Melbourne Museum's biodiversity gallery wraps a film around visitors

'Our Wondrous Planet' spans 1,800 square metres at Melbourne Museum across four ecosystems — reef, rainforest, ice and soil — aiming to inspire wonder at biodiversity and empower action to protect it.

Earth's interconnected living systems projected onto a walk-around translucent cylinder, synced to light and a multichannel soundscape.

Resolution Design developed the 'Global Life Flow' film with the museum's project and curatorial teams, research scientists and First Nations storyshapers, blending science with First Peoples knowledge systems through motion graphics and 3D animation synchronised with lighting and sound for full immersion.

The film anchors the most expansive science and biodiversity gallery in Museums Victoria's history, establishing and renewing its message of interconnectedness, wonder and hope; no visitor figures were given.

The most expansive science and biodiversity gallery in Museums Victoria's history opened at Melbourne Museum: 'Our Wondrous Planet', spanning 1,800 square metres across four ecosystems that play major roles in the planet's vitality — reef, rainforest, ice and soil. At its centre stands a film brought to life by Resolution Design, the M+C Saatchi Group AUNZ production house.

The 'Global Life Flow' film illustrates the interconnectedness of Earth's living systems and the flows of life that link us all, using motion graphics and 3D animation projected onto a translucent, double-sided cylindrical canvas, synchronised with lighting effects and a multichannel soundscape for full immersion.

Resolution Design developed and designed the film in collaboration with the museum's project and curatorial teams, research scientists and First Nations storyshapers, blending science with First Peoples knowledge systems. Creative producer Jeff Jaffers called it 'a synergy of design, science, and First Peoples storytelling', and Museums Victoria's Hamish Palmer said the work 'establishes and continually renews the gallery's sweeping message of interconnectedness, wonder and hope'.

Interconnectedness needs a form: a see-through cylinder lets the film be seen from both sides at once, so visitors literally share one flow of life.

Co-design with research scientists and First Nations storyshapers gave the spectacle factual and cultural authority.

Synced lighting and sound turn a gallery walk into a timed experience, giving the museum a centrepiece worth returning for.

Make the screen an object, not a wall: a cylinder visitors move around turns watching into dwelling, which is what a biodiversity message needs.

As of the October 2025 write-up 'Our Wondrous Planet' was open at Melbourne Museum with 'Global Life Flow' as its centrepiece.