The Museum of Lost Things

Yvonne Audette: Australia’s First Abstract Expressionist

Yvonne Audette was a pioneering local artist, one of the first to bring the radical ideas of Abstract Expressionism to Australia.

Ngorongoro Crater in Tanzania is the world’s largest volcanic caldera, a lost world style home to an array of iconic animals.

As 2025 begins, its time for our annual look back at the top stories and events of 20, 50 and 100 years ago.

The world’s most popular orange drink has its unlikely origin in World War II Germany: did the Nazi’s invent Fanta?

The VFL/AFL has seen many changes in the last 120 years; here are the AFL teams that have changed their name.

Unsinkable predictions, perfect eclipses, and a prophetic license plate: here are history’s greatest coincidences.

Melbourne is a young city; only a handful of structures remain from before 1850, here is a list of Melbourne’s oldest buildings.

George Goodman was Australia’s first photographer: in the 1840s, the only man licensed to take photos in the colonies.

Maligned as a pest and otherwise ignored, weedy plants often have fascinating backstories. This is, the hidden history of weeds.

Near the MCG, where the Pullman Hotel is today, used to stand ‘Cliveden’, Melbourne’s largest and most opulent house.