Melbourne Museum
The Melbourne Museum in Carlton Gardens of Melbourne is the largest museum in the Southern Hemisphere. It opened in November 2000. It belongs to the Museum Victoria , which brings together several museums of the state in Melbourne such as the Scienceworks Museum (science museum) and the Immigration Museum (immigration) and the Royal Exhibition Hall (for large exhibitions).
The architecturally sophisticated building houses over 16 million exhibits on around 80,000 square meters. A major attraction is the 30-meter-high Forrest Gallery, in which 82 plant and 25 animal species are present. A whole range of Australian and Chinese dinosaurs are exhibited, including Tarbosaurus , Gallimimus , Hypsilophodon , Mamenchisaurus , Tsintaosaurus , a hadrosaur , Muttaburrasaurus and Pteranodon . In addition, among other things, Anomalocaris from the Burgess fauna, the skeleton of a Diprotodonand a skeleton of a minke blue whale. It also houses the ethnology (including Aboriginal ) collections, Egyptological collections and an Imax cinema.
It was founded in 1854 as a natural history museum by the paleontologist Frederick McCoy (1817-1899), professor of natural history at the University of Melbourne and previously assistant to the geologist Adam Sedgwick in Cambridge. From 1858 he was the first director of what was then the National Museum of Victoria. In 1983 the Museum of Victoria was created by merging with the Museum of Technology, which was renamed Museum Victoria in 1998. This resulted in the Melbourne Museum, which was originally located elsewhere in a building complex with the State Library. When this expanded, it moved and opened in the new location in 2000.
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- Melbourne Museum
- Melbourne Museum - Attractions Australia Current information about the Melbourne Museum in Melbourne (state Victoria) and presentation of the individual exhibition areas
Coordinates: 37 ° 48 ′ 12.5 ″ S , 144 ° 58 ′ 18 ″ E