Accessible Visitation & Multilingual Outreach increased visitation through culturally safe outreach invitations and relationship building in our rich network of Victorian community organisations.
Accessible Visitation
In March 2024, Museums Victoria established the Learning Access Fund to enhance access to our museums, programs and events for schools and community groups who may experience barriers to visiting our museum. Free general entry was made available to eligible new migrant communities and language groups. Eligible community groups are now permanently able to register.
As part of the Accessible Visitation initiative, a Melbourne Museum venue map was translated into 26 languages including: Arabic, Bengali, Chinese (Simplified), Chinese (Traditional), Cook Islands Māori (Rarotongan), Croatian, Farsi (Persian), Filipino, French, Greek, Hindi, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Malay, Nepali, Punjabi, Samoan, Sinhalese, Somali, Spanish, Tamil, Turkish, Urdu and Vietnamese.
Bridge Darebin participated in the initiative which inspired the group to respond to an Immigration Museum based exhibition with their own exhibition that presented significant cultural objects.
- Objects Of Joy Brochure| 2.87 MB .pdf file
Multilingual Outreach
Museums Victoria established a communication outreach program targeted at new community networks to consolidate and grow audiences. The Multilingual Outreach aims to promote our Accessible Visitation program and listen to barriers to audience pathways, as well as promote employment, volunteering career opportunities.
Over 1700 visitors from 40 different community organisations and groups visited a Museums Victoria venue through Accessible Visitation from April 2024 to August 2025.
These were a Neighbourhood House group, settlement service provider group or Community Hub network provider groups.
