The Melbourne Museum – Virtual Tour

The Melbourne Museum is a natural and cultural history museum that opened in 2000 to provide a facility for education, history, and culture in a contemporary setting.

It is one of the largest museums in Australia and is managed by Museums Victoria. The facility is home to some of Museums Victoria’s State Collections, which holds over 17 million items.

The collection includes objects relating to:

Indigenous Australian cultures
Pacific Islander cultures
Geology
Historical studies
Paleontology
Technology and Society
Zoology

The library collection holds some of Australia’s rarest examples of 18th and 19th-century scientific monographs and serials.

The museum had its earliest beginnings in the Government Assay Office, which opened in 1854. The new Melbourne Museum is inclusive of living organisms within the galleries.

The centerpiece of the new building houses the Forest Gallery, a massive living exhibition offering a window into the tall forests of eastern Victoria.

It includes hundreds of living plants and live animals such as birds, reptiles, amphibians, and invertebrates.

Sam the Koala – during the 2020 Bushfires, she was filmed drinking from a water bottle. Sam’s image became headline news around the world.
She became a symbol of hope and resilience during the loss and trauma of the bushfires.
Sam recovered from her burns but was later euthanized due to chlamydiosis which is widespread in koalas and is exacerbated by the loss of habitat.
After Sam’s death, she was prepared for display in a manner that depicted her recovering from her fire injuries showing her foot bandages.

Woman saves scorched koala from Australian bushfire

Highlights of the Melbourne Museum

Science and Life Gallery – including skeletons of dinosaurs
Melbourne Gallery – which includes Phar Lap
Mind and Body Gallery – which explores the human body
Bunjilaka Aboriginal Cultural Centre – explores the history of the Aboriginal peoples of Victoria
Forest Gallery – a living, temperate Victorian forest environment with live birds, reptiles, and other fauna

The Melbourne Museum

Museum: Melbourne Museum
City: Melbourne
Country: Australia
Established: 1854
Type: Natural and Cultural History
Location: 11 Nicholson St, Carlton, Victoria, Australia

The Melbourne Museum – Map

The Melbourne Museum – 360 Virtual Views

A Virtual Tour of Indigenous Aboriginal Art And Artifacts

The Melbourne Museum

Australian Proverbs and Quotes

Australian Proverbs and Quotes

The Melbourne Museum

A Tour of Museums in Australia

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“A truly happy person is one who can enjoy the scenery on a detour.”
– Anon

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Photo Credit: By No machine-readable author provided. Donaldytong assumed (based on copyright claims). [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons; Benjamin Healley, Museums Victoria / CC BY (creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0)