Until 2 May

Distraction

Name: Distraction
Start: 2026-02-18
End: 2026-05-02
Location: Science Gallery Melbourne

This free exhibition plugs into the streaming torrent of content and the places brains go when it wants to focus on anything but the thing. You know… that thing you’re supposed to be doing right now?

Your distraction of choice could be scrolling, daydreaming or escaping into a digital universe. When minds are bouncing around the whirring, flashing pinball machine of existence – is wayward attention a way of coping with the chaos?  

Visit Science Gallery Melbourne to experience the playful ways humans devote their time in an increasingly nonsensical world. With a hundred tabs open and endless avenues to explore, how is it possible to harness the cacophony of content and find meaning within it?

Science Gallery at the University of Melbourne, where art and science collide.

Photography by Astrid Mulder.

Date	Times
Wed 25 Feb	11:00am - 5:00pm
Thu 26 Feb	11:00am - 5:00pm
Fri 27 Feb	11:00am - 5:00pm
Sat 28 Feb	11:00am - 5:00pm
Wed 4 Mar	11:00am - 5:00pm
Thu 5 Mar	11:00am - 5:00pm
Fri 6 Mar	11:00am - 5:00pm
Sat 7 Mar	11:00am - 5:00pm
Wed 11 Mar	11:00am - 5:00pm
Thu 12 Mar	11:00am - 5:00pm
Fri 13 Mar	11:00am - 5:00pm
Sat 14 Mar	11:00am - 5:00pm
Wed 18 Mar	11:00am - 5:00pm
Thu 19 Mar	11:00am - 5:00pm
Fri 20 Mar	11:00am - 5:00pm
Sat 21 Mar	11:00am - 5:00pm
Wed 25 Mar	11:00am - 5:00pm
Thu 26 Mar	11:00am - 5:00pm
Fri 27 Mar	11:00am - 5:00pm
Sat 28 Mar	11:00am - 5:00pm
Wed 1 Apr	11:00am - 5:00pm
Thu 2 Apr	11:00am - 5:00pm
Fri 3 Apr	11:00am - 5:00pm
Sat 4 Apr	11:00am - 5:00pm
Wed 8 Apr	11:00am - 5:00pm
Thu 9 Apr	11:00am - 5:00pm
Fri 10 Apr	11:00am - 5:00pm
Sat 11 Apr	11:00am - 5:00pm
Wed 15 Apr	11:00am - 5:00pm
Thu 16 Apr	11:00am - 5:00pm
Fri 17 Apr	11:00am - 5:00pm
Sat 18 Apr	11:00am - 5:00pm
Wed 22 Apr	11:00am - 5:00pm
Thu 23 Apr	11:00am - 5:00pm
Fri 24 Apr	11:00am - 5:00pm
Sat 25 Apr	11:00am - 5:00pm
Wed 29 Apr	11:00am - 5:00pm
Thu 30 Apr	11:00am - 5:00pm
Fri 1 May	11:00am - 5:00pm
Sat 2 May	11:00am - 5:00pm

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