Melbourne Museum join forces with Academy Award-winning studio to tell the secret life of bugs
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Melbourne Museum join forces with Academy Award-winning studio to tell the secret life of bugs

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Bug Lab will allow visitors to marvel at ultra-detailed large-scale models of bugs, discover cutting-edge science and explore the world as bugs do, through immersive sensory experiences. 

The groundbreaking exhibition features the creative prowess of five-time Academy Award-winning studio, Weta Workshop – best known as the wizards behind the vision, costumes and practical effects as featured in The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit trilogies, King Kong, Avatar and District 9.

Bug Lab uncovers the adaptive genius of bugs, which over millions of years have evolved to have superpower-like abilities, including camouflage, mind control, super speed, swarm intelligence and deadly venom.

Bug Lab also highlights how bugs are the leading inspiration for cutting-edge technologies such as fly-like collision-tolerant drones, nanotechnology based on butterfly wings and 3D printed objects created from silk. 

The exhibition will feature six zones including ultra-detailed large-scale models of bugs, four immersive bug chambers, six interactive lab tables, and more.