

Melbourne Museum Opened 21 October 2000Melbourne Museum stands adjacent to and incorporates the historic RoyalExhibition Building in Carlton Gardens,forming the largest museum complex in the southern hemisphere. MelbourneMuseum draws on the latest technologyand interpretation methods in showcasingAustralian society, indigenous cultures,the human mind and body, science andtechnology and the environment.Features include Bunjilaka the AboriginalCentre, the Children’s Museum, a livingForest Gallery, the Immersion CinemaExperience theatre and the IMAX theatre.

Immigration Museum Opened 12 November 1998The Immigration Museum is situated in theOld Customs House, one of Melbourne’sfinest 19th century buildings. It is acontemporary social history museum that explores issues of immigration andcultural diversity. The Museum featuresengaging and interactive exhibitiongalleries, Discovery Centre, TributeGarden and a range of indoor and outdoor recreation and activity spaces.

Scienceworks Museum Opened 28 March 1992Located in the grounds of the historicSpotswood Pumping Station, the scienceand technology campus features moderninteractive exhibition galleries, teamedwith an outdoor arena and the Melbourne Planetarium.

Moreland Annexe Opened 30 October 1996 Museum Victoria’s state-of-the-artexternal collection store was purchasedand fitted out to Museum Victoria’sspecifications. Housing the largest of theMuseum’s collection items, the facilitycomplements collection stores atMelbourne Museum and Scienceworks.

Services

Museum Victoria provides a wide rangeof services and products, including:

Attractions• Exhibitions and public activity

programs.• Touring exhibitions.• Melbourne Planetarium. • Immersion Cinema Experience theatre

(ICE).• IMAX theatre, Melbourne.

Community • Museum Victoria membership program.• Museum Victoria website:

www.museum.vic.gov.au.• Museum Victoria magazine.• Public lectures and forums.• Outreach visits to schools and

other groups.• A roving curator to indigenous

communities.• Leadership, advice and support

to Victoria’s regional and specialist museums.

• Public information services onenvironmental, indigenous, historicaland scientific matters.

• Community Access Programs for culturally and linguistically diverse groups.

Introduction to MuseumVictoria

Mind and Body Gallery,Melbourne Museum.

Dinosaur puppet, Forest Gallery,Melbourne Museum.

Artist Judy Watson’s ‘Wurreka’ zincwall framing the Bunjilaka Gallery.

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3Research and Collections• Research expertise in terrestrial and

marine environments, earth science,science communication, Australiansociety and technology, and indigenous cultures.

• Custody and preservation of the State’s16 million-item heritage collection.

• Object and specimen identification.• Tertiary student supervision.• Student industry placement training.• DNA-based research and identifications

through the Molecular Biology Laboratory.• InfoZone: free study and research facilities.• Electronic and physical access to

collections and associated informationfor research purposes.

• Collection development andmanagement advice to otherinstitutions.

• Loans of collection items to other institutions.

• Advice on donating and conservingcollections.

• Separate collection stores and viewing areas for sensitive indigenouscultural material.

• Collection store and back-of-house tours.

Education• Primary, secondary, tertiary and adult

education programs and resources.• Professional development programs

for teachers.• Educational publications.• Extensive online educational resources

for Victorian schools.

Commercial• Car park facilities (Melbourne Museum).• Commercial venue hire, catering and

retail outlets.• Extensive photographic image library.

Vision

Museum Victoria will be recognisedthroughout Australia and the world for the way in which it engages the publicand stimulates the quest for knowledgethrough the vitality of its public programs.

Mission

The mission of Museum Victoria is toimprove understanding of ourselves andthe world in which we live through theinterpretation of collections and theknowledge that makes them meaningful.

Museum Victoria will engage the publicwith programs that explore:• the origins, development and diversity

of culture of the Australian people andtheir region; and

• science and technology and theirrelationship with the environment and society.

Values

In fulfilling its mission, Museum Victoria iscommitted to the following guiding values:• A commitment to professionally care

for and preserve the heritagecollections entrusted to MuseumVictoria as a significant component of Australia’s heritage.

• Recognition of Museum Victoria’s rolein generating and testing knowledgethrough curatorial research andinteraction with international scholars.

• Support for lifelong learning in thecommunity through the provision ofengaging and relevant public programs.

• Provision of a safe and welcomingenvironment for all visitors.

• Attainment of international best practiceand the maintenance of the highestethical standards in all activities.

• Promotion of a better understanding ofcultural diversity within society and thespecial place of indigenouscommunities in our nation.

• Supporting personal and professionaldevelopment of staff and themaintenance of a safe, equitable andinvigorating working environment.

• A commitment to best practice increative uses of new technologies toenhance the accessibility,understanding and value of MuseumVictoria’s activities for a local andworldwide audience.

• The provision of leadership in themuseum industry in Victoria and inmuseums generally.

Operating Principles

The following principles will guide theactivities of Museum Victoria:• We are mission-driven and

commercially positive.• We are customer-focused.• We value our collections and the

knowledge that makes them meaningful.• We encourage lifelong learning.• We support inter-cultural understanding

and reconciliation.• We value and respect each

others’ contributions.

Strategic Priorities

The strategic priorities of MuseumVictoria for 2000–2005 are: • The successful opening of Melbourne

Museum (achieved October 2000).• Extending the use of all facilities

and optimising the delivery potential of Scienceworks Museum, theImmigration Museum, and the RoyalExhibition Building.

• Maximising outreach and research programs.

• Providing leadership and assistance to regional and specialist museumsthroughout Victoria.

4 PRESIDENT’S MESSAGE

On behalf of the Museum’s Board ofVictoria, I am delighted to present the2001/2002 Annual Report detailingMuseum Victoria’s achievements andoperations over the last twelve monthsand financial statements.

Over the past year Melbourne Museum,the Immigration Museum and Scienceworkshave continued their determination toshare the vast and priceless Statecollection to as many people as possible,ensuring the people of Victoria enjoy theheritage we hold in trust for them.

Since becoming President of MuseumsBoard of Victoria in November 2001, ithas been a busy and exciting time and Ican now look back over these past eightmonths with a sense of fulfilment. Manyadvances have been achieved in thevision, strategy, visitor programs andresearch throughout the campuses.

The past twelve months has seensignificant milestones for MuseumVictoria. Scienceworks celebrated itstenth birthday in March. Amongst theexcitement and festivities was the launchof the Cowley Steam Traction Engine,which had been lovingly restored over tenyears by staff and volunteers. The giantinflatable birthday cake on the roof ofScienceworks was a spectacular sightand could be seen from some distance.Melbourne Museum also witnessed thecompletion of its first full year at the newCarlton Gardens complex, with over30,000 visitors attending the first birthdaycelebrations in October. The ImmigrationMuseum opened Stage Three of theTribute Garden in July 2001. Located inthe Festivals Courtyard, the TributeGarden records for posterity the names ofover 7,000 families who have made thejourney to Victoria.

Corporate and philanthropic support of the Museum witnessed an excitingdevelopment with the launch of MuseumVictoria’s two new subscription programs,Museum Victoria Patrons and MuseumVictoria Corporate Patrons, in April 2002.Museum Victoria also continued to benefit from the generosity of Trusts andindividuals, notably the Myer Family withthe opening of the Baillieu and Sarah Myer Immigration Discovery Centre atImmigration Museum and the donation of the Gantner Myer Aboriginal Collectiondisplayed in the Spirit Country exhibition.

Museum Victoria’s membership programhad another successful year with thenumber of memberships reaching over12,200 by the end of the year,representing over 50,000 people.Museum Victoria continues to host thelargest museum membership program inAustralia and I would like to thank theimportant supporters who continue tosupport and encourage the growth anddevelopment of Museum Victoria.

Museum Victoria continued to cement itsposition as a leading cultural institution,receiving more than two dozen prestigiousinternational and national awards for arange of disciplines including architecture,indigenous culture, tourism, marketing,public relations, film projects andvolunteer support.

In March 2002, I was delighted toannounce the appointment of Dr J PatrickGreene as Chief Executive Officer, tocommence his appointment in August. A prominent figure within the internationalmuseum community, Dr Greene is knownfor his work in establishing the acclaimedMuseum of Science and Industry inManchester. I look forward to ensuringMuseum Victoria is renowned as a world-leading museum in the years ahead withDr Greene at the helm.

I would like to extend my sincere thanks tothose who have assisted and supportedMuseum Victoria in various ways duringthe year. I would like to acknowledge mypredecessor, Professor David PeningtonAC, and retiring Board Members, ProfessorJennifer Graves and Mr Ian Sinclair, for theirefforts and dedication during their terms. I would especially like to acknowledgethe passing of the late Professor GeoffreyOpat, retired Board Member and Chair ofthe Research Committee, and recognisehis dedication, efforts and commitment toMuseum Victoria.

I would particularly like to thank theMinister for the Arts, the Hon MaryDelahunty MP, for her support andcommitment to the cultural vibrancy ofVictoria; our Ambassadors who continueto represent and inspire Museum Victoria;the Museum Victoria Members, Patrons,Corporate Patrons and Sponsors whocontinue to provide the essential financialsupport; the Museums Board of Victoriafor their continued dedication and vision;and most importantly the staff andExecutive Management Team whocontinue to ensure Museum Victoriaremains a world-leading and vibrantcultural institution.

Harold MitchellPresident, Museums Board of Victoria

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ACTING CHIEF EXECUTIVE

OFFICER’S MESSAGE

Scienceworks turned ten this year.Standing next to the newly restoredCowley Steam Traction Engine, celebratingScienceworks’ birthday with colleaguesand supporters, I could not resist reflectingon the last ten years in the life of MuseumVictoria. Scienceworks became an instantsuccess from the day its doors opened in March 1992. Since that day, we havedeveloped a new collections facility, openedthe Immigration Museum, and built both anew Planetarium and the flagship campus,Melbourne Museum. In addition, we haverehoused all of the Museum’s 16 millioncollection items in quality stores andprovided staff with first class laboratoriesand facilities. Our community hasembraced these developments, and has responded enthusiastically to therenaissance of the Museum.

Over the last year, 1.33 million peoplevisited Museum Victoria’s campuses. Themany major exhibitions on offer includedMelbourne Museum’s first blockbuster,The Seductive Treasures of Gold andCivilisation. Scienceworks continued toengage, educate and entertain. Highlightsincluded the refurbishment of Nitty GrittySuper City, an exhibition for the young,and the touring exhibition Terrorsaurus. At the Immigration Museum, visitornumbers have well exceeded expectationswith patrons discovering lost family linksat the Sarah and Baillieu Myer ImmigrationDiscovery Centre. Staff throughoutMuseum Victoria’s campuses can beproud of the events and exhibitionspresented throughout the year.

Museum Victoria continued its commitmentto enhancing visitors’ experience througha variety of initiatives. These included thehighly successful development andpresentation of three new theatricaldinosaur performances at MelbourneMuseum; the family history workshops atthe Immigration Museum; and the vibrantMachines in Action days at Scienceworks.Museum Victoria will continue to developengaging programs and activities in thefuture and looks forward to implementinginitiatives, such as the proposed VirtualReality Observatory at Melbourne Museum.

Education of school children remains aprime focus for Museum Victoria. Schoolgroups came in large numbers, with over226,000 students attending programs atone of Museum Victoria’s three campuses.Adults, in education programs, are alsodiscovering the Museum, with our adultand tertiary education services exceedingtargets. Special thanks must go to thecontinued essential support from theDepartment of Education and Training and the Catholic Education Office.

Museum Victoria has further developedits Outreach program, providing accessbeyond our campus walls to moreVictorians than ever before. Servicesincluded a redesigned website, touringexhibitions and our ‘Museum in a Van’.The Museum Victoria website featuredsignificant new content, including 320,000natural history specimen records, andattracted 1.6 million visits – an increase of 26%.

At the heart of a great museum lies astrong commitment to research and anactive collecting program. During the year,Museum Victoria developed a researchstrategy for the next three to five years.Staff were involved in 17 externally fundedresearch projects, organisation of fourmajor conferences, publication of more

than 30 refereed papers and 50 otherpublications and the presentation of 106lectures and talks. Staff also supervised28 graduate and postgraduate studentsand partook in international collectingexpeditions to Kenya, South Africa, China,Argentina and the Antarctic waters.

Museum Victoria continued to repatriateAboriginal cultural material, includinghuman remains, to their traditionalowners. Repatriation is a fundamentalpart of reconciliation and the Museumrecognises the rights of indigenousAustralians, including their rights to carefor the remains of their ancestors. Overthe last year, great progress was madeand we acknowledge the assistance ofthe Department of Communications,Information Technology and the Arts forfunding provided to the Return ofIndigenous Cultural Property Program.

Volunteers have continued to be an integralpart of the Museum Victoria family with over700 volunteers donating their time overthe last year. The success of this programensured Museum Victoria continued to bean industry leader in this area.

The Museum was without a permanentCEO for most of the year, however thecommitment of the Board and the depthin the Executive Management Teamensured that, although the year was one of great challenges, it was one ofenormous achievement. Museum Victoriastaff and volunteers can be well pleasedwith their successes over the last year.We look forward to building on theseachievements when Dr J Patrick Greenetakes up his appointment later this year.

Dr Robin HirstActing Chief Executive Officer

As the Scienceworks representative onthe Victorian Model Solar CompetitionCommittee, I am responsible formaintaining the “Driven by the Sun”exhibition and most importantly gettingthe site ready to ensure everything runs smoothly during the annualweekend event.

What I love most about organising this event is seeing the 1200 Victorianschool children at Scienceworks on the race weekend so involved,motivated by science and learning more about it. That’s what I’m here for!

GenevieveWadhamVisitor Programs Officer,Scienceworks

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A YEAR OF HIGHLIGHTS

July 2001

• Melbourne Museum unveiled The Seductive Treasures ofGold and Civilisation exhibition, which celebrated the 150thanniversary of the first gold rushes in Australia.

• Stage Three of the Tribute Garden at the ImmigrationMuseum was opened by Professor Mary Kalantzis and theHon Justice Bernard Bongiorno QC.

• Launch of Megawatt – Its Electrifying exhibition at Scienceworks.

August 2001

• Ms Padmini Sebastian was appointed Director, Immigration Museum.

• Melbourne Water Life in the Tall Eucalypt Forests temporaryexhibition opened at Melbourne Museum. The exhibitionfeatured photographs by Esther Beaton depicting life in thetall eucalypt forests east of Melbourne.

• Suburban Voices – The Story of Multicultural Manninghamfeaturing photographs and personal stories was launched inthe Access Gallery of the Immigration Museum.

• The ReggaeXplosion temporary exhibition began at MelbourneMuseum. The exhibition displayed 400 photographs andalbum covers, featuring mainly Jamaican artists from the1940s to the 1990s.

September 2001

• The temporary exhibition 100 Languages of Children openedat Melbourne Museum. Presented in collaboration withReggio Emilia Information Exchange, the exhibition showedthe potential of children from three months to six years.

• Mr Peter McMullin and Ms Susan Heron were appointed tothe Museums Board of Victoria.

October 2001

• Melbourne Museum celebrated its first birthday. Over 30,000visitors attended celebrations and experienced a diverse rangeof community and audience programs.

• Dr George F. MacDonald concluded his term as ChiefExecutive Officer, Museum Victoria and Director, MelbourneMuseum. Dr MacDonald returned to North America to take up a position as the Director of the Burke Museum at theUniversity of Washington in Seattle.

• In recognition of his contribution to Museum Victoria, former Director, Mr Graham Morris, was appointed anHonorary Life Fellow.

• Ms Susan Heron joined the Museums Board of Victoria.

• The Immigration Museum collaborated with Victorian ArabicSocial Services to present the exhibition Family, Business andCommunity: The Australian Lebanese in Victoria.

• Dr Thomas Darragh and Ms Joan Dixon were appointed asCurators Emeritus to recognise their outstanding contributionsto Museum Victoria.

November 2001

• Professor David Penington’s term as President of the Board finished. He was succeeded by Mr Harold Mitchell. Mr Peter McMullin was appointed as Deputy President of the Museums Board of Victoria.

• The publication A Museum for the People: A History ofMuseum Victoria and its Predecessors 1854–2000 waslaunched in the Australia Gallery of Melbourne Museum.

• A Memorandum of Understanding was signed with ArtsVictoria on the 2001 Federation Bells to facilitate their storageby Museum Victoria and administration of a community loan program.

December 2001

• Melbourne Museum unveiled Federation Tapestry.The tapestry, the largest ever commissioned in Australia, was funded by the Federal Government and created by theVictorian Tapestry Workshop in collaboration with a team of Australian artists.

• Professor Gregory Egan and Dr Gregor Kennedy wereappointed as Honorary Associates.

• Professor Jennifer Graves was appointed as an Honorary Life Fellow.

• The Termite Log was introduced into the Forest Gallery at Melbourne Museum. It features close-up viewing oftermites, bull ants and huntsman spiders.

• A new Planetarium show, Tycho Stars Again, was launched at Scienceworks.

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January 2002

• The Spirit Country exhibition was launched at MelbourneMuseum. The collection of Aboriginal works were generouslygifted to Museum Victoria by the Gantner and Myer Families.

• A Memorandum of Understanding was announced betweenMuseum Victoria and the new Children’s City in Dubai.Museum Victoria will assist in the creation of a new children’s facility.

• Museum Victoria Board Member Mr Peter Hiscock AM was appointed the new Chair of the Regional and SpecialistMuseums Advisory Committee (RASMAC).

• Visitors to Melbourne Museum included His Royal Highness,The Duke of York, and His Excellency the Right Reverend Dr Peter Hollingworth AC OBE, Governor-General of theCommonwealth of Australia.

February 2002

• The exhibition Rituals – Linking Yesterday, Today andTomorrow: An Arabic Community Perspective opened at the Immigration Museum.

• Launch of Terrorsaurus exhibition of robotic dinosaurs atScienceworks.

• The refurbishment of Nitty Gritty Super City exhibition wascompleted at Scienceworks. This exhibition engages youngchildren in a variety of activities designed to develop anunderstanding of the world around us.

March 2002

• Dr J Patrick Greene was appointed as the new CEO ofMuseum Victoria, to commence duty in August 2002.

• Scienceworks celebrated its 10th birthday. The weekendtheme ‘Extreme Science’ was highlighted through manyactivities and a reunion of past and present staff, volunteersand supporters.

• The International Day for the Elimination of Racial and Religious Intolerance was launched at the Immigration Museum.

April 2002

• Museum Victoria Patrons and Corporate Patrons programswere launched at Melbourne Museum.

• A Memorandum of Understanding was signed betweenMuseum Victoria and the Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco.It includes the possible lending of collection items and staff exchange.

• Visitors to Melbourne Museum included the Under Secretaryfor Culture in Italy, Dr Vittorio Sgarbi.

• Melbourne Museum launched the new theatrical showHatchling, a Dinosaur is Born.

• The temporary exhibit Secret Splendours: Women’s costumeof the Arab world opened at the Immigration Museum. This exhibition of breathtaking costumes and textiles covereda cross-section of the Arab world.

May 2002

• A plaque describing the significance of the symbolic hands in Milarri was unveiled at Melbourne Museum forReconciliation Week.

• A Memorandum of Understanding was signed betweenMuseum Victoria and RMIT University.

• The Beneath our Feet exhibition was launched at MelbourneMuseum, and featured some of the first geological maps everdrawn for Victoria, early photos, mineral specimens and twoof Museum Victoria’s mining models.

• Raincheck 3000 exhibit was unveiled at Melbourne Museum. This new exhibit is a user-navigated educationalinteractive featuring a raindrop’s journey through a Melbournewater catchment.

• The Textiles and Tales – Punjabi Women in Victoria exhibitionopened at the Immigration Museum.

• His Excellency Mr Karl Offman, President of the Republic of Mauritius, visited the Immigration Museum.

June 2002

• Human remains of several Tasmanian Aboriginals werereturned to representatives of the Tasmanian Aboriginal Centre.

• Sensational Screens, an exhibition developed by theInternational Specialist Skills Institute, opened at MelbourneMuseum. The exhibition displayed products from the recentworkshop program of Erling Christoffersen, Denmark’s mostfamous furniture designer.

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AWARDS

• The Royal Institute of Architects, Sir Zelman Cowan Award, BestPublic Building Australia: Awarded to Melbourne Museum.

• Royal Australian Institute ofArchitects, Victorian ArchitectureMedal, 2001 Project of the Year:Awarded to Melbourne Museum.

• Royal Australian Institute ofArchitects, Victorian Chapter, WilliamWandell Award, Best Institutional –new category: Awarded to Melbourne Museum.

• 2001 Ansett Australia VictoriaAwards, Tourist DevelopmentProjects category: Awarded toMelbourne Museum.

• 2001 Australian Tourism Award, BestTourism Development Project:Awarded to Melbourne Museum.

• 2001 Victorian Tourism Award, BestTourism Development Project:Awarded to Melbourne Museum.

• Arts Portfolio Leadership Award,Leadership in AudienceDevelopment category: Awarded toMulticultural – Audience Development,Melbourne Museum, for the significantwork at Melbourne Museum in thedevelopment of multilingual access toour programs.

• Arts Portfolio Leadership Award,Leadership in Community category:Awarded to Volunteer ProgramEstablishment, Melbourne Museum,for the outstanding program that hasinvolved over 400 volunteers in thedelivery of our public programs.

• Arts Portfolio Leadership Award,Certificate of Appreciation: Awardedto Scienceworks Garage andEngineering Workshop Volunteers,celebrating their contribution to therestoration and operation of the CowleySteam Traction Engine.

• Arts Portfolio Leadership Awards,Special commendation in theLeadership in Scholarship andResearch – new category: Awarded toa Museum Victoria research project forits outstanding molecular biology work.This project involves DNA-basedstudies investigating the origins,evolution and conservation of theAustralasian fauna.

• New York Film and Video Festival,World Gold Medal, SocialDocumentary category: Awarded tothree Bunjilaka films: Talking the Land,Singing the Land and Dancing theLand. These films tell the story ofWurundjeri Elder Joy Murphy, ArrenteElder Max Stuart and Torres StraitIslander Elder and artist Ken Thaiday.

• Institution of Engineers Australia,Engineering Excellence Award:Awarded to consulting engineers ARUP for excellence in their work onMelbourne Museum in the category forproviding consulting civil, structural andtraffic engineering services.

McKay Volunteer, Raoul Jonesand Peter Swinkles with MuseumIndustry Recognition Awards.

2002 Museum IndustryRecognition Awards, MostOutstanding Volunteer Project inthe Victorian Museum Sector.

Awards

10 • Australian Marketing Institute,Australian Marketing Award forExcellence, Arts category: Awardedfor the launch of Melbourne Museum;in particular, the opening weekend.

• Box Hill Institute of TAFE’sApprentice Award: Awarded toDamian Dingli, Museum Victoria’sapprentice carpenter, for achieving firstplace in his final year of cabinet making.

• 2002 Museum Industry RecognitionAwards, Most Outstanding IndividualAchievement in Victorian MuseumSector: Awarded to Raoul Jones for hiscontribution to Museum Victoria’sOutreach Program.

• 2002 Museum Industry RecognitionAwards, Most Outstanding VolunteerProject in the Victorian MuseumSector: Awarded to McKay VolunteerProject for work on Museum Victoria’sHV McKay collection, which containsrecords and objects from the HVMcKay agricultural enterprise. Thenomination honoured ex-McKayemployees who actively protect,interpret and are making accessible thehistory of the McKay Company.

• 2002 Museum Industry RecognitionAwards, Lifetime AchievementAward: Awarded to Peter Swinkels forhis 22 years’ service to the museumindustry. Peter has been head of thePreparation Department at MuseumVictoria for 14 years and has set thestandard for museum preparation workin Australia. He also played a pivotalrole in moving the iconic Phar Lap tothe new Museum in Carlton and thesperm whale retrieval from Port Fairy.

• Australian Teachers Of MediaAwards, Outstanding RadioBroadcast: Awarded to Andi Horvathand the ‘Einstein a Go Go’ Team. Thisteam also received a commendation fortheir broadcast Albert Einstein theMan, delivered from MelbourneMuseum in January 2002.

• NAIDOC 2001 Certificate ofAppreciation: Awarded to MuseumVictoria in recognition of itscommitment and achievement inemploying indigenous staff.

• Public Relations Institute of AustraliaVictorian State Awards forExcellence, ComprehensiveCommunication Program category:Awarded to Melbourne Museum for A Museum for the 21st Century:Communicating the birth of theMelbourne Museum.

• Public Relations Institute of AustraliaVictorian State Awards for Excellence,Marketing Communicationscategory: Awarded to MelbourneMuseum for Life: Now Showing(launching Melbourne Museum).

• Public Relations Institute of Australia Victorian State Awards forExcellence: Special Citation for highestplacing of any Awards entry submittedfrom the Government sector.

• Australian Institute for LandscapeArchitects Victoria and TasmanianState Awards 2001, FirstCommendation Building Settingcategory: Awarded to MelbourneMuseum.

• Landscape Industries Association ofVictoria 2001 Awards of Excellence,Joint Winner – Landscape of theYear: Awarded to Melbourne Museum,Forest Gallery and Milarri Garden.

• Master Builder’s Association 2001Excellence in Construction Award,Most Innovative Construction andExcellence in Health and Safety:Awarded to Melbourne Museum,Forest Gallery.

• Commission of Public EmploymentCommendation: Awarded toMelbourne Museum Volunteer Programin the 2002 Good Ideas for ManagingPeople booklet in June 2002.

• Australian Association of ConsultingEngineers, Award for Best BuildingInfrastructure: Awarded to MelbourneMuseum. Melbourne Museum alsowon the Victorian Award for Structural Engineering.

• Victorian Community History Award2002, Best Print Publication: Awardedto A Museum for the People: A Historyof Museum Victoria and itsPredecessors 1854–2000.

• The Golden Service Awards 2001,Leisure/Venue category: SpecialCommendation awarded to TradeflexServices Group for Melbourne Museum.

• Australian Publishers Association,Australian Awards for Excellence inEducational Publishing, BestSecondary Book Series category:Awarded to Peter Pentland,Scienceworks Education staff member,author of the Jacaranda HSC Physics 1and 2 text book series.

• Australian Science Teachers’Association, Most Valuable PaperAward 2001: Awarded to Tim Byrne,Scienceworks Education staff member,for Tilt, Rock and Roll: Understandingthe Day/Night Cycle, Australian ScienceTeachers Journal, Vol 47 Number 1,March 2001.

Nga Taoga O Te Whetu Ruatau, a Maori dance group at the MuseumIndustry Recognition Awards.

Museum Victoria Patrons Function 2002.

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THE YEAR IN BRIEF

Key Outputs

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Exhibitions presented 46 58Publications by staff 87 98Presentations and lectures by staff 115 150Research projects (externally funded) 16 30

Attendances

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Melbourne Museum 650,793 807,549Scienceworks Museum and 349,650 284,014

Melbourne PlanetariumImmigration Museum 82,066 88,194Non-ticketed entry 245,666 222,571Outreach Services 21,318 15,309Website 1,597,256 1,264,378Total 2,946,749 2,682,015

Notes:• A KPMG analysis of 2001/02 visitation at Melbourne Museum

reflects the decline in ‘novelty effect’ experienced by newattractions. The events of September 11 in the United Statescompounded this effect with a resulting drop in all markets.International markets were effected by September 11, anddomestic markets responded to a decline in consumerconfidence resulting from this event and the collapse ofAnsett and HIH. Nevertheless, Melbourne Museum attractedin excess of 650,000 visitors. The first birthday celebrationsattracted more than 30,000 visitors, all of whom wereadmitted free of charge.

Memberships

The number of Museum memberships rose dramatically during theyear to over 12,200, representing approximately 50,000 people.

Both Scienceworks and the Immigration Museum performedbeyond expectation. Member admissions represented 16% oftotal admissions to Scienceworks. Member visitation to all threecampuses combined represented almost 10% of all admissions.

2001/2002 2000/2001Memberships 12,239 7,876

Staff

2001/2002 2000/2001Employment Male Female Total Total Variation

StatusOngoing 143 222 365 311 +54Fixed 26 48 74 146 -72Casual 49 49 98 97 +1Total 218 319 537 554 -17FTE 178 251 429 447 -18

Curators and collection managers in the Australian Society and TechnologyDepartment focus on the historical and contemporary experiences ofVictorians, through research, collectionsand exhibitions.

Amongst other projects, Elizabeth isinvolved in the Shrine of RemembranceDevelopment project, a social andarchitectural interpretation of war andremembrance in Melbourne for theShrine of Remembrance Trustees.

ElizabethWillisSenior Curator, Australian Societyand Technology Department

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Meet visitors’ needs and expectationsthrough Museum Victoria’s public programs,services and facilities.

Develop exciting, informative publicprograms comprising a dynamic mix of long-term and short-term offerings across allcampuses and outreach services ofMuseum Victoria.

Establish evening programming at allcampuses of Museum Victoria.

Establish clear identities for each campusand outreach services of Museum Victoria.

Strategies

Position Museum Victoria as a key content provider in the formal education and recreational learning market.

Create and implement user friendlyinformation systems to capture and provide access to Museum Victoria’sknowledge bases.

PERFORMANCE OVERVIEW

In this overview, Museum Victoria reports achievements in the 2001/2002 year against the11 strategic goals identified in the organisation’s five-year Strategic Plan.

1 Visitor ExperienceMuseum Victoria will provide engaging, enjoyable and educational experiences to the widestpossible audience through its public programs, services and facilities.

Results

• Market research studies indicate that satisfaction with Museum Victoria public programsand services was 95.7%.

• Amongst service elements cited by Melbourne Museum respondents, the following wererated amongst the most satisfactory: ‘knowledgeable and well informed staff’, ‘friendlyand helpful staff’ and ‘overall value for money’.

• Scienceworks celebrated its tenth birthday with special public programs, the launch of thenewly restored Cowley steam engine and the temporary conversion of the Scienceworksroof into a giant birthday cake. Through a dynamic mix of exhibitions, two newplanetarium programs and a range of public programs, the Museum achieved visitationnumbers not seen since its inaugural year. Exhibition highlights include MegaWatt – It’sElectrifying and Terrasaurus.

• First birthday celebrations at Melbourne Museum attracted over 30,000 free visitors over asingle weekend. Special exhibitions and programs included Hatchling: A Dinosaur is Born,The Seductive Treasures of Gold, 100 Languages of Children and Forging the Nation.

• The Immigration Museum continued to foster relations with community agencies in orderto deliver programs that reflect the aspirations and needs of a culturally-diversecommunity. In conjunction with VicHealth, the Immigration Museum hosted four well-attended Smoke Free festivals with the Chinese, Arabic, Macedonian and Italiancommunities. The Museum also delivered four community-generated exhibitions in theSchiavello Access Gallery. Exhibition highlights include Showing Face: Chinese Identity inRegional Victoria from the 1850s to Federation and Lost and Found: A Shared Search forBelonging.

• Evening sessions of Planetarium shows were conducted weekly.• Fourteen summer Global Sounds concerts were delivered at Melbourne Museum.• Sleepovers were hosted at both Scienceworks and Melbourne Museum.• The Royal Exhibition Building lightshow was launched as part of the Melbourne Museum

birthday celebrations.

• A Museum Victoria Strategic Positioning Plan was developed. The plan clarifies identitiesof each campus and documents strategies for reinforcement of the respective brands.

2 Lifelong LearningMuseum Victoria will be a leader in providing lifelong learning opportunities for the whole community.

Results

• 244,000 education visits to Museum Victoria’s three venues. Approximately 10% ofeducation visits to Melbourne Museum were from the adult education sector.

• 14.5 qualified education officers were employed across Museum Victoria.• Continued implementation of the STAR 6 program, providing transport and program

subsidies for Year 6 students from across Victoria to Scienceworks. • 102,838 ed-online user sessions.• Teacher professional development programs offered by Museum Victoria were attended

by more than 3,000 teachers and/or student teachers.

• 85,193 members of the public visited InfoZone at Melbourne Museum to obtain access toMuseum Victoria expertise or information.

• 26,114 members of the public accessed data via Immigration Museum Discovery Centreresources.

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Develop a long-term Research Strategy forMuseum Victoria.

Position Museum Victoria in leadership rolesin state, national and international researchprograms.

Publish the results of research in media thatare appropriate to Museum Victoria’s targetaudience.

Maximise external funding, sponsorship andcontract research in areas recognised asstrategic priorities of Museum Victoria.

Strategies

Provide an accessible, safe, comfortable andwelcoming environment for visitors andstaff in all Museum Victoria campuses.

Establish Museum Victoria’s museums askey attractions in Victoria’s cultural and builtenvironment.

Ensure the useability of the buildings andinfrastructure for Museum Victoria programsand the care of collections, while respectingthe heritage values of Museum Victoria’sbuildings.

Manage the acquisition, development andmaintenance of the built facilities andinfrastructure to optimise their long-termviability and flexibility.

3 Adding to Our KnowledgeMuseum Victoria will develop and enhance its collections and knowledge bases in order toserve today’s community and provide a rich inheritance for future generations.

Results

• Research Policy approved by the Board in September 2001.• Research Strategy developed, which outlines Museum Victoria’s research strengths and

sets out future goals and directions.• Research Action Plan developed and its implementation commenced.

• Museum Victoria was successful in achieving funding for a number of collaborativeprojects at a national level.

• A research and collections website detailing Museum Victoria’s research programs andcurrent projects was developed for launch in August 2002.

• A total of 74 specialist research publications were achieved, including refereed journals,reports, book chapters and theses.

• Museum Victoria published A Museum for the People: A History of Museum Victoria andits Predecessors 1854-2000. The book was awarded the Victorian Community HistoryAward 2002 for Best Print Publication.

• Publication of Volume 59(1) of Museum Memoirs.

• Project funding was received from the Australian Research Council; the National OceansOffice; the Australian Biological Resources Study; the Department of Communications,Information, Technology and the Arts; Centenary of Federation; the Department ofInfrastructure; VicRoads; the University of Melbourne; VicHealth; Myer Foundation; ArtsVictoria and Grimwade Miegunyah Fund.

4 Building Museums for the 21st CenturyMuseum Victoria will build and maintain outstanding, welcoming facilities that are accessible,clean, secure, and serve its operational needs. Facilities will be sensitive to the cultural and environmental contexts in which they operate.

Results

• Achieved Victorian Managed Insurance Authority Gold Medal for all three museums andthe main storage facility.

• The Royal Exhibition Building maintained its Silver Medal rating.

• Melbourne Museum was awarded the National Australian Tourism Award for Excellence.

• Refurbishment works continued on the Royal Exhibition Building.• A preventative maintenance program for the Old Customs House was implemented.

• Progress was made on the identification and rectification of Melbourne Museum buildingdefects.

• Scienceworks’ capital development plan to improve the visitors’ experience remainsunfunded.

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Develop collection management policies,procedures and practices that support thestrategic priorities of Museum Victoria.

Meet legislative obligations for managementof heritage collections.

Develop a Museum Victoria-wide databasethat integrates collection information andprovides improved access to MuseumVictoria’s knowledge base.

Support and promote access to heritagecollections within a national and internationalframework.

Develop collection conservation policies,procedures and practices that support thestrategic priorities of Museum Victoria.

Assist and promote preservation of heritagein the community.

Strategies

Develop a capacity to reach a globalaudience through the use of appropriatetechnologies.

Cost-effectively develop, store, retrieve anddistribute Museum Victoria data, informationand knowledge to both internal and externalusers. Provide technology and appropriatemanagement and staffing structures thatmeet Museum Victoria’s needs forinformation systems, business systems,productivity systems and public programmultimedia systems.

Develop systems that provide management information for effective and timely decision making.

5 Caring for HeritageMuseum Victoria will care for the heritage in its charge as a resource for current and futuregenerations, balancing long-term preservation with access and use.

Results

• The Board approved a Collection Development and Management Policy. This will besupported by a Collection Strategy, to be implemented in 2002.

• Management of the heritage collections continued throughout the year. Special projects included:• Completion of the relocation of the collections to Melbourne Museum.• Installation of a cool store facility at the Moreland Annexe in Coburg to house

photographic and film material from the History and Technology Collection.

• Progress was made on testing the mapping and features of the new KE EMu database.The KE EMu project is a long-term project aiming to catalogue and digitise the mostsignificant items in Museum Victoria’s collections.

• Museum Victoria loaned 17 aeronautical items, including three aeroplanes, six engines, arocket and a satellite to the Australian Museum of Flight display. It also loaned items forscientific research, interstate and overseas.

• All collection facilities managed with an Integrated Pest Management program.• The pilot phase of Collections Risk Assessment project was completed.

• The Cowley Steam Traction Engine, acquired by Museum Victoria in 1985, has undergonea 10-year restoration project. 21 volunteers helped to restore the engine, contributingapproximately 5,000 hours in total.

• Volunteers who worked with the McKay Sunshine Harvester collections were awarded theMost Outstanding Volunteer Project in the Victorian Museum Sector at the 2002 MuseumIndustry Recognition Awards.

• Museum Victoria received funding for the Return of Indigenous Cultural Property program.As part of this program, ancestral remains were returned to Tasmania and variouscommunities throughout Victoria.

• Conservation training advice was offered to Koori keeping places.• Four Object Days took place in InfoZone within Melbourne Museum, providing the public

with opportunities to obtain information on the care and storage of their personal ‘treasures’.

6 Communicating in the Information AgeMuseum Victoria will be a communicator of authoritative knowledge to local, national andglobal audiences using innovative applications of appropriate technologies in the presentation ofits programs and collections and the most appropriate technology in support of its management

Results

• Website traffic to Museum Victoria totalled 1.6 million user sessions.• A redesign of Museum Victoria’s websites was undertaken for launch in 2002.

• The Museum Victoria intranet was enhanced providing staff with up-to-date managementinformation online.

• 12 Projects were digitally published including Forest Secrets, History of Museum Victoriaand Coins and Medals.

• Searchable records for Biggest Family Album and First World War databases were completed.

• Financial reports were made available to staff online to assist with the tracking of budgetsand expenditure.

• Ongoing delivery of support and training for Museum Victoria staff in the use of thecorporate records management system. More than 12,000 records are now registered.

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Develop Museum Victoria’s StrategicMarketing Plan and, within this framework,develop marketing plans for MuseumVictoria’s campuses and services.

Conduct a vigorous program of marketresearch and evaluation to assess existingand potential audience needs, wants andinterests to identify marketing opportunities,and to inform product development and thedelivery of Museum Victoria’s programs,services and facilities.

Develop partnerships, alliances and networkswith organisations, groups and individualsthat will assist in positioning MuseumVictoria as one of the preferred providers ofenjoyable and educational experiences.

Positively manage Museum Victoria’s image.

Build positive awareness of MuseumVictoria, its campuses, products andservices through improved and coordinatedmedia and government relations, publicaffairs, issue management and relationshipswith key interest groups.

Develop marketing campaigns that will position Museum Victoria and itscampuses as essential components of the Melbourne experience.

7 MarketingMuseum Victoria will be positioned as a preferred provider of enjoyable, high quality,educational experiences that will create lifelong relationships based on value and satisfaction.

Results

• A three-year marketing plan for Melbourne Museum was developed.• Implementation of a media and public relations plan commenced.

• 55 quantitative market research studies were conducted across Museum Victoria.

• The Patrons Program was launched, providing an avenue for subscribers to donate fundsand be recognised for their contribution.

• 128,000 members visits were achieved exceeding the previous year’s member visitation by95,000. The program is the largest zoo, gallery or museum membership program inAustralia. 98% of members rate their membership as either ‘good’ or ‘very good’.

• The target of 80% positive/neutral exposure of Museum Victoria’s campuses wasachieved for exhibitions, collections and research activities in both popular and targettelevision, radio and print media.

• In recognition of the successful launch of Melbourne Museum, two awards were receivedfrom the Public Relations Institute of Victoria.

• Media launches were held for each new exhibition throughout the year.• A Government Relations Strategy was developed and its implementation commenced.

• Museum staff worked closely with Tourism Victoria to ensure the benefits of a major newtourist attraction are utilised in the promotion of Melbourne and Victoria.

• Melbourne’s Golden Mile Heritage Trail was strongly promoted. The Golden Mile is a walkthrough the gold rush heritage of Melbourne. It runs between the Immigration Museumand Melbourne Museum. The trail attracts an average 1,700 people per month. During theyear the Golden Mile celebrated 50,000 walkers since its launch in December 1999.

• Museum Victoria became a member of the newly-formed Aboriginal Tourism Marketing Association.

• Museum Victoria delivered tourism industry familiarisation programs.

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Through a collaborative and inclusiveprocess, develop strategic support forregional museums throughout Victoria.

Further raise the profile and the standing ofMuseum Victoria as a leader, both nationallyand internationally, in museological practice.

Position Museum Victoria as a leader inindigenous issues in Australia.

Strategies

Develop a collaborative strategic planningprocess led by the Museums Board thatpromotes a shared understanding andcommitment to Museum Victoria’s vision,mission and values.

Develop a process of appraisal andmonitoring of performance against goalsand key performance indicators so the CEOcan report competently and authoritativelyto the Board.

Ensure there are clear lines ofcommunication between the Board,Museum management and staff.

Ensure that sound contemporarygovernance practices are implemented.

Develop procedures that will assist theBoard to ensure that Museum Victoria andits resources are effectively managed.

8 LeadershipMuseum Victoria will be recognised locally, nationally and internationally as an industry leaderthrough the exemplary way it conducts its activities, serves the community, is accountable togovernment and responds to sponsors’ needs.

Results

• Continued support was provided to the Regional and Specialist Museums Advisory Committee.• The Committee facilitated discussions about strategies for effective collaboration

and support for regional touring exhibitions.

• Six papers were presented by Museum Victoria staff to the 2002 Museums Australiaconference. Papers included ‘History for the millions’, ‘Phar Lap and Museum Victoria’,‘Captain Cook’s Cottage: An Experiment in Modern Museology’ and ‘From Dictation toDetention Centres: Exhibiting Controversy Past and Present’.

• Ongoing service was provided to the Koori community through the Family History Service.• Support was provided to the Aboriginal Cultural Heritage Advisory Committee.• Dynamic activity and performance programs in Bunjilaka were delivered.• Ancestral remains were actively repatriated.• In partnership with the University of Melbourne, Museum Victoria organised the

Centenary Anniversary Symposium: A Celebration of Anthropologist Donald Thompson inwhich 23 papers were delivered by local, interstate and overseas academics.

• Partnership agreements with Ara Iririrja and Lake Tyers Communities were negotiated.• The exhibition Thookay Ngaweeyan, Young Voices of Victoria: Aboriginal Children’s Arts,

compiled from the collections of Museum Victoria, toured throughout regional Australia.• Conservation training advice was offered to Koori keeping places.

9 GovernanceThe Museums Board of Victoria will provide strategic direction and oversight of MuseumVictoria, ensure compliance with the Museums Act and Government policies, and will beresponsible and accountable for empowering staff to achieve the mission and the vision.

Results

• The Board approved a comprehensive process for the development of a new strategicplan to guide Museum Victoria through the next phase of its existence. It is envisaged thatthis plan will be complete by the end of 2002.

• Comprehensive mid-and-end-of-year reviews of the annual business plan were undertaken.

• A monthly status report was devised for effective, concise Board reporting againststrategic priorities and governance issues.

• Procurement, fixed assets and probity policies were reviewed and revised.• A number of internal and external audits were conducted which tested Museum Victoria’s

internal control environment. • Museum Victoria responded proactively to the impending implementation of the

Information Privacy Act 2000 with a year-long project to interpret the Act, identify andredress risks in Museum Victoria’s information management practices, develop policy andtrain staff.

• A 9% reduction in energy use at Melbourne Museum was achieved. • A recycling and waste management audit was commissioned. Many of the subsequent

recommendations have been implemented to reduce waste and to maximise re-use andrecycling practices.

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Provide leadership of the highest quality inaccordance with the principles, ethics andbehaviours outlined in Museum Victoria’sEnterprise Partnership Agreement.

Develop a work force plan and a long-termfinancial plan that will ensure a smoothtransition from a capital development modeto an operational mode.

Strategies

Undertake long and short term planning toensure that the processes of change can beunderstood and managed at every stage.

Monitor the economic, societal, political andindustry environments in which MuseumVictoria operates to identify changing trends.

10 ManagementMuseum Victoria management will lead, motivate and develop staff and manage Museumresources to fulfil Museum Victoria’s mission with creativity and efficiency within a strategicframework approved by the Board.

Results

• The organisation commissioned an employee opinion survey. Issues identified via thisprocess will inform the development of the next Enterprise Partnership Agreement.

• The financial modelling undertaken by Museum Victoria was reviewed and revisedthroughout the year.

11 Managing Change Museum Victoria will be recognised as an organisation that effectively manages change, andpositively embraces the opportunities that change creates.

Results

• An organisational self-assessment was undertaken in accordance with the AustralianBusiness Excellence Framework. The process involved over 200 staff interviews, a three-day report writing workshop and resulted in the identification of four key projects toimprove Museum Victoria processes and systems into the future.

• The review of the Programs, Research and Collections Division was completed.

• A review of the current strategic plan in the context of past achievements and the newenvironment in which we are operating was undertaken. The outcomes of this processwere incorporated into the 2002/03 business planning process.

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Museum Victoria • Establishment of Museum Victoria

Foundation to raise revenue to supportthe work of Museum Victoria.

• Ongoing audience evaluation and development.

• Redevelopment and launch of theMuseum Victoria website.

• Establishment of a new strategic planfor Museum Victoria.

• Development of a new Museum VictoriaEnterprise Partnership Agreement.

• Further development of the Museum’sOutreach Programs, with an emphasison regional Victoria.

• Continued business system integrationacross Museum Victoria.

• Development and implementation ofthe Strategic Information andKnowledge Management Action Plan.

Research and Collections• Implementation of an integrated

Collection Management System (KEEMu) for Museum Victoria’s collection.

• Installation of a Collection InventorySystem to be implemented and linkedto KE EMu.

• Implementation of an integrated storagearea network across Museum Victoria.

• Implementation of the Research Strategyto increase the Museum’s researchfunding, partnerships and activities.

• Expansion of the Molecular BiologyLaboratory’s activities, including itsresearch program, to documentAustralia’s biological diversity.

Melbourne Museum• Launch of The Italians: Three Centuries

of Italian Art.• Construction of Virtual Reality

Observatory of Melbourne (VROOM), a large-scale, three-dimensional virtualreality installation using funding awardedunder the Science, Technology andInnovation Infrastructure (STI) Grants scheme.

• Development of international touringexhibitions, including the exhibition of the Spirit Country collection at theShanghai International Festival of Artsin November 2002.

• Development of an interpretive exhibitionfor the Royal Exhibition Building withthe Australian War Memorial.

Immigration Museum • Redevelopment and launch of

Gallery Four.• Scoping and development of Station

Pier, an exhibition to be displayed in2004, exploring the history andsignificance of the port for immigrationto Melbourne, Victoria and Australia.

• Opening of Stage 4 of the TributeGarden in October 2002.

Scienceworks• Development of a new long-term

gallery, Science in the Home.• Development of Scienceworks

exhibitions for touring nationally.• Development and launch of new

Planetarium show Scaling.• Development of an Indigenous

Astronomy Planetarium show.• Expansion of the PIVoD

multimedia delivery system toScienceworks Museum.

Ice sculpture, Museum VictoriaPatrons Function 2002.

Interior of Royal Exhibition Building.

I collect, research and display artefactsthat relate to areas of Australian historysuch as Phar Lap and domestic life. I amnow researching Museum Victoria’sHarry Johns tent boxing collection.

When I was fifteen years old I went toLondon and saw museums that simplyamazed me. But only after I had done a variety of jobs and studied Australianhistory for years did I finally realise,‘Hey, I can work in one of these places’.The best thing about my job is that it's mine.

EddieButler-BowdonSenior Curator, Australian Societyand Technology Department

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MELBOURNE MUSEUM –

EXHIBITIONS AND PROGRAMS

Campus Overview and

Key Achievements

Melbourne Museum is a broad-basedState museum with a national andinternational focus that covers the naturaland physical sciences as well as socialhistory and cultures. Exhibitions cover sixmajor themes: Australian society,indigenous cultures, the human mind andbody, science, technology and theenvironment.

Melbourne Museum is spread over sixlevels – three of which contain publicgalleries and purpose-built amenities suchas restaurants and cafes and dedicatededucation rooms. Through its exhibitions,Melbourne Museum aims to provide aninteractive and exciting visitor experienceto the broadest possible audience.

Melbourne Museum promotes publicdebate on concepts and issues relating tothe natural environment, new technologyand other changes occurring in oursociety. The Museum features excellenteducation and catering facilities, a state-of-the-art storage facility for theMuseum’s collections, a range ofperformance spaces, and a study centre,InfoZone, which provides informationaccess for the public. Through theinternet, the public can also electronicallyaccess information on the Museum’scollections, research, exhibitions andeducational packages.

Major features of Melbourne Museuminclude:• Bunjilaka, the Aboriginal Centre, where

issues relating to the experiences,rights and perspectives of Australia’sindigenous people are explored.

• The Forest Gallery, a living gallery withtrees over 20 metres tall, thousands ofother plants and a wide variety of livingcreatures including insects, birds, fishand snakes.

• The Children’s Museum, withexhibitions and activities tailored for 3 –8 year-olds.

• A Touring Hall for major travellingexhibitions.

• ICE: Immersion Cinema Experience,located in The Age Theatre. ICE isAustralia’s biggest interactive cinemaand the first of its kind in the southernhemisphere.

• Melbourne Museum Shop, offering awide variety of giftware, Museummerchandise, books and educationalmaterials.

• InfoZone, providing information accessfor the public to the Museum’scollections and research materials.

• An adjacent IMAX Theatre.

Highlights included:• More than 860,000 people visited

Melbourne Museum during the2001/2002 financial year, of which over650,000 were ticketed admissions tothe galleries.

• Melbourne Museum staged moreeducation and public programs thanever before in the Museum’s history,and showcased more than 40 majorand minor touring exhibitions.

• Melbourne Museum developed astrong presence in the tourism market,with 36% of visitors from interstateand overseas.

• In July, Melbourne Museum unveiledthe first blockbuster exhibition, TheSeductive Treasures of Gold andCivilisation. This exhibition celebratedthe 150th anniversary of the first goldrushes in Australia and was attendedby approximately 50,000 visitors.

• Over 30,000 visitors experienced a diverse range of community andaudience programs, presented incollaboration with a number oforganisations, at Melbourne Museum’s first birthday celebrations in October 2001.

• To celebrate the Centenary ofFederation, Federation Tapestry, thelargest tapestry ever commissioned inAustralia, was donated to MelbourneMuseum in December and hangs onpermanent display.

• Termite Log, a new display featuringclose-up viewing of termites, bull antsand huntsman spiders was introducedinto the Forest Gallery in December.

• The Spirit Country exhibition ofIndigenous art opened at MelbourneMuseum on Boxing Day, with theMyer/Gantner Collection being gifted toMuseum Victoria in January 2002.

• In April, Melbourne Museum travelledback to the Cretaceous period with aspectacular new theatrical show titledHatchling: a Dinosaur is Born. A greatsuccess, this new productiontransformed the Touring Hall, and wasdesigned exclusively by ERTH Visualand Physical.

• In May, Raincheck 3000, an educationalinteractive instalment sponsored byMelbourne Water, was unveiled,featuring a raindrop’s journey through aMelbourne water catchment.

• Extensive preparations, publicprogramming and marketing wereundertaken to prepare for a successfulopening of The Italians exhibition on 4July 2002.

Review of CampusOperations

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Evolution GalleryDinosaurs in Time

Dinosaurs in Time is an exhibition aboutthe history of life on earth. It covers thepast 3,500 million years of life on ourplanet, from ancient microfossils totrilobites, dinosaurs, mammals and plants,and presents the fossil record asevidence for evolution.

Darwin to DNA

This exhibition explores the processesand mechanisms of evolution throughthree different themes: the historicalbackground on the discovery of evolution,the underlying genetic mechanismsrequired for evolution to occur, and howour understanding of the evolution ofourselves and other organisms haschanged through the study of DNA.

Mind and Body GalleryBodyscape: Mapping the Mind

and Body

The wonderful diversity of body maps andimages produced over the centuries isexplored in this exhibition, as well as themethods and devices used to acquirethem. The gallery traces our evolvingunderstanding of the inner workings ofthe human body and displays insights intothe most mysterious realm of all - thehuman mind.

Biotech & Beyond

Focusing on biotechnology in food andmedicine, this exhibition engages visitorswith the diverse range of applications thatare increasingly a part of our everydaylives, encouraging discussion about thesetechnologies and their implications forhuman society.

Body Parts

Examining everything from the hiddenmicroscopic world of the cell and theworkings of genes and DNA to theintricate regulatory systems, Body Partslooks at how our bodies work.

Medical Melbourne

The focus of this exhibition is the peopleand human drama behind biomedicaladvances and breakthroughs. Real lifestories of Nobel Prize-winners, researchteam leaders, young scientists, laboratoryassistants and others are used toillustrate the journey of scientificdiscovery.

Pacific GalleryTe Vainui O Pasifika

Developed in partnership with PacificIslanders living in Melbourne, Te Vainui OPasifika displays watercraft objects fromnearly every country in the Pacific. Itsmany features include a Solomon Islandswar canoe and three large sails painted intraditional and contemporary designs byPacific Island artists.

Australia GalleryThe Australia Gallery explores the lives ofpeople and the communities in whichthey live. A range of objects, stories andmultimedia provide visitors with a greaterinsight and understanding of Australia’snon-indigenous history and culture.

Melbourne – Stories from a City

Visitors explore the history of Melbourne:the city, its people, neighbourhoods,workplaces and cultures.

Windows on Victoria

Showcased in this exhibition are eight keyevents in Victoria’s history since Europeansettlement. Each event had a lastingeffect on Victorian society and isillustrated with objects from theMuseum’s collection.

Phar Lap – A True Legend

This exhibition explores the role of PharLap, Australia’s most famous racehorse,as the country’s first media star.

Science and Life GalleryThe Science & Life Gallery featuresexhibitions that explore digital technology,biodiversity, and the scientific principlesbehind physics, chemistry, geology andbiology, and how they have changed ourperceptions of the world.

Science Arcade

The Science Arcade explores naturalphenomena from a scientific perspective.Visitors can investigate electromagnetism,gravity, formation of rainbows and otherphenomena through interactives andmultimedia. The Science Arcade aims to introduce important scientificunderstandings that lay the basis forfurther investigations elsewhere in theMuseum and beyond.

@digital.au

@digital.au delivers an immersiveexperience that utilises multimedia andlighting effects. Many significantcollection items are used, includingMorse code equipment, radio devicesmanufactured by the Marconi Company,one of Bell’s first telephones, a televisionbrought to Australia by Baird and someearly computers. A highlight of theexhibition is CSIRAC, the first computerin Australia and is the only remainingintact first generation stored memorycomputer in the world.

Southern Diversity

Southern Diversity is a discovery ofAustralia’s unique plants and animals.Familiar and lesser-known groupsincluding kangaroos, cockatoos, seajellies, ants and sharks are highlightedthrough six Victorian environments. TheMallee, the Alps, river redgum, forests,rocky coasts, bays and the deep oceanare highlighted with backlit photographs,small models, animal sounds and realspecimens.

Mind and Body Gallery,Melbourne Museum.

Detail of the Melbourne Museumglass facade entrance.

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By telling the stories of Aboriginal peoplein Victoria, this exhibition celebrates thesurvival of Aboriginal culture and theways in which Aboriginal people havecontinually sought to maintain autonomouslifestyles in spite of oppressive policiesand welfare regimes. It recognises thehistory of Koori attempts to maintainrights and dignity within the struggles and achievements of daily life.

Belonging to Country

This exhibition explores the complexrelationship the Aboriginal people have to land and waters throughout Australia.This spiritual, economic and politicalconnection is explored through a widevariety of objects from the collections.

Two Laws

Aboriginal perspectives on knowledge,law and property are explored in thisexhibition. Artworks, artefacts and a video discussion between anthropologistBaldwin Spencer and Arrernte LeaderIrrapmwe raise the issues of conflictbetween indigenous and non-indigenouslaws and perceptions.

Children’s Museum1, 2, 3, Grow

1, 2, 3, Grow tells the story of growththrough the themes of size, colour andshape. Children explore how plants,animals, minerals and humans grow usinga wonderful selection of specimens fromthe Museum’s natural history collections.

Forest GalleryForest Secrets

An outdoor landscaped display thatrepresents the tall forests in the mountainseast of Melbourne and features livingplants and animals. The gallery is designedas a pleasant sensory experience, butalso as an exhibition that reveals the ever-changing nature of forests based onthe five forces of water, earth movement,climate, fire and people.

Temporary Exhibitions

The Seductive Treasures of Gold

and Civilisation

18 July – 21 October 2001This exhibition celebrated the 150thanniversary of the first gold rushes inAustralia and was Melbourne Museum’sfirst blockbuster exhibition. The SeductiveTreasures of Gold and Civilisation broughttogether Australia’s largest ever collectionof goldfields art, and assembled over 190artworks from galleries around the country,all related to Australia’s rich goldfields history.

Stolen Generations

7–31 July 2001A joint initiative of the School ofArchitecture and Design, RMIT University and Museum Victoria, theStolen Generations Memorial Designcompetition sought proposals fortemporary memorials. The winningentries were exhibited to show aninnovative approach to examining theissue of stolen children.

Melbourne Water Life in the Tall

Eucalypt Forests

8 August – 28 October 2001This exhibition featured photographs byEsther Beaton depicting life in the talleucalypt forests east of Melbourne.

ReggaeXplosion – 50 years of

Jamaican Music

11 August – 7 October 2001This lively exhibition displayed 400photographs and album covers, featuringmainly Jamaican artists from the 1940s tothe 1990s. ReggaeXplosion includedvideo, ambient soundtracks and audiobooths of the reggae musical genreincluding ska, rocksteady, bluebeat,reggae, dub and dancehall.

Koori Voices photo display,Bunjilaka Gallery.

Forest Gallery, Melbourne Museum.

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100 Languages of Children

8 September – 28 October 2001Presented in collaboration with ReggioEmilia Information Exchange, thisexhibition showed the potential ofchildren from three months to six years. Itdocumented the collaborative projects ofchildren, teachers and parents from theReggio Emilia toddler and pre-schools.

Espresso Comes to Melbourne

10 September – 11 November 2001Located among the chairs and tables ofthe Balcony Café, this display showcasedsome of Melbourne’s earliest espressomachines and other coffee-relatedmaterial. It was launched by MarioPasquale, co-proprietor of Mario’s Café,simultaneously with the launch of thebook by historian Andrew Brown-Maytitled Espresso! Melbourne Stories.

Retro Moments

20 September – 14 October 2001Sculptures by Gippsland artist ColinSuggett were exhibited for two weeks aspart of the Melbourne Fringe Festival. Thesculptures looked at the individual inmodern society.

Totems and Dreaming

3 October – 23 October 2001Artworks produced by emerging andstudent artists under the guidance ofwell-known indigenous artists TreahnaHamm and Jennifer Mullet and exhibitionorganiser Lee Darroch were exhibited.The project was funded by the Aboriginaland Torres Strait Islander Board of theAustralia Council through the EastGippsland Aboriginal Arts Cooperative.

Immunisation: From Pestilence to

Protection

11 October 2001 – November 2002This exhibition explored the history ofvaccines, from the discovery by Jenner ofinoculation against smallpox through totoday and beyond. It looked at variousdiseases, such as hepatitis and polio, howdisease spreads and the rise of antibioticresistance. It included features on newvaccines such as DNA vaccines andpolyvalent vaccines against new diseasessuch as HIV and melanoma.

Illuminations Project

21 October 2001A spectacular light show on the façade of the Royal Exhibition Building waslaunched on the Museum’s first birthday.

Telstra Presents Transitions

10 November 2001 – 27 January 2000For 17 years, the Art Gallery of NorthernTerritory’s National Aboriginal and TorresStrait Islander Museum and Art Awardhas endeavoured, with the support ofTelstra sponsorship, to recognise, supportand promote the artistic productions ofAustralia’s indigenous cultures. Transitionsis a selection of the finest contemporarywork submitted for Australia’s premiereindigenous arts award over the past 17 years.

Einstein

12 November 2001 – 29 January 2002Offered by the Embassy of Israel, thisexhibition highlighted Einstein’sachievements in physics alongside hiswork for world peace.

The white Giraffe in the Children’sMuseum, Melbourne Museum.

Launch of The SeductiveTreasures of Gold and Civilisationat Melbourne Museum.

The Melbourne Cricket Groundmodel, Australia Gallery,Melbourne Museum.

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Photography

15 November – 15 December 2001The Society of Advertising, Commercialand Magazine Photographers (ACMP) isthe representative body for professionalphotographers and their industry. The FujiACMP Photographers Collection wasestablished in 1993 to annually showcasethe talents of Australian and professionalphotographers.

Bush Colour

3 December 2001 – 18 March 2002Bush Colour was the first publicexhibition of works on paper by womenfrom Maningrida region, and celebratedthe strength and vibrancy of artwork. Theexhibition was curated by Judy Watsonand toured by ArtBAck Touring.

Art on a String

20 December 2001 – 17 March 2002Curated by Dianne Young and LouiseHamby, this exhibition featured necklacesby Aboriginal artists from Arnhem Landand the Central Desert area around AliceSprings and incorporated complementarymaterials from the Museum’s collections.

Spirit Country

26 December 2001 – 6 March 2002A collection of great cultural and artisticsignificance, this exhibition comprised ofAboriginal works from the Gantner MyerAboriginal Art Collection. Paintings,sculptures and weavings, bycontemporary artists practising in artcentres in the Central District region, theKimberley and the ‘top end’ of Australiawere displayed. A ground painting wascreated with the Spirit Country exhibitionby three elders from the Yuendumugroup. Selected works from thisexhibition were shown in the BrisbaneCity Gallery 18 April to 16 June 2002, andwill be exhibited in Shanghai Library from16 November to 1 December 2002.

Beyond the Possum Skin Cloak

February 2002Bunjilaka hosted Beyond the PossumSkin Cloak, a community fashion paradefeaturing work by students from theAboriginal Development Unit of RMIT,Bundoora. The parade included shawls,evening wear, sarongs and ponchos andfeatured printed designs based onAboriginal motifs and designs. After theparade a number of the garments weredisplayed in Birrarung.

Vasa 1628 Strange Fate of a

King’s Warship

26 February – 14 April 2002The story of the disastrous maidenvoyage of the Vasa and its resurrection333 years later is told in this fascinatingexhibition. Personal belongings of thoselost at sea and ship carvings featurealongside the interactives of the ship’ssalvage operation.

Top Designs

6 March – 14 July 2002Top Design is the annual exhibition ofselected VCE student works in Designand Technology, Media and VisualCommunication and Design. The exhibitionlaunched the VCE Season of Excellence.

Megafauna

April 2002 – 2003Articulated skeletons of Australianmegafauna were installed in the linkbetween the Science Arcade and theEvolution Gallery.

urban dingo: the art and life of

Lin Onus 1948-1996

6 April – 29 July 2001This major retrospective from theQueensland Art Gallery brought togetherkey works from major collectionsincluding paintings, drawings andsculptures. This exhibition received strong support from the Koori and widercommunity, and had led to the Onusfamily loaning nine major works for longterm display at Melbourne Museum.

Beneath Our Feet

3 May – mid-November 2002The story of the backbreaking slog ofVictoria’s early explorers, miners andsurveyors. This exhibition celebrated 150years of geological survey work in Victoriaand was organised by the Department ofNatural Resources and Energy. It alsoacknowledged the importance of thelongstanding collaboration betweenMuseum Victoria and the GeologicalSurvey of Victoria.

Artist on the Burma-Thailand Railway:

The War Drawings of Jack Chalker

12 – 30 June 2002This exhibition included many of ex-POWJack Chalker’s small sketches and notesmade during captivity and after the WorldWar II. These drawings and notes havebeen purchased by Tattersalls HoldingsPty Ltd and will be presented to theAustralian War Memorial. Jack Chalkerand Ray Hornsby, Chairman of Trustees,Tattersall’s Holdings opened the exhibition.

Sensational Screens

18 June – 7 July 2002Sensation Screens is part of the StateGovernment’s initiative to promote designin Victoria. Participants at the ScandinavianFurniture Workshop facilitated by ErlingChristofferson, one of Denmark’s mostrecognised furniture makers, made thescreens from Victorian ash.

Spirit of Arnhem Land

27 June – 6 October 2002The people of Arnhem Land have theworld’s longest continuing artistic tradition.Walkley Award-winner Penny Tweedieexhibited stunning photographs of themen, women and children of this 50,000year-old living culture.

Big Box, Children’s Museum.

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Museum ToursA program of Museum tours is in place,including monthly AUSLAN tours for the deaf.

Lecture ProgramThis program includes monthly floor talkson areas of specialist museum expertise,and has included the following lectures:• Protecting Life in our Seas (Dr Tim

O’Hara).• International Women’s Day Celebration

Lectures (Dr Gaye Sculthorpe, DianneBray, Moya McFadzean, Liza Dale, DrTanya Hill).

• Digging up the Past (Michelle Berry andMark Grist).

• International Museums Day Celebration(Gary Presland and Dr CarolynRasmussen).

Volunteers Speciality ToursVolunteers have been integral to theMuseum’s experience for visitors,producing a number of specialty tours,including Poetry and Sports Tours.

School Holiday ProgramsMelbourne Museum offered a range ofschool holiday programs, includingperformance, art and craft, scienceshows, demonstrations and story tellingbased on the following themes:• Gold (Spring 2001).• The Four Elements (Summer 2001/02).• Digging up the Past (Autumn 2002).• Get Crafty (Winter 2002).

Dinosaur showsThree theatrical shows were developed:Hatchling: A Dinosaur is Born, developedin February and March and presented inApril; and Roving Dinosaurs and DinosaurSafari in May and June 2002.

Federation Tapestry

14 December 2001Woven by members of the VictorianTapestry Workshop, the tapestry includesdesigns by well-known artists such asBruce Petty, Ginger Riley, Reg Mombassaand Celia Rosser.

Tarantula CamNew tarantula enclosures were installedin the new high-security quarantine facilityduring the year where large, exotictarantulas are held under federal permit.The public can see the spiders on thepopular ‘Tarantula Cam’, a live webcamera that features a live-to-air spiderfeeding every Friday at 3pm.

Other activities

A varied program of activities has beendelivered during the school holiday andweekend periods, including: Make andTake craft activities, Sunday Science, ACloser Look, keeper talks, story tellingand demonstrations.

Horizons

A series of three programs developed forthe schools satellite TV network, focusingon the Museum’s collection and staff.

Beneath the Surface

Archaeology online is a joint initiative with the University of Melbourne, La Trobe University, Heritage Victoria andDepartment of Education and Training. It includes the development of an onlineintegrated curriculum website for Years 7and 8 with the theme of archaeology.

Melbourne City Mission Winter

Sleepout

11 August 2001Around 800 Guides from around Victoriaslept overnight at Melbourne Museum as part of the annual fundraising event.Money raised went directly to MelbourneCity Mission’s programs that help youngpeople and families who are homeless orat risk of becoming homeless.

Tarantella concert

30 August 2001The main focus for Multicultural AudienceDevelopment in 2002 for MelbourneMuseum has been the Italian community.The concert was organised and deliveredby Melbourne Museum in partnershipwith the Government of the Lazia regionin Italy. This partnership developed thenew audience group for the Museumfrom the Italian Community.

Adult Learners Week

2 – 8 September 2001350 adult learners engaged in a series ofactivities hosted by Melbourne Museumand the central western metropolitanregion of Adult Community and FurtherEducation.

Club Wild

30 & 15 November, 3 December 2002 A disability-friendly disco was held in theAustralia Gallery during the InternationalWeek for People with a Disability.

Global Sounds

19 January – 2 March 2002The Boite, 774 ABC Radio and MelbourneMuseum collaborated to host sevensummer evening world music concerts.

Trams on Parade

1 March 2002Visitors, under the guidance of a residentartist Amanda King, painted a tram forinclusion in Melbourne’s Moomba Paradein March 2002.

Virtuosic Visions

23 & 30 March 2002Virtuosic Visions is an externally fundedprogram of experimental music.

Medal Identification Day

15–22 April 2002Held in InfoZone, this event offered a free medal and war memorabiliaidentification service.

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Stories from the Hidden City

11–28 April 2002Partially funded by the Australia Counciland Arts Victoria, Stories from the HiddenCity was the first theatre performancepresented at Melbourne Museum andcomprised of 12 performances createdspecifically for the Australia Gallery.Directed by Bagryana Popov, the intricateand meaningful exploration of life waswoven from local performers personalstories and highlighted the diversehistories of Melbourne.

Out of the Vaults

May 2002Each weekend during the month of May,curators selected their favourite itemsfrom the collection and spoke about themto the visiting public.

Tasmania Tiger: Mystery of

the Thylacine

19 May – 28 August 2001Telling the story of the growth of theThylacine’s image to mythical proportions.Thylacine Days were held in August 2001 in InfoZone with guest speaker Dr Bob Paddle.

Sing Sing Sing

2 June 2002Two hundred people from communitychoirs throughout Victoria met, taughteach other a new repertoire andperformed around the Museum in a jointinitiative of Melbourne Museum and theCentre for Lifelong Learning (AustraliaCatholic University).

Lapse

8 June 2002Presented in the Touring Hall Foyer,Lapse is a chamber opera developed by music students from the University of Melbourne.

InfoZoneThe services on offer in InfoZone include:• Comprehensive reference collections

containing approximately 1,800 objects and specimens from theMuseum’s collections.

• Over 2,000 book, video, journal andmagazine titles in InfoZone library.

• InfoZone website and catalogue.• Electronic information resources

including 180 Museum Victoriainformation sheets, catalogued website links, CD ROMS and videostreaming of selected pieces ofexhibition multimedia.

• Free access to the internet.• Video viewing & print and

photocopying facilities.• Seminar room fully equipped with

the latest audiovisuals.

Melbourne Museum offered exciting andstimulating programs at InfoZone duringthe year, supported by print materialdeveloped specially for the varyingeducation groups.

ICE (Immersion Cinema Experience)ICE, located in the Age Theatre, is thefirst Immersion Cinema in the southernhemisphere and continued to be verypopular during the year. Eighty interactivetouch-screens bring the ‘choose yourown adventure’ format into the 21stCentury. Three screens, astoundingspecial sound effects and larger than lifedigitally-created images take the visitor ona captivating, interactive virtual cinemajourney. The films on offer included theinaugural show Vital Space and the newfilm Sharks – Predator/Prey.

Royal Exhibition BuildingMany large-scale events graced the RoyalExhibition Building this year, including theMelbourne International Flower & GardenShow and the Arts & Antiques Fair. TheRoyal Exhibition Building and MelbourneMuseum were also used as the venue forthe Australian Film Institute Awards in2001, generating extensive publicity.

Capital works planning to relocate thepublic entrance to the northern portal,synergise with Melbourne Museum andthe Plaza, build ticketing facilities and ascreen wall, and replace part of theflooring and to revamp the theatrette arecontinuing. Planing with the AustralianWar Memorial is also advanced for anopening of their display in May 2003.

Negotiations also continued with theFederal Department of Environment andHeritage regarding the nomination of theRoyal Exhibition Building on the WorldHeritage List.

This page: View of the Royal ExhibitionBuilding, Festival Plaza.

Immersion Cinema Experience(ICE).

Opposite from left:Girl Guides - City Mission SleepOut at Melbourne Museum.

Minister for the Arts, the Hon.Mary Delahuntly MP cutsMelbourne Museum’s 1stBirthday cake.

Ngak Ngak in Limmen Bight RiverCountry (whole work), FederationTapestry.

Located in the original vaults of the OldCustoms House, the Sarah and BaillieuMyer Immigration Discovery Centre is a place for learning, research andprivate study.

Entry is free and visitors can access alibrary on immigration history, anextensive book collection on cross-cultural topics, information about familyhistory research and a comprehensivelist of internet links to family historysites locally and around the world. Thecomputer facilities also provide links tospecialist Museums and Archives aroundthe world, and visitors can search thedatabase of people registered in theMuseum’s the Tribute Garden.

As Immigration Discovery CentreCoordinator, Judy assists visitors embarkon their own journey of discovery.

JudyBellImmigration Discovery Centre Coordinator

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IMMIGRATION MUSEUM –

EXHIBITIONS AND PROGRAMS

Campus Description

Over the last 200 years, people havejourneyed from all over the world to settlein Australia. They have come for a rangeof reasons: many have been forced fromtheir homeland as a result of conflict, whilstothers have been drawn to Australia withthe hope of a better life. Whatever thereason, these people all have a story to tell.

The Immigration Museum brings to lifethese personal stories of people from allover the world who have immigrated toVictoria and made it their home, andexplores the cultural diversity that hasresulted. For many visitors, the ImmigrationMuseum is a highly emotional and verypersonal discovery. It aims to explain topeople the history of immigration, to allowvisitors to explore their own heritage and to gain a better appreciation andunderstanding of multicultural Australia.

Located in the Old Customs House, the Immigration Museum offers a uniquevisitor experience, a personal experiencethat engages and encourages learningthrough a range of exhibitions and public programs.

Key Achievements

The Immigration Museum has receivedwide critical acclaim and earned a numberof awards for the range of services andfacilities it provides. During its third full yearof operation, the Museum continued tobuild on the positive reputation it hasestablished with stakeholders andaudiences. It continued to position itselfas a living cultural centre – a place forcommunity, cultural, educational andsocial discourse. Annual visitation farexceeded expectations and the Museumstrengthened its position as a high quality,competitive venue in Victoria’s culturalattractions market.

Highlights included:

• 116,000 visitors (includes ticketed andnon-ticketed) experienced a wide rangeof exhibitions, activities and culturalevents.

• A major partnership with the VictorianHealth Promotion Foundation and theHeart Foundation enabled thedevelopment of four communityexhibitions in the Access Gallery andthree community festivals. The fourSmokeFree Community Festivalsincluded celebrations of Chinese,Arabic, Macedonian and Italian cultures.

• Achieving an overall visitor approvalrating of 95% for the Museum’sexhibitions and visitor experience.

• Strategic partnership with the MyerFoundation in developing communityaccess and outreach programs.

• The ‘new look’ Sarah and Baillieu MyerImmigration Discovery Centre wasofficially launched by Sir James GobboAM and Mr Baillieu Myer. Therefurbishment offers improved access,as well as upgraded, state-of-the-artcomputer facilities with internet accessto numerous immigration sites and CDROMs to family history research.

• Over 27,000 students and teachersvisited the museum in school groups,and an increased participation in school holiday programs established a niche market.

• The inaugural Kids Fest was anopportunity for over 800 children andadults to sample diverse cultures andtraditions from around the worldthrough children-focused culturalactivities and games.

• Retaining the Museum’s Gold Medal Rating as part of the VictorianManaged Insurance Authorityaccreditation program.

• Consolidating venue hire and cafeoperations, the Museum hosted adiverse range of corporate functions,events and launches.

• Improved signage and public amenitiesenhanced visitor comfort, safety and a high standard of maintenance of the building.

Long-term Exhibitions

The four main galleries house historicalobjects and stories that are enhanced bymultimedia technology and interactives.The result is an entertaining experiencethat engages the senses and brings to life the many dimensions of theimmigration journey.

Leavings and Settlings Galleries

The Leavings and Settlings Galleries usemultimedia, case studies and time linesto investigate the causes that motivatespeople to immigrate and the push pullfactors within countries that drive globalshifts in population.

Journeys Gallery

In the centre of the Long Room standsthe Museum’s 17-metre ship, known asthe Journeys Gallery. Authenticallyrecreating the steerage-class square-rigger of the 1840s ocean liner, visitorshear the sounds of creaking timber andthe chug of engines, which effectivelyrecreates the ambient environment ofeach era.

The Impacts Gallery

This gallery recognises and celebrates theenduring influences immigrants have hadon Australian society whilst recognisingimmigration has not always been a positiveexperience for our indigenous peoples.

Access Gallery

The Access Gallery is an important elementof the Museum, presenting exhibitionsgenerated by local community groups.

The Museum also includes two extensivegalleries for touring exhibitions fromVictoria, interstate and overseas.


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Discovery Centre

The Centre provides public facilities forresearch and study of settlement andmigration subjects.

Tribute Garden

Located in the Festivals Courtyard, theTribute Garden records, for posterity, thenames of over 7000 families who havemade the journey to Victoria.


Lost and Found: A Shared Search for

Belonging

17 May - 11 November 2001Produced in partnership with the City ofMelbourne, this exhibition featured over25 artworks developed by indigenous andimmigrant artists exploring themes ofself-determination, identity and survival.

Showing Face

13 June – 16 September 2001This travelling exhibition from Bendigo’sGolden Dragon Museum explored theidentity of the Chinese who lived inregional Victoria from the 1850s toFederation. Using the physical feature of‘face’ as a symbol of the way in whichthe Chinese were set apart fromEuropean immigrants, the exhibitionincorporated the themes of ‘ForeignFace’, ‘Old Face’ and ‘New Face’ tocharacterise the history of one of theoldest immigrant groups in Victoria.

Suburban Voices: Stories of

Multicultural Manningham

9 August – 28 October 2001Suburban Voices centred on a collectionof personal stories of 20 people fromdiverse cultural backgrounds within theCity of Manningham. It provided wonderfulinsights into the lives of immigrants toAustralia, looking at the decisions theyfaced with homesickness, isolation andthe triumphs of life in a new country.

Rituals: Linking Yesterday,

Today and Tomorrow

19 February – 5 May 2002Rituals presented an Arabic communityperspective, exploring the themessurrounding birth, marriage and death asthey relate to the Christian, Muslim andDruse faiths within the Arabic community.The photographic essay journeyedthrough baptismal dips, circumcisions,heavenly offerings, burial ceremonies andmany other milestones and traditions thatform an integral part of daily living. Thisexhibition examined how immigrantsfrom diverse Arabic backgrounds havepreserved, changed or adapted ritualswhilst striving to maintain their culturalintegrity in Victoria.

Portraits Without Names:

Palestinian Costume

5 April – 14 July 2002This exhibition featured more than ahundred rare coats, dresses, headveils,shawls, jewellery and photographsspanning two centuries. From exquisitelyembroidered Bethlehem wedding garmentsand coined headdresses from Hebron totextiles produced by Palestinian refugeesin camps throughout the Middle East, thedesign and decorations reflected thestrength of the people and their identityover the past two hundred years.Showcasing both traditional everydaywear and ceremonial dress of Palestinianvillage and bedouin women, the exhibitionincluded rare items on loan from theTareq Rajab Museum in Kuwait.

Secret Splendours: Women’s costume

of the Arab World

5 April – 14 July 2002This exhibition of breathtaking costumesand textiles covered a cross-section ofthe Arab world, including Morocco,Tunisia, Egypt, Syria, Jordan, United ArabEmirates, Kuwait, Oman, Yemen andSaudi Arabia. It featured historical andcontemporary examples of costumesworn by urban, village, oasis and bedouinwomen. Some of the most striking itemsare heavy, silk floss embroidered weddingoutfits from Siwa Oasis in Egypt, ornatecross-stitched bedouin dresses from theSinai Desert and lavish, gold-sequinedfestive overdresses from the Gulf region.

Textiles and Tales:

Punjabi Women in Victoria

14 May – 4 August 2002The weaving of daris and embroidering ofbahgs were seen as an important part ofa young Punjabi woman’s responsibility inpreparing herself for married life. Craftskills were taught to girls from an earlyage and were the responsibility ofwomen in her family and village. Thefinery of these skills placed an intrinsicvalue not only on the young woman butall the women in her family. Thisexhibition explored the value of traditionaltextiles in the lives of women whoimmigrated to Victoria from the Punjabregion in southern India, and theimportance placed on these utilitarianobjects as signifiers of personal history,identity and heritage.

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opened at the end of July 2001, andwas attended by over 5,000 registrantsand their families.

• The State Government’s campaign forInternational Day for the Elimination ofRacial and Religious Intolerance waslaunched by the Hon Steve Bracks MP,Premier of Victoria on 21 March 2002,attracting significant media coverage.

• ‘Harmony Day’ was launched by the Hon John Pandazopoulos MP,Minister assisting the Premier onMulticultural Affairs.

• Adult Learners Week Victoria waslaunched by the Hon Lynne Kosky MP,Minister for Education and Training,with educators from all over Victoria in attendance.

• The Senior Citizens Festival at theImmigration Museum included a jointprogram with the Melbourne Aquariumand the Victorian MulticulturalCommission, attracting approximately350 seniors from Ballarat, Shepparton,the Latrobe Valley and Bendigo.

Visitor Programs

A dynamic and exciting program ofexhibitions and events, that reflected theissues and aspirations of our culturallydiverse community, was presentedthroughout the year. Over the past 12months, the Immigration Museum hascontinued to seek new audiences whilesimultaneously broadening its reach andappeal. A number of strategies wereimplemented to target Australia’sculturally-diverse communities.

The program of festivals and the AccessGallery continue to strengthen and developties with specific cultural communitieswithin Victoria. This program is two-fold.It provides an opportunity for communitiesand cultural groups to pro-activelyparticipate in the creation of exhibitionsand programs at the ImmigrationMuseum, thus encouraging the broadercommunity to attend. These programsprovide access to people that wouldgenerally not visit and/or work withmuseums on such events and exhibitions.

A program of market research andevaluation continued with a series ofVisitor Profile and Visitor Experiencesurveys conducted on festival days andthroughout the year.

Satisfaction was measured as part ofthese studies, allowing identification ofvarious aspects of positive visitorexperiences, areas that need to beimproved and track responses once theimprovements have been put into place.

Highlights included:• The Access Gallery exhibitions were

developed in partnership with a rangeof community organisations, includingthe Australian Quilter’s Association,Whitehorse and Manningham RegionalLibrary Association and the VictorianArabic Social Services.

• Stage Four of the Tribute Gardenproject attracted a further 1,153registrants. The new design has beendeveloped and will be launched inOctober 2002.

• 26,114 people visited and used thefacilities and services of the Sarah andBaillieu Myer Immigration DiscoveryCentre (IDC).

• A number of family history workshopswere delivered as part of the IDCprogram, attracting sizeable audiencenumbers. Programs includedpresentations on the history of shippingin the post-war period, the history andsignificance of cemeteries, authordiscussions and workshops on tracingfamily history specifically for theChinese, Arabic, Italian and Germancommunities. A number of projectswere presented in partnership with thePublic Records Office, NationalArchives, Geneaological Society ofVictoria and the Polly Woodside.

• In order to satisfy the curiosity on thehistory of Old Customs House as asignificant historical and architecturalsite, especially amongst our seniorvisitors and recreational groups, a tourfocussing on the stories of Old CustomsHouse and the Customs Service hasbeen produced as a guided tour.

Above: Tribute Garden, StageThree opening at the ImmigrationMuseum.

Right: Journeys Gallery at theImmigration Museum.

Far left: Adriana Daniels makinggnocchi at the ImmigrationMuseum.

Left: Journeys Map at theImmigration Museum.

Along with the five other EducationOfficers, I am involved with exhibitiondevelopment, production of educationmaterials and organising all theprograms for the students who visitScienceworks on excursions and theteachers who come for professionaldevelopment. My job continuallyprovides new challenges and I learnsomething new every day.

Pennie StoylesManager, EducationScienceworks

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SCIENCEWORKS MUSEUM

– EXHIBITIONS AND PROGRAMS

Campus Overview and

Key Achievements

Scienceworks is a dynamic and interactivescience and technology museum.

The site incorporates the historicSpotswood Sewerage Pumping Stationand the Melbourne Planetarium, as wellas the Museum’s exhibition halls andcollections store.

Through hands-on exhibits, livedemonstrations, activities and shows,Scienceworks visitors are encouraged to‘get a grasp of science and technology’.

The attendances for Scienceworks in this financial year have been outstandingwith almost 350,000 visitors enjoyingScienceworks and the Planetarium. The success was due to the popularity of the two main exhibitions on the floorthroughout the year: Megawatt – It’sElectrifying! and Terrorsaurus, both ofwhich were very attractive to schools and general visitors alike. Anothersignificant factor was the celebration of Scienceworks’ 10th birthday, whichenabled a focus for media attention andactivities across the year.

Highlights included:• Refurbishment of Nitty Gritty Super

City completed in February 2002.• Launch of the new Planetarium show

Tycho Stars Again in December 2001.• Celebration of Scienceworks’ 10th

birthday in March 2002.• Announcement in May 2002 of

$2,690,000 for exhibition developmentfrom the Victorian Government.

• Risk management funds of ~$800,000allocated to Scienceworks for roofreplacement of the main exhibition halland power conditioning for the site.

Long-term Exhibitions

Stayin’ Alive

Stayin’ Alive allows visitors to find outhow they use their senses to understandthe environment around them. It alsodemonstrates how we use technology to survive in extreme environments.

Nitty Gritty Super City

This exhibition engages young children in a variety of activities designed todevelop an understanding of the worldaround us. New exhibits include a realexcavator, a pianola, live yabbies andother, smaller additions.

Sports Works

Sports Works explores the science andtechnology of sport through the themesof fitness, movement and skills.

Driven by the Sun

This small exhibition focuses on theannual Model Solar Vehicle Challenge thattakes place at Scienceworks each year.The exhibition contains information onthis event, as well as some models andan audiovisual presentation. The 2001Challenge achieved a record number ofparticipants for the State finals.

Pumping Station

The Pumping Station and its machinerycomes to life through interpretativeinformation within the various areas ofthe facility, using multimedia, panels andguided tours.

A to Z of Collecting

Changing over four times a year, thissmall exhibition features collection itemswhose common element is connectionwith a particular letter of the alphabet.


Megawatt

30 June 2001 – 28 January 2002The exhibition was produced in-houseand explored the role of electricity in oureveryday lives. It featured a spectacularhigh-voltage demonstration, a liveperformance and interactive exhibits.

K’Nexhibition 2001

9 June 2001 – 7 October 2001The exhibition, from Hasbro toys,comprised models made from the K’Nex construction toy and illustratedmathematical and scientific principles.

Sputnik Display

30 June 2001 – 15 July 2002This display illustrated the actual size of this Russian satellite.

Mathematics Talent Quest Display

2 – 25 August 2001Prize-winning entries from the annualmathematics talent quest run by theMathematics Association of Victoria were displayed.

Two Wheel Warriors – The History of

Harley Davidson in Australia

19 October 2001 – 17 March 2002Originating from the National MotorMuseum, South Australia, this exhibitiontraced the history of Harley Davidson in Australia. Eighteen motorbikes weredisplayed from local and nationalcollections. In order to highlight linksbetween this exhibition and the Museum’sown collection objects, a special foyerdisplay was mounted and a specificVintage Motorcycles Collection Store Tourwas conducted. The tour featured pre-World War II motorcycles and prototypesfrom both Australia and overseas.


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Foot Health Week Display

1 – 30 October 2001This interactive display asked the visitorto match the shoe to the occupation. The display was for the PodiatryAssociation to highlight Foot HealthWeek. The interactive has beensubsequently installed into the Nitty Gritty Super City exhibition as part of its refurbishment.

Put a Helmet on Your Head

22 December 2001 – 10 February 2002 This small display, in association withVicRoads during the Harley Davidsondisplay, highlighted bike safety.

Terrorsaurus

20 February 2002 – 14 July 2002This interactive exhibition fromQuestacon, The National Science andTechnology Centre, explored the currentscientific thinking about how dinosaurslived. It featured robotic three quarter-sized dinosaurs.

Clockwise – It’s About Time

30 March 2002 – 13 October 2002From Te Manawa Museums Trust, New Zealand, Clockwise invite visitors tobecome a time traveller with timepieces,artworks and interactive exhibits.Numerous timepieces were added to this exhibition from the Museum’s own collection. A special ‘What’s thetimepiece?’ demonstration waspresented every day in the exhibition by staff and volunteers, featuring therecently activated Flinders Street WaterTower Clock mechanism.

Put Your Foot In It

30 March 2002 – 14 July 2002This display allowed visitors to comparetheir footprint with that of a variety of dinosaurs.

Seeds of Time

28 June 2002 – 21 July 2002 Seeds of Time investigated the variousstages in the germination of a seed andthe development into a plant using live plants.

Left & centre: Scienceworks 10thBirthday celebrations.

Right: Pumping Station atScienceworks.

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Scienceworks’ 10th Birthday

Scienceworks celebrated the start of its10th birthday year on 23 and 24 March2002. The weekend theme ‘ExtremeScience’ was highlighted through manyactivities and saw a reunion of past andpresent staff, volunteers and supporters.

The Sunday celebrations featured aunique rendition of Happy Birthday bylocal singer Deborah Conway, plus thelaunch of the restored Cowley SteamTraction Engine, which had been lovinglyrestored by staff and volunteers over the10 years of Scienceworks’ operation.

Another significant birthday present was the donation to Scienceworks of the Werribee Ploughing Engine byMelbourne Water and its subsequent loan to the Lake Goldsmith HeritagePreservation Society.

With the addition of 10 x 10 metre-highcandles to its roof, the Scienceworksbuilding was transformed into a giantbirthday cake, a spectacle that createdgreat interest and discussion across the region.

Regional Arts Victoria Partnership

In order to celebrate Scienceworks’ 10thbirthday in regional Victoria, Scienceworksformed a partnership with Regional ArtsVictoria. The support of the MitchellFoundation enabled two unique andground-breaking arts/science shows to bedeveloped by Scienceworks and includedin the Regional Arts Victoria 2002 SchoolsTouring Program.

Working Machines

As well as the Machines in Action daysheld at Scienceworks, the Museum’ssteam and diesel heritage vehiclesattended several off-site communityevents. These included the AltonaBayside Festival, the WilliamstownFestival, the Polly Woodside FederationFestival and rallies organised by the LakeGoldsmith and Echuca steampreservation societies.

Collections Store ToursThe daily tour of the ScienceworksCollections Store has continued to bepopular with visitors, with 3,536 peopletaking the tour over the past year.

Melbourne Planetarium

Approximately 142,827 people attendedthe Planetarium during 2001/2002, a 4%increase on last year’s usage. This includesover 50,000 school students and teachers.

The following shows were offered tovisitors throughout the year: • Escape from Andraxus• Launch Pad• Spinning Out• Guiding Lights• Tycho to the Moon• Tycho Stars Again.

Tycho Stars Again was launched as a newshow in December, with Launch Padunveiled in August 2001.

Highlights included:• In July, the Melbourne Planetarium, in

collaboration with Swinburne University,hosted the 2001 Harley Wood PublicLecture by Dr. Brian Schmidt from the Research School of Astronomy & Astrophysics, Mount StromloObservatory. Dr Schmidt is the leaderof the High-Redshift Supernova SearchTeam and spoke on ‘Measuring theUniverse’. The lecture is sponsoredannually by the Astronomical Society of Australia.

• In 2001, Scienceworks participated, for the second year, in the AustralianSpace Students Association’s VictorianYouth Space Forum. The attendeesspent the evening of 27 September atthe Planetarium where they attended a lecture by Dr Tanya Hill followed by a viewing of Escape from Andraxus anda special presentation of What’s in theSky Tonight.

• On 28 September 2001, Scienceworkstook part in the inaugural IBM EXITECamp which aims to encourage Year 8 girls to explore an interest intechnology and engineering. The girlswere introduced to the roles oftechnology and engineering in theproduction of astronomy shows for the digital Planetarium.

Megawatt Exhibition,Scienceworks.

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EDUCATION

The year was a particularly successfulone with respect to the number ofEducation programs undertaken acrossthe campuses and the number ofstudents and teachers reached. Over226,000 students attended programs at one of Museum Victoria’s threecampuses, with at least double thatnumber accessing material from theMuseum Victoria website.

Education staff were widely called upon topresent papers, demonstrations, activitiesand professional development across theState at various professional conferencesand events, as well as within schools andother educational organisations.

The year also saw the excellent supportfrom the Department of Education andTraining and the Catholic Education Officecontinue, via the provision of ExtensionEducation staff and Grants, with theCatholic Education Office increasing itssupport by a further half-time position.

Museum Victoria staff have increasedtheir involvement with the new anddeveloping initiatives for improvements to education in Victoria with participationin a range of high-level committees.These include, among others, LocalLearning & Employment Networks, TheVictorian Schools Innovation Commission,Strategic Partnerships Reference Group.The close working relationship betweenMuseum Victoria and the variouseducation providers throughout the State continues to be invaluable.

Melbourne Museum

The number of education visitors for theyear was close to projections with almost100,000 students and teachers visitingMelbourne Museum. A higher thanexpected uptake from the adult andtertiary education sector was achievedwith over 10,700 visitors in adulteducation groups. This ‘post-compulsory’education group will become increasinglyimportant to the museum and is alignedwith Government initiatives in this area.

School visitation numbers were close toexpectation from State, Catholic andIndependent schools. A quarter of studentswere from rural and regional schools, andthe participation of secondary schools ineducation programs has been impressive.At least one class from over 80% of allsecondary schools visited the facility and40% of primary schools sending at leastone class to visit the Museum.

The exhibition Top Designs, featuring worksby VCE students, attracted over 8,000students. A supplementary program oflectures and workshops was developed inclose collaboration with the VictorianCurriculum and Assessment Authority.

Teacher Professional Development wasan important educational product on offerat the Museum. During the year, 1,389teachers and 627 pre-service teachersattended Learning in Non-Formal Settings,a museum education professionaldevelopment program aimed at enhancingthe range of learning strategies available toteachers. High quality materials, providinga link between Melbourne Museum’sexhibitions and state curriculum, weredeveloped to support school visits. Theseinclude Follow the Bunjilaka Possum: a Parents and Carers Guide to Bunjilakafor the Early Years and Student Guides

to Bunjilaka, the Forest Gallery and theAustralia Gallery. VCE Unit supports have also been forthcoming through VCE Australian History Unit 3 and 4 andRenaissance Italy lecture VCE Unit 3 and 4.

The sessions offered teachers theopportunity to lean how museums work and see what curriculum basedservices the Museum can offer. Museum Education programs offeredincluded The Melbourne Experience 1 & 2, People and Places, Art at MelbourneMuseum, Aboriginal Melbourne andProcessing History.

Immigration Museum

The Immigration Museum believes formaland informal educational activities andlearning experiences inspire, entertain,stimulate and provide multiple conduits to lifelong learning opportunities whichare accessible to all.

Education programs at the ImmigrationMuseum continued to strengthen theMuseum’s vision to foster understandingand tolerance and celebrate the manypositive dimensions of our cultural diversitythrough the provision of a range of formaland informal educational activities andlearning experiences. During the year27,440 educational students (primary,secondary and language other thanEnglish) visited the Museum.

Stimulated by requests for concise‘information bites’ on aspects of Australia’simmigration history, and to complementissues raised in our exhibitions, especiallytemporary exhibitions, a series of FactFiles have been produced which are aneasy reference to milestones in Australianimmigration history. These resources arebecoming popular merchandise items inthe Museum Shop.

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Scienceworks

Almost 99,000 teachers and studentsvisited Scienceworks during the year, withover 50,000 also attending a Planetariumshow. The result was one of the bestyears for education at Scienceworks.

The sleepover program for primarystudents continued to be popular withnearly 1,000 students attending eitherScienceworks or Planetarium sleepovers,double the number from last year.

The third annual Science Showcase forTeachers was held in February to launchthe 2002 Education Program to teachers.The showcase highlighted Scienceworkseducation programs and featured anaddress from Professor Bob Williamson,Director of the Murdoch Children’sResearch Institute, and a sneak previewof the Terrorsaurus exhibition, which wasabout to be opened.

Professional development for teacherscontinued to be an important part of theeducation program at Scienceworks. Over1,200 teachers attended full day, half dayor after-school sessions run byScienceworks Education staff.

Scienceworks obtained a grant from theFederal Department of Education Scienceand Training to develop an astronomyprogram called Big Sky Country to tourregional Victoria during National ScienceWeek 2002.

Scienceworks also benefited from thegenerous sponsorship of the CatholicEducation Office who increased theirsupport by funding a full-time educationofficer (placed teacher) in place of a halftime education officer.

Website Education –

http://www.museum.vic.gov.

au/education

ed-online is Museum Victoria’s onlineeducation gateway which is filled withprojects and resources for students of allages. Major projects include; the GlobalClassroom which is developed with theVictorian Department of Education andTraining and Online Projects based onMuseum Victoria’s research programsand collections.

The challenge for our learningcommunities is to understand andprepare our young people for what has increasingly become a rapidly andprofoundly changing world. The termGlobal Classroom refers to the work ofmany hundreds of Victorian teachers and their international colleagues whohave been developing enquiry basedcollaborative learning activities, using real-life situations with real-life outcomes.

The Flying Colours project is a state-wideproject, allowing students, teachers andmembers of the community to collectinformation about butterflies in their localarea. There are 177 schools and groupsnow registered for participation in theFlying Colours project.

There are fifteen projects based onMuseum Victoria’s science, history andtechnology collections and research. They include student activities withthematic or curricula links.

Several Museum Victoria collection based projects feature interpretedcollection databases. For example theBioinformatics project provides access to more than a hundred years of naturalscience observation and collection. TheBioinformatics project contains 388,369records and 12,217 images of Victoriananimal species. Since its introduction inFebruary 1999, the Bioinformaticswebsite has processed 170,000 requestsand served 22 million records to studentsand researchers from around the world.

In contrast, the database in BiggestFamily Album contains over 9,000photographs capturing human activities in Victoria and Australia from the 1870s to the 1950s.

Museum Victoria’s online educationgateway ed-online is used by over400,000 students each year.

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Commercial activities contribute positively to Museum Victoria’s financialperformance enhancing its public profileand providing the public with services andsocial experiences.

Melbourne Museum

Cafes

Several cafes operated by Peter RowlandCatering provide various levels of servicestyle to suit visitors’ needs. The cafes arelocated throughout the Museum, both inticketed and non-ticketed areas.

Functions & Venue Hire

The Melbourne Museum building and its facilities have made it a popular venue for corporate functions, events and performances.

Private functions at the Museum haveproved to be immensely popular. During2001/02 there were almost 600 privatebookings of Museum spaces. Theseinclude corporate dinners, productlaunches and weddings. The venue hasalso been popular with film crews fromAustralia and overseas. All hirers haveenjoyed the Museum’s strikingarchitecture and exciting exhibits.

Retail

The Museum Shop, operating on twolevels, showcased an extensive range ofpredominantly Australian stock. Importantproduct areas include indigenous art andartefacts, Museum publications andchildren’s toys.

Melbourne Museum Retail Departmenthas established an original line of apparel,focussing on icons within the Museum’scollection, such as Phar Lap, the HumanMind & Body Gallery, the Children’sMuseum and the Science and LifeGallery. A range of souvenir items forlocal and international tourists has alsobeen created.

Immersion Cinema Experience (ICE)

Attendances to ICE continue to grow,with consistent full houses during holidayperiods and expanding school bookings.

During periods when the theatre is notrunning ICE shows, it has been usedextensively as a regular venue hostinglectures, presentations, workshops,demonstrations, launches and meetingsfor staff, external clients and the general public.

IMAX Theatre

During the course of the year, IMAX continued to screen a range ofinternational film titles, from The HumanBody to Shackleton’s Antarctic Adventure.This giant screen entertainment venueenhances the experience of visitors to the precinct and is a compliment to the Museum’s exhibitions and educational programs.

IMAX has played an important role inattracting new audiences to the Museum.

Carpark

The carpark continued to service therequirement of visitors to the precinct, as well as city workers. The carparkcontinued to participate in the Park ‘n’Ride scheme with Yarra Trams, whichencourages city commuters to park at thecity fringe and use public transport toease traffic congestion in the CBD.

Royal Exhibition Building (REB)

The Royal Exhibition Building is animportant attraction within the MelbourneMuseum precinct and is seen as anintegral component of the Museumexperience. To this effect the Museumhas installed a Museum gallery in thenorthern transept of the REB, allowingaccess to the public through tours. Theprominence of the building and its historywill be promoted through future keypartnerships including the Australian War Memorial.

Function preparations at thePumping Station, Scienceworks.

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The Museum’s commercial operationsgenerate funds to support ongoingexhibition development and visitorprograms. The businesses also providethe public with services and socialexperiences that enhance their visit to theheritage-listed Old Customs House.

Cafes and Catering

The Immigration Museum has continuedto build a close business relationship withits catering contractor, White CardCatering, who operate the cafe andprovide catering for functions at theImmigration Museum. The cafe businesshas continued to build and hasestablished itself as a CBD lunch venue,attracting local business people.


The Immigration Museum provides venuehire for corporate and private functions inthe Museum’s unique indoor and outdoorareas. Venue hire revenue wasapproximately $37,000 for the year.

During 2001/02 there were 150 functionsheld at the Immigration Museum,including corporate, government andprivate events. These included formaldinners, interactive workshops andproduct launches. Key clients that heldfunctions at the Immigration Museumduring 2001/02 included: EnvironmentalInstitute of Australia Conference &Dinner; Young Australian of the YearAwards Dinner; Department of HumanServices – Child Protection Seminar;World Conference on Religion & Peace;Department of Employment, WorkplaceRelations (Victorian Government Office)Workshop; and Refugee Like Me – UnitedNations Book Launch.

Retail

The Immigration Museum shop has an extensive range of predominantlyAustralian stock and specialisedmerchandise aligned with temporaryexhibitions. The shop has received a high approval rating from visitors.

Scienceworks

Cafe and Catering

White Card Catering continue to operatethe Scienceworks cafe offering a great mixof products for the differing Scienceworksclientele. White Card staff and theFunctions Co-ordinator have established astrong working relationship that has helpedbuild corporate function sales and bookings.


The numbers of functions at Scienceworksand the Planetarium continued to growthroughout 2001/2002 with 120 functionsbeing booked.

A number of community organisations,charities and tourism organisations alsoheld meetings on the site which helpedenhance Scienceworks’ presence in the community.

Retail

The shop has grown in structure duringthe last 12 months, from educationaltools, activities and games to great funideas for home. A trip to the Scienceworksshop has offered visitors an array of giftideas for people of all ages.

IMAX cinema entrance andMelbourne Museum Plaza.

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REGIONAL OUTREACH

Museum Victoria engaged Victoria’sregional communities through a variety of activities: • Over 50,000 school students from

regional Victoria participated in MuseumVictoria education programs (8,176visiting Scienceworks with the supportof the Government’s Star 6 program).

• Scienceworks toured its 10th Birthdayprograms to regional centres.

• Museum Victoria’s Museum in a Vanprogram reached over 21,000 people inschools, kindergartens, senior citizensclubs and other community groups inregional and metropolitan areas.

• Museum Victoria’s Roving CuratorProgram supported regional Aboriginal communities.

• Travelling exhibitions toured regionalVictoria or featured regional Victoria inMuseum Victoria venues.

• Museum Victoria’s Production Studiodocumented on video ‘conservationrescue’ work being carried out inregional locations.

• The Museum’s websites providedsignificant access for regional Victoriansto Museum resources.

MUSEUM VICTORIA

TOURING EXHIBITIONS

Thookay Ngaweeyan

– Young Voices of Victoria

Various regional art galleries

A colourful and vibrant exhibition ofartwork by Koori children is touringregional art galleries from MelbourneMuseum. The exhibition will return toMelbourne Museum for display in 2003.

Spirit Country (selected works)

Brisbane City Gallery,

18 April – 16 June 2002

Selected works from the Gantner MyerAboriginal Art Collection, comprising ofpaintings, sculptures and weavings, bycontemporary artists practising in artcentres in the Central District region, theKimberley and the ‘top end’ of Australiawere displayed.

MUSEUM IN A VAN

The Outreach program, which presentsMuseum Victoria product to regionalcommunities, increased its audience by 29% compared to the previous year,reaching 21,314 people throughout Victoria.The number of sessions presented by theOutreach program increased by 17%from 611 in 2000/01 to 716 sessions in2001/02. The Outreach program was alsopresented a one-week session at KnoxShopping Centre, promoting the Museumto approximately 6,000 people. For manyof the attendees this was their firstcontact with Melbourne Museum sinceits move to Carlton Gardens.

MUSEUM VICTORIA WEBSITES

Overall, 1.6 million individual user sessionswere recorded for all Museum Victoriawebsites, which is a 26% increase on the previous year, with the average visitlength 8–9 minutes. Online visitors camefrom metropolitan and regional Victoriaand many overseas countries.

The highlight of the year was theredesign and launch of the newMelbourne Museum website in June2002. The Museum Victoria website was also redesigned and prepared forlaunch in August 2002. The number of web pages served grew by 42.2%,reflecting the continued expansion of new educational content and programs.

Online projects published included:• Coins and Medals.• Forest Secrets.• A History of Museum Victoria.• Koori Children’s Art online gallery. • The addition of Mammals and Lizards

data-sets to the Bioinformatics site.• Redesign and update of Melbourne

Planetarium.• Remembering the War screensaver

for Imagining Australia.• A new image database for The Biggest

Family Album in Australia.

Beyond OurCampuses

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MELBOURNE’S GOLDEN

MILE HERITAGE TRAIL

Melbourne’s Golden Mile, launched inDecember 1999, celebrated its 50,000thwalker in May 2002.

As Melbourne’s key heritage trail, it is nowincluded in all major street directories,tourist maps and tourist literature.Independent walkers purchased almost8,000 copies of the Golden Mile Guidethis year alone.

Guided tours are now offered in a varietyof languages three days a week, and aregrowing in popularity. It is expected thatinterest will further increase whenFederation Square opens, with tourscommencing from that location every day of the week.

A quarterly newsletter for supporters,heritage sites and businesses along thetrail was launched in April 2002 by theMinister for Tourism, the Hon JohnPandazopoulos MP.

REGIONAL SERVICES (RASMAC)

The Board’s Regional and SpecialistMuseums Advisory Committee(RASMAC) ran two workshops during theyear involving Museum Victoria staff andHeritage Victoria representatives. Theseworkshops identified strategic issues forregional and metropolitan museums andclarified collaborative processes to supportthem. RASMAC continued to investigateoptions to fund support for smallermuseums. Museum Victoria continued to provide accommodation for MuseumsAustralia (Vic) as a way of supporting itsoutreach to regional museums.

I investigate what marine animals occurin the waters around Australia, anddiscover why those animals live wherethey do. My favourite aspect of this roleis communicating the excitement ofdiscovery to others.

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RESEARCH

Museum Victoria is responsible for themaintenance of a vast collection ofapproximately 16 million items. Thecollection is developed through researchand acquisition, and accessed by scholarsand communities.

During the year, the Museum focused onidentifying future directions and strategiesfor both research and the ongoingdevelopment and management of thecollections. Access to collections wasenhanced through the development ofonline projects, and support was giventhrough the production of exhibitions and multimedia.

A Research Strategy was approved by theMuseums Board in September 2001 andsets out the existing strengths and futuredirections for research in the Museum.Museum Victoria is seeking to expand itsresearch capacity by building on its existingresearch partnerships with key universitiesand research institutions, increasing thelevel of research grants awarded to theMuseum, and by increasing MuseumVictoria’s involvement in undergraduateand postgraduate education.

A research and collections websitedetailing the Museum’s researchprograms and current projects wasdeveloped. The site is due to be rolledout with the new Museum Victoriawebsite in August 2002.

The Collection Working Group developed aCollection Development and ManagementPolicy and a Collection Deaccession Policyin May 2002, and continued work onCollection Development and ManagementStrategies for implementation in late 2002.

Research Highlights:• Museum Victoria was successful in

attracting external funding for 17research projects, plus another 10collaborative research projectsadministered by other institutions(details listed in Appendix).

• Museum staff were involved in theorganisation of four major conferencesthat attracted Australian andinternational visitors to Melbourne:Centenary Anniversary Symposium: A Celebration of Anthropologist DonaldThomson; 5th International CrustaceanConference; Joint Conference of theSociety of Australian SystematicBiologists and the Australasian EvolutionSociety; and Challenging Histories:Reflections on Australian History.

• The 2002 Thomas Ramsay Science and Humanities Fellowship wasawarded to Mr John Gertsakis, whoseproject, ‘Innovating with Water’,includes an investigation of the social,cultural, technological and ecologicalaspects of water use in Victoria.

• The 2001 Crosbie Morison MemorialLecture was presented by Dr SteveMorton, Chief of the CSIRO Division of Sustainable Ecosystems. Dr Morton’slecture, ‘Encounters with Nature’,focused on Australia’s biodiversity and ecology.

Graduate and Postgraduate StudentSupervision Highlights:• Six honours and 21 postgraduate

students were supervised by MuseumVictoria staff (details listed in Appendix).

• Funding for two PhD fellowships wasobtained by the University ofMelbourne, with top-up funds from theMuseum. The studentships will beoverseen by the University and theMuseum for projects involving theAustralian Children’s Folklore Collectionand innovation in Australian agriculture.

Publications Highlights:• Over 80 papers, reports, books and

theses were produced, and 106lectures and talks were presented(details listed in Appendix).

• Staff members contributed specialistchapters to two major publications: A Museum for the People: a History ofMuseum Victoria and its Predecessors1854–2000 and Forests of Ash: anEnvironmental History.

• The 2001 Thomas Ramsay Science andHumanities Fellow, Mr Gary Presland,completed a manuscript on A Guide tothe Collections of Museum Victoria.

• The Memoirs of Museum Victoria,Volume 59(1), was produced, featuring a monograph on a cumacean group ofmarine crustaceans.

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AUSTRALIAN SOCIETY

AND TECHNOLOGY

The Museum through the AustralianSociety and Technology Department aimsto improve our understanding of Australianand Victorian history and the relationshipsbetween technology and society.

Highlights:• Content was developed for a range of

public programs, including EspressoComes to Melbourne, a temporarydisplay at Melbourne Museum ofespresso machines and related itemsthat illustrate Melbourne’s long coffee history.

• Staff contributed to an exhibitionlocated on the mezzanine level of theRoyal Exhibition Building entitled RoyalExhibition Building: First 21 Years:World’s Fairs to Federation, whichincludes significant objects from theopening of the first Federal Parliamentin 1901.

• The Museum was commissioned bythe Trustees of the Shrine ofRemembrance to complete a curatorialbrief on the history and contemporarysignificance of the Shrine for its newInterpretation Centre. The project willbe completed by early 2003.

• Watches and clocks from the Museumcollection were used to supplementthe touring exhibition Clockwise atScienceworks, and four letters (G, H, Iand J) of the popular ongoing exhibitionprogram A-Z of Collecting was alsoundertaken at Scienceworks.

• Research efforts were primarily linkedto public program requirements,including research on a new exhibitionat the Immigration Museum on thehistory of immigration policy inAustralia (due to open in December2002), and a major travelling exhibitionbeing developed on the history oftravelling tent boxing shows. A monthlyseminar series was presented on

history and material culture, the Historyand the Meaning of Things,commencing in May. The seriesprovides an opportunity for students,academics and museum professionalsto discuss material culture as historicsource material. Undergraduate andgraduate students are being activelyencouraged to undertake research onthe collections, and two PhDfellowships have been jointly fundedwith the University of Melbourne.

• Several online projects werecompleted, including A History ofMuseum Victoria to accompany therecent book published on theMuseum’s history, and ImaginingAustralia, 1914 – 1918, based oncollection material relating to theexperiences of Australians at home andoverseas during the First World War.Online content that supplements thehistorical exhibitions at MelbourneMuseum has also been produced forthe Museum website.

• Significant acquisitions included theFrodsham Regulator Clock No. 1062,one of the most important scientificclocks used by the MelbourneObservatory in the 19th century. Itspurchase was assisted by a grant fromthe Commonwealth Government’sNational Heritage Account andcontributions from the Royal BotanicGardens and from the Museum’sAskew Bequest. A 19th centuryFergusson and Urie stained-glasswindow from a house in Kooyong wasalso acquired as a donation through theCultural Gifts Program.

• Components of the Australian Societycollections were relocated from theMoreland Annexe to new storagefacilities at Melbourne Museum, andcuratorial staff now have ready access to these collections for the first time inmany years.

• The Cowley Steam Traction Engineacquired by Museum Victoria in 1985has undergone a 10-year restorationproject. It has been returned to aworking condition and appearancesimilar to that of its prime years,around 1920. Twenty-one volunteers atthe Scienceworks EngineeringWorkshop helped restore the engine,contributing approximately 5,000 hoursin total.

• Information on the Numismaticscollection is now available through KE EMu™, and this represents the firstof the cultural collection databases tobe transferred to the new electroniccollection management system.Documentation and image capture ofthe Greek coin collection continued as part of an international project, the Sylloge Nummorum Graecorum,to catalogue major collections of Greek coins.

Advisory Committee

• Dr Kate Darian-Smith, The AustralianCentre, University of Melbourne.

• Professor Graeme Davison, Departmentof History, Monash University.

• Professor Peter Thorne, Department ofComputer Science and SoftwareEngineering, University of Melbourne.

• Dr David Turnbull, School ofHumanities, Deakin University.

Marine wet specimens, sponges.

Blue and white crockeryrecovered from the LittleLonsdale Street excavation.

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Museum Victoria aims to work withindigenous peoples in Australia and theSouth Pacific to improve our understandingof indigenous peoples and cultures.

Highlights:• The Museum, together with the

University of Melbourne and the Schoolof Anthropology and Archaeology at theAustralian National University, hostedthe Centenary Anniversary Symposium:a Celebration of Anthropologist DonaldThomson. Twenty-three paperscelebrating the life and work of DonaldThomson, including his biological andenvironmental interests and hiscontribution to Aboriginal policy andsocial justice issues, were presented bylocal, interstate and overseas academics.The symposium proceedings are duefor publication in 2003.

• The Museum toured the exhibitionThookay Ngaweeyan, Young Voices ofVictoria: Aboriginal Children’s Art fromthe Collections of Museum Victoria, andproduced an accompanying exhibitioncatalogue. The exhibition was installed attwo Aboriginal community centres andat regional galleries throughout Victoriaand interstate. The exhibition will beshown at Melbourne Museum at thecompletion of its regional tour in late-2003. The Museum also contributedcollection objects to two touringexhibitions, Bush Colour and Art on aString, and provided photographs for theinstallation of Reversing the Negativesby Ricky Maynard at Gasworks SculpturePark, Port Melbourne. It was alsoheavily involved in the touring exhibition,Spirit Country, and contributed severalworks from the Museum’s owncollections. The exhibition also featuredthe first ground painting to be completedin Melbourne, commissioned fromWarlukarlangu Aboriginal ArtistsAssociation at Yuendumu, NT.

• Major acquisitions during the yearincluded the Spirit Country collection of contemporary Australian Aboriginalart (donated by the Myer and Gantnerfamilies), and the vividly painted BushMechanics car from the popular ABCTV series. The Christensen Funddonated a major collection of 328objects from Africa and the Pacific thatwere previously on loan to the Museum.A large fibre mat from Ramingining,two bush footballs from Utopia andtwo limited-edition linocuts by TorresStrait Islanders were purchased.

• Research work on the art and culture of the Gulf of Papua was concludedand will be published in a monographnext year. New research projects havebegun on the history of the Pintubipeople, bark paintings in the DonaldThomson Collection from north-eastArnhem Land, and Aboriginalcommunity organisations in Melbourne.

• Work continued on unpacking andorganising indigenous collectionspreviously relocated into MelbourneMuseum, and further organisation of thecollection stores at the Moreland Annexe.

• External access to the collections,information, photographic orders andoutward loans continue to be in very highdemand by family history researchers,academics and community organisations.

Repatriation

The Museum made major progress in thearea of repatriation of ancestral remainsand secret/sacred objects to Aboriginalcommunities, with funding assistance for the Return of Indigenous CulturalProperty Program from the Department ofCommunications, Information Technologyand the Arts. Ancestral remains werereturned to a number of indigenous groupsincluding the Tasmanian Aboriginal Centre,clans of Northwest Nations of Victoria,and the Riratjingu people of ArnhemLand. Approval was given for return ofremains to Latje Latje/Wergaia/Robinvalepeople, Yorta Yorta people andFramlingham Gundjitmara-Kirrae Wurrung.A new Repatriation Policy is currentlybeing developed.

Advisory Committees

The Museum continued to receive advice through three Committees: • Aboriginal Cultural Heritage

Advisory Committee;• Pacific Islands Advisory Group; and• Donald Thomson Collection

Administration Committee (in association with the University of Melbourne).

Bunjilaka Gallery,Melbourne Museum.

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Museum Victoria aims to promote anunderstanding of the natural sciences, the human mind and body, and science communication.

Highlights:• The Museum’s established track record

for innovative DNA-based research intothe conservation, evolution anddiversification of Australasian birds andmammals was expanded to includestudies on reptiles, fishes, halictinebees, freshwater caddis flies andmarine invertebrates (comprisingcrustaceans, polychaete worms,bryozoans and brittle-stars). Mediaattention was generated with thepublication of research results thatplaced the lyrebird at the base of thesongbird evolutionary tree, anddemonstrated that Australia was thecradle of origin for the world’s songbirds.

• An agreement with AmershamBiosciences Pty Ltd provided partialsponsorship for the acquisition of aMegaBACE DNA sequencer. This state-of-the-art technology considerablyincreases the research capacity of thePopulation and Evolutionary GeneticsUnit, and will enhance the internationalcompetitiveness of the genetic researchundertaken by the Museum. It willprovide the capability for establishingan Ancient DNA laboratory that will beused to unlock genetic informationcontained within the Museum’s vastcollection of natural history specimens.

• A multi-institutional study mappingenvironments in the continental slopeand pelagic marine waters of south-eastern Australia modelled on fishdistributions was completed. Based onthe results of the study, the NationalOceans Office has committed toprovide additional funding that willenable the project to be expanded toinclude the entire Australian coastline.

• Major fieldwork was undertakenincluding the collecting of reptiles inKenya, insects in South Africa, marineinvertebrates from the Weddell Sea inAntarctica and Raine Island on the GreatBarrier Reef, freshwater insects fromthe Otway Ranges and woodland birdsfrom New South Wales and Victoria.Exploration of dinosaur fossil sites inAlaska, China and Argentina was alsoundertaken. Specialist techniques forcollecting invertebrates from the forestcanopy were demonstrated to staff fromthe Tasmanian Forestry Department.

• Other significant research outcomesincluded the description of new formsof minerals and taxonomic revisions ofmarine invertebrates and fossil trilobites.

• Museum staff played a leading role infast-tracking work on an Australia-wideproject aimed at making natural historycollection databases accessible overthe internet. A total of 320,000specimen records, comprising naturalhistory-type material and Victorianmammals, were added to theMuseum’s Bioinformatics website.

• The first instalment of the importantMarrow Collection of Marine Molluscs(over one million specimens) wasacquired under the Cultural GiftsProgram. A comprehensive collectionof bird specimens from ChristmasIsland was also received. Othersignificant acquisitions included deepwater fishes, a giant squid, a goblinshark, a neonate pilot whale and twostrap-toothed whales from Australianseas. A rare 1.6-carat diamond crystalfrom Victoria was purchased along withthe Richard Brew Collection of Victorianfaceted gem minerals.

Advisory Committee

• Associate Professor Janet McCalman,Department of History & Philosophy ofScience, and, Centre for the Study ofHeath & Society, University of Melbourne.

• Professor John McKenzie, Faculty ofScience, University of Melbourne.

• Professor Fred Mendelsohn, HowardFlorey Institute, University of Melbourne.

• Dr Gareth Nelson, School of Botany,University of Melbourne.

COLLECTION MANAGEMENT

Highlights:• A 10-year project to relocate the

Museum’s collections from old storesto Scienceworks (since 1992), theMoreland Annexe (since 1996) andMelbourne Museum (the past threeyears) was concluded with the transferof parts of the Australian Society andTechnology collection from theMoreland Annexe to MelbourneMuseum in November. The processhas also involved decommissioningthree major sites as Museum Victoriacollection storage repositories.

• Reconfiguration of the main storagearea at the Moreland Annexe wasinitiated in order to extend theMuseum’s short- to mid-term capacityto store large collection items. Thisproject will be completed by end-2002.A Cool Store facility was installed at theMoreland Annexe to housephotographic and film material in a lowtemperature and humidity environment.

• Collections staff managed two majorchangeovers of collection material forMelbourne Museum’s permanentexhibitions, as well as managing thecollection elements for all temporaryexhibitions across the Museum’s threeexhibiting campuses, including Gold andCivilisation, The Italians and Spirit Country.

• Museum Victoria has lent 17 majoraeronautical items including threeaeroplanes, six engines, a rocket and asatellite to the Australian Museum ofFlight in Nowra, NSW. These objectswill form a central part of a new display,and the loan represents a significantpartnership between the two museums.

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Collection Information Systems

An analysis of extant collection databaseswas completed, enabling the Museum toreview and refine its Implementation Planfor KE EMu™. Four collection databasesare now operating in KE EMu™, andanother 41 will be transferred into KEEMu™ over the next three years.

The Numismatics database is now operatingin KE EMu™, while ten other databaseswere prepared to different stages fortransfer into KE EMu™ in the next year.

The Museum also worked with KESoftware Pty Ltd to design tabs in KEEMu™ to accommodate the needs of 17Image, Sound and Document collectiondatabases. Metadata tabs were alsodeveloped in accordance with the DublinCore Metadata standards, to enable a moreeffective means of managing informationdelivered to the World Wide Web.

The Museum enhanced data and imagesin the Multimedia Repository of KE EMu™for Vertebrate Palaeontology, InvertebratePalaeontology, Geology, Numismatics andIndigenous Cultures collections. Otherdiscrete projects to be loaded onto theMultimedia Repository included GreekCoins, Victorian Volcanoes, Gold Nuggetsand Fijian images, the latter three inpreparation for World Wide Web projects.

The Collection Inventory System (CIS),developed by the Museum for compatibilitywith KE EMu™, its new electroniccollection management system, movedfrom development to implementation. CISinvolves the ‘real time’ management ofcollection locations in the building and

external stores, using hand-held radiodevices. A total of 24,000 items werecaptured on the system in 2001/2002,representing a significant proportion ofthe Australian Society and Technologycollection at Melbourne Museum and theMoreland Annexe. It is planned to roll outthe system at Scienceworks in theforthcoming year.

CONSERVATION

Highlights:• A pilot risk analysis project was carried

out on part of the Australian Societyand Technology collection. The projecttested the suitability of a risk analysismethodology as a means of identifyingrisks posed to collections anddetermining priorities for preventiveand remedial conservation programs to minimise those risks. The pilotprogram is also being tested in NaturalSciences and Indigenous Culturescollections to determine its applicationacross other collecting disciplines.

• The Integrated Pest ManagementProgram continued to demonstrate its preventative effectiveness throughfreezing of incoming collection materialand applying periodic detection schedulesacross the Museum’s collection stores.Very few outbreaks of pest infestationwere detected, and all of theseincidences were immediately andeffectively contained.

• Intensive conservation work was appliedto the documentation, treatment andpreparation of works from the SpiritCountry collection to prepare for itstouring itinerary, and to addressing theconservation requirements of TheItalians and The Palestinians: PortraitsWithout Names exhibitions.

• The rehousing and treatment of some600 bark paintings from the IndigenousCultures Collection continued, with afurther 45 items replaced intostandardised archival boxes.

PRODUCTION

Highlights:• Significant projects included the

articulation and repair of Megalania,Genyornis and Diprotodon skeletons for a new Melbourne Museum exhibiton Australian megafauna, the retrievaland preparation of two rare Strap-toothed Whale skeletons and theprovision of taxidermy training for staff from the Australian Museum.

• In the area of Media Production andCopyright, approximately 700 Greekcoins were digitally captured forpublication; 600 secret/sacred objectswere photographed, scanned anddigitally printed for the Central Australiarepatriation project; and some 1,500negatives from the Seeger Collectionwere scanned under supervision forthe Indigenous Cultures Department.

• With Image Management, work wascompleted for various publications, such as Education Kits, MuseumVictoria magazine and A Museum forthe People: a History of Museum Victoriaand its Predecessors 1854 – 2000.

• Production on a number of major projectswas completed, including the RoyalExhibition Building: First 21 Years: World’sFairs to Federation exhibition, theRaincheck 3000 interactive multimediaexhibit, and a new interpretive centre atthe Melbourne Water Eastern TreatmentPlant. Production on the MelbournePlanetarium shows Launch Pad: TychoStars Again and Guiding Lights:Navigating by the Stars were completed.

• Bi-monthly production of the MuseumVictoria Highlights Video was completed,providing a snapshot view of theactivities occurring at all campuses ofthe institution. The videos were shown to staff, the Museums Board and ArtsVictoria, and are available to view onthe Museum intranet.

Detail of specimen box containingminerals.

Museum Victoria staff memberJane Melville.

As a Senior Curator within theIndigenous Cultures Program, I aminvolved in the repatriation ofsecret/sacred objects, the developmentof exhibitions, research, the publicationof articles and books, field trips toCentral Australia, the acquisition ofobjects for the collection, ethnographicfilm and photographic projects and anumber of other related activities.

It always amazes me that I'm actuallypaid to do all these interesting things -in fact - it’s a privilege.

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HUMAN RESOURCES

MANAGEMENT

A new Staff Consultative Committee,comprising 12 representatives, waselected for a period of 1–2 years. A majorfocus for this committee will be thedevelopment of Museum Victoria’s nextEnterprise Partnership Agreement. Inaddition, the Committee has beeninstrumental in the implementation ofmany of the initiatives of the currentEnterprise Partnership Agreement,including the ‘Face to Face’ project. This project was based on a belief thatbringing employees into regular, closercontact with Museum Victoria customerswill promote better understanding ofthese customers.

A major undertaking for the HumanResources unit was the management ofthe third organisational self-assessmentprocess, Australian Business ExcellenceFramework. Teams of staff from alldivisions and levels of the organisationwere formed to research sevencategories of business excellence. Thedata gathering process involvedinterviews with approximately 200 stafffrom all divisions and levels. A workshopwas held with the review teams to drawtogether all of the findings and to identifyfour projects to redress the key issuesthat emerged.

A systematic scoring system was used in order to measure progress from onereview to the next. Each time theorganisation was assessed against thesame criteria:• In 2002, Museum Victoria scored 396

out of a possible 1000. • In 1999, it scored 298 out of a

possible 1000.• In 1997, it scored 379 out of a

possible 1000.

A staff survey was also conducted duringthe year. This was the third EmployeeOpinion Survey conducted by MuseumVictoria. By aligning this organisationalassessment with the other organisationalmeasures, a clear pattern of results isstarting to emerge. The EmployeeOpinion Survey is a self-assessment toolused by organisations large and small,public and private. It is an invaluablemeasure of our organisation’s currentprogress. Issues identified in theEmployee Opinion Survey inform thedevelopment of Museum Victoria’s nextEnterprise Partnership Agreement.

Cultural Diversity Statement

StatementMuseum Victoria has a majorcommitment to assist the widercommunity to understand our origins,how our society has evolved, its culturaldiversity, and the many forces which will continue to shape the processes of change. We support interculturalunderstanding and reconciliation.

Museum Victoria Strategic Plan 2000 – 2005

Key performance indicators:• Delivery of public programs and

exhibitions that explore themes ofcultural diversity in Australia.

• Representation of culturally andlinguistically diverse people on theMuseums Board of Victoria.

• Regular meetings of the AboriginalCultural Heritage Advisory Committeeand the Immigration Museum Advisory Committee.

• Maintain a diverse group of volunteersreflective of Australian Bureau ofStatistics diversity populationpercentages.

• Growth of culturally and linguisticallydiverse audiences.

Report 2001/02

Museum Victoria has a commitment tothe provision of public programs that caterfor and attract audiences from culturallyand linguistically diverse backgrounds.• In December 2001, Melbourne

Museum received an Arts LeadershipAward from Arts Victoria, based on thepublic programs offered for a culturallydiverse audience.

• The Volunteer program at MelbourneMuseum received an Award ofCommendation for managing diversityfrom the Office of Public Employmentin June 2002.

• Ten exhibitions across MuseumVictoria’s three campuses that explorethemes of cultural diversity in Australiawere delivered.

• Fourteen Global Sounds concerts atMelbourne Museum were deliveredover seven weekends celebratingmusic from a very diverse range ofcountries and languages.

• Guided tours were provided inlanguages other than English includingAuslan. Arabic, Greek, Italian, Polish,Japanese, Russian, Vietnamese,German and Mandarin and Farsi. Otherservices are provided as required.Between the museum volunteers andstaff, 30 languages are spoken.

• Visitor guides were printed in ninedifferent languages. Website informationwas available in 10 languages.

• Museum Victoria maintains membershipin the Ethnic Communities Council ofVictoria Inc., Media and Arts Policy andProgramming Committee, the role ofwhich is to identify issues affectingethnic communities in the area ofmedia and arts and to documentrecommendations for the benefit oforganisations that promote Arts in the community.

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• Literacy and ESL education programsfor languages other than English weredeveloped and delivered to students atMuseum Victoria campuses.

• The Museums Board of Victoriacontinued to support the AboriginalCultural Heritage Advisory Committee.Over the course of the year 11meetings were convened.

• Public programs were delivered atMelbourne Museum and ImmigrationMuseum exploring themes of VictorianAboriginal culture, including therecognition and celebration of NAIDOC week.

• An Aboriginal cultural training coursewas delivered to the Victoria Police.

• The Immigration Museum undertookextensive community liaison andconsultation with Victoria’s culturallydiverse communities and delivered arange of projects that focused onpromoting tolerance and greaterunderstanding and respect for diversity.

• In conjunction with VicHealth, the HeartFoundation and the Chinese, Arabic,Macedonian and Italian Communities of Victoria, four successful SmokeFreeFestivals were presented at theImmigration Museum showcasing the customs and traditions of these communities.

• The Immigration Museum AdvisoryCommittee continued to be supportedas a sub committee of the MuseumsBoard of Victoria.

• Access Gallery exhibitions weredelivered in collaboration with a range ofcommunity groups building communityrelations and increasing access.

• ‘Asialinks – Science’, a teacherProfessional Development programwas delivered to show how the topicsof ‘Dinosaurs’ and ‘Time Keeping’ couldbe used as springboards to studies ofAsia at Scienceworks.

Strategies for 2002/03

In addition to a continuation of existingprograms and activities across MuseumVictoria, the following new initiatives are proposed:• Delivery of Multicultural Audience

Development Strategies focused ondeveloping relationships with the Italian,the Chinese, Indian, Afghan, Turkish,Armenian, Indo-Chinese, Spanish andLatin American and deaf communities.

• Continued development of strategicalliances with relevant Government andcommunity organisations to assistpresent culturally inclusive programsand promote multiculturalism inAustralia through exhibitions, educationand cultural programs.

• Development of multilingual guides and information that target languageother than English speaking individualsand groups.

Occupational Health and Safety

Museum Victoria continued to applyrigorous standards to the management ofits health and safety program, in line withthe Occupational Health and Safety (OHS)Policy approved by the Museums Boardof Victoria.

The cross-campus occupational healthand safety program included the following outputs against definedperformance indicators.• Maintenance and testing programs

were carried out for all Museum Victoriapremises in accordance with theBuilding Essential Services Act 1994.

• Emergency evacuation drills wereundertaken during the 2001/02 financial year.

• Noise audit and/or air quality testingwas carried out as required atMelbourne Museum.

• Museum Victoria’s contractor safetymanagement program was applied at all campuses, resulting in no losttime incidents.

• Designated work groups wereestablished and OHS representativeelections held.

• A legionella cooling tower RiskManagement Plan and inspectionprogram was established that exceedsthe requirements of current regulations.

• Hazards and safety issues identifiedacross all campuses have beenaddressed and treated in accordancewith the established procedure.

A continuing program to address itemsidentified in site risk surveys wasundertaken. Museum Victoria achievedVictorian Managed Insurance Authoritygold medal rating for all three operatingvenues and main storage facility. TheRoyal Exhibition Building maintained itssilver medal rating.

FINANCE AND ADMINISTRATION

The financial modeling undertaken byMuseum Victoria was reviewed andrevised and was instrumental innegotiating additional Governmentsupport. This resulted in an increase inMuseum Victoria’s Government fundingfor the 2002/2003 financial year, and anincrease in funding specifically forScienceworks exhibition developmentover 2002–2004.

The financial reporting system wasenhanced with the introduction of Crystalreports on the intranet. These reportswere invaluable in providing up to dateinformation to line managers to enablethem to control budgets. Furthermore,enhancements were made to themonthly financial reports for the Boardand the Executive.

A number of internal and external auditswere conducted which tested MuseumVictoria’s internal control environment.These audits generally rated the auditenvironment as medium to strong.

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Considerable progress has been made inthe identification and rectification ofMelbourne Museum building defects, andrefurbishment work has continued on theRoyal Exhibition Building.

Since the opening of Melbourne Museum,the Facilities Management unit has beenworking to reduce energy consumption at the site. Measures were implementedduring the first year resulting in areduction of energy consumption. In conjunction with the SustainableEnergy Authority, Museum Victoriafurther demonstrated its commitment toresponsible energy use by commissioningScott Wilson Irwin Jonston Pty Ltd toundertake an audit of energy usage atMelbourne Museum. Many of therecommendations arising from thisprocess have since been implemented,resulting in further reductions. The auditwill be extended to Museum Victoria’sother campuses in 2002/2003.

Many of the recommendations arisingfrom a separate recycling and wastemanagement audit have also beenimplemented. Museum Victoria isworking to reduce waste, maximise reuse and recycling practices andincrease purchases of environmentally-friendly products.

COMPLIANCE AND RISK

MANAGEMENT

Museum Victoria began work towardachieving compliance with the newInformation Privacy Act 2000. A PrivacyTask Force was established, and theManager Information and Records wasassigned the role of Privacy Officer forthe organisation. Led by the Deputy CEO,the Task Force developed a policy,reviewed and modified practices andprocedures relating to the collection,management and use of personal andsensitive information and provided staffwith information about the Act. MuseumVictoria is confident that it will be fullycompliant with the Act by 1 September2002 when the Act comes into force.

During the year, Museum Victoriaundertook a full risk assessment with thesupport of Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu.This resulted in a risk-reduction program.

CORPORATE MARKETING, PUBLIC

RELATIONS AND DEVELOPMENT

Museum Victoria undertakes Marketing,Public Relations, Fundraising, Developmentand Market Research. In addition, it has avibrant Members Program.

The support of Museum Ambassadorshas continued. This dedicated group ofpeople from diverse backgrounds acts asadvocates for Museum Victoria and itsactivities within their sphere of influenceand communities. A key focus of theirrole is to assist Museum Victoria withpartnership development.

The Museum Victoria magazine,Museum, has continued to be publishedquarterly. It plays an important role inproviding improved community andstakeholder awareness of MuseumVictoria and its activities.

Led by Museum Victoria, a Forum ofDevelopment and Marketing Directorswith representation across all of the majormuseums, galleries and libraries withinAustralia was launched during the year.

Museum Victoria’s marketing and publicrelations departments were recognisedwith a number of prestigious awardsduring the year (a full listing of awardsappears on pages 9 and 10).

Public Relations

Museum Victoria undertakes publicrelations campaigns for its campuses andactivities. In addition, it undertakes publicaffairs, issues management andgovernment relations activities.

Highlights included:• The exposure for Museum Victoria’s

campuses, exhibitions, collections andresearch exceeded the target of 80%positive/neutral, through the use ofpopular media.

• Melbourne Museum continued toreceive high levels of coverage inVictorian, interstate and internationalmedia – with an average of more than$1 million generated per month.Results exceeded performance targets,with publicity registering an annualaverage of 92.2% favourable, 5.5%neutral and 2.3% unfavourable.

• Involvement in more than 40Melbourne Museum events and medialaunches, including launches fortraveling exhibitions. Targeted invitationlists were developed for each event,with particular emphasis on the guestlist for the Gold and Civilisation openingnight and media launch. Public relationsactivities were also initiated to promoteMuseum Victoria achievements.

• Implementation of a GovernmentRelations Strategy for Museum Victoria.

• Hosted tours of Melbourne Museumfor more than 150 internationaljournalists, plus dozens of Australianjournalists.

• Developed new publicity opportunitiesfor Melbourne Museum including thearticulation of the giant Goanna, whichgenerated a front-page story in TheAge as well as extensive televisioncoverage. Similarly, the Out of theVaults weekend provided a publicityopportunity, receiving coverage ontelevision, daily press and radio.

• A successful pre-launch publicitycampaign for The Italians, whichincluded international media coverage.

• Positively profiling the repatriation ofTasmanian Aboriginal remains.

• Extensive media coverage resultingfrom the Scienceworks’ 10th birthdaypublicity campaign.

• Attracted Ms. Megabite, the TodayShow’s Computer Science Guru tolaunch the Megawatt Exhibition, andScott Hocknull, 2002 Young Australianof the Year and Paleontologist, tolaunch the Terrorsaurus Exhibition.

• Over the year, Scienceworks achievedin excess of $250,000 free mediacoverage across radio, television andprint media.

• The Hon Steve Bracks MP, Premier ofVictoria and Local Member forWilliamstown, launched the WesternRegion Bay Trail at Scienceworks.

• The Immigration Museum receivedextensive publicity throughout the year,with an estimated value of $600,000.Both Stages Three and Four of theTribute Garden were particularly wellpublicised as were the exhibitions.

As an Outreach Program Presenter forMuseum Victoria, I showcase a selectionof the Museum’s diverse collections topeople of all ages and nationalities, toevery region throughout Victoria.

It is a great privilege to be able tointeract with people from all walks oflife and listen to their experiences – onone occasion, someone told me hisfather used to drive bullock trains andwas held up by Ned Kelly!

RaoulJonesOutreach Program Presenter

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Marketing

Museum Victoria undertakes strategicmarketing activities and programs acrossits three campuses.

Highlights included:• The implementation of cross campus

ticketing packages.• Development of a Museum Victoria

style guide (to be implemented in2002/2003).

• The commencement of cross campusaudience development.

• The development and delivery of athree-year marketing plan forMelbourne Museum, to be fullydelivered early in the 2002/2003 year.

• Visitation of 650,000 to MelbourneMuseum with an audiences breakdownof 50% metropolitan Melbourne, 14% regional, 16% interstate, 18% international.

• Media sponsorships valuing $1.1million were negotiated to assist in the Melbourne and Regional Victoriamarketing initiatives.

• Strong performance of the internationaltourism market, reflecting a growingcultural tourism market.

• The education marketing programdelivered 120,000 students.

• Marketing campaigns developed anddelivered for traveling exhibitions Goldand Civilisation and The Italians.

• Continued implementation of theScienceworks’ Marketing Plan.

• Marketing and promotions teampromote Scienceworks to existing andnew audiences at Victoria’s Tourism OnShow, the Corporate Hospitality Expo,the Asia/Pacific Incentives & MeetingsExpo, the Parks Victoria Festival, theSeniors Expo, the MelbourneAttractions Group Regional Road Showand The Great Australian Science Show.

• Implemented branding campaign forthe Scienceworks’ 10th birthday year.

• Cross promotions were successfullyundertaken between Scienceworks andthe Williamstown Bay & River Cruises,and between Scienceworks and theWerribee Mansion and Victoria’s OpenRange Zoo at Werribee.

• The Immigration Museum participatedin the Prime Time Retirement Expo inMarch and Victorian Tourism On Showin April, Seniors Week Festival (9 – 22March 2002) and the Grand Family Day festival.

Market Research & Evaluation

Through its Market Research &Evaluation team, Museum Victoria isprovided with quantitative and qualitativeresearch services, which contribute todecision making across a range ofplanning areas. Fifty-nine research studiesand a further 20 associated projects wereconducted at the various campusesduring the year. The primary focus for theyear was the culmination of a four-yearvisitor studies program that consistentlyand comparatively described visitors toeach of our campuses.

Highlights included:• Establishing a benchmark of visitor

profiles at all three campuses.• Implementing a diagnostic method of

measuring visitor satisfaction that hasshown that each of our campusesconsistently provides a very high levelof satisfaction for visitors.

• Implementing a program of surveys foreach of the exhibitions held in theTouring Hall at Melbourne Museum,which tracks changes in the visitorprofile of these exhibitions.

• Concluding a long-term study ofMuseum Victoria members, exploringtheir expectations of, benefits from,and satisfaction with their membership.

• An ongoing evaluation of special one-day programs at the ImmigrationMuseum, designed to attract newaudiences to the site.

• A major Observation Study of visitorsto Melbourne Museum, which trackedwhere they went in each of thegalleries, how long they spent at thevarious exhibits and what kinds ofbehaviour they engaged in whilstviewing exhibits.

• A significant study of tourists toMelbourne and the factors that play apart in their decision whether or not tovisit a cultural institution, in particularMelbourne Museum.

Development

Museum Victoria is committed to thedevelopment of long-term corporate andphilanthropic partnerships. Thesepartnerships greatly contribute towardsthe ongoing growth of Museum Victoria.Partners include corporate sponsors,philanthropic organisations andindividuals, Government funding bodies,media and suppliers.

Museum Victoria launched two newsubscription programs, Museum VictoriaPatrons and Museum Victoria CorporatePatrons, in April 2002. The two patronsprograms are designed for those whowish to belong to the Museum Victoriacommunity and contribute towards its future.

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Activities

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Museum Victoria has established anumber of partnership opportunities forMuseum Victoria, including sponsorshipof galleries, exhibitions, collections and programs.

Highlights included:• Launch of the Patrons Programs at a

cocktail reception for 1,000 people atMelbourne Museum. The eventattracted substantial media coverageand the new programs have been well-received by both the corporate andphilanthropic sectors.

• Establishment of the Development &Marketing Forum, with representationacross all of the major museums,galleries and libraries within Australia.

• The Museum Victoria Summer CocktailParty in December was held inrecognition of the contribution ofMuseum Victoria’s supporters. Itprovided the ideal opportunity tointroduce the new President of theMuseums Board of Victoria, Mr HaroldMitchell, to over 400 guests.

• The development and implementationof the Museum Victoria FundraisingPolicies and Procedures Manual.

A full list of Museum Victoria’ssupporters, including Partners, Patronsand Ambassadors, appears on page 63 of this Report.

Membership

The Museum Victoria membershipprogram had another successful year with the number of membershipsreaching over 12,200 by the end of theyear, representing over 50,000 people.

Events offered throughout the year includedmorning art programs for children in BigBox, internet classes for beginners inInfoZone, member-only ICE and IMAXscreenings as well as exhibition previews.

A number of direct marketing oradvertising campaigns were run,contributing significantly to the success of the program. Membership has apresence on the Museum Victoriawebsite and many members receive aquarterly email newsletter. In 2001/02several member surveys were conducted.

Museum Victoria continues to enjoy the largest museum membership inAustralia. Members receive a range ofexclusive benefits while supporting andencouraging the growth and developmentof Museum Victoria.

Benefits:• Unlimited general admission to

Museum Victoria venues.• Subscription to the Museum

Victoria magazine.• Discounts at the Melbourne Planetarium,

ICE theatre, IMAX Melbourne, touringexhibitions, Museum events, Museumshops, Melbourne Museum Brasserieand the Melbourne Museum car park.

• Reciprocal free general admission to anumber of interstate museums.

Membership fees are outlined on page 108.

TECHNOLOGY, INFORMATION

AND MULTIMEDIA

Information Technology Services

Museum Victoria provides networkconnectivity and internet and computeraccess for all staff across MuseumVictoria’s campuses. It also supportsexhibition development and deliverythrough the Pivod system. This year wasone of consolidation and rationalisation ofinformation technology resources andtheir organisation as a means of loweringoperational costs. This process hasresulted in the improvement of themanagement of existing IT resources.Internal audits of business continuityplanning and network securityarchitecture highlighted areas forimprovement and a number of changeswere implemented in 2001/2002.

Highlights included:The upgrade of the local area network (LAN)at Scienceworks. This upgrade enablesthe extension of multimedia services toexhibition spaces at Scienceworks.• Continued development and

improvement of the in-house-developed Collection Inventory System(CIS) for collection management.

• The installation of Microsoft’s Outlookemail and calendaring product for allMuseum Victoria staff.

• As a result of the major rationalising ofMicrosoft’s licensing arrangements,Museum Victoria has joined the ‘Wholeof Victorian Government MicrosoftLicensing Agreement’. This givesMuseum Victoria fully licensedMicrosoft desktop technology for threeyears from 31 March 2002.

• Improvements in the management of the business systems environmenthave facilitated better coordination of all relevant divisions and resources.

• Implementation of a number ofimprovements to Museum Victoria’sintranet (Musenet).

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The Museum’s digital publishing team developed and commencedimplementation of Museum Victoria’sonline service delivery strategy. Majorprojects included the restructure ofMuseum Victoria websites, developmentof global style sheet, webpages templateand XML production processes plus new search functionality across theMuseum’s websites.

In order to respond to visitor needs, theMelbourne Museum and Museum Victoriawebsites have been constructed with anonline publishing system that placesresponsibility and control of the processwith the content creators. The systemuses a sophisticated database systemdeveloped by Museum Victoria’s websiteand programming development team.

Multimedia

The centralised multimedia deliverysystem installed at Melbourne Museumwas fully commissioned during the year.Over the year considerable improvementshave been made to the system to provideextra flexibility and enhancedmanagement functionality. Theseimprovements have enabled theMultimedia team to easily incorporateseveral new displays and exhibits withinMelbourne Museum. Planning is wellunderway to extend the multimediasystem to other Museum campuses inthe next financial year.

Information and Records Management

Museum Victoria’s records managementprogram continued to be implementedacross the Museum, with 12,000 recordsnow registered on the TRIM ElectronicDocument Management System. StageOne of the Museum Victoria ArchivalProject was completed, with volunteersprocessing and registering heritagerecords dating from 1915–1982. Afunctional thesaurus and disposableschedule for Museum and gallery recordscontinued to be developed as part of anational project. The InformationManagement Working Group wasestablished to cooperatively work on arange of information and knowledgemanagement projects. Freedom ofInformation and Privacy legislationrequirements were met.

Research Library

The library has had increased activity thisyear with library loans up by 11% andserviced information requests up by 38%.This rise in activity is a direct result of theincrease in research activity withinMuseum Victoria. The library tookpossession of the old National andScience Museums archival collection inearly 2002. The Science Museum archivalrecords have been added to MuseumVictoria’s electronic documentmanagement system (TRIM) and theNational Museum archival records arecurrently being added and are about 80%complete. A total of 2,621 archivalrecords are now available on the TRIMdatabase. This year also saw the inclusionof the Numismatics library holdings ontothe library’s online catalogue system; allcuratorial department libraries are nowavailable online. Considerable post-relocation collection work was alsorequired this year to provide space forfuture growth in the journals collection.

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Members of the Museums Board of Victoria in front of the megafauna display atMelbourne Museum.

From left to right: Sheila O’Sullivan,Tina McMeckan, Harold Mitchell,Prof. David Penington AC, PeterMcMullin, Terry Garwood, Assoc.Prof. Janet McCalman and PeterHiscock AM.

Absent: Bob Weis, Prof. JenniferGraves and Susan Heron.

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CORPORATE GOVERNANCE

The Museums Board of Victoria

Museum Victoria is governed by theMuseums Board of Victoria, a statutorybody established under the Museums Act1983. It consists of a maximum of 11members appointed for a three-year term(for a maximum of three terms) by theGovernor-in-Council and subject to thedirection and control of the VictorianMinister for the Arts.

The Board is directly accountable to the Government of Victoria through the Minister for the Arts, and worksclosely with Arts Victoria to deliver policy objectives.

Role

The Museums Board of Victoria isresponsible for the good management of Museum Victoria and has the following functions:• To control, manage, operate, promote,

develop and maintain Museum Victoria.• To control, manage, operate, promote,

develop and maintain the Exhibitionland as a place for the holding of publicexhibitions and for the assembly,education, instruction, entertainment or recreation of the public.

• To develop and maintain the Statecollections of natural sciences,indigenous culture, social history andscience and technology.

• To exhibit material from thosecollections for the purposes ofeducation and entertainment.

• To promote use of those collections forscientific research.

• To promote the use of MuseumVictoria’s resources for education in Victoria.

• To research, present and promoteissues of public relevance and benefit.

• To act as a repository for specimensupon which scientific studies havebeen made or which may have specialcultural or historical significance.

• To provide leadership to museums in Victoria.

• To advise the Victorian Minister for theArts on matters relating to museums,and co-ordination of museum servicesin Victoria.

Museums Board of Victoria

PresidentMr Harold Mitchell Appointed 2001Harold is the Chairman and CEO ofMitchell & Partners, Australia’s largestindependent media consultancy,established in 1976. Mitchell & Partnerswas voted ‘Media Agency of the Year2000’. His work in establishing the HaroldMitchell Foundation, which supports theHealth and Arts sectors, has earned himwide-ranging respect throughout thecommunity. He is actively involved in anumber of significant community and artsorganisations and holds the followingpositions: Chairman, National Gallery ofAustralia; Member of the Board of theAsthma Foundation of Victoria; and BoardMember of the Opera Australia Council.

PresidentProfessor David Penington AC MA DM(Oxon) LLD(Hon) FRCP FRACPFRACPA Appointed 1994. Term concluded inDecember 2001 after serving asPresident for seven years.David is the former Vice Chancellor of the University of Melbourne, and hasdeep insights into the processes andoutcomes of science, particularly bio-medical science. In 1988 he wasappointed a Companion of the Order ofAustralia for services to medicine and tothe community. He has often been calledupon by government to conduct majorenquiries and investigations, notably asChairman of the Commonwealth’s AIDSTaskforce in the 1980s. He chaired thePremier’s Advisory Council on Illicit Drugsin 1995-96 and Victoria’s Drug PolicyExpert Committee in 1999-2000.

Deputy PresidentMr Peter McMullinLLB BCom (Melb) FAIMAppointed 2001Peter is a practising solicitor specialising inmediation, administrative and commerciallaw. He is a former Deputy Lord Mayor ofMelbourne, and is involved with a numberof community organisations, holding thefollowing positions: Fellow of theAustralian Institute of Management;Chairman of Melbourne InternationalComedy Festival Board; Council Memberof Philanthropy Australia and VictoriaUniversity; Board Member of MelbourneCommunity Foundation, Turning Point,Melbourne Convention and Visitors’Board, Victorian Employers’ Chamber ofCommerce & Industry and EducationFoundation; Commissioner, LocalGovernment Best Value Commission;Member, Victorian Casino and GamingAuthority; and Member, VictorianCurriculum and Assessment Authority.

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TreasurerMs Tina McMeckan BSc MBA (Melb) FAICDAppointed 1999Tina is a business and financial consultantand company director with extensiveexperience in establishing newbusinesses, strategy and businessplanning, capital raising and corporategovernance. She is presently involved inthe energy and tourism industries. Tinaholds non-executive directorships atSnowy Hydro Trading and the ZoologicalParks and Gardens Board and is anExecutive Director of Riverside Australia.

Mr Peter Hiscock AM FCPA FCISAppointed 1996As the Director of Sovereign Hill, Ballarat,Peter has had a long and highly-respectedcareer in the management anddevelopment of regional museums andtourism. He is a former Chairman of theVictorian Tourism Commission and theMuseums Advisory Board, and is inconstant demand by Government andother bodies for his advice and counsel.He chairs the Hellenic MuseumsCommittee and is also Vice Chair of theHeritage Council in Victoria. An accountantby profession, Peter spent 15 years withPetersville Ltd in both financial andgeneral management positions.

Mr Terry Garwood Diploma of Arts GradDipEd (Secondary)Appointed 1997Terry was Director of Aboriginal AffairsVictoria for seven years, concluding at theend of 1996, and has long been involvedwith Museum Victoria in the area ofindigenous communities and culture.Now a Regional Director of theDepartment of Human Services, he alsoserves as the Chair of the Museums

Board’s Aboriginal Cultural HeritageAdvisory Committee and is a member of Victoria’s Centenary of FederationCommittee. Terry has a keen interest in Aboriginal community developmentissues, particularly with respect to culturalheritage and economic development.Terry is a Life Member of the KoorieHeritage Trust.

Mr Bob Weis BAAppointed 1998Bob is the Director of Generation Filmsand has been producer and executiveproducer of feature films and televisionprograms in Australia, Europe and theUnited States of America. Bob wasChairman of the Australian Film Instituteand President of the Screen ProducersAssociation of Australia, a Councilmember of the Australian Film, TV andRadio School, a Board member of FilmVictoria and is currently Chairman of theAustralian Art Orchestra.

Professor Jennifer GravesBSc (Hons) MSc PhDAppointed 1999. Retired in September2001 after taking an appointment at theAustralian National University in Canberra.Jennifer gained her qualifications ingenetics and molecular biology at theUniversity of Adelaide and the Universityof California, Berkeley. Currently aProfessor at the Australian NationalUniversity and Head of the ComparativeGenomics, Jennifer is also a ProfessorialFellow at the University of Melbourne anda Fellow of the Australian Academy ofScience. A member of numerousscientific societies and panels, Jenniferhas also contributed to her research fieldof mammalian genome evolution throughthe publication of two books and over 200research papers.

Associate Professor Janet McCalmanBA PhD FAHAAppointed 2000Janet is Head of the Department ofHistory and Philosophy of Science andReader in the Centre for the Study ofHealth and Society at the University ofMelbourne. She has published widely in Australian and British social history and has won a number of literary andscholarly awards, including the AustralianAcademy of the Humanities’ inauguralMax Crawford Medal. She writes a regularcolumn in The Age.

Ms Sheila O’SullivanBA FPRIA Appointed 2000A highly-regarded leader incommunications and communityrelations, with multiple awards from the Public Relations Institute of Australia(PRIA), Sheila has a strong commitmentto developing excellence in thecommunications profession. She is Chair of the RMIT Public RelationsAdvisory Committee and Chair of thePublic Relations Institute of AustraliaNational Examination Board. Sheila hasextensive knowledge and experience of issues management in the public andcommunity sectors. She has served as a member of many advisory bodiesincluding the Administrative ReviewCouncil and the Ministerial AdvisoryCouncil of the Arts.

Ms Susan HeronBEc Dip Appl ScAppointed 2001Sue has a strong background in finance.She is currently Head of Strategy andBusiness Initiatives (Corporate &Institutional Bank) at the ANZ Bank. She has been on a number of boards and is currently Deputy Chair of theCountry Fire Authority.

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Committees

The Board has established a number ofstanding and advisory committees underthe Museums Act 1983.

Standing CommitteesFinance and Audit Committee: assiststhe Board in fulfilling its responsibilitieswith regard to financial management,accounting and reporting practices asprescribed by the Museums Act 1983. Members:Ms Tina McMeckan (Chair)Mr Bob WeisMs Sally SintonMs Susan Heron (from October 2001)Mr Graham Cunningham

Attendees:Mr George McDonald (to September 2001)Dr Robin Hirst (March 2001 – August 2002)Mr Martin HallettMr Joe CorponiMs Catherine Richards

Nominations, Remuneration andGovernance Committee: responsible foradvising the Board on all staffing andgovernance matters.

Aboriginal Cultural Heritage AdvisoryCommittee: responsible for advising theBoard on all matters relevant to Aboriginalcultural heritage. The members of theCommittee include representatives ofAboriginal communities throughoutVictoria, as listed in the Aboriginal andTorres Strait Islander Heritage ProtectionAmendment Act 1987, Part 2(a).

Donald Thomson CollectionAdministration Committee: establishedto administer the legal agreementbetween The University of Melbourne,Mrs Dorita Thomson and MuseumVictoria for the placement on long-termloan of the Donald Thomson Collection at Museum Victoria.

Regional and Specialist MuseumsAdvisory Committee: responsible foradvising the Minister on matters relatingto museums and the coordination ofmuseum services, to stimulatecollaborative approaches and provideleadership to museums in Victoria.

Thomas Ramsay Science andHumanities Committee: responsible forthe awarding of the Thomas RamsayScience and Humanities Fellowship andconducting the Crosbie MorrisonMemorial Lecture.

Advisory CommitteesMuseums Project Control Group:responsible for planning and implementationof Museum Victoria major projects.

Development Committee: responsible foradvising the Board and staff on issues inrelation to development and fundraising.

Immigration Museum AdvisoryCommittee: responsible for providingadvice to the Board on the ongoingprogramming and management of theImmigration Museum. The Committeeprovides advice on all matters relevant to the interpretation of the migrationexperience and issues of cultural diversity.

Technology and InformationCommittee: responsible for advising the Board on information management,technology and multimedia utilisationthroughout Museum Victoria.

Research Committee: responsible foradvising the Board on strategic mattersrelating to research and collectiondevelopment, and oversees theimplementation of the Board’s Research Strategy.

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The Museum Victoria ExecutiveManagement Team at thePumping Station, Scienceworks.

Top: Joseph Corponi, MartinHallett, Dr Robin Hirst andGerardine Kerlin.

Bottom: Padmini Sebastian,James Dexter and Timothy Hart.

Absent: Gaye Hamilton and Dr George F. MacDonald.

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EXECUTIVE MANAGEMENT TEAM

Acting Chief Executive Officer, MuseumVictoria (March – August 2002)Dr Robin Hirst BSc(Hons) PhD DipEdAppointed March 2002Responsible for providing leadership of,and being accountable for, the operationsof Museum Victoria.

Chief Executive Officer, MuseumVictoria and Director, MelbourneMuseumDr George F. MacDonald BA PhD Lld FRSC FRSAAppointed October 1998, Commenced February 1999. Term concluded October 2001.

Deputy Chief Executive Officer (Acting Chief Executive Officer,September 2001 – March 2002)Mr Martin Hallett BAgrSci MAgrSci DipEdAppointed May 2000Oversees responsibility for theImmigration Museum as well as theDivision of Outreach, Technology andInformation Services and Multimedia,which provides Information Technologyinfrastructure and services for theMuseum, as well as outreach services to the community and regional museums.

Director, Corporate ServicesMr Joseph Corponi BBus GradDipITAppointed 1993Responsible for the provision of financial,human resources and property services,risk management, development of policy,maintaining a risk-free environment forstaff and visitors, business and strategicplanning support and ensuring theeffective and efficient management ofMuseum Victoria’s resources and assets.

Acting Director, Melbourne Museum Mr James Dexter BA DipEd Appointed January 1997Responsible for the development andoperation of Melbourne Museum’seducation and public activity programs,customer services, commercial facilities,campus marketing, the management ofexhibitions, as well as the operations ofall public areas of Melbourne Museum.Also responsible for the management and development of the Royal Exhibition Building.

Director, Scienceworks MuseumMs Gaye Hamilton BSc(Ed)Appointed October 1996Responsible for the continuingdevelopment of Scienceworks Museum(incorporating the Melbourne Planetariumand Spotswood Pumping Station) as avigorous and viable campus of MuseumVictoria. This includes emphasis onincreased participation by new andexisting audiences across an ever-changing range of activities offered byScienceworks, both on and off site. Alsoresponsible for liaison with the VictorianDepartment of Education and CatholicEducation Office in the provision ofExtension Education Services throughoutMuseum Victoria.

Director, Outreach, Technology,Information and MultimediaMr Timothy Hart BSc Arch (Hons)Appointed May 2001Responsible for the Museum Victoria’sinformation technology, information andknowledge management infrastructureand systems, physical outreach activities,website/digital publishing activities andthe development and management of theMuseum’s multimedia networks,including the multimedia managementsystem and the ICE theatre.

Acting Director, Programs, Researchand CollectionsDr Richard Gillespie BA (Hons) PhDAppointed March 2002Responsible for the Museum’s ResearchProgram and the development,management and conservation of thecollections. The position is responsible for the development of Museum Victoriaexhibitions and the production ofplanetarium shows, online content andother public programs.

Director, Museum DevelopmentMs Gerardine Kerlin BA (Hons)Appointed August 2000Responsible for public affairs and publicrelations, government relations, issuesmanagement, Museum Victoriamembership, marketing and marketresearch, fundraising and development.Aims to further develop MuseumVictoria’s leadership in these fields.

Director, Immigration Museum Ms Padmini Sebastian BA Grad Dip Journ. Appointed August 2001Responsible for the continuingdevelopment of the Immigration Museumas an important and dynamic heritage andcultural venue in Victoria. This includesthe delivery of high-quality, relevant andengaging public programs that encourageparticipation from Victoria’s manycommunities, attracting visitation fromdiverse audiences, developing meaningfulpartnerships with stakeholders andensuring viable and sustainableoperations.

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MUSEUM VICTORIA ORGANISATIONAL STRUCTURE AS AT 30 JUNE 2002

Acting Chief Executive Officer, Museum VictoriaDr Robin Hirst


Department of Premier and Cabinet Arts Victoria

Minister for the ArtsThe Hon. Mary Delahunty MP

• CustomerServices

• Education andVisitor Programs

• Operations• Exhibitions• Commercial• Marketing

• OutreachServices

• InformationTechnologyServices

• Multimedia• Information

and RecordsManagement

• Digital Publishing• Library


• Education and Visitor Programs



• Education and Visitor Programs


• Finance• Human

Resources• Facilities

Management• Risk

Management

• Australian Societyand Technology

• Indigenous Cultures

• Sciences• Strategic

Collection andInformationManagement

• Production Studio• Planning and

Business

• Development and Sponsorship

• Marketing• Corporate

Public Relations• Audience

Evaluation• Museum Victoria

Members

Director, Museum

DevelopmentMs Gerardine

Kerlin

Acting Director,Programs,

Research andCollectionsDr RichardGillespie

Director,CorporateServices

Mr JosephCorponi

Acting Director,MelbourneMuseum

Mr James Dexter

Director,Scienceworks

Museum Ms GayleHamilton

Director, Outreach,

Technology,Information and

Multimedia Mr Tim Hart

Director, Immigration

MuseumMs PadminiSebastian

Deputy Chief Executive OfficerMr Martin Hallett

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MUSEUM VICTORIA PARTNERS

Museum Victoria undertakes variouscorporate and philanthropic partnerships.These partnerships greatly contributetowards the ongoing growth of Museum Victoria.

Gold Partners

The AgeCommonwealth BankThe Grollo FamilyMelbourne WaterSeven MelbourneThe Sidney Myer FundTattersall’s

Silver Partners

Bristol-Myers SquibbCadbury SchweppesGlaxoSmithKlineThe Menzies FoundationNetwork TenPacific DunlopTooheys New

Bronze Partners

774 ABCAmersham BiosciencesThe Jack Brockhoff FoundationCatholic Education OfficeCodyJohn Danks TrustThe Myer FoundationPeter Rowland CateringSofitel MelbourneDame Elisabeth Murdoch AC DBEMr Baillieu and Mrs Sarah MyerSchiavello Commercial InteriorsThe Onbass Foundation

Supporting Partners

Mr Peter BancroftBP SpotswoodEsso AustraliaThe Harold Mitchell FoundationJC DecauxMelbourne Port CorporationMr Richard and Mrs Catherine PriceThe Russell and Mab GrimwadeMiegunyah Fund Committee of theUniversity of Melbourne

Public Partners

Arts VictoriaAustralian Biological Resources StudyAustralia Council for the ArtsAustralian Research CouncilCentenary of Federation VictoriaCity of MelbourneCommonwealth Government through theNational Cultural Heritage AccountCommunity Support FundDepartment of CommunicationInformation Technology and the ArtsDepartment of Education, Employmentand TrainingHeritage VictoriaNational Oceans OfficeState Government of VictoriaUniversity of MelbourneVicHealth for SmokeFree

MUSEUM VICTORIA PATRONS

In April 2002, Museum Victoria launchedtwo new subscription programs: MuseumVictoria Patrons and Museum VictoriaCorporate Patrons. These new programsare designed for those who wish to belongto the Museum Victoria community andcontribute towards its future.

Museum Victoria Corporate Patrons

Foundation Gold Patrons

Denton Corker MarshallDistinguished VineyardsHJ Langdon & CoInterprint DigitalMillmaine EntertainmentMitchell & PartnersPeter Rowland Catering

Gold Patrons

Arts Events Management Australasia

Silver Patrons

FreehillsHaycom Staging Pty Ltd

Bronze Patrons

The Sarah & Baillieu Myer FamilyFoundation

Museum Victoria Patrons

Anonymous (2)Mr Anthony Berger and Ms Marita QuinnMr John and Mrs Janet Calvert-JonesMs Joyce FlowersMs Margaret HeffernanMr Peter Jopling QCMr Ralph and Mrs Ruth RenardMr Ralph and Mrs Barbara Ward-AmblerMrs Lyn Williams

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AMBASSADORS

Museum Ambassadors are a dedicatedgroup of people from diversebackgrounds who provide voluntarysupport to Museum Victoria. Led byMaria Prendergast, writer and artsconsultant, they act as advocates forMuseum Victoria and offer assistancewith partnership development.

Ambassadors

Ms Sally BrowneMs Ita Buttrose AOMrs Margot CappMs Helen GeeMr George KypraiousMr Cesare LeonardiMr Peter McMullinMr Ken MahlabMs Gabrielle PizziMs Maria PrendergastMr Jack ScanlanMs Lousje SkalaMr Robert WallaceMr Simon Westcott

HONORARY APPOINTMENTS

Honorary Life Fellows (32)

Granted to those individuals of highacademic distinction or public standing,considered to have made a significantcontribution to the intellectual standing or other significant development ofMuseum Victoria.

Professor Marian QuartlyProfessor Margaret Cameron AMProfessor John Coghlan AOMr Graham CunninghamMrs Amanda DerhamMr Bob Edwards AOMr Jack EllisMs Phyllis FryMs Jill GallagherProfessor Jennifer Graves Professor Rod HomeMr Steve Howard Mr John Kendall AMDr Phillip Law AC AO CBEProfessor Daryl Le GrewMs Jenny LoveDr Ray Marginson AMDr Angus MartinMr Graham Morris Mr Phillip MorrisonProfessor John Mulvaney AOMrs Sarah MyerProfessor David Penington Mrs Caroline SearbyMr Richard Searby Mr Ian Sinclair

The Hon. Haddon Storey QCProfessor John SwanProfessor James WarrenMs Deanne Weir Dr Barry WilsonMr Garry Woodard

Curators Emeritus (7)

Granted to those curators who retire afterhaving given distinguished service to theMuseum for a minimum of 10 years, andhave made a distinguished contribution inan appropriate curatorial or research field.

Dr Alan BeasleyMrs J. Hope BlackDr Thomas DarraghMs Joan DixonDr Chung-Cheng LuDr Arturs NeboissDr Brian Smith

Honorary Associates (43)

Granted to those individuals who can be called upon to provide specialistprofessional advice and assistance to the Board, management or staff on anhonorary basis.

Australian Society and Technology

None currently appointed.

Indigenous Cultures

Mr Anthony BirchDr David DorwardDr Colin HopeProfessor Marcia LangtonMs Joanne MacDonaldDr John MortonMr Alan West

Sciences

Mr Ken BellMr Philip BockMs Suzanne BoydMr Robert BurnDr Patricia CookDr Lawrence CooksonDr John DouglasDr Andrew DrinnanDr Dean HewishDr Jean JustMr Ron KershawMr Rudie KuiterDr Anthony LeeMr William LoadsProfessor John LoveringMr Charles McCubbinDr James MacDonaldMrs Mary Lee MacDonaldMr John NeilDr Gareth NelsonDr Tim New

Mr Ken NorrisP. Mark O’LoughlinDr Joyce RichardsonDr Richard SchoddeDr Bronwen ScottMr David StaplesProfessor John TalentMs Elizabeth ThompsonProfessor Patricia Vickers-RichMr Robert WarnekeDr Jeanette WatsonMr H. Eric WilkinsonDr Alan Yen

OTIM

Professor Gregory EganDr Gregor Kennedy

Research Associates (6)

Granted to scholars who undertakeresearch work at Museum Victoria for afinite period, and who require someofficial status in the building and somedegree of administrative support.

Australian Society and Technology

Mr John SharplesDr Sara Wills

Sciences

Dr Mark Norman Mr David Pickering Ms Wendy Roberts Dr Martin Tymms

VOLUNTEERS

Volunteers at Melbourne MuseumMelbourne Museum is seen as an industryleader in museum volunteer programs bya number of state and interstate culturalorganisations. Melbourne Museum has afoundation for a volunteer program that isaccessible to many people with differingskills and knowledge.

Since opening, 550 Museum volunteershave contributed a total of 58,285 hoursto the Museum experience by providingassistance in offering a range of activitiesincluding tour guiding, behind the scenes work, providing information tovisitors on touch trolleys, assistance with performances, body painting andassistance with administrative functions,all of which have enhanced andaugmented the visitor experience atMelbourne Museum.

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Volunteer Listing

Belinda AbdulnourJacqueline AcciaccarelliAnne AdaIan AdaKirsten AdamsonLes AgerArthur AgriopoulosPhyl AldersonManda AlgraAnita AllenLeon AltoffVivian AmbrusSareh AminianKerry ArcherBetty ArgoMark AttardJack AustinChristoff BaileyRo BaileyFay BakerSusan BalaiMaria BalalasRegina BarnasqueDeirdre BarnettMargaret BarryCameron BatchelorRachael BathgateKristen BattenChristine BaxterAnne-Marie BeattieJessica BegleyPetra BegojevParisa Behjat MohammadiRowena BelcherKen BellRachel BernardoMargaret BillettTosca BirnbaumPhilip BockJohn BosworthJoan BroadberryRobert BrodieJulia BrothertonBernice BrownHarry BryanShelly BucheckerElizabeth BuckleyLes BurlockRobert BurnKara BurnsMarion ButtClare CallyLaura CampbellMalcolm CarkeekOlivia ChambersNicholas ChanTuan ChauChildren’s Book Club of AustraliaLynette ChristieJoan ChuangCissy ChungMelissa ClappKate ClarkJustine ClearKay ClelandAlexia ClemensLiam Coffey May CoilletPeggy ColeSarah CollinsEugenie Collyer

Loris CookPatricia CookDelma CorazonDonald CramValerie CramLouise CreaserNaomi CreekPam CrockettJohn CrokerJean CuthbertJaqueline DaleNick DaleJudy DaviesBernard DayRebecca DevincentisFernando Di LorenzoRuth DickinsonColleen DixonKyatt DixonRainbo DixonBob DonnanJulie DoquilePam Doran Marion DormerGerry DugganJanice DwyerChristine DytonJackie EagerBarbara EalesElizabeth EdwardsKylie ElstonJoanne ElyEthne EpsteinChris EvansDavid EvansAlice Dorney EwingAudrey FalconerHelen FarmeryTrevor FaureRebecca FeatherstonKylie FinninGeorge FinnissAmanda FirebraceMerryl ForshawPam Fox Amber FraserJaqueline FrazerHelen FreedmanChris FridayBelinda FrisinaJan FryPam GainsfordClaudia GaitanSusana Gallego-MartinezColleen GardnerMathew GayTrevor GeorgeszGerraldine GernerShahril GhazaliJasmina GievskiFiona GlynnNicholas GodlewskiJenny Gold Elsie Graham Ken GreenLorrie GreenPeter GreenMary GreenfieldRichard GreenfieldAlice GrevattHeidi GriffithMichael HaleySue Halliwell

Judith Hampton Sandra HanchardClarrie HandreckGhada HarakaHelen HardhamHildegard HarleyPam HarrisRochelle HarrisonLyn HauptShelley HayesElizabeth HebbGenevieve HehirPolly Hemming Maja HerrDean HewishBarbara HillHelen HillKay HirstRaymond HoGwen HodgeMichelle HoganFrank HolmesSamantha HopeToby HopfClaire HopmansLucinda HorrocksSiranne HoseMolly HunterMarion HuxleyMaria IoannouPhillip IrwinEsme Jacob Barbara JohnsonWilliam JohnstonJennifer JonesSteven KambourisChristine KarrasJean KellyTony KellyMichael KempGilbert KerrJanet KiddToni KnightDamon KowarskyAnita KwongTinh Thanh LaBridget Ann LallyJoan LamondWal LaneMonica LauschJack LeachMark LeachFiona LeggettRachel LevinKirsty LewisWilliam G LewisTina LibertoneAnthony LieuLiba LindenGeorge LoutasBetty LoyAdrian LucyChristian LucyMichael LyonsXiang Hong Ma -EdwardsEllen Mac LennanPat MacDonaldFiona MachinDeirdre MansellSergio MarcolinDagmar MarekMichael MarmachPeter Marriott

Tim MarriottGary MarshallSue MartinRoberta Mascitti-CostanzoJames MasonElizabeth MathewsChristine MatthewsEmma MayallSarah MayallAnne McCaugheyHeath McClaerClaire McClellandeRachael McCluskeyGraham McColoughJudith McColoughDerai McDonaldMichelle McFarlaneIan McGowanJulie McGowanCatherine McKayElizabeth McKayCherie McKeichLeanne McLeanRobyn McLeanWendy McNabbBeatrice McQuillanGabi MeirellesStacey MendanCatherine MenzelHelen MerrittHeather MertzAnne MillerDee MilliganStuart MillsMargaret MilneJasmin MirajkarJudy MitchellMichela MitchellOlivia MitchellKate MoffattFrances MonaghanAlan MongerNancy MontesanoTraudl MoonCarolyn MooreDawn MooreNatalie MooreAnthony MoreyGraham MuirDebbie MunroCaitlin MurrayJulia MurrayLiz MurrayJade MutimerPetra NevisticErana NgakuruJacqueline NguyenKhoa NguyenThomas NguyenHanh Thao NgyuenJudith Oliver Carol OppermanJavier OrtizMichael OwiesRon Parker Carol ParkinsonLiz ParrEmanuela PasiniNatalie PaynterRebecca PeartTanya PennyLynn PepperellGoldie Pergl

66 Analia PerilloSarah PhilippsIlse PickerdRoan PlotzNicole PomeroyRosalind PooleMaureen PowlesLiz Pratt Gary Presland Cathy PurdonAnnie Quail Ivy RaadikAmudha RavindranMolly RedmundThomas RedmundJenny ReedReggio Emilia InformationExchangeSteve RemingtonEva ReussnerMiriam RiverleaKatherine RobertsNicole RobertsPeter RobertsonFrank William RobinsonCarolina RodriguezLynley RoffAntonia RookeRay RookeJoan RookeAnita RumbaAruna RumneyPauline RuseRosie RushDelwyn RyanNicola RyanBernie RyanLeanne SaliNasser SammanDavid SamuelYolanda Sanchez AriasAmy SaundersPam Schwarz Tiffany SeagoeKelly SeymourLaura ShaabMehrunissa ShaikhRon ShawNaomi SimonKim SinclairTrish SkehanMia-Alexandria SkyJade Sleeman

Beverley SmithPeter SmithJennette SnapeMike SpargJames SpittleKevin StephensLouise SterlandFrank SteuartSue StevensPat SzalekRebecca TampionJonnie Ghalum Targan

Shu-Ying TengSoon-Hin TeoAngela ThompsonDavid ThompsonFleur ThompsonRobert ThompsonMarlene ThorntonMarsha TilevElaine TisherRichard TisherAnna TodaroBianca Toplek (Holmsglen)Carla TorneyChau TranSarah TregonningMaria Tsaimos Peter TuteraSven UhlmannGarry Utmar Yoges Vadiveloo Platon VafiadisIsabel ValenzuelaDominique Van CappelleveenMargaret Van De Waalle Lianne van KlaverenCynthia VariAdrian VersteegenSheryl VicinoVictorian Scrabble PlayersAssociationCedomir VignjevicRebecca VineyAngela Wain Hannah WalkerJudith WalkerChris WalkerBronwyn WallaceHelen WalpoleJulia WalshLauren WaplingSusanne WatkinsChristie Watson (VUT)Cathy WebbKen WentworthBrooke WenzelRoy WhitehornShay WhitelawEmma WilliamsLeonie WilliamsAnn WilliamsonAnusuya WillisJenny WilsonMary WinchesterJocelyn Winton-HallBill WoodwardCarla YamineVural YazginKirin YeeMadeleine YewersKarol Lynn ZavalaManuel ZenoClaire HedgerRomi ArmCrispin HowarthJillian Gengoult Smith

Volunteers at Scienceworks

In this financial year,Scienceworks has had 154active volunteers who havecontributed 20,441 hours toScienceworks, an average of130 hours per person. Fifty new volunteers were recruitedthroughout the year, producingthe greatest recruitment intaketo date.

The Workshop Volunteers wereawarded with a Certificate ofAppreciation at the 2001 ArtsPortfolio Leadership Awards fortheir outstanding work inrestoring the Cowley SteamTraction Engine, plus the rangeof other vintage machineryrestored and worked regularly at Scienceworks. The volunteerswho work on the McKay Projecthave also been acknowledgedby winning the MuseumsAustralia MIRA (MuseumsIndustry Recognition Award)award for excellence of avolunteer project.

Scienceworks Volunteers

Warren ArnottMel AshleyKeith AytonRegina BarnasqueGeorge BirdRita BirdAthena BombasJoyce Boon Ray BoothroydCliff BossonTom BreretonRaymond BrowneSally BullardJennifer BurtVernon CaldwellVince CauchiEva ChanBarry ChandlerCarla CherPeter ChettleKate Clifford

Immigration Museum

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Ann Brown Yasmin Loualitene

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VICTORIA STAFF

* Position funded by theDepartment of Education,Employment and Training.

**Position funded by theCatholic Education Office.

# Staff on long-term leave.

Museum Victoria employed 98staff on a casual basis duringthe 2001/2002 financial year.

MUSEUM VICTORIA

STAFF LISTING

Museum VictoriaDirectorate

• HIRST, Robin Acting Chief Executive Officer

• ANDRE, Jennifer Executive Assistant to theChief Executive Officer

• HALLETT, Martin Deputy Chief Executive Officer

• MALOUF, Linda# /HIONIS, OlgaExecutive Assistant to DeputyChief Executive Officer

• BIRTHISEL, DimitraCorporate Counsel andSecretary to the Board

• NICOLSON, LindaPersonal Assistant to theCorporate Counsel andSecretary to the Board

• WHITE, Natalie Receptionist/AdministrativeSupport Officer

Programs, Research and CollectionsDirectorate (PRandC)

• GILLESPIE, RichardActing Director, Programs,Research and Collections

• COOK, LindaProject Assistant

Planning and Business Unit

• BEATTIE, AndreaManager, Planning andBusiness Unit

• STRANKS, TimothyProject Officer

• VIKSNE, MelindaBusiness and Grants Officer

Australian Society and

Technology Department

• BUTLER-BOWDON EdwardSenior Curator, Social andDomestic Life

• CHURCHWARD MatthewSenior Curator, Technologyand Innovation

• DALE, ElizabethActing Head, AustralianSociety and Technology

• DEMANT, DavidCurator, InformationTechnology

• FRANCIS, JustinProject Manager, Melbourne’sGolden Mile

• GALLOWAY, KennethMaterials Handling Officer

• HOCKEY, CatherineAssistant Collection Manager

• KINSEY, FionaAssistant Curator, Technology

• LEVESON, RuthSenior Collection Manager

• MCFADZEAN, MoyaSenior Curator, Immigrationand Cultural Diversity

• MCLENNAN, CarolynProject Assistant

• PATHE, JanetAssistant Collection Manager

• RAAYMAKERS, Alison#/ PaulTEHANAssistant Collection Manager

• REASON, MichaelAssistant Curator, Australian Society

• RICHENS, UrsulaAssistant Collection Manager

• TOUT-SMITH, DeborahCurator, Immigration andCultural Diversity

• WILLIS, ElizabethSenior Curator, Public andInstitutional Life

Indigenous Cultures

Department

• ALLEN, LindySenior Curator, NorthernAustralia

• BATTY, PhilipSenior Curator, CentralAustralia

• FOLEY, GarySenior Curator, Southeast Australia

• IKINGER, PenelopeCollection Manager

• MCWILLIAMS, RobertCollection Manager

• MORRIS, MiraCollection Manager

• MUIR, CaineAssistant Collection Manager

• PARTOS, LouiseProjects Co-ordinator

• RABERTS, MelanieSenior Collection Manager

• SCULTHORPE, GayeHead, Indigenous Cultures

• VANDERWAL, RonaldSenior Curator, Oceania

• WRENCH, RosemaryCollection Manager

Sciences Department

• BARDSLEY, TaniaCollection Manager, MarineInvertebrates

• BIRCH, WilliamSenior Curator, Mineralogy and Petrology

• BRAY, DianneCollection Manager,Ichthyology and Herpetology

• BUSH, MartinDigistar Programmer

• CHRISTIDIS, LeslieHead, Sciences

• CLAUDIUS, EstellitaProject Assistant

• FRIGO, LinaCollection Manager,Mammalogy

• GOMON, MartinSenior Curator, Ichthyology

• HENRY, DermotSenior Collection Manager

• HERNANDEZ, ReneeCurator, Molecular Biology

• HILL, TanyaCurator, Astronomy

• HOLLOWAY, DavidSenior Curator, InvertebratePalaeontology

• HORVATH, AndreaSenior Curator, Human Mindand Body

• LILLYWHITE, PeterCollection Manager,Entomology

• LONGMORE, NoelProject Officer

• MARCHANT, RichardSenior Curator, TerrestrialInvertebrates

• MCPHEE, CatrionaAssistant Collection Manager,Sciences

• MELVILLE, JaneCurator, Herpetology

• NORMAN, JanetteSenior Curator, MolecularBiology

• O’BRIEN, RoryAssistant Collection Manager,Ornithology

• O’HARA, TimothySenior Curator, MarineInvertebrates

• PHILLIPS, KateSenior Curator, ScienceCommunication

• POORE, GarySenior Curator, Crustacea

• PRATT, RenaeResearch Assistant,Molecular Biology

• RICH, ThomasSenior Curator, VertebratePalaeontology

• ROWLEY, ChristopherAssistant Collection Manager,Marine Invertebrates

• SCHMIDT, RolfAssistant Collection Manager,Invertebrate Fossils

• TAYLOR, JoanneCollection Manager, MarineInvertebrates

• VEIS, NurinSenior Curator, Human Mindand Body

• WALKER, KennethSenior Curator, Entomology

• WHITE, VanessaCurator, Molecular Biology

• WILSON, RobinSenior Curator, MarineInvertebrates

Strategic Collection and

Information Management

• BERRY, MichelleConservator

• BRENINGER, LeahManager, ExhibitionCollections Coordination

• CARTER, CarolineCollection Manager, Loans

• COXSEDGE, David#/ JohnCLARKECo-ordinator, Integrated PestManagement

• EATHER, StephenAssistant Manager, Moreland Annexe

• EDMONDS, Penelope#/ SallyGROOMSenior Conservator

• FRASER, NataliaInventory and LocationsOfficer

• FROST, DebraAssistant Collection Manager

• GRAY, RodneySupport Officer, Moreland Anne

• LADAS, NancyCollection Project Officer

• LOVELOCK, CatherineConservator

• MCCUBBIN, MaryanneHead, Strategic Collection andInformation Management

• McMASTERS, VeeganActing Integrated PestManagement Officer

• NOLTON, PenelopeActing Conservator

• QUICK, NevilleManager, Moreland Annexe

• RAYMOND, Lee-AnneAssistant, CollectionInformation Systems

• STOKES, PatriciaManager, Conservation

• WALLIS, Elycia#/ HelenPUCKEYManager, CollectionInformation Systems

Production Studio

• AUGIER, JonathanMedia Production Officer

• BUBULYA, PeterDigital Production Officer

• CIRCUITT, EdwinaImage Management andCopyright Officer

• COZENS, JamesSenior Preparator

• CROWLEY, CameronDigital Video Officer

• FLEMING, LorettePreparator

• FOX, KathrynProducer

• GALARINIOTIS, ArhontoulaProject Assistant

• HAINES, KymPreparator

• HEALLEY, BenjaminMedia Production Officer

• KEAN, JohnProducer

68 • RAYMOND, Melanie#/ JohnBROOMFIELDManager, Media Productionand Copyright

• ROGERS-DAVIDSON, SallyDigital Production Officer

• ROLFE, TimHead, Production Studio

• SMITH, DeanSenior Preparator

• START, RodneyMedia Production Officer

• SWINKELS, PeterManager, Preparation

• TAYLOR, BrendonPreparator

• UNGER, IngridImage Management andCopyright Officer

• ZETLIN, Monica#/ MelindaISERProduction Manager,Planetarium

Outreach, Technology,Information andMultimedia (OTIM)Directorate, OTIM

• HART, TimothyDirector, OTIM

• NICKSON, Matthew Manager Special Projects

IT Services

• BEAN, MarkPC Support Officer

• FORBES, Robert Network Administrator

• HAWKINS, Forbes Collections Systems Administ

• LIM, HerbertPC Support/HelpdeskSupervisor

• LOUTAS, GeorgePC Support Officer

• MCCONVILLE, KathleenIT/ Administrative Support Officer

• MORRIS, Bradley Local Area NetworkAdministra

• NICHOLLS, Kyeleigh IT Support Officer

• RYAN, Sean Business Systems Support Officer

• ZHANG, Xiang Database Administrator

Multimedia

• BROWNBILL, Jonathan Manager Multimedia

• COLEMAN, JosephIce Technical Support Officer

• LIM, Tack-FoonMultimedia Assistant

Records Management

• HOGAN, ValerieLibrary Technician

• MCNULTY, Alison Manager,Information and RecordsManagement

Outreach – Digital Publishing

• CLEMENTS, Sheree Web Site Co-ordinator

• CREEK, Neil Digital Publishing Officer

• STEWART, NicoleWeb Graphic Designer

• WORSLEY, Patrick DavidEducation Producer

• MARLOW, Janet *Manager Online Education

• RIDGE, Mia # / SCHOLES,Veronica Senior Digital PublishingOfficer

Outreach – Library

• JOB, Frank Manager, Library Services

• WINCHESTER, SandraLibrarian

Outreach – Physical Outreach

• CURRAN, Bridie Acting Proj Off, MuseumOutreach Program

• EDWARDS, SARAHManager Outreach Program

• JONES, Raoul Outreach Presenter

Corporate ServicesDirectorate

• CORPONI, JosephDirector,Corporate Services

• OAKES, MadeleineExecutive Projects Officer

• SCOTT, Sally# / WILSON,SoniePersonal Assistant

Facilities Management

• BRUNNEMANN, KathrinAdministrative Assistant

• CARTER, Laurence Manager, Corp Risk andOccupational Health and Safety

• COUPER, David Receptionist/Mail Dispatch Officer

• HUNT, Peter Manager, Building Supervisionand Services

• JAFARI, KamranFacilities Management Officer

• REASON, Kimbra Group Manager, Building and Facilities

• WOOD, Anthony Loading Area Manager

• YOUNG, Peter Building MaintenanceEngineer

• DI BERARDINO, Anthony Manager, ConstructionWorkshop

• DINGLI, Damian Cabinet Maker

• SUSNJARA, PaulDisplay Painter

• WINKLER, AnnetteCabinet Maker

Finance and Administration

• MCEUNE, Ljubica # /EXTON,BrianFinance System Administrator

• MORDA, SebastianoManager, AccountingOperations

• RICHARDS, CatherineManager, Finance andAdministration

• FORBES, Joseph Purchasing and Transport Officer

• HAMMILL, Marie #/KHOURY, MarcelFinance Officer

• SCHIPPER, Vikki Accounting Operations Leader

• SCOTT, SheilaFinance Officer

• TRELOAR, JustineFinance Officer

• ZOVIC, JosephineFinance Officer

• DUNCAN, Alexander Contract Coordinator

• SCOTT, Susan Administrative Support Officer

Human Resources

• BELLIS, KetiHuman Resources Officer

• BOURKE, FleurHuman Resources Officer

• D’AGOSTINO, GraceActing Manager, HumanResources

• DAVIES, Paul Acting Human Resources Project Officer

• EVANS, Amanda Human Resources Officer

• HALL, Kristy Human Resources Officer

• HARVEY, Carolyn #/HOLLOWAY, Melissa Manager, Employee Services

• SINCLAIR, Aileen Human Resources Officer

• STUBBS, Lee Human Resources ProjectOfficer

• VICTOIRE, Pamela Human Resources Officer

Museum Development Directorate

• KERLIN, Gerardine Director

• BARKER, Annie Executive Assistant

Corporate Development

• O’CONNOR, SallyManager

• JACKSON, Dot Administration Officer

Market Research

and Evaluation

• MEEHAN, Carolyn Manager

• FERGUSON, Cindy Research Officer

• GLOVER, Kim Research Officer

• WALKER, Hannah StudyCoordinator

Marketing

• HISCOCK, Rose Manager

• VALCANIS, Fay #/ GORR,Shelley Senior Marketing Officer

• MARTIN, Marie Tourism Marketing Officer

• CIAVARELLA, Emma Tourism Marketing ProjectCo-ordinator

Museum Victoria Members

• WENDT, Colleen Manager

• SOUNDIAS, Deonisia Membership andAdministration Officer

Corporate Public Relations

• HALL, Katrina #/SCHAFTENAAR, Angela Manager

• RISELEY, Jill Senior Public Relations Officer

• MILKINS, Kate Public Relations Officer

Melbourne MuseumDirectorate

• BREARLEY, Donna Executive Assistant

• CICCULLO, MarilenaBusiness Manager,Melbourne Museum

• DEXTER, James Assistant Director, MelbourneMuseum

• FOOKES, RonitProject Manager, Public Spaces

• FRANKLIN, Nicola Commercial Manager- RoyalExhibition Building andCarparking

• JUNGWIRTH, TamaraCommercial Manager,Catering and Cinemas

Commercial Operations

• CHENHALLS, Sheridan Retail Assistant

• EASTWOOD, Andrew Senior Retail Assistant

• HERNANDEZ, SanchoRetail Assistant

• KISILEWSKY, Lara Senior Retail Assistant

• MADDEN, Marita RetailManager

• WALSH, Julia Senior Retail Assistant

• WILKINSON, BenjaminSenior Retail Assistant

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Visitor Programs

• BOYLE, Colleen Senior Education and VisitorPrograms Officer

• CRAMP, Jan Education Officer

• GERDTZ, Wayne Information Officer, Info Zone

• GRIFFITH, MargaretProgram Co-ordinator, Public Activity Programs

• GRUNDY, LarissaEducation and VisitorPrograms Officer

• HUNT, GregoryProgram Co-ordinator,Schools Education

• KILLEEN, ScottEducation and VisitorPrograms Officer

• KOUSAL, Rachel JanetInformation Officer, Study Centre

• LEITH, AdrienneSenior Education and VisitorPrograms Officer

• MILLWARD, Peter Group Manager, Educationand Visitor Programs

• PARSONS, Allison Program Officer, Volunteers

• PARSONS, Jamie SimonProgram Coordinator Volunteers

• THOMPSON, Bronwyn Manager, Info Zone and Info Links

• ZECCOLA, GeraldineEducation and VisitorPrograms Officer

• BROWN, Alan Manager, Bunjilaka

• COUTTS, LorraineProject Officer, CommunitySupport Roving Curator

• SELLARS, Joy Senior Education and VisitorPrograms Officer

• SMITH, Sandra Program Coordinator - Family History

• BALLA, AnthonyEducation and Visitor ProgramsOfficer- Children’s Museum

• LANGMUIR, LorraineManager, Children’s Museum

• STANLEY, Debbie Educationand Visitor ProgramsOfficer/Team LeaderChildren’s Museum

• TADICH, IngridManager, Children’s Museum

• BAKER, AnnCustomer Service Officer, F/T

• JAY, DavidEducation Officer

• KERRIDGE, YolEducation Officer

• GREENAWAY, CathyEducation Officer

• HAVALA, LauraEducation Officer

• STEWART, JohnEducation Officer

• MOORE, GeoffEducation Officer

Exhibitions

• ALMOND, Evelyne Coordinator, Exhibitions

• DYKSTRA, Deanna Assistant Keeper, Live Exhibits

• GRIEVE, Susan Project Co-ordinator

• HENDERSON, Alan Co-ordinator, ForestGalleryand Live Exhibits

• LICHERI, Rachel Assistant Keeper, Live Exhibits

• MORISON, Penelope Group Manager, Exhibitions

• PHILLIPS, Katherine Co-ordinator, Exhibitions

• PRICE, LynAdministrative Assistant

• SIMPKIN, Luke Manager, Forest Gallery andLive Exhibits

• WILSON, JulietCoordinator, Exhibitions

Operations

• CLAVERING, JamesTechnician

• FERRARO, GeorgeGeneral Hand

• FRENCH, Linda Finished Artist/ MacintoshOperator

• GAMBLE, Craig Operations Manager,Melbourne Museum

• GLOVER, Richard Senior Designer

• GRIMA, Joany Administration and FunctionsOfficer

• JAMES, Brenton Head Technician

• LAINO, LuisaDesigner

• ROBISON, John Technician

• SPINKS, Philip Technician

• KELLETT, Jennifer Co-ordinator, Events

Visitor Services

• AKEL, AnoushkaCustomer Service Officer, P/T

• BARNETT, Veronica Customer Service Officer, F/T

• BASZCZYN, Elzbieta Customer Service Officer, P/T

• BENDELL, Jessica Customer Service Officer, P/T

• BLAIR, GeorgiaCustomer Service Officer, P/T

• BLEWITT, ClaireCustomer Service Officer, P/T

• BLOXOM, KayCustomer Service Officer, P/T

• BRERETON, Kathryn Customer Service Officer, F/T

• BURROUGHS, Travis Customer Service Officer, F/T

• BYRNE, Justin Team Leader, Customer Service

• CALVERLEY, LorettaTeam Leader, Front of Houseand Call Centre (FullT)

• CEREZO, RheimiaCustomer Service Officer, F/T)

• CLINTON, Renae Customer Service Officer, P/T

• DAL TIO, AnitaCustomer Service Officer, F/T

• DIAZ, Pablo Customer Service Officer, F/T

• DILLON, Judith Customer Service Officer, P/T)

• FIDGE, Paula Customer Service Officer, P/T

• FLOWER, Lisa Customer Service Officer, F/T

• FOX, Blake Customer Service Officer, P/T

• FRADD, KathrynCustomer Service Officer, P/T

• FUNG, Pamie Customer Service Officer, P/T

• GARLING, NatarshaCustomer Service Officer, F/T

• GIATSIOS, ChristinaCustomer Service Officer, F/T

• GREEN, Ruth Customer Service Officer, P/T

• HAYES, PatriciaCustomer Service Officer, P/T

• HEREWARD, Joanne Team Leader, Front of Houseand Call Centre, F/T

• HESLINE, Sandra Customer Service Officer, F/T

• HOWARD, Arthur CustomerService Officer, P/T

• HOWARTH, CrispinCustomer Service Officer, F/T

• JOHNSON, Tracy Customer Service Officer, P/T

• KAAL, Kim Customer Service Officer, F/T

• KELLAM, Glenn Customer Service Officer, P/T

• KONGMUN, AnuwatCustomer Service Officer, F/T

• KUSETA, Daniel Customer Service Officer, P/T

• LAMANNA, AdamCustomer Service Officer, P/T

• LAMANNA, Antonia Manager, Customer Services

• LANTING, Glenda Customer Service Officer, P/T

• LAWRENCE, Aaron Team Leader, Front of Houseand Call Centre P/T

• LEE, AlexCustomer Service Officer, P/T

• LONGMORE, CarolineCustomer Service Officer, P/T

• LUMSDEN, Ramona Customer Service Officer, P/T

• MAHANY, Robert CustomerService Officer, P/T

• MANOLOPOULOS, JohnCustomer Service Officer, P/T

• MARSH, David Customer Service Officer, F/T

• MASON, TrevorCustomer Service Officer, F/T

• MASTERS, Philip Customer Service Officer, P/T

• MAYALL, Emma Customer Service Officer, P/T

• MCALEER, Anthony Customer Service Officer, F/T

• MCCURRY, Naomi Team Leader, Front of Houseand Call Centre F/T

• MOORE, Robyn Customer Service Officer, F/T

• MOORE, Sarah Customer Service Officer, P/T

• MURRAY, Ngarra Customer Service Officer, F/T

• NEWMAN, Trevor CustomerService Officer, F/T

• OLD, Nanetta Customer Service Officer, P/T

• PATTEN, William Customer Service Officer, F/T

• PECKITT, Jason Customer Service Officer, F/T

• PENNELL, MichaelCustomer Service Officer, P/T

• PEOPLES, Robert CustomerService Officer, F/T

• POMROY, NicoleCustomer Service Officer, P/T

• PRESTNEY, Susie CustomerService Officer, P/T

• QUIN, Michael Customer Service Officer, P/T

• REESE, Amy Customer Service Officer, P/T

• RENNIE, RenaCustomer Service Officer, P/T

• RIGNEY, TraceyCustomer Service Officer, P/T

• ROMSTAD, Britt Customer Service Officer, P/T

• SALAMON, DylanCustomer Service Officer, F/T

• SCIBILIA, JasmineCustomerService Officer, P/T

• SMITH, Nicholas Customer Service Officer, P/T

• STEVENS, ScottTeam Leader, Customer Service

• STEWART, Michelle Customer Service Officer, P/T

• STYLIANOU, MatthewCustomer Service Officer, F/T

• TADICH, Carla Customer Service Officer, P/T

• TAYLOR, Susan Team Leader, Customer Service

• TOWNEY, Billy Customer Service Officer, P/T

• TOWNSEND, Hayley Customer Service Officer, F/T

• UNMACK, Alice Customer Service Officer, F/T

• WILLIAMS, Carol Team Leader, Customer Service

• WILLIAMS, Katherine Customer Service Officer, P/T

• WOLSKI, Simone CustomerService Officer, F/T

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• SEBASTIAN, PadminiDirector

• DINGLE, AngeliqueAdministration and ExecutiveSupport Officer

• GRIFFITHS, Jeffrey Building and ServicesSupervisor

• ZEEUWE, HelenBusiness Manager P/T

• THOMSON, Bruce Shop Supervisor

• LEITA, Justine Administrative Assistant

Public Programs

• TENCE, MariaManager, Public Programs

• PINTI, MarioEducation Coordinator

• CARROLL, LucyEducation Officer

• DALTON, SimonEducation Officer P/T

• BELL, JudyIDC Coordinator

• DOO, Rowena Visitor Programs Officer

Exhibitions

• MCCASKIE, GregorAccess Gallery Coordinatorand Temporary ExhibitionsOfficer

• ISER, MelindaGallery Assistant P/T

• CLARKE, DamianMultimedia TechnicalCoordinator

Marketing

• GRLJ, JaneMarketing Manager

• NOISETTE, Sarah Public Relations Officer

• GASPER, SuzanneTributeGarden Officer P/T

Customer Service

• CRANE, Andrew Customer Service Coordinator

• GERONIKAS, ToulaTeam Leader

• PHILIPPOU, EvanthiaTeam Leader

• TINDALL, Robyn Assistant Team Leader

• MIERISCH, Emily Customer Service Officer

• ADKINS, Elizabeth AnneCustomer Service Officer

• SARTINAS, HelenCustomer Service Officer

• WILLIAMSON, Jeremy Customer Service Officer P/T

• SHARPLES, Kay Customer Service Officer P/T

• KOCISKA, KarolinaCustomer Service Officer P/T

• NUGENT, Emily Customer Service Officer P/T

ScienceworksDirectorate

• HAMILTON, Gaye Director• MCVAY, Helen

Executive Assistant

Administration

• SMITH, Robert Business Manager

• SCHUBERT, Vicky Reception/Admin SupportOfficer

• THOMPSON, Elizabeth Reception/Admin Support Officer

Retail

• HEURTEAU, Christian Shop Supervisor

• HAASS, Kristy Shop Supervisor

• CURRIE, Amber Shop Assistant

• THANASENARIS, Chris Shop Assistant

Operations

• MARSHALL, Russell Operations Manager

• GREGOIRE, Greg OperationsCo-ordinator

• DURHAM, Lance Multimedia Tech Co-ordinator

• DOLE, GaryGeneral Hand

• DOLE, WayneGeneral Hand

Public Programs

• FAHEY, GenevieveManager• WELLS, Meryl

Administrative Officer

Exhibitions

• LEWIS, AndrewManager Exhibitions

• ANGELOVSKA, Lenna Designer

• LAZAREVIC, Zoran Designer

• NEWNHAM, Ann Designer

• SCOTT, Chris Manager Programs Workshop

• LANG, Des Supervisor EngineeringWorkshop

• KIMPTON, RobertInteractive Technical Officer

• WAN, Simon Interactive Technical Officer

• SOMERVILLE, Gordon Technical Officer

• STRATING, Max Technical Officer

Education

• STOYLES, Penelope*Manager Education

• D’AGROSA, Patricia Planetarium Education Officer

• BRYNE, Tim*Education Officer

• DUNSTAN, Roderick* Education Officer

• MURPHY, Nicole**Education Officer

• PENTLAND, Peter Education Officer

• GRANT, Faye Booking Officer

• SOLANO, Fabiola AsstBooking Officer

Visitor Programs

• SPROUL, Linda Manager Visitor Programs

• GIN, Vera Visitor Programs Officer

• HAMPSON, Deborah Visitor Programs Officer

• STONE, Nicholas Visitor Programs Officer

• WADHAM, Genevieve Visitor Programs Officer

• DUFFY Wendy Volunteer Co-ordinator

Marketing

• DOW, MelanieManager Marketing

• BURT, Karla Public Relations Officer

• VUGDELIJA, Marissa Venue Hire Officer

Customer Service

• HANNAH, PeterManager Customer Service

• DENARDO, Anna Senior Customer ServiceOfficer

• KING, LyndallSenior Customer ServiceOfficer

• EATHER, SusanSenior Customer ServiceOfficer

• ABBOTT, Rosalyn CustomerService Officer

• ASHFORD, BeverleyCustomer Service Officer

• BORGELT, Margaret Customer Service Officer

• CAPPETTA, Antonio Customer Service Officer

• COLLINS,Paula Customer Service Officer

• DEARING, Mary Customer Service Officer

• DICKENSON, Heather Customer Service Officer

• FETH, WendyCustomer Service Officer

• GRENFELL, Nicole Customer Service Officer

• HAYDAY, Geoffrey CustomerService Officer

• HAYES, Charmaine Customer Service Officer

• HEARD, DianneCustomer Service Officer

• HUGHES, Patricia CustomerService Officer

• MCLEOD, Kenneth Customer Service Officer

• MILLER, Brian Customer Service Officer

• MOUNTFORD, David Customer Service Officer

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RESEARCH GRANTS

Externally Funded Projects

The following projects attracted externalfunding and were underway during the year:

Australian Society and TechnologyDepartment. Centenary of Federation project:funding to support Curator of Federationposition. Centenary of Federation, Victoria.

Australian Society and TechnologyDepartment. Shrine of Remembrance Stage1 project. Department of Infrastructure.

Australian Society and TechnologyDepartment. Support for the temporaryexhibition, Espresso Comes to Melbourne.STiKKi Products Pty Ltd.

Christidis, L., Norman, J. and Caple, S. Genetic diversity and conservationmanagement of south-east Australianwoodland and forest birds. Stuart LeslieResearch Award, Birds Australia.

Indigenous Cultures Department. Touringexhibition funding for Thookay Ngaweeyan,Young Voices of Victoria: AboriginalChildren’s Art from the Collections ofMuseum Victoria. Visions of AustraliaProgram, Department of Communications,Information Technology and the Arts.

Indigenous Cultures Department. Return of Indigenous Cultural Property Program,Department of Communications, InformationTechnology and the Arts.

Indigenous Cultures Department. Digitisation of Donald Thomson Collectionimages. Grimwade Miegunyah Fund,University of Melbourne.

Indigenous Cultures Department. Reprintingof Donald Thomson in Arnhem Land,Grimwade Miegunyah Fund, University of Melbourne.

Melville, J. Evolutionary ecology andmolecular systematics of desert agamid andiguanid lizards. Australian PostdoctoralFellowship. Research Fellowships Scheme,Australian Research Council.

Melville, J. Evolutionary ecology andmolecular systematics of desert agamid andiguanid lizards. Large Research Grant,Australian Research Council.

Norman, J. Genetics of the Glossy Black-Cockatoo. Bird Observers Club of Australia.

O’Hara, T. Production of AustralianEchinoderms manuscript. AustralianBiological Resources Study.

O’Hara, T. Analysis of Seafloor FaunalAssemblages of Bass Strait. AustralianGeological Survey Organisation.

Production Studio. Development of theRaincheck 3000 interactive. Melbourne Water.

Sciences Department. Part-sponsorship ofMegaBACE DNA Sequencer. AmershamBiosciences Pty Ltd.

Van Praagh, B. Giant Gippsland EarthwormProject. VicRoads.

Wilson, R. Rapid assembly of ecological faunadata (key invertebrate groups) of the South-east Marine Region. National Oceans Office.

The following collaborative projectsadministered by other institutionsreceived external funding and wereunderway during the year:

Australian Society and TechnologyDepartment. Funding for a PhD Studentshipon the Australian Children’s FolkloreCollection from the University of Melbourne.This studentship is administered by theUniversity of Melbourne.

Australian Society and TechnologyDepartment. Funding for a PhD Studentshipon Innovation in Australian Agriculture 1880s– 1930s from the University of Melbourne.This studentship is administered by theUniversity of Melbourne.

Australian Society and Technology Departmentand University of Melbourne were awardedan Australian Research Council grant for aresearch project on Melbourne Online: amultimedia interpretation of city history andculture. This grant is administered by theUniversity of Melbourne.

Christidis, L. and Mulder, R. (University ofMelbourne) were awarded University ofMelbourne Collaborative Research Programfunding for a research project on theMolecular phylogenetic perspective on theevolution of plumage dichromatism in birds.This grant is administered by the Universityof Melbourne.

Christidis, L., Norman, J. and McKenzie, J. (University of Melbourne) were awardedUniversity of Melbourne CollaborativeResearch Program funding for a researchproject on Comparative phylogeography ofbirds in south-eastern Australia. This grant isadministered by the University of Melbourne.

Gomon, M. Funding for a project onRegional mapping of the South-East MarineRegion at province and biome levels basedon fish distribution data from the NationalOceans Office. The project is administeredby CSIRO Marine Research.

Gomon, M. Funding for a project onValidation of national demersal fish datasetsfor the regionalisation of the Australiancontinental slope and outer shelf from theNational Oceans Office. The project isadministered by CSIRO Marine Research.

Indigenous Cultures Department iscollaborating with the Milingimbi CommunityInc. for a project on East Arnhem: Images ofYolngu, funded by a grant by the NorthernTerritory Library and Information Service.

Rich, T. and Vickers-Rich, P. (MonashUniversity) were awarded a grant by theCommittee for Research and Exploration,National Geographic Society for a researchproject on The Ghastly Blank 2002. This grantwas administered through Monash University.

Rich, T., Vickers-Rich, P. (Monash University)and Flannery, T. (South Australian Museum)were awarded a grant by the AustralianResearch Council for a project on the EarlyCretaceous polar biota in Victoria. This grantis administered through Monash University.

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RESEARCH SUPERVISION

Graduate and Postgraduate Supervision

[MV supervisors in italics]

Barlow, Amara: BSc(Hons), CooperativeResearch Centre for Freshwater EcologyUniversity of Canberra.Supervisors: Richard Marchant, Richard NorrisProject: Drift and colonization of invertebratesbelow dams in the Cotter River.

Butcher, Rhonda: PhD, Monash University.Supervisors: Richard Marchant, Sam Lake.Project: Invertebrate conservation inwetlands in western Victoria.

Caple, Sarah: PhD, University of Melbourne.Supervisors: Les Christidis, Janette Norman,John McKenzie.Project: The role of intrinsic (biological) andextrinsic (environmental) factors in determiningpatterns of genetic diversity and populationstructure in birds of south-east Australia.

Cardinal, Belinda: PhD, University of Melbourne.Supervisors: Les Christidis, Janette Norman,John McKenzie.Project: Systematics, phylogeography andpopulation genetics of the Large Bent-wingBat, Miniopterus schreibersii (Chiroptera).

Cohn, Helen: PhD, University of Melbourne.Supervisors: Thomas Darragh, Rod Home.Project: Novelty to rarity: a history of theNational Herbarium of Victoria.

Constantine, Andrew: PhD, Monash University. Supervisors: Thomas Rich, Patricia Vickers-Rich, Ray Cas.Project: Sedimentology, stratigraphy and palaeoenvironment of the UpperJurassic-Lower Cretaceous non-marineStrzelecki Group, Gippsland Basin,southeastern Australia.

Deftereos, Christine: PhD, University of Melbourne.Supervisors: Moya McFadzean, RichardGillespie, Kate Darian-Smith. Project: Australian Children’s Folklore Collection.

Ellis, Anthony: BSc(Hons), Department of Zoology, University of Melbourne.Supervisors: Martin Gomon, David Macmillan.Project: Comparative biology of goby fishesin Port Phillip.

Etemadmoghadan, Dariush: BSc(Hons),Department of Genetics, University of Melbourne.Supervisors: Les Christidis, Janette Norman,Jon MartinProject: Microsatellite analysis of geographicalvariation and gene flow among populationsof a co-operatively breeding songbird, theSuperb Fairy-wren (Malanus cyaneus).

Finlay, Kyla: PhD, Monash University.Supervisors: Richard Marchant, Ian Campbell.Project: Revision of two genera ofLeptophlebiid mayflies.

Harding, Lucy: PhD, University of Melbourne.Supervisors: Thomas Darragh, StephenGallagher.Project: Early Pliocene molluscanpalaeontology and palaeoenvironments ofthe Marine Plain Area (Antarctica).

Kefford, Ben: PhD, RMIT University.Supervisors: Richard Marchant, DayanthiNugegoda.Project: The role of salinity in structuringstream invertebrate communities.

King, Rachael: PhD, University of Melbourne.Supervisors: Gary Poore, David MacMillan.Project: The systematics, evolution and biogeography of the Arcturidae(Crustacea, Isopoda).

Lehmann, Sherri: BSc(Hons), ZoologyDepartment, La Trobe University.Supervisors: Gary Poore, Fiona Bird.Project: Biogeography of shrimps fromTasmanian seamounts.

Lockett, Matthew: PhD, University of Technology, Sydney. Supervisors: Martin Gomon, David Booth.Project: Comparative biology of introducedgobies in Sydney and Melbourne estuaries.

MacDonald, Anna: MA, Department ofHistory, University of Melbourne.Supervisor: Richard Gillespie, Kate Darian-Smith.Project: Seeing Melbourne: the CentennialInternational Exhibition of the Cyclorama ofEarly Melbourne.

Mackie, Joshua: PhD, University of Melbourne.Supervisors: Les Christidis, Janette Norman,Mick Keogh.Project: Population genetics of endemic and introduced species of bryozoans insouthern Australia.

Maroske, Sara: PhD, University of MelbourneSupervisors: Thomas Darragh, Rod Home.Project: Science by correspondence:Ferdinand Mueller (1825-1896).

Murray, Sandra: BSc(Hons), Department of Zoology, University of Melbourne. Supervisors: Les Christidis, Janette Norman,Jon Martin.Project: Phylogenetic relationships inGerygone and the evolution of keymorphological, ecological and behaviouraltraits within the genus.

O’Hara, Timothy: PhD, University of Melbourne.Supervisors: Robin Wilson, David MacMillan.Project: Patterns of diversity for subtidal reefassemblages of Victoria, Australia.

Osborne, Megan: PhD, La Trobe University.Supervisors: Les Christidis, Janette Norman,Neil Murray.Project: Molecular evolution of possums.

Raadik, Tarmo: PhD, University of Canberra.Supervisors: Martin Gomon, Arthur Georges,Mark Adams.Project: Conservation biology andsystematics of the mountain galaxias.

Rourke, Meaghan: BSc(Hons), Department of Biological and ChemicalSciences, Deakin University.Supervisors: Les Christidis, Janette Norman,Joanne Smissen.Project: Phylogeography of the White-browedBabbler, Pomatostomus superciliosus, basedon mitochondrial DNA sequence analysis.

Sandford, Andrew: PhD, University of Melbourne.Supervisors: David Holloway, StephenGallagher, Malcolm Wallace.Project: Early Devonian trilobite faunas anddepositional environments in central Victoria.

Storey, Melissa: PhD, University of Melbourne.Supervisors: Gary Poore, David Macmillan.Project: Systematics and biogeography ofthe isopod family Serolidae (Crustacea).

Taylor, Joanne: PhD, University of Melbourne.Supervisors: Gary Poore, David Macmillan.Project: Systematics and biogeography ofthe amphipod family Phoxocephalidae(Crustacea).

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Walker-Smith, Genefor: PhD, University of Melbourne.Supervisors: Gary Poore, David Macmillan.Project: Harpacticoida (Copepoda) of PortPhillip Bay and their utilisation by post-settlement King George Whiting.

RESEARCH PUBLICATIONS

Publications – Refereed Journals

Beu, A.G. & Darragh, T.A. 2001. Revision of southern Australian Cenozoic fossilPectinidae (Mollusca, Bivalvia). Proceedings ofthe Royal Society of Victoria 113(1), 1 – 205.

Birch, W.D. 2001. A note on koechlinitefrom Pittong, Victoria, Australia. AustralianJournal of Mineralogy, 7(2), 77 – 79.

Birch, W.D., Pring, A. & Wallwork, K. 2002.Mendozavilite from the Fitzgerald Riverdistrict, Western Australia. Australian Journalof Mineralogy, 8(1), 11 – 15.

Birch, W.D., Samuels, L.E. & Grossman, J.N. 2001. Willow Grove, Rainbow andPigick: three new unusual meteorite finds inVictoria, Australia. Proceedings of the RoyalSociety of Victoria, 113(2), 247 – 257.

Birch, W.D., Samuels, L.E. & Wasson, J.T. 2001. Willow Grove: a unique nickel-richataxite from Victoria, Australia. Meteoritics & Planetary Science, 36, A1 – 8.

Brandt, A. & Poore, G.C.B. 2001. Two newspecies of Tridentella (Crustacea: Isopoda:Tridentellidae) from Namibia. Beaufortia, 51,199 – 212.

Butler-Bowdon, E. 2001. Aesthetics andarchitecture in Australian suburbia. Studiesin the History of Gardens & DesignedLandscapes, an International Quarterly,21(2), 108 – 114.

Darragh, T.A. 2001. Ferdinand Hochstetter’snotes of a visit to Australia and a tour of theVictorian goldfields in 1859. HistoricalRecords of Australian Science 13(4), 383-437.

Darragh, T.A., 2001. Review of Harper, E.M.et al. (Eds) 2000. Evolutionary Biology of theBivalvia. Geological Society of London.Molluscan Research, 21, 109-110.

Darragh, T.A. 2002. Frederick McCoy: theIrish Years. Victorian Naturalist 118(5), 160 – 164.

Darragh, T.A. 2002. ‘This Beautiful Work ofArt’: Skene and Slight’s ContinentalAustralia. La Trobe Journal, 68, 31 – 38.

Ericson, P.G., Christidis, L., Cooper, A.,Irestedt, M., Jackson, J., Johansson, U.S. &Norman, J.A. 2002. A Gondwanan origin ofpasserine birds supported by DNAsequences of the endemic New Zealandwrens. Proceedings of the Royal Society ofLondon, Part B, Biological Sciences,269(1488), 235 – 241

Gambarian, P.P., Aristov, A.A., Dixon, J.M. &Zubtsova, G.Ye. 2002. Peculiarities of thehind limb musculature in monotremes: ananatomical description and functionalapproach. Russian Journal of Theriology,1(1), 1 – 36.

Gomon, M.F. 2001. Descriptions of two newspecies of Bodianus (Perciformes: Labridae)from Australasian waters. New ZealandJournal of Zoology, 28, 407 – 416.

Henry, D.A. 2002. Two occurrences ofbasaluminite in Victoria. Australian Journal of Mineralogy, 8(1), 35 – 38.

Holloway, D.J. & Campbell, K.S.W. 2001.Case 3171: Cryphops Richter & Richter, 1926(Trilobita): proposed conservation. Bulletin ofZoological Nomenclature, 58, 97 – 99.

Holloway, D.J. & Thomas A.T. 2002.Hoplolichoides, Allolichas, Autoloxolichasand Akantharges, and the classification oflichid trilobites. Geobios, 35, 111 – 125.

King, R.A. & Poore, G.C.B. 2001. Diagnosisof Arcturopsis Koehler, 1911 andredescription of A. giardi (Bonnier, 1896)(Crustacea, Isopoda, Arcturidae).Zoosystema, 23, 467 – 477.

Kuiter, R.H. 2001. Revision of the Australianseahorses of the genus Hippocampus(Syngnathiformes: Syngnathidae) withdescriptions of nine new species. Recordsof the Australian Museum, 53, 293 – 340.

McNally, R., Bennett, A.F., Brown, G.F.,Lumsden, L.F., Yen, A., Hinkley, S.,Lillywhite, P. & Ward, D. 2002. How well doecosystem-based planning units representdifferent components of biodiversity?Ecological Applications, 12, 900 – 912.

Marchant, R. 2002. Do rare species haveany place in multivariate analysis forbioassessment? Journal of the NorthAmerican Benthological Society, 21, 311 – 313.

Marchant, R. & Hehir, G. 2002. The use ofAUSRIVAS predictive models to assess theresponse of lotic macroinvertebrates todams in south east Australia. FreshwaterBiology, 47, 1033 – 1050.

Melville, J. 2002. Competition and characterdisplacement in two species of scincoidlizards. Ecology Letters, 5, 386 – 393.

Melville, J. & Schulte, J.A. 2001. Correlatesof active body temperatures andmicrohabitat occupation in nine species ofcentral Australian agamid lizards. AustralEcology, 26, 660 – 669.

Melville, J., Schulte, J.A. & Larson, A. 2001.A molecular phylogenetic study of ecologicaldiversification in the Australian lizard genusCtenophorus. Journal of ExperimentalZoology (Molecular & DevelopmentalEvolution), 291, 339 – 353.

O’Hara, T.D. 2001. Consistency of faunal andfloral assemblages within temperate subtidalrocky reef habitats. Marine & FreshwaterResearch, 52, 853 – 863.

Osborne, M. & Christidis, L. 2001. Molecularphylogenetics of the Australo-Papuanpossums and gliders (Family Petauridae).Molecular Phylogenetics & Evolution, 20,211 – 224.

Osborne, M.J. & Christidis, L. 2002.Systematics and biogeography of pygmypossums (Burramyidae: Cercartetus).Australian Journal of Zoology, 50, 25 – 37.

Rich, T.H., Flannery, T.F., Trusler, P., Kool, L.,van Klaveren, N.A. & Vickers-Rich, P. 2002.Evidence that monotremes andausktribosphenids are not sister groups.Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, 22, 466 – 469.


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Rich, T.H., Vickers-Rich, P. & Gangloff, R.A. 2002. Polar Dinosaurs. Science, 295,979 – 980.

Shattuck, S.O. & Hinkley, S. 2002. Secondspecies in the Australian ant genusPeronomyrmex Viehmeyer (Hymenoptera:Formicidae). Australian Journal ofEntomology, 41, 104 – 105.

Walker-Smith, G.K. 2001. Porcellidium poorei,a new species of Porcelliidae (Copepoda:Harpacticoida) from seagrass in Port PhillipBay, Victoria, Australia, and a review of thefamily. Journal of Crustacean Biology, 21,653 – 664.

Walter, D.E., Beard, J.J., Walker, K.L. &Sparks, K. 2002. Of mites and bees: areview of mite-bee associations in Australiaand a revision of Raymentia Womersley(Acari: Mesostigmata: Laelapidae), with thedescription of two new species of mitesfrom Lassioglossum (Parasphecodes) spp.(Hymenoptera: Halictidae). Australian Journalof Entomology, 41, 128 – 148.

Ward, D.F., New, T.R. & Yen, A.L. 2001.Effects of pitfall trap spacing on theabundance, richness and composition ofinvertebrates. Journal of InsectConservation, 5, 47 – 53.

Wilson, R.S. 2001. Prionospio thalanji sp.nov. (Polychaeta: Spionidae) from ananchialine cave, Cape Range, north-westWestern Australia. Records of the WesternAustralian Museum Supplement, 64, 105 – 113.

Yen, A.L., Boyd, S., Coventry, A.J., Dixon, J., Gomon, M. F., O’Loughlin, P.M., Poore,G.C.B. & Walker, K. 2001. McCoy’sProdromous of the Zoology of Victoria: anunfinished task. Victorian Naturalist, 118(6),242 – 265.

Non-Refereed Journals and Reports

Allen, L. 2001. Centenary anniversarysymposium: a celebration of anthropologist,Professor Donald F. Thomson. MelbourneUniversity Magazine, 2001, 20 – 21.

Birch, W.D. 2001. Geological overview ofthe western Victorian volcanic province. MtElephant and the basalt plains: a natural andsocial history seminar. Transactions of theRoyal Society of Victoria, 113(2), xix-xxiv.

Butler-Bowdon, E. 2001. Beneath the froth.Museum Victoria Magazine, Spring 2001, 20.

Churchward, M. 2001. All steamed up andready to go. Museum Victoria Magazine,Winter 2002, 14 – 15.

Churchward, M. 2001. New acquisitions:Jelbart Portable Engine. Museum VictoriaMagazine, Winter 2002, 28.

CSIRO Marine Research (Last, P., Lyne, V., Yearsley, G., Williams, A., Gledhill, D., Riddoch, S., Graham, A. & Rees, T.),Museum Victoria (Gomon, M.F. & Bray,D.J.), Australian Museum (Paxton, J., &McGrouther, M.) and NSW Fisheries(Graham, K.). 2001. Rapid assembly ofecological fish data (community compositionand distribution) for the south-east marineregion. Report to the National OceansOffice, Hobart. 52pp.

Demant, D. & Kinsey, F. 2002. CSIRAC: thefirst computer in Australia. IEEE Annals ofthe History of Computing, Events &Sightings, 24(1), 93.

Gillespie, R. 2001. Making an exhibition:One gallery, one thousand objects, onemillion critics. Meanjin, 60(4), 111 – 121.

Kean, J. 2001. Reality beneath the magic.Museum Victoria Magazine, Spring 2001, 21.

Kean, J. 2002. Johnny Warangula Tjupurrula:Painting in a changing landscape. Art Bulletinof Victoria, 41, 47 – 54.

McCubbin, M. 2001. Review of Proudfoot, P. et al. (Eds), 2000, Colonial City, GlobalCity: Sydney’s International Exhibition 1879.Crossing Press, Darlinghurst. MuseumNational, 10(1), 27 – 28.

McCubbin, M. 2002. Captain Cook’sCottage: an experiment in modernmuseology. Insite Museums Australia,June-July 2002, 10 – 11.

McFadzean, M. 2001. Stories from SouthernSudan: new display at the ImmigrationMuseum. Timelines, The Museums Australia Historians’ Special Interest GroupLetter, December.

McFadzean, M. 2002. Review of Walsh, K. 2001. The changing face of Australia: acentury of immigration 1901-2000. MuseumNational, February, 28 – 29.

Mackie, J. 2001. The identification of(bryozoan) specimens from the North-WestShelf and Slope. Report to the AustralianInstitute of Marine Science, pp. 8 – 9.

O’Hara, T.D. 2001. Victorian intertidalmonitoring: summary and assessment ofcurrent and previous research. Report toDepartment of Natural Resources &Environment. 28 pp.

O’Hara, T.D. 2002. Benthic assemblages of Bass Strait. Report to GeosciencesAustralia. 38 pp.

O’Hara, T.D. 2002. Seagrass in Corner Inlet.Ripples, Newsletter of the Marine & CoastalCommunity Network, Winter 2002, 1.

O’Hara, T.D., Norman, M.D. & Staples, D.A. 2001. Baseline monitoring of Posidoniaseagrass beds in Corner Inlet, Victoria.Report to Department of Natural Resources& Environment. 44 pp.

O’Hara, T.D., Norman, M.D. & Staples, D.A. 2002. Baseline monitoring of Posidoniaseagrass beds in Corner Inlet. MuseumVictoria Science Reports, 1, 1 – 44.

O’Hara, T.D., Poore, G.C.B., Ahyong, S. &Staples, D.A. 2001. Rapid assembly ofinvertebrate data for the SE Regional MarinePlan. Report to the National Oceans Office,Hobart. 27 pp.

Van Praagh, B. & Hinkley, S. 2002. Survey of the Giant Gippsland Earthworm,Megascolides australis, in areas potentiallyaffected by a realignment of the SouthGippsland Highway: Bena to Korumburra.Museum Victoria Science Series, 3, 1 – 16.

Van Praagh, B. & Hinkley, S. 2002. Survey of the Giant Gippsland Earthworm,Megascolides australis, in areas potentiallyaffected by a realignment of the SouthGippsland Highway: Korumburra to Leongatha.Museum Victoria Science Series, 4, 1 – 12.

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Van Praagh, B., Hinkley, S. & Sargeant, I. 2002. The Giant Gippsland Earthworm(Megascolides australis) population at LochHill, South Gippsland: distribution andpreliminary biological and soil studies.Museum Victoria Science Series, 2, 1 – 23.

Willis, E. & Willoughby, E. 2001. Paintings,fact sheets and more: Centenary ofFederation celebrated at Museum Victoria.Museums National, November, 14.

Willis, E. 2002. Drawing the new nation.National Library of Australia News, February,3 – 6.

Willis, E. 2002. Creating and remembering:the making of the Deans Marsh curtains.Textile Fibre Forum, 65, 40 – 41.

Wills, S. 2001. Finding room for loss.Meanjin, 60(4), 137 – 149.

Books and Book Chapters

Allen, L. 2001. Thookay Ngaweeyan: YoungVoices from Aboriginal Victoria. Exhibitioncatalogue. Museum Victoria, Melbourne. 40 pp.

Clode, D. & O’Brien, R. 2001. Why Wallacedrew the line: a re-analysis of Wallace’s birdcollections in the Malay Archipelago and theorigins of biogeography. In Metcalfe, I. et al.(Eds) Faunal & Floral Migrations and Evolutionin SE Asia-Australasia. Balkema, Lisse, pp. 113 – 121.

Demant, D. 2001. The First ComputerMouse. Museum Victoria, Melbourne. 21 pp.

Gillespie, R. 2001. Elton Mayo. In Warner,M. (Ed.) International encyclopedia ofbusiness and management, 2nd edition.Thomson Learning, London, 5, 4395 – 4399.

Griffiths, T. (together with 11 specialistcontributors) 2001. Forests of ash: anenvironmental history. Cambridge UniversityPress in association with Museum Victoria,Melbourne, 227 pp.

Kean, J. 2002. After the 1956 Floods camedown: a personal history of the river. InNicholls, C. (Ed.) River, land and memory:the work of Ian Abdulla. Exhibition catalogue.Flinders University, Adelaide, pp. 20 – 29.

Kuiter, R.H. & Tonozuka, T. 2001. IndonesianReef Fishes. Zoonetics, Seaford, Victoria. 3parts, 900 pp.

Kuiter, R.H. & Debelius, H. 2001.Acanthuroidei: Surgeonfishes, Rabbitfishes,Batfishes and relatives. Zoonetics, Seaford,Victoria. 209 pp.

Kuiter, R.H. & Debelius, H. 2001.Surgeonfishes, Rabbitfishes and theirrelatives. TMC, Chorleywood, UnitedKingdom. 208 pp.

Metcalf, W.J. & Darragh, T.A. 2001.Krumnow’s Manifesto: the Rules,Regulations and Beliefs of HerrnhutCommune (1852-1889) established byJohann Friedrich Krumnow. Published by the authors, Brisbane. 62 pp.

Rasmussen, C. (together with 46 specialistcontributors) 2001. A Museum for thePeople: A History of Museum Victoria andits Predecessors 1854 – 2000. ScribePublications in association with MuseumVictoria, Melbourne. 423 pp.

Rich, T.H., Flannery, T.F., Trusler, P. &Vickers-Rich, P.V. 2001. Corroboration of theGarden of Eden Hypothesis. In Metcalfe, I.et al. (Eds.) Faunal and floral migrations andevolution in SE Asia-Australia. Swets &Zeitlinger, Heereweg, pp. 315 – 324 (alsoBalkema, Lisse, 2001).

Other

Foley, G. 2001. Black Power in Redfern1968 – 1972. BA(Hons) Thesis, Departmentof History, University of Melbourne, 56 pp.

Hill, T.L. 2002. Starburst or Seyfert?Investigations of the activity in narrowemission-line galaxies. PhD Thesis,University of Sydney, 161 pp.

McCubbin, M. 2002. Public History inVictoria. Features Section of Victoria’sHistory in the Victorian GovernmentWebsite, http://www.history.vic.gov.au (May-June).

O’Hara, T.D. 2001. Patterns of diversity forsubtidal reef assemblages of Victoria,Australia. PhD Thesis, University ofMelbourne, 194 pp.

LECTURES AND PRESENTATIONS

Conference Presentations

Allen, L. 2001. Donald Thomson,photographer, and his photographs. DonaldThomson Centenary AnniversarySymposium, University of Melbourne(Parkville, 15 July).

Allen, L. 2002. Collecting then, displayingnow. Leonhard Adam Collection ofInternational Indigenous Culture,International Museums Day Forum(University of Melbourne, Parkville, 18 May).

Batty, P. 2001. Incorporating the Aboriginalsubject. Association of Aboriginal & TorresStrait Islander Studies (AATSIS) AnnualConference (Canberra, 18 September).

Butler-Bowdon, E. 2002. Phar Lap andMuseum Victoria. Museums AustraliaNational Conference (Adelaide, 18 – 22March).

Caple, S., Norman, J., Hayes, V. & Christidis,L. 2001. Contrasting patterns of geneticvariation in two congeneric honeyeaters.Inaugural Australian OrnithologicalConference (Charles Sturt University,Bathurst, 4 – 7 December).

Churchward, M. 2001. Foundries, Federationand free trade, a case study of the impact ofFederation in Victoria’s engineeringindustries between 1901 & 1915. 11thNational Conference on EngineeringHeritage (Canberra, 8 – 9 October).

Churchward, M. 2001. Where rails meetwater: an historical overview of theinterconnections between Victoria’s railwaysand ports. Australasian Institute for MaritimeArchaeology Conference (Geelong, 2 – 6December).

Dale, L. 2002. Saving Women’s FarmHistory. Women on Farms Gathering(Kyneton, 12 – 14 April).

Francis, J. 2001. Melbourne’s Golden Mile.10th Annual Conference of InterpretationAustralia Association (Alice Springs, 4 – 7September).

Gillespie, R. 2002. History for the Millions.Museums Australia National Conference(Adelaide, 18 – 22 March).


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Henry, D.A. 2002. Mineral collections: whoneeds them? 25th Mineralogical Societies’Joint Seminar (Brisbane, 9 June).

Hill, T. 2001. The night sky. VictorianOutdoor Education Association StateConference (Melbourne, 20 July).

Hill, T. 2001. Black holes. Victorian SpaceForum, Australian Space StudentsAssociation (Scienceworks, 27 September).

Hill, T. 2001. Being an astronomer. IBMStudent Conference (Scienceworks, 28 September).

Kean, J. 2001. I never painted in my life, all Iever did was work. 13th Congress of theInternational Society for Folk NarrativeResearch (Parkville, 16 – 20 July)

McCubbin, M. 2001. Memorialising thepioneers: monuments and generationalhistory in Melbourne, 1880s-1910s. 13thCongress of the International Society for FolkNarrative Research (Parkville, 16 – 20 July).

McCubbin, M. 2002. Captain Cook’sCottage: an experiment in modernmuseology. Museums Australia NationalConference (Adelaide, 18 – 22 March).

McFadzean, M. 2001. The Glory Box: theobject of memory. 13th Congress of theInternational Society for Folk NarrativeResearch (Parkville, 16 – 20 July).

McFadzean, M. 2002. From dictation test todetention centres: exhibiting controversypast and present. Museums Australia NationalConference (Adelaide, 18 – 22 March).

Mackie, J. 2001. Isolation of anthropogenicand natural influences on bryozoan dispersal.12th International Bryozoological AssociationMeeting (Dublin, Ireland, July).

Merrin, K. 2001. A phylogenetic analysis ofthe isopod family Ischnomesidae. Evolution& Systematics Conference (Melbourne, 16 –18 July).

Norman, J. & Christidis, L. 2001. Testingmodels of avian speciation in Australia.Evolution & Systematics Conference(Melbourne, 16 – 18 July).

Norman, J. & Christidis, L. 2001. Contrastingpatterns of molecular and morphologicalvariation in Black-Cockatoos. InauguralAustralian Ornithological Conference (CharlesSturt University, Bathurst, 4 – 7 December).

O’Hara, T. 2001. Quantitative biogeographyin the Southern Ocean: deriving processesfrom pattern. 5th International CrustaceanCongress (Melbourne, 9–13 July).

O’Hara, T. 2001. Endemism in the southernAustralian marine environment. Evolution &Systematics Conference (Melbourne, 16 – 18 July).

Osborne, M. & Christidis, L. 2001. Themolecular evolution of possums. AustralianMammal Society Conference: Possums &Gliders Symposium (Brisbane, 2 July).

Poore, G. & Brandt, A. 2001. The ‘Flabellifera’revisited: a phylogenetic analysis of somesuborders of isopods (Malacostraca). 5thInternational Crustacean Congress (Melbourne,9-13 July) (also Evolution & SystematicsConference, Melbourne, 16 – 18 July).

Sculthorpe, G. 2001. The manipulativemuseum?: developing Bunjilaka, theAboriginal Centre at Melbourne Museum.Australian Anthropological SocietyConference (La Trobe University, Melbourne,27 September).

Storey, M. 2001. A test of the monophyly of genera of Serolidae (Crustacea: Isopoda).5th International Crustacean Congress(Melbourne, 9 – 13 July) (also Evolution &Systematics Conference, Melbourne, 16 –18 July).

Taylor, J. 2001. Dealing with continuouscharacters in a phylogenetic analysis of thePhoxocephalidae (Amphipoda). 5thInternational Crustacean Congress(Melbourne, 9 – 13 July).

Vanderwal, R. & Tau Davis, O. 2001. Thechanging face of museum anthropology: thePacific Islands Advisory Group to MuseumVictoria. Australian Anthropological SocietyConference (La Trobe University, Melbourne,27 September).

Walker-Smith, G. 2001. A review ofParastenheliidae (Copepoda: Harpacticoida)and brief description of two new speciesfrom southern Australia. 5th InternationalCrustacean Congress (Melbourne, 9 – 13 July).

Walker-Smith, G. & Poore, G. 2001. Aphylogeny of the Leptostraca (Malacostraca:Phyllocarida). 5th International CrustaceanCongress (Melbourne, 9 – 13 July).

Willoughby, E. 2001. Women’s WorkExhibition of 1907. Mass Historia NationalConference of History Postgraduates(Parkville, 19 – 21 July).

Wilson, R. 2001. Biogeographic tests ofEarth history. Evolution and SystematicsConference (Melbourne, 16 – 18 July).

Yen, A.L. & Coventry, A.J. 2001. DonaldThomson’s contribution to our herpetologicaland entomological knowledge of CentralAustralia. Donald Thomson CentenaryAnniversary Symposium, University ofMelbourne (Parkville, 13 -15 July).

Lectures

Allen, L. 2002. Bunjilaka exhibitions andAboriginal art. Fine Arts, University ofMelbourne (Parkville, 9 – 10 April).

Batty, P. 2001. The importance of misreadingEmily. Canberra School of Art (Canberra, July).

Berry, M. 2001. Introduction toarchaeological conservation. School ofHistorical Studies, Monash University(Clayton, 11 November).

Berry, M. 2002. Digging up the past. PublicLecture at Melbourne Museum (Carlton, 18 April).

Birch, W. 2001. Three new unusualmeteorites from Victoria. AstronomicalSociety of Victoria (Melbourne, August 8)(also Mineralogical Society of Victoria,Melbourne, 3 October).

Birch, W. 2001. Mineralogy of diamond-bearing deposits in western Victoria. EarthScience Department, La Trobe University(Bundoora, 18 September).

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Birch, W. 2001. Geological overview of thewestern Victorian volcanic province. MtElephant and the basalt plains: a natural andsocial history seminar. (Derrinalum, WesternVictoria, 20 October) (also NunawadingMineral Group, 19 September).

Birch, W. 2001. Serendipity in the discoveryof new Australian minerals. SutherlandSymposium, Australian Museum (Sydney, 4 December).

Broomfield, J., Unger, I., & Start, R. 2002.Digital photography and image managementin a museum environment. Institute ofPhotographic Technology (Melbourne, 8 May).

Butler-Bowdon, E. 2001. Phar Lap: championracehorse and media star. Inside Story,InfoZone, Melbourne Museum (2 November).

Christidis, L. 2001. Three lectures on:Methods of phylogenetic reconstruction;Case studies of phylogenetic reconstruction;and, Phylogeography. Department ofGenetics, University of Melbourne (Parkville,15 – 19 October).

Christidis, L. 2002. History, DNA and birds.Bird Environment Education Centre(Nunawading, 13 April).

Churchward, M. 2001. The voyage out: thechanging nature of immigrant shipping toVictoria, 1840s-1970s. Immigration Museum(29 July).

Churchward, M. 2002. From Orcades toAustralis: postwar immigrant shipping.Immigration Museum (2 June).

Dale, L. 2002. Women’s farming history:creating a new collection. Department ofHistory, University of Melbourne (Parkville, 7May).

Etemadmoghadan, D. 2002. Microsatellites:uses in population and evolutionary studies.Department of Genetics, University ofMelbourne (Parkville, 29 April).

Foley, G. 2002. The struggle for indigenousrights, 1938-1998. Victorian Union ofProgressive Judaism, Melbourne Museum(Carlton, 3 March).

Foley, G. 2002. Aboriginal education: historyand issues. Faculty of Education, MonashUniversity (Clayton, 26 April).

Foley, G. 2002. Progressive policies inindigenous education. Northland SecondaryCollege (Preston, 26 April).

Foley, G. 2002. Reconciliation is not justice.Australians for Native Title andReconciliation, Brotherhood of St. Laurence(Melbourne, 4 May).

Foley, G. 2002. Black power in Redfern,1968 – 1972. Department of History,University of Melbourne (Parkville, 29 May).

Foley, G. 2002. Native title is not land rights.Oojeroo Indigenous Centre, QueenslandUniversity of Technology (Brisbane, 3 June).

Frigo, F. 2001. Tasmanian tigers. AustralianRare Fauna Research Association (Clematis,27 October).

Henry, D. 2001. The mineralogy of uranium.Mineralogical Society of Victoria (Melbourne,4 July).

Henry, D. 2001. Gold in Victoria. St ArnaudRotary Club (St Arnaud, 25 September).

Henry, D. 2001. Australian meteorite impactstructures. Astronomical Society of Ballarat(Ballarat, 17 November).

Hill, T. 2001. Being an astronomer. KaranaCommunity College (Melbourne, 25September).

Hill, T. 2002. Monsters in galaxies. SiemensScience Experience for Year 9/10 students,RMIT University (Melbourne, 23 January)

Hill, T. 2002. Being an astronomer.International Women’s Day (MelbourneMuseum, 8 March).

Horvath, A. 2001. The Human Mind andBody exhibitions at Museum Victoria. ProbusClub of Strathmore (Melbourne, 6September).

Ikinger, P. 2001. Backstage at MelbourneMuseum. Oceanic Art Society at the NewGuinea Arts Gallery (Sydney, 19 July).

Longmore, W. 2002. Value and historicalinterests in the collections of MuseumVictoria: my approach. Bird Observers Clubof Australia (Balwyn, 22 January).

Kean, J. 2002. Working with communities.Department of Fine Arts, University ofMelbourne (8 May).

Kean, J. 2002. The art of the interactive.Inside Story, InfoZone, Melbourne Museum(7 June).

McFadzean, M. 2001. Museums: socialmirrors, social commentators? Or who’stelling whose stories? Cultural HeritageCentre for Asia and the Pacific seminar series,Deakin University (Burwood, 1 August).

McFadzean, M. 2001. Personal narratives,global contexts: telling stories at theImmigration Museum. School ofArchitecture and Design, RMIT University(Melbourne, 14 August).

Mackie, J. 2002. A molecular analysis ofbryozoan dispersal. Department of Zoology,University of Melbourne (Parkville, 13 March).

Marchant, R. 2001. Secondary production offreshwater fauna. Biology Department,Monash University (21 August).

Marchant, R. 2002. Multivariate analysis inecological research. School of Life Scienceand Technology, Victoria University (23 May).

Melville, J. 2002. Molecular systematics andevolutionary ecology in desert lizardcommunities: the question of convergence(Department of Biology, St Louis University,St Louis, USA, February; Russian Academyof Sciences, St Petersburg, Russia, February;Museum of Vertebrate Zoology, Universityof California, Berkeley, USA, March).

Melville, J. 2002. Reptiles and fieldwork inthe deserts of three continents(Herpetological Group, WashingtonUniversity, St Louis, USA, April; Museum ofKenya, Nairobi, Kenya, 26 June).

O’Brien, R.M. 2001. Why Wallace drew theline: a re-analysis of Wallace’s bird collectionsin the Malay Archipelago and the origins ofbiogeography. Academy of Natural Sciencesof Philadelphia (Philadelphia, USA, 14 August).


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O’Hara, T. 2001. Victoria’s marine biodiversity.Training workshop on Victoria’s MarineNational Parks, Marine and Coastal CommunityNetwork (Melbourne, 17 December)

O’Hara, T. 2002. Protecting life in our seas:the science behind marine parks in Victoria.Melbourne Museum Lecture Series (21 February).

O’Hara, T. 2002. The science behind marineparks in Victoria. Victorian ParliamentaryLiberal Party (Melbourne, 9 May).

O’Hara, T. 2002. Biogeography and evolutionof echinoderms from Australia. University ofLouvain Lecture Series (Belgium, 24 May).

Poore, G. 2002. Isopods in the Antarcticdeep sea; and, The marine fauna ofMacquarie Island. Antarctic Deep-SeaBiodiversity Program, Zoological Museum ofHamburg, RV Polarstern (Weddell Sea,Antarctica, 25 February – 7 April).

Rich, T. 2001. Lectures on the origin andhistory of Australian mammals. School ofGeosciences, Monash University (Clayton, 9 – 11 October).

Rich, T. 2001. Lectures on the Late Permian,and Late Cretaceous extinctions. School ofGeosciences, Monash University (Clayton,16 – 18 October).

Rich, T. 2001. Dinosaurs of darkness(University of Alaska, Anchorage, USA, 27November; Bureau of Land Management,Fairbanks, Alaska, USA, 30 November; NaturalHistory Museum of Los Angeles County,Los Angeles, USA, 2 December; San DiegoMuseum of Natural History, San Diego,USA, 3 December; Institute of VertebratePaleontology and Paleoanthropology, Beijing,China, 4 June 2002).

Smith, D. 2002. The art of taxidermy. InsideStory, InfoZone, Melbourne Museum (4, 11and 12 April).

Swinkels, P. 2002. Phar Lap: the process ofmounting and work undertaken since beingat Museum Victoria. Inside Story, InfoZone,Melbourne Museum (1 March).

Vanderwal, R. 2002. The archaeology ofEuriowie Gorge, western New South Wales.Association of Aboriginal & Torres StraitIslander Studies (AATSIS) (Melbourne, 30 April).

Willis, E. 2001. Creating and remembering:the making of the Deans Marsh curtains.Victorian Branch of the Embroiderers’ Guild(Malvern, 11 August).

Willoughby, E. 2001. Women’s contributionto Federation. Voice, Interest & Educationfor Women Club of Altona (Melbourne, 22 August).

Wilson, R. 2001. Biogeographic tests ofEarth history. (Australian Museum, Sydney,13 September) (also Melbourne SystematicForum, InfoZone, Melbourne Museum, 1 November).

ADDITIONAL PUBLICATIONS

AND PRESENTATIONS

Hunt, G. 2001. Millions of stories: learning inMelbourne Museum. Teacher Education:Change of Heart, Mind & Action. 29thAustralian Teacher Education AssociationConference (24 – 26 September).

Hunt, G. 2001. Melbourne Museum: new,real and virtual vital connections. AnnualConference of the Victorian InformationTechnology Teachers Association (26 – 28November).

Jay, D. 2001. Encounters: a history ofAboriginal people in Victoria: websitepresentation. Annual Conference of theHistory Teachers Association of Victoria(November).

Jay, D. 2002. Student tours, student-centred? Museums Australia NationalConference (Adelaide, 18 – 22 March)(Abstract published in Museum EducationNewsletter, 1, May 2002).

Jay, D. & Cramp, J. 2001. Relationships withoutdoor environments: VCE Outdoor andEnvironmental Studies at MelbourneMuseum. Annual Conference of theVictorian Outdoor Education Association(September).

Jay, D. & Kerridge, Y. 2001. Controversiesand processes at Melbourne Museum:exhibiting indigenous histories at MelbourneMuseum. Annual Conference of the HistoryTeachers Association of Victoria (November).

Jay, D. & Kerridge, Y. 2002. Using museumsto teach history. Discovery Learning,Discovery Teaching: ProfessionalDevelopment in the Teaching of HistoryConference (April).

Kerridge, Y. 2002. Stuck for words: objects,artworks and interpretation in MuseumsAustralia on-line. Museums AustraliaNational Conference (Adelaide, 18-22 March).

Kerridge, Y. 2001. Pushing the boundaries:the place of art at Melbourne Museum.Journal of Art Education Victoria, Winter2001, 3(2).

Kerridge, Y. 2001. Imagining Melbourne: theexhibition ‘Melbourne: stories from a city’.Idiom, Journal of the Victorian Associationfor the Teaching of English, 37(2&3).

Moore, G. 2002. Mini-beast websites fromMelbourne Museum. Let’s Find Out, STAVJournal for Primary School Teachers, 19(2), 11.

Moore, G., Hvala, L., Cramp, J. & Stewart, J.2001. Science at Melbourne Museum.LabTalk, STAV Journal for Secondary SchoolTeachers, 45(4), 9 – 15 (also published inLet’s Find Out, 18(2), 10 – 15).

Stewart, J., Demant, D. & Crowley, C. 2001.The Internet Game. Teacher guide andaccompanying video.

Stewart, J. & Demant, D. 2001. @digital.au:Teacher Resource Package for I.T. EducationKit, Museum Victoria. 70 pp.

Stewart, J. & Marlow, J. 2002. We solve it!Approaches to information literacy using theMuseum Victoria web page. School LibraryAssociation of Victoria (June).

CONSULTANCIES

Museum Victoria commissioned a total of 15consultancies throughout the year for a sumof $212,520.95. Each of the consultancieswas valued at less than $100,000.

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FREEDOM OF INFORMATIONThe Freedom of Information Act 1982enables members of the public to obtaininformation held by Museum Victoria. TheChief Executive Officer is the principalofficer for the purpose of administering therequirements of the Act. Initial requests fordocuments under the Freedom of Informationlegislation must be made in writing to thedelegated officer, being the Manager,Information and Records. Requests andresponses must comply with the provisionsof the Act.

There were no applications under Freedomof Information for access to documents thisyear. As required, monthly status reportswere submitted to the Department of Premierand Cabinet. Museum Victoria Procedures forManaging Applications under the Freedom ofInformation Act 1982 were developed andendorsed by the Executive Management Team.

LEGISLATIVE CHANGESAmendments to the Museums Act 1983received Royal Assent on 23 October 2001.Section 21 was amended to enable theBoard to engage consultants and technicaladvisors without prior approval from theMinister. Section 28 was amended to enablethe Board to establish and maintain anaccount in it name without prior approvalfrom the Treasurer.

AVAILABILITY OF ADDITIONAL

INFORMATIONThe following information relating toMuseum Victoria, relevant to the financialyear, has been prepared and is available tothe Minister, Members of Parliament andthe public on request.• Declarations of pecuniary interests duly

completed by all relevant officers.• Details of shares held by a senior officer

as nominee or held beneficially in astatutory authority or subsidiary.

• Details of publications produced by MuseumVictoria about the Museum, and theplaces where publications can be obtained.

• Details of changes in prices, fees,charges, rates and levies charged byMuseum Victoria.

• Details of major research and developmentactivities undertaken by Museum Victoria.

• Details of overseas visits undertakenincluding a summary of the objectives andoutcomes of each visit.

• Details of major promotional, publicrelations and marketing activitiesundertaken by Museum Victoria todevelop community awareness of theMuseum and the services it provides.

• Details of assessments and measuresundertaken to improve the occupationalhealth and safety of employees.

• A general statement on industrial relationswithin Museum Victoria and details oftime loss through industrial accidents and disputes.

• A list of major committees sponsored byMuseum Victoria, the purpose of eachcommittee and the extent to which thepurposes have been achieved.

NATIONAL COMPETITION POLICYMuseum Victoria is committed to competitiveneutrality principles ensuring fair and opencompetition. Many non-core activities, suchas cleaning, food and beverage services,security, design, exhibition construction, carpark management, facilities and eventsmanagement, have been outsourced.

BUILDING AND MAINTENANCE

COMPLIANCE

Building Works (over $50,000)Scienceworks Museum

Heritage works to pumping station andassociated out-buildings – $120,000

Moreland Annex

Construction of an internal cool-store for thestorage of collection items susceptible todamage from heat and variations in humidity– $90,000

Melbourne Museum

Enhancements to the cooling towers automaticdosing system to increase efficiency andprovide dosing pump back-up – $128,000.

Minor Works (under $50,000)

Melbourne Museum

Premises maintained to comply with leaseconditions and the Building EssentialServices Act 1994.

Scienceworks Museum

Urgent and essential works program toaddress identified risk items, safety issues,site access and customer comfort.Maintenance works program to ensurecompliance with the Building EssentialServices Act 1994.

Immigration Museum

Urgent and essential works program toaddress identified risk items, security, safetyissues, site access and customer comfortundertaken as required. Maintenance worksprogram implemented to ensure compliancewith the Building Essential Services Act 1994.

22 William Street

Premises maintained to comply with lease conditions and the Building Essential Services Act 1994.

Royal Exhibition Building

– Earth Sciences

Urgent and essential works program toaddress identified collection risk item.Maintenance works program to ensurecompliance with the Building EssentialServices Act 1994.

Royal Exhibition Building – Great Hall

Minor works program to upgrade customer catering facility. Maintenance works program to ensurecompliance with the Building EssentialServices Act 1994.

Moreland Annex

Urgent and essential works program to addressidentified risk items, materials handling,safety issues and site security. Maintenanceworks program to ensure compliance withthe Building Essential Services Act 1994.

Abbotsford Annex

Maintenance works program to ensurecompliance with the Building EssentialServices Act 1994.

MUSEUM VICTORIA

WHISTLEBLOWERS PROCEDURES1. Statement of Support to Whistleblowers

Museum Victoria is committed to the aims and objectives of the WhistleblowersProtection Act 2001 (‘the Act’). It does nottolerate improper conduct by its employees,officers or members, nor the taking ofreprisals against those who come forward to disclose such conduct.

Museum Victoria recognises the value oftransparency and accountability in itsadministrative and management practices, andsupports the making of disclosures that revealcorrupt conduct, conduct involving a substantialmismanagement of public resources, orconduct involving a substantial risk to publichealth and safety or the environment.


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Museum Victoria will take all reasonable stepsto protect people who make such disclosuresfrom any detrimental action in reprisal formaking the disclosure. It will also afford naturaljustice to the person who is the subject ofthe disclosure.

2. Purpose of these Procedures

These procedures establish a system forreporting disclosures of improper conduct ordetrimental action by Museum Victoria or itsemployee. The system enables such disclosuresto be made to the Protected Disclosure Co-ordinator or to the nominated ProtectedDisclosure Officer. Disclosures may be madeby employees or by members of the public.

These procedures are designed to complementnormal communication channels betweenmanagement and employees. Employees areencouraged to continue to raise appropriatematters at any time with their managers.

As an alternative, employees may make adisclosure of improper conduct or detrimentalaction under the Act in accordance withthese procedures.

These procedures are not intended to replaceother existing Museum Victoria proceduresthat deal with grievances or complaints.

These procedures may be amended fromtime to time if necessary to comply withguidelines published by the Ombudsmanunder the Act. The guidelines can be foundat www.ombudsman.vic.gov.au.

3. Objects of the Act

The purpose of the Act is to encourage and facilitate the making of disclosures ofimproper conduct by public officers andpublic bodies. The Act provides protection to whistleblowers who make disclosures inaccordance with the Act, and establishes a system for the matters disclosed to beinvestigated and rectifying action to be taken.

4. The reporting system

The reported system is represented as follows:

CEO or President of Museums Board of Victoria Authority and Decision Making.

Director Corporate ServicesProtected Disclosure Co-ordinator.Reports to CEO or Board President in casesof disclosure.

HR ManagerProtected Disclosure Officer.Welfare Manager.Reports to Director Corporate Services incases of disclosure.

InvestigatorAppointment authorised by the CEO orBoard President.Reports to Protected Disclosure Co-ordinator.

4.1 Contact persons within Museum

Victoria

Disclosures of improper conduct or detrimentalaction by Museum Victoria or its employeesmay be made to the following officers:

Protected Disclosure Officer – Human

Resource Manager

Location: Level 1WestMelbourne MuseumCarlton GardensPhone: (03) 8 341 7746Fax: (03) 8 341 7273

Protected Disclosure Co-ordinator –

Director Corporate Services

Location: Level 1WestMelbourne MuseumCarlton GardensPhone: (03) 8 341 7768Fax: (03) 8 341 7237

All correspondence, phone calls and emailsfrom internal or external whistleblowers will be referred to the Protected DisclosureCo-ordinator.

Where a person is contemplating making adisclosure and is concerned about approachingthe Protected Disclosure Co-ordinator or aProtected Disclosure Officer in the workplace,he or she can call the relevant officer andrequest a meeting in a discreet locationaway from the workplace.

Where the Protected Disclosure Co-ordinator,Protected Disclosure Officer, CEO orPresident is the subject of a claim, the internalreporting system will be modified as follows:• Role of Protected Disclosure Co-ordinator

& Protected Disclosure Officer will becombined. Therefore, if the claim isagainst the Protected Disclosure Officer,the Co-ordinator will carry out both rolesand vice versa.

• If the CEO is the subject of a claim, theProtected Disclosure Co-ordinator will reportdirectly to the President of the Board.

4.1.1 Alternative contact persons

A disclosure about improper conduct ordetrimental action by Museum Victoria or itsemployees, may also be made directly tothe Ombudsman:The Ombudsman VictoriaLevel 22, 459 Collins StreetMelbourne Victoria 3000(DX 210174)Internet: www.ombudsman.vic.gov.auEmail: [email protected]: 9613 6222Toll Free: 1800 806 314

5. Roles and responsibilities

5.1 Employees

• Employees are encouraged to reportknown or suspected incidents of improperconduct or detrimental action inaccordance with these procedures.

• All employees of Museum Victoria havean important role to play in supportingthose who have made a legitimatedisclosure. They must refrain from anyactivity that is, or could be perceived tobe, victimisation or harassment of aperson who makes a disclosure.Furthermore, they should protect andmaintain the confidentiality of a personthey know or suspect to have made adisclosure.

5.2 Protected Disclosure Officer

• Be a contact point for general advice aboutthe operation of the Act for any personwishing to make a disclosure aboutimproper conduct or detrimental action;

• Make arrangements for a disclosure to be made privately and discreetly and, ifnecessary, away from the workplace;

• Receive any disclosure made orally or in writing (from internal and externalwhistleblowers);

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• Commit to writing any disclosure made orally;

• Impartially assess the allegation anddetermine whether it is a disclosure madein accordance with Part 2 of the Act (thatis, a protected disclosure);

• Forward all disclosures and supportingevidence to the Protected Disclosure Co-ordinator; and

• Take all necessary steps to ensure theidentity of the whistleblower and theidentity of the person who is the subjectof the disclosure are kept confidential.

5.3 Protected Disclosure Officer

• Receive all disclosures forwarded fromthe Protected Disclosure Officer;

• Receive all phone calls, emails and lettersfrom members of the public or employeesseeking to make a disclosure;

• Refer all public interest disclosures to the Ombudsman;

• Be responsible for carrying out, orappointing an Investigator to carry out, an investigation referred to the publicbody by the Ombudsman;

• Be responsible for overseeing and co-ordinating an investigation where anInvestigator has been appointed;

• Appoint a Welfare Manager to support thewhistleblower and to protect him or herfrom any reprisals, where required, appointa welfare manager to carry out this role;

• Advise the whistleblower of the progressof an investigation into the disclosed matter;

• Establish and manage a confidential filing system;

• Collate and publish statistics ondisclosures made; and

• Liaise with the CEO or President of theMuseums Board.

5.4 Investigator

The Investigator will be responsible for carryingout an internal investigation into a disclosurewhere the Ombudsman has referred amatter to the public body. An Investigatormay be a person from within an organisationor a consultant engaged for that purpose.

5.5 Welfare Manager

The Welfare Manager is responsible forlooking after the general welfare of thewhistleblower. The Welfare Manager will:• Examine the immediate welfare and

protection needs of a whistleblower whohas made a disclosure and seek to fostera supportive work environment;

• Advise the whistleblower of the legislativeand administrative protections available tohim or her;

• Listen and respond to any concerns ofharassment, intimidation or victimisationin reprisal for making disclosure; and

• Ensure the expectations of thewhistleblower are realistic.

6. Confidentiality

Museum Victoria will take all reasonable stepsto protect the identity of the whistleblower.Maintaining confidentiality is crucial in ensuringreprisals are not made against a whistleblower.

The Act requires any person who receivesinformation due to the handling or investigationof a protected disclosure, not to disclosethat information except in certain limitedcircumstances. Disclosure of information inbreach of section 22 constitutes an offencethat is punishable by a maximum fine of$6,000 or six months imprisonment or both.

The circumstances in which a person maydisclose information obtained about aprotected disclosure include:• Where exercising the functions of the

public body under the Act;• When making a report or

recommendation under the Act;• When publishing statistics in the annual

report of a public body; and• In criminal proceedings for certain

offences in the Act.

However, the Act prohibits the inclusion ofparticulars in any report or recommendationthat is likely to lead to the identification ofthe whistleblower. The Act also prohibits theidentification of the person who is the subjectof the disclosure in any particulars includedin an annual report.

Museum Victoria will ensure all files, whetherpaper or electronic, are kept in secure storageand can only be accessed by the ProtectedDisclosure Co-ordinator, Protected DisclosureOfficer, the Investigator or Welfare Manager(in relation to welfare matters). All printedmaterial will be kept in files that are clearlymarked as a Whistleblower Protection Actmatter, and warn of the criminal penalties thatapply to any unauthorised divulging informationconcerning a protected disclosure. Allelectronic files will be produced and storedin a secure environment. Backup files willalso be kept secure. All materials relevant

to an investigation, such as tapes frominterviews, will also be stored securely with the whistleblower files.

Museum Victoria will not email documentsrelevant to a whistleblower matter and willensure all phone calls and meetings areconducted in private.

7. Receiving and assessing disclosures

7.1 Has the disclosure been made in

accordance with Part 2 of the Act?

Where a disclosure has been received bythe Protected Disclosure Officer or by theProtected Disclosure Co-ordinator, he or shewill assess whether the disclosure has beenmade in accordance with Part 2 of the Actand is, therefore, a protected disclosure.

7.1.1 Has the disclosure been made to

the appropriate person?

For the disclosure to be responded to byMuseum Victoria, it must concern anemployee, member or officer of MuseumVictoria. If the disclosure concerns anemployee, officer or member of anotherpublic body, the person who has made thedisclosure must be advised of the correctperson or body to whom the disclosureshould be directed. If the disclosure hasbeen made anonymously, it should bereferred to the Ombudsman.

7.1.2 Does the disclosure contain the

essential elements of a protected

disclosure?

To be a protected disclosure, a disclosuremust satisfy the following criteria:• The disclosure was made by a natural

person (that is, an individual person ratherthan a corporation);

• The disclosure relates to conduct of apublic body or public officer acting in their official capacity;

• The alleged conduct is either improperconduct or detrimental action has beentaken against a person in reprisal formaking a protected disclosure;

• The person making a disclosure hasreasonable grounds for believing thealleged conduct has occurred.

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Where a disclosure is assessed not to be aprotected disclosure, the matter does notneed to be dealt with under the Act. TheProtected Disclosure Co-ordinator & Officerwill decide how the matter should be dealt with.

In reaching a conclusion as to whether aprotected disclosure is a public interestdisclosure, the Protected Disclosure Co-ordinator will consider whether thedisclosure shows, or tends to show, that thepublic officer to whom the disclosure relates:• Has engaged, is engaging or proposes to

engage in improper conduct in his or hercapacity as a public officer; or

• Has taken, is taking or proposes to takedetrimental action in reprisal for themaking of the protected disclosure.

Where the Protected Disclosure Co-ordinatorconcludes that the disclosure amounts to apublic interest disclosure, he or she will:1. Notify the person who made the

disclosure of that conclusion; and2. Refer the disclosure to the Ombudsman

for formal determination as to whether itis indeed a public interest disclosure andfurther action to be taken.

Where the Protected Disclosure Co-ordinatorconcludes that the disclosure is not a publicinterest disclosure, he or she will:1. Notify the person who made the

disclosure of that conclusion; and2. Advise that person that he or she may

request the public body to refer thedisclosure to the Ombudsman for aformal determination as to whether thedisclosure is a public interest disclosure,and that this request must be madewithin 28 days of the notification.

In either case, the Protected Disclosure Co-ordinator will make the notification and thereferral within 14 days of the conclusionbeing reached by the public body. Notificationto the whistleblower is not necessary wherethe disclosure has been made anonymously.

8. Investigations

8.1 Introduction

Where the Ombudsman refers a protecteddisclosure to Museum Victoria forinvestigation, the Protected Disclosure Co-ordinator will appoint an Investigator to carryout the investigation. The objectives of an investigation will be:• To collate information relating to the

allegation as quickly as possible. This mayinvolve taking steps to protect or preservedocuments, materials and equipment;

• To consider the information collected and todraw conclusions objectively and impartially;

• To maintain procedural fairness in thetreatment of witnesses and the personwho is the subject of the disclosure; and

• To make recommendations arising fromthe conclusions drawn concerningremedial or other appropriate action.

8.2 Terms of reference

Before commencing an investigation, theProtected Disclosure Co-ordinator will draw upterms of reference and obtain authorisationfor those terms by the CEO. The terms ofreference will require the Investigator to makeregular reports to the Protected DisclosureCo-ordinator who, in turn, is to keep the CEOand Ombudsman informed of general progress.

8.3 Investigation plan

The Investigator will prepare an investigationplan for approval by the Protected DisclosureCo-ordinator. The plan will list the issues to besubstantiated and describe the avenue of inquiry.At the commencement of the investigation,the whistleblower should be:• Notified by the Investigator that he or she

has been appointed to conduct theinvestigation;

• Asked to clarify any matters; and• Provide any additional material he or she

might have.The Investigator will be sensitive to thewhistleblower’s possible fear of reprisals andwill make the whistleblower aware of thestatutory protections provided to him/her.

8.4 Natural Justice

The principles of natural justice will befollowed in any investigation of a publicinterest disclosure. The principles of naturaljustice concern procedural fairness andensure a fair decision is reached by anobjective decision-maker.

Museum Victoria will have regard to thefollowing issues in ensuring procedural fairness:• The person who is the subject of the

disclosure is entitled to know theallegations made against him or her andmust be given the opportunity to respond.(This does not mean the person must beadvised of the allegation as soon as thedisclosure is received or the investigationhas commenced);

• If the Investigator is contemplating makinga report adverse to the interests of anyperson, that person should be given theopportunity to put forward further materialthat may influence the outcome of thereport and that person’s defence shouldbe fairly set out in the report;

• All relevant parties to a matter should be heard and all submissions should be considered;

• A decision should not be made until allreasonable inquiries have been made;

• The Investigator or any decision makershould not have a personal or directinterest in the matter being investigated;

• All proceedings must be carried out fairlyand without bias. Care should be taken to exclude perceived bias from theprocess; and

• The Investigator must be impartial inassessing the credibility of thewhistleblowers and any witnesses.Where appropriate, conclusions as tocredibility should be included in theinvestigation report.

8.5 Conduct of the investigation

The Investigator will makecontemporaneous notes of all discussionsand phone calls, and all interviews withwitnesses will be taped. All informationgathered in an investigation will be storedsecurely. Interviews will be conducted inprivate and the Investigator will take allreasonable steps to protect the identity ofthe whistleblower.

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Where disclosure of the identity of thewhistleblower cannot be avoided, due to thenature of the allegations, the Investigatorwill warn the whistleblower and his or herwelfare manager of this probability.

It is in the discretion of the Investigator toallow any witness to have legal or otherrepresentation or support during aninterview. If a witness has a special need forlegal representation or support, permissionshould be granted.

8.6 Referral of an Investigation to the

Ombudsman

The Protected Disclosure Co-ordinator willmake a decision regarding the referral of aninvestigation to the Ombudsman where, onthe advice of the Investigator:• The investigation is being obstructed by,

for example, the non-cooperation of keywitnesses; or

• The investigation has revealed conductthat may constitute a criminal offence.

8.7 Reporting requirements

The Protected Disclosure Co-ordinator willensure the whistleblower is kept regularlyinformed concerning the handling of aprotected disclosure and an investigation.The Protected Disclosure Co-ordinator willreport to the Ombudsman about theprogress of an investigation.

Where the Ombudsman or the whistleblowerrequests information about the progress of aninvestigation, that information will be providedwithin 28 days of the date of the request.

9. Action taken after an investigation

9.1 Investigator’s Final Report

• At the conclusion of the investigation, theInvestigator will submit a written report ofhis or her findings to the protecteddisclosure coordinator.

Where the Investigator has found that theconduct disclosed by the whistleblower hasoccurred, recommendations made by theInvestigator will include:• The steps that need to be taken by Museum

Victoria to prevent the conduct fromcontinuing or occurring in the future; and

• Any action that should be taken by MuseumVictoria to remedy any harm or loss arisingfrom the conduct. This action may includebringing disciplinary proceedings againstthe person responsible for the conduct,and referring the matter to an appropriateauthority for further consideration.

The report will be accompanied by:• The transcript or other record of any

oral evidence taken, including taperecordings; and

• All documents, statements or otherexhibits received by the officer andaccepted as evidence during the courseof the investigation.

Where the Investigator’s report is to includean adverse comment against any person,that person will be given the opportunity torespond and his or her defence will be fairlyincluded in the report.

The report will not disclose particulars likely tolead to the identification of the whistleblower.

9.2 Action to be taken

If the Protected Disclosure Co-ordinator issatisfied that the investigation has found thatthe disclosed conduct has occurred, he or shewill recommend to the CEO the action thatmust be taken to prevent the conduct fromcontinuing or occurring in the future. TheProtected Disclosure Co-ordinator may alsorecommend that action be taken to remedyany harm or loss arising from the conduct.

The Protected Disclosure Co-ordinator willprovide a written report to the CEO,Ombudsman and the whistleblower settingout the findings of the investigation and anyremedial steps taken.

10. Managing the welfare of

the whistleblower

10.1 Commitment to protecting

whistleblowers

Museum Victoria is committed to theprotection of genuine whistleblowers againstdetrimental action taken in reprisal for themaking of protected disclosures. The ProtectedDisclosure Co-ordinator is responsible forensuring whistleblowers are protected fromdirect and indirect detrimental action, and thatthe culture of the workplace is supportive ofprotected disclosures being made.

The Protected Disclosure Co-ordinator will appoint a Welfare Manager to allwhistleblowers who have made a protecteddisclosure. The welfare manager will:• Examine the immediate welfare and

protection needs of a whistleblower whohas made a disclosure and, where thewhistleblower is an employee, seek tofoster a supportive work environment;

• Advise the whistleblower of the legislativeand administrative protections available tohim or her;

• Listen and respond to any concerns ofharassment, intimidation or victimisationin reprisal for making disclosure;

• Keep a contemporaneous record of allaspects of the case management of thewhistleblower including all contact andfollow-up action; and

• Ensure the expectations of thewhistleblower are realistic.

All employees will be advised that it is anoffence for a person to take detrimentalaction in reprisal for a protected disclosure.The maximum penalty is a fine of $24,000 ortwo years imprisonment or both. The takingof detrimental action in breach of this provisioncan also be grounds for making a disclosureunder the Act and can result in an investigation.

Detrimental action includes:• Causing injury, loss or damage;• Intimidation or harassment; and• Discrimination, disadvantage or adverse

treatments in relation to a person’semployment, career, profession, trade orbusiness (including the taking ofdisciplinary action).

10.2 Keeping the Whistleblower Informed

The Protected Disclosure Co-ordinator willensure the whistleblower is kept informedof action taken in relation to his or herdisclosure, and the time frames that apply.The whistleblower will be informed of theobjectives of an investigation, the findings ofan investigation, and the steps taken byMuseum Victoria to address any improperconduct that has been found to haveoccurred. The whistleblower will be givenreasons for decisions made by MuseumVictoria in relation to a protected disclosure.


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10.3 Occurrence of Detrimental Action

If a whistleblower reports an incident ofharassment, discrimination or adversetreatment that would amount to detrimentalaction taken in reprisal for the making of thedisclosure, the welfare manager will:• Record details of the incident;• Advise the whistleblower of his or her

rights under the Act; and• Advise the Protected Disclosure Co-

ordinator or Chief Executive Officer of thedetrimental action.

The taking of detrimental action in reprisalfor the making of a disclosure can be anoffence against the Act as well as groundsfor making a further disclosure. Where suchdetrimental action is reported, the ProtectedDisclosure Co-ordinator will assess thereport as a new disclosure under the Act.Where the Protected Disclosure Co-ordinatoris satisfied that the disclosure is a publicinterest disclosure, he or she will refer it to theOmbudsman. If the Ombudsman subsequentlydetermines the matter to be a public interestdisclosure, the Ombudsman may investigatethe matter or refer it to another body forinvestigation as outlined in the Act.

10.4 Whistleblowers Implicated in

Improper Conduct

Where a person who makes a disclosure isimplicated in misconduct, Museum Victoriawill handle the disclosure and protect thewhistleblower from reprisals in accordancewith the Act, the Ombudsman’s guidelinesand these procedures. Museum Victoriaacknowledges that the act of whistleblowingshould not shield whistleblowers from thereasonable consequences flowing from anyinvolvement in improper conduct. Section 17of the Act specifically provides that a person’sliability for his or her own conduct is notaffected by the person’s disclosure of thatconduct under the Act. However, in somecircumstances, an admission may be amitigating factor when consideringdisciplinary or other action.

The CEO will make the final decision on the advice of the Protected Disclosure Co-ordinator as to whether disciplinary or otheraction will be taken against a whistleblower.Where disciplinary or other action relates to conduct that is the subject of thewhistleblower’s disclosure, the disciplinaryor other action will only be taken after thedisclosed matter has been appropriatelydealt with.

In all cases where disciplinary or other action isbeing contemplated, the CEO must be satisfiedthat it has been clearly demonstrated that:• The intention to proceed with disciplinary

action is not causally connected to themaking of the disclosure (as opposed tothe content of the disclosure or otheravailable information);

• There are good and sufficient groundsthat would fully justify action against anynon-whistleblower in the samecircumstances; and

• There are good and sufficient groundsthat justify exercising any discretion toinstitute disciplinary or other action.

The Protected Disclosure Co-ordinator willthoroughly document the process includingrecording the reasons why the disciplinary orother action is being taken, and the reasonswhy the action is not in retribution for themaking of the disclosure. The ProtectedDisclosure Co-ordinator will clearly advisethe whistleblower of the proposed action tobe taken, and of any mitigating factors thathave been taken into account.

11. Management of the Person Against

whom a Disclosure has been made

Museum Victoria recognises that employeesagainst whom disclosures are made mustalso be supported during the handling andinvestigation of disclosures. Museum Victoriawill take all reasonable steps to ensure theconfidentiality of the person who is the subjectof the disclosure during the assessment andinvestigation process. Where investigationsdo not substantiate disclosures, the fact thatthe investigation has been carried out, theresults of the investigation, and the identityof the person who is the subject of thedisclosure will remain confidential.

The Protected Disclosure Co-ordinator willensure the person who is the subject of anydisclosure investigated by or on behalf of apublic body is:• Informed as to the substance of the

allegations;• Given the opportunity to answer the

allegations before a final decision is made;• Informed as to the substance of any adverse

comment that may be included in anyreport arising from the investigation; and

• Has his or her defence set out fairly in any report.

Where the allegations in a disclosure havebeen investigated, and the person who isthe subject of the disclosure is aware of theallegations or the fact of the investigation, theProtected Disclosure Co-ordinator will formallyadvise the person who is the subject of thedisclosure of the outcome of the investigation.

Museum Victoria will give its full support toa person who is the subject of a disclosurewhere the allegations contained in adisclosure are clearly wrong or unsubstantiated.If the matter has been publicly disclosed theCEO will consider any request by thatperson to issue a statement of supportsetting out that the allegations were clearlywrong or unsubstantiated.

12. Criminal Offences

Museum Victoria will ensure officersappointed to handle protected disclosuresand all other employees are aware of thefollowing offences created by the Act:• It is an offence for a person to take

detrimental action against a person inreprisal for a protected disclosure beingmade. The Act provides a maximumpenalty of a fine of $24,000 or two yearsimprisonment or both.

• It is an offence for a person to divulgeinformation obtained as a result of thehandling or investigation of a protecteddisclosure without legislative authority.The Act provides a maximum penalty of$6,000 or six months imprisonment or both.

• It is an offence for a person to obstructthe Ombudsman in performing hisresponsibilities under the Act. The Actprovides a maximum penalty of $24,000or two years imprisonment or both.

• It is an offence for a person to knowinglyprovide false information under the Actwith the intention that it be acted on as adisclosed matter. The Act provides amaximum penalty of $24,000 or twoyears imprisonment or both.

13. Review

These procedures will be reviewed every three years along with the policystatement to ensure they meet theobjectives of the Act and accord with the Ombudsman’s guidelines.

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Financial Statements 2001/2002


Introduction to MuseumVictoria FinancialStatements for2001/2002

Museum Victoria’s report of operations and statement ofaccounts for 2001/02 comply with the statutory disclosure andother requirements of the Financial Management Act 1994.

In the last year, Museum Victoria successfully made theimportant transition from building great public campuses(having built five in ten years with the Immigration Museum,Melbourne Museum, Moreland and the Planetarium in the last six years) to being the operator of the most excitingMuseums in the nation. As a direct result of this transitionalprocess our financial statements this year show a net deficitof $12.6 million.

It is important to view this result in its appropriate context.The deficit is primarily the result of having to factor in thedepreciation of $19.4 million, the majority of this attributed to Museum Victoria's newest asset, the $290 millionMelbourne Museum complex. A lesser contributing factor was the finalisation of contractual obligations associated thecompletion of the Melbourne Museum complex. Both thesefactors were expected and in no way impact on the operatingviability of this organisation.

The Financial Statements have been prepared in accordancewith the Financial Management Act 1994.

In our opinion, the Financial Statements present fairly thefinancial transactions during the 2001/02 financial year and thefinancial position as at 30 June 2002 of the Museums Boardof Victoria. At the date of this certificate the Board is notaware of any circumstances which would render anyparticulars included in the statements to be misleading orinaccurate other than the items mentioned below.

However, the Board believes that it should be noted that therevenue as stated in the Financial Statements includesrevenue of the nature of specific purpose donations andgrants which are brought to account when received and notmatched with expenditure which may occur in subsequentfinancial periods.

Mr Harold MitchellPRESIDENT

Ms Tina McMeckanBOARD MEMBER

Mr Joseph CorponiCHIEF ACCOUNTING OFFICER

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Notes $’000 $’000

REVENUE FROM ORDINARY ACTIVITIES

Victorian Government Grants 3 62,697 54,394

Museum OperationsFees & Charges 9,695 8,028Sales 2,275 1,812Grants 4 1,646 2,933Other Income 5 4,341 8,212Donations 172 14Rent 393 700

81,219 76,093

EXPENSES FROM ORDINARY ACTIVITIES

Employee Benefits 1(e) 21,119 22,581Other Operating Expenses 6 25,671 28,332Cost of Goods for Resale 866 964Melbourne Museum Expenses 0 866Capital Charge 1(h) 26,682 26,682Depreciation & Amortisation 19,497 9,935

93,835 89,360

Net Result for the Year 9(b) (12,616) (13,267)

Net Increase in Asset Revaluation Reserve 9(c) 88,254 0

Total changes in equity other than those resulting from transactions

with Victorian State Government in its capacity as owner 75,638 (13,267)

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

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for the year ended 30 June 2002

Statement of FinancialPosition

as at 30 June 2002

2001/02 2000/01

Notes $’000 $’000

CURRENT ASSETS

Cash Assets 2,14.1 1,809 2,104Receivables 7 1,045 2,855Inventories 8 &1(c) 792 799

Total Current Assets 3,646 5,758

NON-CURRENT ASSETS

Property, Plant & Equipment & Exhibitions 10(b),(c) &(d) 442,231 371,368Collections 10(a) 226,612 217,830

Total Non-Current Assets 668,843 589,198

Total Assets 672,489 594,956

CURRENT LIABILITIES

Payables 13 1,539 921Provisions 12(a) 1,925 2,126

Total Current Liabilities 3,464 3,047

NON-CURRENT LIABILITIES

Provisions 12(b) 2,167 2,285

Total Non-Current Liabilities 2,167 2,285

Total Liabilities 5,631 5,332

Net Assets 666,858 589,624

EQUITY

Contributed Capital 9(a) 585,864 557,045Accumulated Loss/Gain 9(b) (14,013) 27,223

ReservesTrust Funds 9(c) 2,998 1,961Externally Funded Special Projects 9(c) 1,879 1,519Asset Revaluation Reserve 9(c) 90,130 1,876

Total Equity 666,858 589,624

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

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CASH FLOWS FROM OPERATING ACTIVITIES

Receipts fromGrants & Donations 1,818 2,947Interest 215 845Fees & Charges 7,336 5,839Sales – Commercial Operations 4,643 4,001Other 6,316 5,923Government Grants:

Recurrent 62,697 54,394

Total Receipts 83,025 73,949

PaymentsSalaries & Associated Costs (21,384) (22,238)Operating Expenses (50,512) (54,248)Building Repairs & Maintenance (1,230) (1,616)Cost of Goods for Resale (866) (964)Melbourne Museum Expenses 0 (866)

Total Payments (73,992) (79,932)

Net Cash Inflow from Operating Activities 14.2 9,033 (5,983)

CASH FLOWS FROM INVESTING ACTIVITIES

ReceiptsMovement in Other Financial Assets 0 30Sale of Plant & Equipment 4 0Government Contributed Capital 1,596 9,296

PaymentsGreat Hall (125) (2,907)Purchase of Property, Plant & Equipment (796) (267)Melbourne Museum Development (10,007) (23,459)Scienceworks Land 0 (185)

Net Cash (Outflow) from Investing Activities (9,328) (17,492)

Net (Decrease)/Increase in Cash Held (295) (23,475)

Cash Held at Beginning of Financial Year 2,104 25,579

Cash at the End of the Financial Year 14.1 1,809 2,104

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

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Notes to andforming part of the FinancialStatements


1. SIGNIFICANT ACCOUNTING POLICIES

(a) This general-purpose financial report has been prepared inaccordance with the Financial Management Act 1994,Australian Accounting Standards, Statement of AccountingConcepts and other authoritative pronouncements of theAustralian Accounting Standards Board, and Urgent IssuesGroup Consensus Views.

The financial report has been prepared under the historicalcost convention and has not been adjusted to take account ofchanging money values, or except where stated, the currentcost of specific assets or the impact of that cost on theoperating result. The financial report has been prepared on anaccrual and going concern basis.

Museum Victoria is economically dependent on the VictorianState Government grant to assist in funding its operations.

(b) NON-CURRENT ASSETS

Museum Victoria is progressively valuing all its assets underthe new provisions for the Victorian Government – Revaluationof Non-Current Physical Assets – June 2002. Since the policywas issued, Museum Victoria has completed revaluation of itsland, buildings and its collections with the exception of thelibrary. The valuation of the library collection will beundertaken in the 2002/03 financial year.

Property, Plant & EquipmentMuseum Victoria periodically values its property, plant andequipment using the services of independent valuers.

CollectionsDuring the 2001/02 financial year Museum Victoria arrangedfor the revaluation of its collections using a stratified valuationmethod. This project formed the basis for the valuation of allthe Museum collections. The collections have been valued in accordance with the principles set out in the AustralianAccounting Standard AASB 1041 – Revaluation of Non-Current Assets.

The collection was valued utilising the fair value method ofvaluation. The effect of this valuation is disclosed in note 10(a).

Museum Victoria intends revaluing its collections every three years with any future acquisitions being valued at cost or valuation.

LibraryDuring the 1996/97 financial year Museum Victoria completeda project to determine the value of its library collection.

The valuation for each collection was a combination ofaverage values, established from specified sampling frames,in addition to itemised values for individual items thatexceeded the defined threshold value.

Museum Victoria intends revaluing its library during the year2002/03 and then every three years with any futureacquisitions being valued at cost or valuation.

DepreciationDepreciation is charged on non-current assets at ratesassessed to match the cost of these assets against theirestimated economical lives to the entity. Depreciation iscalculated on the straight-line method. No provision is madefor the depreciation of the Collections.

Estimates of remaining useful lives to the entity are made ona regular basis for all assets, with annual reassessments formajor items. The expected useful lives are as follows:Buildings 20–100 yearsPlant and equipment 3–10 yearsExhibitions 3–5 years

Exhibitions with a life of one year or less are expensedimmediately. Exhibitions with an anticipated life of more thanone year are capitalised and depreciated over their remaininguseful life.

A detailed valuation of the plant and equipment incorporatedin the Melbourne Museum building was provided by RiderHunt in July 2001. The year old plant and equipment valued at $47,002,825 was transferred from buildings to plant andequipment and the total useful life was revised downwardsfrom 100 years to 10 years. For each of the remaining 9 yearsof the asset’s life, including the current financial year,depreciation expense will be increased by $4,713,339 fromthe original estimate of $470,028 to $5,183,367.

(c) INVENTORY

Stocks have been valued at the lower of cost and netrealisable value.

(d) RECEIVABLES AND REVENUE RECOGNITION

Trade debtors are recognised at the amount receivable, asthey are due for settlement no more than 30 days from thedate of recognition. Collectibility of trade debtors is reviewedon an ongoing basis. A provision for doubtful debts is raisedwhere some doubt as to collection exists. A debt is written off when there appears no possibility of the account being collected.

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1. SIGNIFICANT ACCOUNTING POLICIES (continued)

Revenue from the sale of goods and services is recognisedupon delivery of the goods and services to the customer.Interest revenue is recognised on the proportional basis takinginterest rates applicable to the financial assets.

Grants from Government and other sources are brought toaccount as revenue as and when received, with the exclusionof the Government grants for the construction of the newMelbourne Museum and Immigration Museum building andfitout costs which are treated as contributed capital.Expenditure from such grants is recognised when incurred.

Specific donations, for exhibition development have beentreated in these financial statements as revenue.

(e) EMPLOYEE ENTITLEMENTS

Provision is made in respect of the Museum Victoria’s liabilityfor annual leave and long service leave at balance date.

Annual LeaveAnnual leave entitlements for employees are based on currentpay rates and on-costs as at 30 June 2002.

Long Service LeaveA liability for long service leave is recognised, and is measuredas the present value of expected future payments to be madein respect of services provided by employees to 30 June2002. Consideration is given, when assessing expected futurepayments, to expected future wage and salary levels,experience of employee departures and period of service.

The current liability proportion of the provision representsthose employees with over ten year’s service who areanticipated to take long service leave within twelve months.

Long Service Leave is centrally financed by the Department ofTreasury and Finance.

(f) ROUNDING

All figures in the financial statements and notes thereto havebeen rounded off to the nearest $1,000.

(g) TREATMENT OF CAPITAL CONTRIBUTION

The treatment of capital contributions is based on therequirements of Statement of Accounting Concept SAC 4,which requires capital appropriations to be treated as revenue.

Exceptions to this policy, approved by the Minister of Finance,have been made in the case of contributions for the MelbourneMuseum and the Royal Exhibition Buildings upgrade.

(h) CAPITAL CHARGE

In accordance with Government policy, a departmental capitalcharge has been applied to distribute the centrally-funded annualcost of capital. The rate charged for the 2001/02 financial yearwas 8 per cent. This charge represents the interest whichMuseum Victoria would have paid for the capital works portionof its grant. This charge has been recognised as revenuewithin the Government grant and disclosed separately as anexpense within the financial statements.

(i) SUPERANNUATION

Museum Victoria is required to recognise all superannuationpayments as expenses in its operating statement. TheDepartment of Treasury and Finance shall recognise theaggregate unfunded superannuation liability relating toemploying entities in its financial statements of 30 June 2002as the Victorian Government has assumed responsibility forthis liability.

(j) OTHER FINANCIAL ASSETS

Investments are held for the purpose of gaining income andare not normally sold before maturity. They are recorded in the Statement of Financial Position at cost. No provision fordiminution in value is made.

(k) PAYABLES

These amounts represent liabilities for goods and servicesprovided to the economic entity prior to the end of thefinancial year and which are unpaid. The amounts areunsecured and are usually paid within 30 days following the month of recognition.

(l) LEASED ASSETS

Operating lease payments are charged to the statement of Financial Performance in the periods in which they areincurred, as this represents the pattern of benefits derivedfrom leased assets.

Museum Victoria had no financial lease obligations as at 30 June 2002.

(m) EVENTS AFTER BALANCE DATE

Museum Victoria is not aware of any material events afterbalance date which would effect these financial statements.



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2. CASH ASSETS

Cash AssetsCash 559 1,324Negotiable Certificates of Deposit and Interest Bearing Deposits 1250 780

Total 1,809 2,104

3. GOVERNMENT GRANTS

The Museums Board of Victoria received the following grants from the Victorian Government

Recurrent AppropriationApplied to Operations 36,015 26,846Capital Charge 26,682 26,682Melbourne Museum 0 866

62,697 54,394

Melbourne Museum FundingApplied to Contributed Capital 1,411 6,389

Royal Exhibition BuildingApplied to Contributed Capital 185 2,907

1,596 9,296

Total 64,293 63,690

4. GRANTS

Sources *State Grants from other Agencies 1,094 2,020Commonwealth Grants 426 481Other Grants 126 346Accelerated Move † 0 86

Total 1,646 2,933

* The grants indicated above were of an operating nature. The figures shown indicate the grants as received. Expenditure inrelation to the grants is accounted for at the time it is incurred.

† Relocation of National Gallery to 328 Swanston Street accelerated move of Museum’s collections out of the site.

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5. OTHER INCOME

Interest 184 880Legal Settlement 0 1,883Miscellaneous Income 4,157 5,449

Total 4,341 8,212

6. OTHER OPERATING EXPENDITURE

Building and Equipment Maintenance 1,230 1,616

AdministrationConsumables 11,349 11,580Miscellaneous * 6,645 7,006Consultants † 226 278Audit Fees #

External 35 20Internal 47 65

Bad Debts § 260 23

ExhibitionsContractors & Display Costs 5,617 7,069

Research and CollectionsCollection Management 262 589

Accelerated Move 0 86

Total 25,671 28,332

* The majority of the expenses in this category fall into three areas: Corporate Charges, reimbursement of OMP and Advertising.† Consultants engaged and paid over $100,000 during the year are disclosed in the Report of Operation in the Annual Report.# Audit Fees payable to the Victorian Auditor-General’s Office relating to the audit for the year ended 30 June 2002 were $35,000

($20,000 2000/01).§ Rans Management Group Pty Ltd who managed the Royal Exhibitions Building on behalf of Museum Victoria went into

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7. RECEIVABLES

Debtors 974 2,744Less Provision for Doubtful Debts (20) (20)

954 2,724

Accrued Revenue 91 131

Total 1,045 2,855

8. INVENTORIES

Stock of Goods for Resale 804 811Less Provision for Stock Obsolescence (12) (12)

Total 792 799

9. EQUITY

(a) CONTRIBUTED CAPITAL*Balance at beginning of year 557,045 547,749Transfer from Accumulated Surplus 27,223 0

Capital ReceiptsVictorian Government

Melbourne Museum Development 1,411 6,389Royal Exhibition Building

Royal Exhibition Building Upgrade 185 2,907

Balance at end of the year 585,864 557,045

(b) ACCUMULATED SURPLUS

Balance at beginning of year 27,223 26,688Transfer to Contributed Capital (27,223) 0Deficit for the YearMuseums Board of Victoria (12,616) (13,267)Transfer Between ReservesTransfer (to)/from Trust Funds (1,037) 14,118Transfer to Externally Funded Special Projects (360) (316)

Balance at end of the year (14,013) 27,223

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(c) RESERVES

Trust Funds†Balance at beginning of the year 1,961 16,079Transfer Between ReservesTransfer from/(to) Accumulated Surplus 1,037 (14,118)


Externally Funded Special Projects #Balance at beginning of year 1,519 1,203Transfer between ReservesTransfer from Accumulated Surplus 360 316


Asset Revaluation ReserveBalance at beginning of year 1,876 1,876Add Increment 88,254 0


* “Contributed Capital” consists of capital funds provided by the Victorian Government for the building of the new MelbourneMuseum, Immigration Museum and Royal Exhibition Building. Ministerial approval has been received for the treatment of theseamounts as Contributed Capital.

† “Trust Funds” consist of those funds which may be used by the Museums Board for Museum purposes defined by therelevant Trust deed or will.

# “Externally Funded Special Projects” consist of unexpended Government and other grants tied to a specific purpose.



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10(a) COLLECTIONS

AT VALUATION (2002 INDEPENDENT VALUATION)

Indigenous Collections 77,100 71,190History & Technology Collections 20,900 19,230Natural Science Collections 123,000 120,730Library (to be valued 2002/03) 5,612 5,612

AT COST

Other 0 1,068

Total Collections 226,612 217,830

10(b) PROPERTY

PROPERTY AT VALUATION

Land 97,090 36,085

BuildingsAbbotsford Building (i) 4,000 1,500Scienceworks Museum (i) 15,724 14,646Royal Exhibition Building (i) 23,000 23,532Immigration Museum (i) 15,014 13,275Moreland Store (i) 5,500 7,560IMAX (i) 16,400 14,446Melbourne Museum (i) 183,200 0

359,928 111,044

Less Accumulated DepreciationAbbotsford Building 0 (300)Scienceworks Museum 0 (771)Royal Exhibition Building 0 (986)Immigration Museum 0 (530)Moreland Store 0 (604)IMAX 0 (289)

0 (3,480)

Total Land and Building at Valuation 359,928 107,564

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10(b) PROPERTY (continued)

AT COST

BuildingsMelbourne Museum 0 213,968Less Accumulated Depreciation 0 (1,605)

Total Buildings at Cost 0 212,363

Total 359,928 319,927

(i) Abbotsford, Scienceworks, Royal Exhibition Building, Moreland, Immigration

Museum, IMAX & Melbourne Museum

The Australian Valuation Office undertook a valuation of Museum Victoria’s land andbuildings at fair value in June 2002.

10(c) PLANT, EQUIPMENT & EXHIBITIONS

FURNITURE & FITTINGS AND EQUIPMENT

Furniture & Equipment 58,938 11,392Less accumulated depreciation (9,436) (2,715)

49,502 8,677

EXHIBITION DEVELOPMENT

Melbourne Museum at cost 44,875 44,875Less accumulated depreciation (14,049) (5,074)Scienceworks Museum 955 1,917Less accumulated depreciation (844) (1,751)Immigration Museum at cost 4,663 4,663Less accumulated depreciation (2,799) (1,866)

Total Exhibition Development 32,801 42,764

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Crown Freehold Plant & In course of

Land Land Buildings Equipment Exhibitions construction Total

$’000 $’000 $’000 $’000 $’000 $’000 $’000

10(d) PROPERTY, PLANT AND

EQUIPMENT RECONCILIATION

2002

Carrying amount at start of year 30,000 6,085 283,842 8,677 42,764 0 371,368Additions 0 0 10,131 797 0 0 10,928Disposal 0 0 0 (40) 0 0 (40)Revaluation 61,005 0 18,467 0 0 0 79,472Transfer 0 0 (46,650) 46,650 0 0 0Depreciation 0 0 (2,952) (6,582) (9,963) 0 (19,497)

Carrying amount

at end of year 91,005 6,085 262,838 49,502 32,801 0 442,231

2001

Carrying amount at start of year 30,000 5,900 71,984 6,146 4,056 236,399 354,485Additions 0 185 2,907 267 0 23,459 26,818Disposal 0 0 0 0 0 0 0Revaluation 0 0 0 0 0 0 0Transfer 0 0 211,770 3,213 44,875 (259,858) 0Depreciation 0 0 (2,819) (949) (6,167) 0 (9,935)

Carrying amount

at end of year 30,000 6,085 283,842 8,677 42,764 0 371,368

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11. CONTINGENT LIABILITIES

Building works have now been completed, however, additional costs may be charged tothe Melbourne Museum project due to outstanding contractual disputes with the builder.At this time the quantity is undetermined.

Museum Victoria has the following contingent liabilities on its exhibition development projects:

Museum VictoriaCapital Expenditure – Melbourne Museum 0 3,346

Total 0 3,346

12. PROVISION FOR EMPLOYEE ENTITLEMENTS

(a) CURRENT LIABILITIES

Employee EntitlementsAnnual Leave 1,684 1,872Long Service Leave 241 254

Total 1,925 2,126

(b) NON-CURRENT LIABILITIES

Employee EntitlementsLong Service Leave 2,167 2,285

Total 2,167 2,285

Total (including on-costs) – Refer Note 1 (f) 4,092 4,411

13. PAYABLES

Trade Creditors 352 77Other Creditors 1,133 844Accrued Salaries 54 0

Total 1,539 921



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14. NOTES TO THE CASH FLOW STATEMENT

14.1 RECONCILIATION OF CASH

For the purposes of the Statement of Cash Flows, Museum Victoria considers cash toinclude cash on hand and in banks and investments in money market instruments. Cash atthe end of the reporting period, as shown in the Statement of Cash Flows, is reconciled tothe related items in the Balance Sheet as follows:

Cash 559 1,324Other Financial Assets 1,250 780

Total (refer to Note 2) 1,809 2,104

14.2 RECONCILIATION OF NET CASH USED IN OPERATING ACTIVITIES

TO OPERATING RESULT

Operating (Deficit)/Surplus (12,616) (13,267)

Add (Less) items classified as Investing/Financing activitiesLoss on Sale of Non-current Assets 36 0Add (Less) non cash items:Depreciation & Amortisation 19,497 9,935Provisions (319) 343

Net cash provided by (used in) operating activities before change in assets and liabilities 6,598 (2,989)

Increase/(Decrease) in Creditors & Accruals 618 (455)(Increase)/Decrease in Receivables 1,770 (2,109)(Increase)/Decrease in Inventories 7 (462)(Increase)/Decrease in Interest Receivable 40 (35)(Increase)/Decrease in Prepayments 0 67

Net cash provided by operating activities 9,033 (5,983)

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15. RELATED PARTY TRANSACTIONS

(a) The Minister, the Director & Board Members of the Museum Board of VictoriaThe Minister for the Museums Board of Victoria is the Hon. Mary Delahuntly MLA. The names of each person holding theposition 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, Professor Geoffrey Opat, Dr Janet McCalman, Ms Tina McMeckan,Professor Jennifer Graves, Mr Bob Weiss and Ms Susan Heron. The Acting Chief Executive Officer of the Museum is Dr RobinHirst. There were no related party transactions by the Minister, the Chief Executive Officer and Board Members.

(b) There are no other related party transactions

(c) Transactions with other Government Controlled EntitiesDuring the 2001/02 financial year, transactions were undertaken with other Victorian controlled entities. These transactions aresummarised as follows:

2001/02 2000/01 2001/02 2000/01

$’000 $’000 $’000 $’000

Intra)* Intra)* Inter)† Inter)†

Assets 0 0 0 0Liabilities 0 0 0 0Revenue 36,015 26,846 0 0Expenses 0 0 1,155 1,280

* Intra transactions are between entities within the portfolio of the Department of Premier and Cabinet.† Inter transactions are with entities outside the portfolio of the Department and controlled by the Victorian Government.



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16. RESPONSIBLE PERSONS REMUNERATION

(a) RESPONSIBLE PERSONS

Persons who hold the above positions of Responsible Persons in relation to the Board at any time during the reporting period are: Responsible Minister – Hon. Mary Delahuntly MLAActing Accountable Officer – Dr Robin HirstBoard Members – As disclosed in note 15 (a).

(b) REMUNERATION OF RESPONSIBLE PERSONS

Members of the Board act in an honorary capacity.The remuneration of Accountable Officers, who are not Members of the Board, is reported below.

2001/02 2000/01

(c) EXECUTIVES OFFICERS REMUNERATION

The number of executives officers of the Museum and their relevant remuneration bands for the reporting period are as follows:

$18,000 – $18,999 0 1$59,000 – $59,999 0 1$60,000 – $69,999 1 0$80,000 – $89,999 0 1$90,000 – $99,999 0 1

$100 000 – $109,999 4 2$110,000 – $119,999 2 1$120,000 – $129,999 1 1$190,000 – $190,999 0 1

The total remuneration received or due and receivable from the Museum by Executive Officers of the Museum is: $820,647 $899,984

17. SUPERANNUATION

The Museum of Victoria has, in its staffing profile, a number of employees who are members of the following public sectorsuperannuation schemes:

(a) STATE SUPERANNUATION FUND (REVISED SCHEME & NEW)

Employer contributions paid to the above Schemes were $593,201 (2000/01 $652,158). Contributions outstanding at 30 June 2002 were $Nil. The contributions rate for the above Schemes is not available to the Museum.

(b) STATE SUPERANNUATION FUND (VICSUPER SCHEME)

Employer contributions paid to the above Scheme were $1,034,457 (2000/01 $992,590). Contributions outstanding at 30 June 2002 were $Nil. This represented a contribution rate of 8% of normal salary. Employee contributions were $Nil.

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18. LEASING COMMITMENTS

Operating Lease CommitmentsNon-Cancellable Operating Leases contracted for but not capitalised in the accountsPayable:

not longer than 1 year 1,856 1,895longer than 1 year but not longer than 5 years 1,118 2,301

Total 2,974 4,196

19. FINANCIAL INSTRUMENTS

(a) CREDIT RISK EXPOSURES

The credit risk on financial assets of the economic entity which have been recognised on the balance sheet, other thaninvestment in shares, is generally the carrying amount, net of any provisions for doubtful debts.

(b) INTEREST RATE RISK EXPOSURE

The economic entity’s exposure to interest rate risk and the effective weighted average interest rate for each class of financialassets and liabilities is set out below.

Exposures arise predominantly from assets and liabilities bearing variable interest rates as the economic entity intends to holdfixed rate assets and liabilities to maturity.

Fixed interest maturing in:

Floating Over More Non-

Interest 1 year 1 to 5 than 5 interest

rate or less years years bearing Total

Notes $’000 $’000 $’000 $’000 $’000 $’000

2002

Financial AssetsCash and deposits 2 559 0 0 0 0 559Receivables 7 31 0 0 0 1,014 1,045Investments 2 0 1,250 0 0 0 1,250

590 1,250 0 0 1,014 2,854

Weighted average interest rate 4.29% 4.86% 0% 0%

Financial liabilitiesTrade and other creditors 0 0 0 0 1,539 1,539

0 0 0 0 1,539 1,539

Weighted average interest rate 0% 0% 0% 0%

Net Financial Assets (Liabilities) 590 1,250 0 0 (525) 1,315



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19. FINANCIAL INSTRUMENTS (continued)

Fixed interest maturing in:

Floating Over More Non-

Interest 1 year 1 to 5 than 5 interest

rate or less years years bearing Total

Notes $’000 $’000 $’000 $’000 $’000 $’000

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Financial AssetsCash and deposits 2 1,324 0 0 0 0 1,324Receivables 7 131 0 0 0 2,724 2,855Investments 2 0 780 0 0 0 780

1,455 780 0 0 2,724 4,959

Weighted average interest rate 4.80% 6.98% 0% 0%

Financial LiabilitiesTrade and other creditors 0 0 0 0 921 921

0 0 0 0 921 921

Weighted average interest rate 0% 0% 0% 0%

Net Financial Assets (Liabilities) 1,455 780 0 0 1,803 4,038

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$’000 $’000

Reconciliation of Net Financial Assets to Net AssetsNet Financial Assets as above 1,315 4,038Non-Financial Assets as Liabilities:Inventories 792 799Property, Plant & Equipment 442,231 371,368Collections 226,612 217,830Provisions (4,092) (4,411)

Net Assets per Balance Sheet 666,858 589,624

c) NET FAIR VALUE OF FINANCIAL ASSETS AND LIABILITIES

On–balance sheetThe net fair value of cash and cash equivalents and non-interest bearing monetary financial assets and financial liabilities of theeconomic entity approximates their carrying value.

The net fair value of other monetary financial assets is based upon market prices where a market exists or by discounting theexpected future cash flows by the current interest rates for assets with similar risk profiles. In the 2001/02 financial yearMuseum Victoria did not have any financial assets in this class.

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Index ofCompliance

The Department of Treasury and Finance requires the following details to comply with reporting requirements in terms of Part 7 of the Financial Management Act 1994.

Index to disclosure requirements 1997/98The annual report is prepared in accordance with the Financial Management Act 1994 and the directions of the Minister forFinance.

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Report of operationsCharter and purpose9.1.3 (i) (a) Manner of establishment and relevant minister 2-3, 57, 619.1.4 Objectives, functions, powers and duties 2-3, 13-18, 579.1.3 (i) (c) The nature and range of services provided by the entity including the persons

or section of the community served by the entity 2-3, 57Management and structure9.1.3 (i) (d) (i) Names of governing board members, audit committee and chief executive officer 57-619.1.3 (i) (d) (ii) Names of senior office holders and brief description of each office 619.1.3 (i) (d) (iii) Organisational structure chart 629.1.3 (e) Workforce data and application of merit and equity principles 11, 499.1.3 (f) Application and operation of FOI Act 1982 79Financial and other information9.1.3 (ii) (b) Summary of significant changes in financial position 869.1.3 (ii) (c) Operation objectives for the year and performance against those objectives 11, 13-18, 21-559.1.3 (ii) (d) Major changes or factors affecting the year’s achievement of objectives 4-5, 13-189.1.3 (ii) (e) Events subsequent to balance date that may have significant effects

in subsequent years N/A9.1.3 (ii) (g) Number and total cost of consultancies costing less than $100,000 789.1.3 (ii) (h) Extent of compliance with Building Act 1993 799.1.3 (ii) (i) Statement that information listed in Part 9.1.3 (iv) is available on request 799.1.3 (ii) (j) Compliance index identifying the extent of compliance with statutory disclosure

and other requirements 106-1079.1.3 (ii) (k) A statement on the extent of progress in implementation and compliance with

National Competition Policy including 799.1.3 (ii) (k) (i) Requirements of Government policy statements, Competitive Neutrality:

A Statement of Victorian Government Policy and 799.1.3 (ii) (k) (ii) The Victorian Government Timetable for the Review of Legislative Restriction on

Competition and subsequent reforms 79

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Financial statementsStatement of Financial Operations9.2.3 (ii) (a) Operating revenue by class 879.2.3 (ii) (b) Investment income by class 929.2.3 (ii) (c) Proceeds from material revenue arising from sale of non current assets

and associated expenses N/A9.2.3 (ii) (d) Revenues arising from exchanges of goods or services 87, 919.2.3 (ii) (e) Depreciation, amortisation or diminution in value 87, 90, 96-989.2.3 (ii) (f) Bad and doubtful debts 939.2.3 (ii) (g) Financing costs 87, 919.2.3 (ii) (h) Increment or decrement in Profit and Loss Statement 879.2.3 (ii) (i) Audit fees paid to the Auditor General for auditing accounts 93Statement of Financial Position 9.2.3(iii)(a)(ii) Cash at bank or in hand 88, 92, 1009.2.3(iii)(a)(iii) Inventories by class 88, 90, 939.2.3(iii)(a)(iv) Receivables, including trade debtors, loans and other debtors 88, 949.2.3(iii)(a)(v) Other assets, including prepayments 889.2.3(iii)(a)(vi) Investments by class 88, 929.2.3(iii)(a)(vii) Property, plant and equipment 88, 96-98

9.2.3(iii) (b)(i) Overdrafts N/A9.2.3(iii) (b)(ii) Trade and other creditors 88, 999.2.3(iii) (b)(v) Provisions, including employee entitlement 88, 999.2.3(iii) (d) Reserves and transfers to and from reserves 88, 959.2.3(iii) (d) (ii) Asset revaluation reserve 88, 959.2.3(iii) (d) (iii) General reserve 88, 959.2.3(iii) (d) (iv) Special purpose reserve 88, 959.2.3(iii) (d) (v) Retained earnings or calculated losses 88, 95Statement of cash flows9.2.2 (i) (c) A statement of cash flows during the year 89, 100Notes to the financial statements9.2.3 (iv) (d) Government grants received or receivable 87, 929.2.3 (iv) (e) Employee superannuation funds 91, 1029.2.3 (iv) (f) Assets received without adequate consideration N/A

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Fees and Charges

CAMPUS FEES

The following campus fees and charges applied at Museum Victoria’s public museum campuses as at 30 June 2002.

Adult Child Concession Family

Melbourne Museum $15.00 $8.00 $11.00 $35.00 Melbourne Museum & Imax $25.50 $19.50 $15.50 $65.50 Scienceworks Museum $9.50 $4.50 $7.00 $25.00 Scienceworks Museum & Melbourne Planetarium $15.00 $8.00 $11.50 $41.00Immigration Museum $7.00 $3.50 $5.50 $17.50

Notes • Melbourne Museum entry includes one free session of ICE Theatre per person. ICE only tickets are $4.50 per person. • Tours of the Royal Exhibition Building: adult $5.00 or $3.00 add-on to Melbourne Museum ticket, child $2.00. • Special fees apply for various ticket options such as combined ICE and IMAX Theatres, Melbourne Planetarium and school

bookings, special activities and programs. Surcharges apply for some special touring exhibitions.

MEMBERSHIP FEES FOR MUSEUM VICTORIA MEMBERS

1 year 2 years

Household $90.00 $144.00Joint Adult $80.00 $128.00Adult $54.00 $86.00Senior/Concession $36.00 $57.00Child $18.00 $29.00

Membership provides: unlimited entry to all campuses, discounts for touring exhibitions, Melbourne Planetarium, Imax Theatreand retail outlets, free admission to a number of interstate museums and Museum Victoria’s quarterly magazine.

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