Museums Australia (Victoria) has recognised the outstanding achievements of its museums and their employees at the 2005 Museum Industry Recognition Awards in Melbourne.

The Immigration Museum, which is part of Museum Victoria, won the award for best project, for its ‘Station Pier: Gateway to a New Life’ exhibition, which tells the story of the migration of post war immigrants to Victoria. The exhibition has been running in the Melbourne-based museum for seven months and ends in September this year.

The Meritorious Volunteer Achievement award went to The Johnny Mullagh Cricket Centre in Harrow, for its depiction of Australia's first Aboriginal touring cricket team of 1868. The multi-media experience entertains cricket enthusiasts with descriptions of the Aboriginal contribution to the sport of cricket in the nineteenth century.

Rosalie Dance and Glen Stuart were given Lifetime Achievement awards. The Heide Museum of Modern Art in Bulleen, nominated Dance for her vision and long-term commitment to the museum sector’s engagement with the community, while Stuart was nominated by the Port Melbourne Historical and Preservation Society for his dedication, commitment and contribution to Australian maritime history and to the local history of Port Melbourne.

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