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Adapting the Curve: Panicking, pivoting and adapting

How Victorians at home, work and play have adapted to the 2020 pandemic.

Pandemic Panic Buying

Pandemic Panic Buying One of the earliest and most potent symbols of Victorians' response to the COVID-19 Pandemic was seeing supermarket shelves stripped bare. From toilet paper and hand sanitiser to pasta and flour, products began flying off shelves ...

2020 is Cancelled: Cancelled Events

2020 is Cancelled: Cancelled Events Almost immediately, the implementation of social distancing cancelled a large number of events across Victoria. From big internationally known gatherings, such as the Australian Grand Prix, the AFL season and the Melbourne Comedy ...

Pandemic Pivoting: Manufacturing Adapts

Pandemic Pivoting: Manufacturing Adapts Inside our large and small manufacturing workplaces, changes have been taking place. Workers have pivoted and aligned their strengths to meet our most urgent needs - the critical products used by our frontline workers every day. ...

'Our Shop is our Home': LaManna Supermarket Essendon Fields & the COVID-19 Crisis

'Our Shop is our Home': LaManna Supermarket Essendon Fields & the COVID-19 Crisis From the very beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic in Victoria, LaManna supermarket in Essendon Fields was reacting and preparing for every outcome that they could foresee. Very early in 2020, before the first lockdown, they were ...

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Explore a wealth of collections and research about natural sciences, history, technology and Indigenous cultures from Museums Victoria in Australia.

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Articles 2,145 Read about people, places, events, and our collections

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Species 1,412 Read about some animals you might see in the wild

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<em>Callithrix jacchus</em> (Linnaeus, 1758)

C 30242 Callithrix jacchus (Linnaeus, 1758)

Mammalogy

Common nameCommon MarmosetSpecimen natureMountHigher taxonomyChordata, Mammalia, Primates

Taxidermy Mount - Black Bearded Saki <em>Chiropotes satanas</em> (Hoffmannsegg, 1807)

C 30271 Taxidermy Mount - Black Bearded Saki Chiropotes satanas (Hoffmannsegg, 1807)

Mammalogy

Common nameBlack Bearded SakiSpecimen natureMountHigher taxonomyChordata, Mammalia, PrimatesCollectedGuyana

Taxidermy Mount - Brown-mantled Tamarin <em>Saguinus fuscicollis</em> (Spix, 1823)

C 30248 Taxidermy Mount - Brown-mantled Tamarin Saguinus fuscicollis (Spix, 1823)

Mammalogy

Common nameBrown-mantled TamarinSpecimen natureMountHigher taxonomyChordata, Mammalia, PrimatesCollectedEcuador

Taxidermy Mount - Proboscis Monkey <em>Nasalis larvatus</em>

C 30316 Taxidermy Mount - Proboscis Monkey Nasalis larvatus

Mammalogy

Common nameProboscis MonkeySpecimen natureMountHigher taxonomyChordata, Mammalia, PrimatesCollectedBorneo

<em>Macaca maura</em>

C 27442 Macaca maura

Mammalogy

Common nameMoor MacaqueSpecimen natureMountHigher taxonomyChordata, Mammalia, Primates

<em>Lontra canadensis</em>

C 29990 Lontra canadensis

Mammalogy

Common nameNorth American River OtterSpecimen natureMountHigher taxonomyChordata, Mammalia, CarnivoraCollectedCanada

Notebook - Anna Apinis, Latvian Weaving Patterns, 1930s-1940s

HT 21863 Notebook - Anna Apinis, Latvian Weaving Patterns, 1930s-1940s

Migration & Cultural Diversity

Notebook documenting traditional Latvian weaving designs. It was kept by Anna Apinis, who attended weaving lessons in Liepaja in Latvia from 1930 to 1933. She spent hours at the nearby Ethnographic ...

Notebook - Anna Apinis, Latvian Weaving Patterns, 1930s-1940s

HT 21861 Notebook - Anna Apinis, Latvian Weaving Patterns, 1930s-1940s

Migration & Cultural Diversity

Notebook documenting traditional Latvian weaving designs. It was kept by Anna Apinis, who attended weaving lessons in Liepaja in Latvia from 1930 to 1933. She spent hours at the nearby Ethnographic ...

Photograph - Tran Family, Vietnam, pre 1978

HT 552 Photograph - Tran Family, Vietnam, pre 1978

Migration & Cultural Diversity, Images & Image Making, Politics & Society

Photograph of Hien Thi Tran, her husband Hai Van Tran and their son Hoang Thien Tran taken during the 1970s. The family tried to escape Vietnam by boat but ...

Gippsland Water Dragon, <em>Intellagama lesueurii howittii</em> (Gray, 1831)

ZI 2667 Gippsland Water Dragon, Intellagama lesueurii howittii (Gray, 1831)

Herpetology

Common nameGippsland Water DragonHigher taxonomyChordata, Reptilia, SquamataCollectedAustralia, Victoria

<em>Physa</em> Draparnaud, 1801

ZI 8475 Physa Draparnaud, 1801

Invertebrates

Higher taxonomyMollusca, Gastropoda, BasommatophoraCollectedAustralia, Victoria

ZI 9886 Rutelinae

Entomology and Arachnology

Higher taxonomyArthropoda, Insecta, ColeopteraCollectedAustralia, Victoria