Flood ‘like a scene from Titanic’, Sammy J says as Museums Victoria calls for help retrieving artefacts

ABC Radio breakfast host Sammy J says he came across the flooded Melbourne street and loose museum artefacts on his way to a gig on Saturday. Photograph: ABC

Museums Victoria is calling on the public to help track down an unknown number of historically and scientifically significant objects, after its storage facility in Melbourne’s inner north flooded on Saturday.

A burst water main flooded the basement of the institution’s Merri-bek facility, washing an unknown number of fossils, rocks and other archeological specimens down the street.