18 July – 19 September 2026

MUMA brings the work of Phasmahammer and Natasha Tontey into conversation to rethink history and myth, generate speculative fictions and centre the storytelling of Southeast Asia.

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Saturday 5 September, 2–4pm

Join us for a relay of talks to celebrate the launch of 50 Years/50 Works: A MUMA Collection Index.

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The 2026 MUMA Ian Potter Sculpture Court commission is by Narrm/Melbourne artist Anna Varendorff. The artist invites visitors to sit and make use of her sculptures in their work, life and play.

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Speculative Ecology: The Challenge of Aesthetics in an Era of Fundamentalism is a new essay by philosopher Claire Colebrook. Published in dialogue with the exhibition Syncretic Wilds: Phasmahammer and Natasha Tontey, it reopens ecology as a speculative question, challenging the assumption that nature, environment and humanity provide self-evident foundations for politics and ethics.

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Celebrate 50 years of MUMA with our limited-edition cotton canvas totes, featuring iconic works by Vivienne Binns, Professor Brian Martin and John Nixon from the Monash University Collection. Shop the totes

Browse exclusive and limited-edition artworks by leading contemporary artists. Every purchase directly supports ambitious new artistic commissions. Find editions by Helen Johnson, Paul Knight, Nusra Latif Qureshi and Stolon Press, available online now. Shop Editions

Precarious Movements: Choreography and the Museum is a research project that spanned 3 years and brought together artists, researchers and institutions into dialogue about best practice to support the choreographer and the museum, and to sustain momentum in theory and practice around dance and the visual arts. Find out more

Deadly Learning is designed to help art teachers and school students see the world from the point of view of some of Australian’s leading contemporary Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander artists. Find out more