Victoria maintains a long and proud history of innovation, with many ideas and products developed in the state having global impacts. The 2025-26 Innovation Stories project, undertaken by Museums Victoria staff, provides case studies of Victorian innovation to inspire the next generation of inventors and innovators. Presented in both video and narrative form, each story draws on Museums Victoria's collection to explore a problem, and how its creators worked to create a solution and how the solution improved lives immediately and in the long-term. The innovations featured are H.V. McKay's Sunshine stripper harvester; the 'Black Box' flight recorder; solar power; and an ideas-based innovation, the Harvester Judgement. By examining and sharing the diverse ways Victorians have worked to innovate in the past, we aim to spark new approaches and ways of thinking about how we can address the issues of today. The Innovation Stories project was made possible by a grant from the H.V. McKay Charitable Trust, established in 1926 as a legacy of industrialist and innovator H.V. McKay. Project web page: https://museumsvictoria.com.au/article/innovation-stories/

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