Museums Victoria promotes short doco series Discover with new trailer via Guilty’s Edwin McGill
Museums Victoria has launched a new monthly short documentary series Discover.
Crafted specifically for the web, Discover will explore collection highlights from Museums Victoria, Australia’s largest Museum organisation. With over 17 million objects in Museums Victoria’s collection, Discover will take you on a journey from the exquisite to the extraordinary.
A trailer has been created to promote the series, directed by international award winning film & commercial director, Edwin McGill. Featuring a long extinct thylacine (Tasmanian Tiger) and a touch of magic, the trailer provides a snapshot of the life, beauty, and wonder intrinsic to every object in our collections.
Says McGill: “I was really excited to work with such a fantastic cultural organisation as Museums Victoria. People are fascinated by the idea of the life behind all these objects and it was really inspiring to be able to work among such incredible specimens, particularly the Tasmanian Tiger.
Specimens like that – of beautiful animals now extinct – show how important museums are for both science and conservation.”
The Discover documentary series will be produced in-house at Museums Victoria and will be released monthly from Wednesday 9 December. The first episode will explore that most museum-y of topics, Taxidermy.
Says Dr J. Patrick Greene, CEO, Museums Victoria: “At Museums Victoria we are incredibly fortunate to be able to work with wonderful objects and specimens every day. But it’s so important to be able to share our collections with the broader public, so that they too are able to experience the wonder of the new and the power of history our collection represents. Initiatives such as this enable us to bring people behind-the-scenes of our collections and share this knowledge with Victorians and people around the world.”
The first episode of Discover will be released on Wednesday 9 December via Museums Victoria youtube.