Melbourne Museum

Bunjilaka, the Aboriginal Centre at Melbourne Museum, is more than just an exhibition gallery. It is a living cultural centre for the Koori community of south-eastern Australia.

Koori Voices
Koori Voices tells the stories of Aboriginal people in Victoria. It celebrates the survival of Aboriginal culture and the ways in which Aboriginal people have continually sought to maintain autonomous lifestyles in spite of oppressive policies and welfare regimes. It recognises the history of Koori attempts to maintain culture, rights and dignity within the struggles and achievements of daily life.

Belonging to Country
Belonging to Country explores the complex relationship that Aboriginal people have to land and waters throughout Australia. This relationship is spiritual, economic and political. Land is intimately connected to Aboriginal identity and well being. This relationship is explored through a wide variety of objects from the museum's collections.

Two Laws
Two Laws explores Indigenous Australians’ systems of knowledge, law and property, and what happens when these conflict with the laws and perspectives of non-indigenous Australians. These include issues such as cultural and intellectual property rights, repatriation, and the meaning of 'dreamtime'.

The entire Children's Gallery is aimed at 3-8 year olds, (although it is proving to be popular with all ages), and consists of three spaces; the exhibition gallery Big Box, The Learning Environment and the Tattersall's Children's Garden.

Big Box houses the permanent exhibition 1, 2, 3 Grow, which encourages children to think about the different ways in which plants, humans and animals grow and change over the course of their lives. The story of growth unfolds through the themes of size, colour and form. The exhibition enables children to make comparisons between themselves and objects on display by touching, looking and listening.