Keyword results: Melbourne Museum
Pompeii Toga Party
What:
Pompeii Toga Party
Where:
Melbourne Museum, 11 Nicholson St, Carlton
When:
Sat Oct 24, 6.30am-midnight!
How much:
$12/14/20/54
Description:
Get naked. Find a whitish bedsheet and drape it tastefully over your person - more is less. Secure at the waist with something rope-like. Crown with foliage, and voila! You're ready to party like it's 79 AD. Strap on your sandals and catch the last night of the Pompeii exhibition before it goes underground.
Event: Exhibition
Stimulus: party
An Evening With Phar Lap
What:
Inappropriate press release of the week!
An Evening with Phar Lap
Where:
Melbourne Museum, Carlton Gardens
When:
Oct 14, 6pm
How much:
$20/$25, refreshments provided.
Description:
Enjoy a drink with Phar Lap and discover some facts about this racing legend from those who know him well at Melbourne Museum.
(Excuse me, err, that horse hasn't moved in the paste half hour. Is everything cool with him? He's not drinking his shandy. OMFG, I think.. wait. No. OMG Nooooooo.
Event: Sales
Stimulus: W
Giant squid dissection
Remember science class in fifth period? Rushing to your desk after snatching a half-price hot food special, and discovering the surprisingly pukeadelic implications of sausage roll and frog intestines.
Think on a larger scale; 245 kilos of squid - only 30 kilos lighter than the largest giant squid ever found - being attacked (presumably with some sort of giant saw) by scientists.
RUN Melbourne Museum, The Movement Movement
The Movement Movement. Or: your chance to make like Anna Karina running through the Louvre in Jean Luc Godard's Band of Outsiders. Canadians Jenn Goodwin and Jessica Rowe organise large groups to participate in ‘choreographed jogging expeditions through the world's major cultural institutions.
Drugs: a social history
We’ve come a long way since prescribing heroin to pregnant women. And Queen Victoria isn’t around to smoke a joint with her tea. Nor is Baudelaire chewing cannabis with Flaubert. But pre-pubescent kids are still getting the “it’s okay to try it once” pep-talks from their folks.
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