Happy International Museums Day! Museums Victoria's sites are closed, but you can still explore our collections online. Here is a great example; a mineral that has only every been found in Victoria, Ulrichite: collections.museumvictoria.com.au/specimens/41580 Museums Victoria #IMD2020 #museumathome

After six cancelled field tips this year (and counting) may I present the closest thing to fieldwork I can still do, “The 2020 Lockdown Field Guide to the Geology Of My House: A Thread”. Frontispiece: Barry on our Terrazzo floor. #australianseds et al

So excited to see the Triceratops at the Melbourne Museum when it’s ready! In the meantime here’s one of the assembly crew, Oskar, with a sneak preview of the beast and the crew in yesterdays Duc Huy

This week we’re scanning historic registers of rocks & minerals collected by the Geological Survey of Victoria in the 1800s & 1900s (now in Museums Victoria’s collection). Having these available digitally will greatly facilitate research & reduce handling of these fragile tomes.

Recently, @AuscopeGeochem & Museums Victoria provided researchers with access to an important MV held rock & mineral collection via #AusGeochem. Learn more & share to help attract more partners across society to display data in AusGeochem: bit.ly/3Br9lJK #NCRISimpact

Looking forward to speaking at the upcoming AGN webinar about Victoria's State geoscience collections and a recent project to make them digitally accessible though AuGeochem!