Microscopes - Inspiring Victoria

Life, Magnified: Using light microscopy to investigate biology and disease

A picture tells a thousand words! Come and learn about the smallest details of the human body and how it can all go wrong. Visit research labs, meet young researchers as they take you through their experiments and use our…

Magnificent Microscopy: Life Under a Lens

Meet scientists, view their research samples using powerful microscopes, and discuss how their investigations are combatting important global problems. Investigate your own samples! Scientist mentors will help you investigate nature’s beauty in microscopic detail using research grade microscopes. GTAC (Melbourne)…

The Victorian Inspiring Australia program is a community-focused initiative led by the Royal Society of Victoria, in partnership with the Commonwealth Government and the State Government of Victoria.

We acknowledge the Traditional Owners from all First Nations communities across Victoria and the essential ancestral knowledge held and recovered by Elders. We acknowledge that this land and its millennia-old relationship with First Nations people was never ceded. We acknowledge the process of truth telling with our First Scientists, the knowledge keepers and Custodians of Country. To you we convey our deep respect.