Museum Victoria

Museum Victoria

Museum Victoria is Australia’s largest public museum organisation. As the State museum for Victoria, we are responsible for looking after the State collection, conducting research and providing cultural and science programs for the people of Victoria and visitors from interstate and overseas.

Museum Victoria’s origins date back to 1854, with the founding of the National Museum of Victoria and the establishment, in 1870, of the Industrial and Technological Museum of Victoria (later known as the Science Museum of Victoria). By proclamation of the Museums Act 1983 (Vic.), these two institutions were amalgamated to form what is known today as Museum Victoria, governed by the Museums Board of Victoria.

Museum Victoria undertakes high-quality research on historical and contemporary issues in the fields of science, history and technology, and Indigenous cultures. Our research is based on a world-class collection of nearly 17 million items and is carried out by expert curators. Museum Victoria operates three museums, a collection storage facility and a non-collection facility, and is custodian for the World Heritage–listed Royal Exhibition Building.

The photograph above, taken by an unknown photographer in approximately 1899, shows museum specimens being moved from the University of Melbourne to Swanston Street, where it remained for another hundred years. Museum Victoria now has public venues at Melbourne Museum and the Royal Exhibition Building in Carlton Gardens, Scienceworks in Spotswood, and the Immigration Museum in central Melbourne.

Museum Victoria's History & Technology collections are online at http://museumvictoria.com.au/collections


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