Spring Gully, Bendigo, Victoria, circa 1910 A photo of a diver getting ready to go down a mine shaft. Bendigo was a small town untill the gold rush in the late 1800s which resulted in a massive boom in population. I will never be as cool as some of these guys but I don't envy that job whatsoever. See the original image here: https://collections.museumsvictoria.com.au/items/767629 · · · #bendigo #victoria #1900s #goldrush #australia #australianchristmas #diving #frontier #mining #boomtown #blackandwhite #oldschoolcool #oldschool #dangerous #hardwork #museumsvictoria #springgully #creativecommons #publicdomain #outofthecommons https://www.instagram.com/p/CJFTNabnGim/?igshid=1mfhooq4kgd9

Happy #Feathursday! The Eastern Rosella (Platycercus eximius) is native to southeast #Australia and #Tasmania. #SciArt by James Sowerby for "Zoology of New Holland" ([1793]-1794), with text by George Shaw. Contributed to the #BiodiversityHeritageLibrary by @museumsvictoria as part of #BHL Australia: http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/40653675 -------------------------------------- #BHLib #Biodiversity #NaturalHistory #NatHist #ScientificIllustration #ScientificArt #OpenAccess #Libraries #Archives #SpecialCollections #MuseumsVictoria #sciart #BHLAu #LibrariesofInstagram #IGLibraries #IG_Libraries

A very big thank you to @a_fools_experiment & the palaeontolgy crew at @melbournemuseum - Erich Fitzgerald - Tim Ziegler - & @palaeo_james_rule for their enthusiasm, patience & collective wisdom. Here’s @poppy_rocket with her donated partial macropod vert, first recorded evidence of kangaroos from the Beaumaris. #palaeontology #fossils #museumsvictoria #beaumarisfossils #australianfossils #kangaroos

n436_w1150 by BioDivLibrary D'Amboinsche Rariteitkamer ... :. T'Amsterdam :Gedrukt by François Halma,1705.. biodiversitylibrary.org/page/41006204 https://flic.kr/p/YvKuvK

Jablonica - Záhorie - Senica Model: Lucia Macková 👗 Ej, ženy, ženy (Oh, Women, Women) Slovak traditional costumes in the past and today – Photography Exhibition, Canberra 2018, Australia Collection 80 Fine Arts prints photography www.folklorneregiony.com 👗 Vernissage 17th February 2018 presentation in the premises of Slovak Embassy in Canberra, Australia 👗 Presentation at the National Multicultural Festival 2018 in the centre of Canberra 👗 YOSARIO - General partner of the project and exhibition in Australia www.yosario.com Folklore Regions Association – project lead in Australia www.folklorneregiony.com The Embassy of the Slovak Republic in Canberra - www.facebook.com/VelvyslanectvoSRvCanberre Ministry of Foreign and European Affairs of the Slovak Republic – www.mzv.sk CULTURE & SLOVAKIA GOOD IDEA - www.instagram.com/goodideaslovakia Office for Slovaks living abroad - www.uszz.sk/sk Municipal Cultural Centre in Nitra - www.kosnr.sk Author of the project: ethnologist and methodologist for folklore Mgr. Linda Stulajterova Author of the photographs: Professional photographer Jozef Spisak 👗 @dodiphotographer @yosarioagency @folkloreregions @goodideaslovakia @EmbassyOfTheSlovakRepublicInCanberra @YKAustralia @yellowkorneraustralia @Krajské osvetové stredisko v Nitre @stulynka @Zuzana Tajek Piešová - Ethnological Supervision @Norbert Šlachta - [email protected] @Peter Trmoš - professional graphic designer for project Folklorne Regiony #YOSARIO #EjŽenyŽeny #GoodIdeaSlovakia #folkloreregions #EmbassyOfTheSlovakRepublicInCanberra #AmbasadaSlovenskejRepublikyCanberra #Canberra #NewSouthWalesAustralia #Australia #natgeoau #migration_museum #immigrationmuseum_melb #museumsvictoria #melbournemuseum #yellowkorneraustralia #PhotographyDodiSpisak #canonaustralia #smartfolk #JozefSpisakProfessionalPhotographer #kostim #instagram #natgeotravel #PhotographyForDream #PhotographyForDreamjob #PhotographyForLife #PhotographyForLove #PhotographyForPassion #PhotographyForSouls #PhotoForTheStory #LiveForTheStory #natgeocreative #SmartfolkStory #slovakembroidery #slovakheritage #etnocostume #tracht #weddingdress (na mieste Velvyslanectvo SR v Canberre / Embassy of the Slovak Republic in Canberra)

#FishyFriday: Goggle-eyed Scad (Selar crumenophthalmus). #SciArt by Richard Polydore Nodder for George Shaw, Naturalist's Miscellany, Vol. 16 (1789-1813). View more in @biodivlibrary with thanks to @museumsvictoria and Biodiversity Heritage Library Australia for digitizing: http://ow.ly/aioL30iY7ze _________________________________________________ #HistSciArt #HistoricalSciArt #BiodiversityHeritageLibrary #BHLib #Biodiversity #NaturalHistory #Science #Art #ArtAndScience #Illustration #ScienceArt #Artists #ArtHistory #Fish #Ichthyology

About to deliver my final essay this monday. Nervous af

A close friend told me I should start some kind of blog talking about clothes from satc. Little does she knows abt this insta account

Because of that I wanted to remember one of the best dresses Carrie has wore on the series

This Richard Tyler Couture dress wore by SJP on the episode 18th from the 3rd season (Cock a doodle do) is part of the Resort collection from 2001 and its part of @museumsvictoria since SJP donated it in 2003

If you want to know more here you have the link of the dress file from the museum 🔗 https://collections.museumsvictoria.com.au/items/273037

Xoxo ✨👜 Don't be carried away!

The countdown is on! Museum’s Victoria are reopening its doors to the public on Saturday June 27. Be sure to lock in your visit to one of our cities wonderful experiences at; Melbourne Museum, Scienceworks, Imax and the Immigration Museum. Just in time for the school holidays! . Tag a friend and book the date! . . @museumsvictoria @melbournemusem @scienceworks_melb @immigrationmuseum_ @imax.melbourne (at Melbourne, Victoria, Australia) https://www.instagram.com/p/CA6vEsADpFU/?igshid=anjk7nff9tca

〰️90’s vibes @museumsvictoria 〰️ #christmasparty (at Melbourne Museum)

Can you see the xylophone-playing sticks on his shoes? US-born Will Mahoney was a famous comic vaudevillean of the early to mid 20th Century. I didn't know there was a photo of him (by Press photographer Laurie Richards) in the @museumsvictoria collection that showed the xylophone for his comedy tap-dance act. The pic was taken in 1959 at the Melbourne Tivoli theatre in Bourke St, one of the last remnants of the 19th Century theatre strip, until it burned down in the 1960s. He looks to be wearing street clothes, aside from the xylophone-mallet shoes. His usual performing hat was a bowler (aka derby). Up to the 1960s Mr Mahoney set up his xylophone like a giant trestle table on stages all around Australia and NZ, and danced on it, playing a tune: George Gershwin gave him some. The xylophone was 5.2 metres long and with Will did 17 tours of Australia. He managed a theatre in Brisbane in the 1940s and his old mates visited: Bob Hope, Jack Benny, Artie Shaw, Tough way to make a living. Press reports of the music hall/vaudeville bills he was on also mention 'personality singer' Evie Hayes (Will was her husband), chorus girls chosen for their 'shank and shape', Cusco's trained dogs and pantomimes. The xylophone act was described as 'uproarious', 'rollicking' and a 'riot' and his comedy style as 'gay not giddy'. "She kisses me with such a smack, she makes my shirt roll up my back". The Xylophone was in his act for decades. He was nominated for a Tony award in 1956 for his role in Finian's Rainbow. You can see some of his fabulous footwork on YouTube: search Will Mahoney or Tivoli. Thanks to Trove newspaper archives and Australian Dictionary of Biography for the info. Will Mahoney 1894-1967. Born Montana, died Melbourne. @national_library_of_australia #tivoli #xylophone #vaudeville #comedian #tonyaward #eviehayes #theatre #musichall #australiantheatre #tapdance

Happy #StPatricksDay! Enjoy green biodiversity in our @Flickr album: http://s.si.edu/2GpjSat including this Green Birdwing (Ornithoptera priamus) from The Naturalist's Miscellany (1789-1813), Vol. 1. Contributed to #BHLib by @bhl_au and @museumsvictoria: http://s.si.edu/2pcnKDP

Pearl White A post card featuring Pearl White an early American silent film actress. She was known as the queen of serials and for doing most of here own stunts. · See the original here: https://collections.museumsvictoria.com.au/items/2174104 · · · #pearl #white #pearlwhite #pearlfaywhite #actress #actor #stageactor #silentfilm #serial #stunts #atypical #women #blackandwhite #photo #postcard #clothing #apparel #look #1900s #childactor #comedy #physicalcomedy #film #movies #museumsvictoria #creativecommons #publicdomain #outofthecommons https://www.instagram.com/p/CJaByxiHgWv/?igshid=9zetrvciaxbi

Algae (Plocamium hookeri). #SciArt by William Henry Harvey for his Nereis Australis, or Algae of the Southern Ocean: being figures and descriptions of marine plants, collected on the shores of the Cape of Good Hope, the extra-tropical Australian colonies, Tasmania, New Zealand, and the Antarctic regions; deposited in the Herbarium of the Dublin University (1847-49). Contributed for digitization by Biodiversity Heritage Library Australia, Atlas of Living Australia, and Museums Victoria (@museumsvictoria) to #BiodiversityHeritageLibrary. https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/46201265 _________________________________________________ #Algae #BHLib #Biodiversity #NaturalHistory #NatHist #ScientificIllustration #ScientificArt #OpenAccess #Libraries #Archives #SpecialCollections #LibrariesofInstagram #IGLibraries #IG_Libraries #MuseumsVictoria #BHLAu

(Swipe left) Possibly the other great gem hidden away in this year's @vamff cultural program (apart from a little talk I hosted on denim last weekend, ahem) was this small event celebrating Madame Serini - a talented designer who had worked for @le_louvre_melbourne in the 50s and went on to open her own fashion house soon after. Madame Serini (Itala Irredenta Serini) was represented by her son Marcello Serini whose daughter can be seen modelling a dress made and once worn by her grandmother. The talk was hosted by curator Deborah Tout-Smith (!!!) and former @ngvmelbourne fashion curator Laura Jocic. A compact display featuring examples of her glorious designs was sourced from the collections co-owned by @co.as.it and @museumsvictoria #laurajocic #madameserini #deborahtoutsmith #marcelloserini #fashionhistory #melbourne #melbmoment (at Immigration Museum)

John James Audubon, Osprey with Vulgo Weak Fish, @museumsvictoria, 1830.

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The future of fashion is ethical and sustainable and it’s already underway. I wrangled a panel of impassioned participants tonight as part of the Melbourne Museum’s You Can’t Do That public programme and left infused and renewed by @jadesaritaarnott of Arnsdorff, Lois Mcgruer-Fraser of @loishazel, Ben Asakoff of @nobodydenim and the incomparable @yolandafinch, general manager of @vamff who should really have her own show! Thanks to @melstow Melanie Stow for the pic and audience participation in a ripper discussion all round @melbournemuseum @museumsvictoria @reasonmichael #youcantdothat #melbournemuseum #ethicalfashuon #sustainablefashion #futurefashion #paneldiscussion (at Melbourne Museum)