when: 15 October 2025 - 09 November 2025 | venue: Melbourne City Library Gallery (top floor of Melbourne City Library) | cost: FREE | address: 253 Flinders Lane, VIC 3000 Melbourne, 3000 | website: https://algaeexhibition.weebly.com/exhibition-melbourne.html
published: 07 Oct 2025, 5 min read
Visitors to this exhibition will come face-to-face with enlarged 3D models of algae and marine microbes, modelled with computer-aided design from electron microscope images and printed in an algae-based plastic. Augmented reality (AR) will allow you to use your phone to unlock videos and further knowledge of the microbes you are looking at, while you can meet your aquatic microbial neighbours through the microscope.
Exhibition attendees also get the chance to participate in doctoral research about human-algae relationships. This research is part of Sonja Repetti's doctoral thesis at the University of Helsinki in Finland, which aims to understand the capacity of algae to respond and adapt to environmental change, as well as what people know and how they feel about algae.
Exhibited in a space managed by the City of Melbourne.
I respectfully acknowledge the Traditional Owners of the unceded land to which I have returned and am privileged to work and share my algal stories, the Wurundjeri Woi-wurrung and Bunurong / Boon Wurrung peoples of the Kulin and pays respect to their Elders past and present. I acknowledge and honour the unbroken spiritual, cultural and political connection they have maintained to this unique place for more than 2000 generations. I celebrate and acknowledge First Nations people as our first scientists.
Funding kindly provided by Kone Foundation, Helsinki University Institute of Sustainability HELSUS, Wiipurilainenosakunta stipendisäätiö and Vuokon luonnonsuojelusaatio
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Visitors to this exhibition will come face-to-face with enlarged 3D models of algae and marine microbes, modelled with computer-aided design from electron microscope images and printed in an algae-based plastic. Augmented reality (AR) will allow you to use your phone to unlock videos and further knowledge of the microbes you are looking at, while you can meet your aquatic microbial neighbours through the microscope.
Exhibition attendees also get the chance to participate in doctoral research about human-algae relationships. This research is part of Sonja Repetti's doctoral thesis at the University of Helsinki in Finland, which aims to understand the capacity of algae to respond and adapt to environmental change, as well as what people know and how they feel about algae.
Exhibited in a space managed by the City of Melbourne.
I respectfully acknowledge the Traditional Owners of the unceded land to which I have returned and am privileged to work and share my algal stories, the Wurundjeri Woi-wurrung and Bunurong / Boon Wurrung peoples of the Kulin and pays respect to their Elders past and present. I acknowledge and honour the unbroken spiritual, cultural and political connection they have maintained to this unique place for more than 2000 generations. I celebrate and acknowledge First Nations people as our first scientists.
Funding kindly provided by Kone Foundation, Helsinki University Institute of Sustainability HELSUS, Wiipurilainenosakunta stipendisäätiö and Vuokon luonnonsuojelusaatio
Go see Exhibition Algae 2025.
Exhibition Algae 2025 is on 15 October 2025 - 09 November 2025. See start and end times below. Conveniently located in Melbourne. Visit their website at https://algaeexhibition.weebly.com/exhibition-melbourne.html.
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