Leading museums across Australia kick off #MuseumWeek

Starting today, a collection of Australia’s leading museums will join more than 2,200 museums, galleries and cultural institutions from over 64 countries on Twitter for #MuseumWeek.

Source: http://museumweek2015.org

The week-long celebration runs from 23-29 March and will bring museums to life for people around the world. War hero and Victoria Cross medal recipient winner, Corporal Ben Roberts-Smith kicked off proceedings in Australia by cutting the virtual ribbon:

Organisations taking part range from leading cultural organisations to lesser-known, smaller or more specialist collections. Check out which museums are participating globally.

In Australia, museums from all across the country will come together to celebrate and surprise and delight Aussies with insights, secrets and a look inside the vault, including:

• Museums Australia (Victoria) @_mavic
• South Australian Maritime Museum @SAMaritimeMuseu
• Migration Museum @MigrationMuseum
• History SA (Community Museums Program) @communityHistSA
• Sovereign Hill Museums Association @GoldfieldsEd
• Sovereign Hill @sovereignhill
• Art Gallery of New South Wales @artgalleryofnsw
• Australian War Memorial @AWMemorial
• QUT Art Museum @qutartmuseum
• Museum of Brisbane @MuseumofBris
• Museum Queensland @qldmuseum
• National Gallery of Australia @NatGalleryAus
• National Museum of Australia @nma
• Museum of Australian Democracy at Old Parliament House @MoAD_Canberra
• Carnamah Historical Society & Museum @carnamah
• Flagstaff Hill Maritime Village @flaggyhill
• QUT Creative Industries Precinct @ci_precinct
• Heritage People @heritage_ppl
• Old Treasury Building Museum @OldTreasuryMelb
• Museum Victoria @museumvictoria
• Melbourne Museum @MelbourneMuseum
• Immigration Museum @immigration_mv
• Scienceworks @scienceworks_mv
• Bunjilaka Aboriginal Cultural Centre @bunjilaka
• National Gallery of Victoria @ngvmelbourne
• Sydney Living Museums @sydlivmus
• Wesley Hobart Museum @WesleyHobart

You can subscribe to the Twitter AU #MuseumWeek list to follow all the updates and get behind the scenes access here: https://twitter.com/TwitterAU/lists/museumweek-au

Each day, museums will Tweet using the relevant day’s hashtag, and users from across the globe can get involved too:

Source: http://museumweek2015.org

How to follow #MuseumWeek 2015

Follow @MuseumWeek and #MuseumWeek on Twitter. On the web, go to museumweek2015.org and check out our Twitter Corner to see #MuseumWeek conversations unfold in real time. To embed this experience on your own website, click here.

Connect with artwork, history, science and literature in new and interactive ways over #MuseumWeek. Enjoy!