Everything about Melbourne Museum totally explained
The
Melbourne Museum is located in the
Carlton Gardens in
Melbourne,
Australia. It shares these gardens with the
Royal Exhibition Building. It is the largest museum in the
Southern Hemisphere.
The museum has seven main galleries, a Children's Gallery and a temporary exhibit gallery on three levels, Upper, Ground and Lower Level and was constructed by Baulderstone Hornibrook.
The Touring Hall is where temporary exhibits are displayed. Past exhibits include
mummies from
Egypt and
dinosaurs from
China. The Big Box is part of the Children's Gallery.
In addition, the museum has other facilities such as the Sidney Myer Amphitheatre and
The Age Theatre. The Discovery Centre, on the Lower Level, is a free public research centre. The museum also has a cafe and a souvenir shop.
IMAX Theatre, which is situated on the Lower Level is also part of the museum complex. It shows movies, usually
documentary films, in 3-D format.
Main Permanent Exhibits
The main permanent exhibits include:
- Evolution Gallery - including a skeleton of a diprotodon (a giant wombat-like creature), and skeletons of dinosaurs such as:
- Australia Gallery - where the body of Phar Lap, a race horse that won the Melbourne Cup during the depression era, is exhibited.
- Big skeleton of a Pygmy Blue Whale
- CSIRAC - an early computer built in Australia by the forerunner organisation to the CSIRO
- Mind and Body Gallery - a gallery regarding the human body. It also features a world first exhibition about the mind (called The Mind: enter the labyrinth).
- Science and Life Gallery including the Virtual Room, Bugz Alive! exhibition and Marine Life.
- Forest Gallery - a temperate Victorian forest environment, complete with birds, reptiles, and other fauna
- Bunjilaka - a gallery with exhibitions concerning the Aborigines of Victoria
- Te Pasifika Gallery - an exhibition which highlights the history and watercrafts of Pacific Islanders
History
The museum had its earliest beginnings in the Government Assay Office which on
9 March 1854, opened some displays in
La Trobe Street. In 1858,
Frederick McCoy who was Professor of Natural History at the
University of Melbourne was appointed Director of the National Museum.
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The Melbourne Museum was originally located (along with the
State Library and the old state gallery) in the city block between La Trobe,
Swanston,
Little Lonsdale and
Russell Streets - the nearby Museum underground railway station was originally named after it, although following the move it station has been renamed
Melbourne Central. The State Library now uses all the space in that building, the gallery also having moved to the
NGV site.
Festival Melbourne 2006
Melbourne Museum was one of the venues of
Festival Melbourne 2006, a city-wide art festival held in conjunction of the
2006 Commonwealth Games, which was held in Melbourne. Among the exhibitions held in the museum were 'Common Goods:Cultures Meet Through Craft', which featured crafts made by artists from various
Commonwealth countries and 'CARVE:Indigenous carving practices', a series of demonstrations of traditional indigenous carving practices and techniques from Australia,
New Zealand and
Canada.
Besides that, there was a producers' market, 'Victorian Producers' Market', where the best produces from regional Victoria such as wine, cheese and others were sold. A cooking competition, 'Culinary Pro Am of the Commonwealth' was also held between top Melbourne chefs, each representing a Commonwealth country.
Another crowd drawer was the large screen on museum grounds where live actions of the Games were shown.
Gallery
Image:Melbourne museum pano.jpg|thumb|center|Melbourne Museum
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External links / References
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Melbourne Food and Wine during the 2006 Commonwealth Games
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