MAPh | Friends of MGA exclusive event | Guided tour of Photo Ark at the Melbourne Zoo

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Friends of MGA exclusive event | Guided tour of Photo Ark at the Melbourne Zoo

13 September 2017

Friends of MGA members are invited to an exclusive tour of ‘Photo Ark’ A National Geographic exhibition being hosted by Melbourne Zoo.

Please join Jane Scott, Curator of Photo Ark (and past-MGA Director) along with MGA’s new director Anouska Phizacklea for an insight into this exhibition of the work of photographer Joel Sartore.

Joel Sartore has visited 40 countries in his quest to create a photo archive of global biodiversity and the exhibition features images taken at Melbourne Zoo and Healesville Sanctuary. To date, Sartore has completed intimate portraits of more than 6,000 species. The exhibition is now open in Melbourne Zoo's Leopard Lodge and showcases these incredible portraits of animals on the brink.

Date: Wednesday 13 September

Time: 10.30am tour - meet at 10.15am at the Rail Gate Entrance which is next to the Zoo’s own train station: Royal Park Station on the Upfield Line (map).

Tickets: $28.80 Friends of MGA exclusive price (which includes a generous 20% discount from our friends at Melbourne Zoo). Members are invited to explore the Melbourne Zoo after the exhibition tour has concluded.

Please contact MGA to book 03 8544 0500 or mga@monash.vic.gov.au

MAPh acknowledges the Traditional Owners of the land, the Wurundjeri Woi Wurrung and Bunurong People, and recognises their continuing connection to the land and waterways.

We pay our respects to their Elders past, present and emerging and extend this to all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander People.

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