Queensland Museum

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The Queensland Museum is a state museum in Queensland , Australia . There are currently 5 locations, two in Brisbane (in South Brisbane and Woolloongabba ), as well as in Ipswich , Toowoomba and Townsville . The museums cover the history of Queensland.

The museum was founded in Brisbane by the Queensland Philosophical Society in 1862. In 1879 it moved into its own building and in 1899 into the Exhibition Building. In 1985 it moved to Gray and Melbourne Streets on the South Bank. There is the Queensland Museum South Bank and the Science Center. In addition to the headquarters, there is a railway museum in Ipswich (The Workshops Rail Museum), the Museum of Tropical Queensland in Townsville and the Cobb & Co Museum in Toowoomba.

The Museum of Tropical Queensland also has maritime exhibits, such as the HMS Pandora, which sank in the Barrier Reef in 1791 and was supposed to hunt down the mutineers of the Bounty. Her replica bow can be seen in the museum. On display are creatures from the Great Barrier Reef and the tropical rainforests of Queensland. The Cobb & Co Museum is named after a 19th century stagecoach company and brings these pioneering days to life.

From 1901 to 1905 Charles Walter De Vis was director.

Exhibits

Skeletons of the extinct giant buccaneer Diprotodon and the herbivorous dinosaur Muttaburrasaurus can be seen at the Queensland Museum . Its fossils were found in Muttaburra and the dinosaur was named after the place of its discovery.

The best-known exhibit since 1919 has been the German A7V "Mephisto" tank , which came into Australian possession during the First World War . It is the last surviving German armored car of its kind. In July 2015, the vehicle was temporarily loaned to the Australian War Memorial Museum on the occasion of the commemoration of the First World War , where it remained until June 2017. Today, "Mephisto" is back in the Queensland Museum South Bank and is the showpiece of the Anzac Legacy Gallery, which opened on November 10, 2018 and is dedicated to the First World War.

There are also ethnographic exhibits from Aborigines and residents of the islands of the Torres Strait.

Web links

Commons : Queensland Museum  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Queensland Museum: Moving Mephisto .
  2. ^ Queensland Government: Anzac Legacy Gallery and Mephisto


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