Corporate Body
National Museum of Victoria (1858 - 1983)
- From
- 1858
- To
- 1983
- Functions
- Collection Management, History of Australian Science and Museum
- Alternative Names
- Museum of Natural and Economic Geology (Also known as, 1854 - 1858)
Summary
The National Museum of Victoria first opened in 1854 and in 1983 was amalgamated with the Science Museum of Victoria to become Museum of Victoria (1983 - 1998) later renamed Museum Victoria (1998- ).
Related entries
Timeline
1858 - 1983 National Museum of Victoria
1983 - 1998 Museum of Victoria
1998 - Museum Victoria
Published resources
Books
- Fennessy, Kathleen M., A People Learning: Colonial Victorians and their Public Museums (Melbourne: Australian Scholarly Publishing, 2007), 334 pp. Details
- Pescott, R. T. M., Collections of a century: the history of the first hundred years of the National Museum of Victoria, Melbourne (Melbourne: National Museum of Victoria, 1954), 186 pp. Details
- Pescott, R. T. M., The memoirs of a "naturalist": a story of the goings and comings of one Richard Thomas Martin Pescott in Australia and elsewhere, by himself [unpublished.] ([Melbourne]: 1984), unpaged pp. Details
- Rasmussen, Carolyn et al., A Museum for the people: a History of Museum Victoria and its predecessor institutions, 1854-2000 (Carlton North, Victoria: Scribe Publications, 2001), 420 pp. Details
- Spencer, W. B., Guide to the Australian ethnological collection exhibited in the National Museum of Victoria (Melbourne: Government Printer, 1901), 88 pp. Details
Book Sections
- Allen, Lindy, 'Tons and Tons of Valuable Material: the Donald Thomson Collection' in The Makers and Making of Indigenous Australian Museum Collections, Peterson, Nicolas, Allen, Lindy and Hamby, Louise, eds (Carlton: Melbourne University Press, 2008), pp. 387-412. Details
- Knapman, Gareth, 'Curiosities or Science in the National Museum of Victoria: Procurement Networks and the Purpose of a Museum' in Curating Empire: Museums and the British Imperial Experience, Longair, Sarah and McAleer, John, eds (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2012), pp. 83-103. Details
- Longmore, N.W., 'Growth and Life Stages of Ornithology in Museum Victoria' in Contributions to Contributions to the History of Australasian Ornithology, volume 2, Davis, William E., Recher, Harry F. and Boles, Walter E., eds (Cambridge, Massachusetts: Nuttall Ornithological Club, 2012), pp. 89-139. Details
- Mulvaney, John, '"Annexing All I Can Lay Hands On": Baldwin Spencer as Ethnographic Collector' in The Makers and Making of Indigenous Australian Museum Collections, Peterson, Nicolas, Allen, Lindy and Hamby, Louise, eds (Carlton: Melbourne University Press, 2008), pp. 141-59. Details
Journal Articles
- Birch, William D., 'The Ellerslie meteorite: decription and correction to its historical find site', Journal and proceedings of the Royal Society of New South Wales, 154 (1) (2021), 12-23. Details
- Black, J. Hope, 'The Kershaw Dynasty', The Victorian naturalist, 122 (2005), 351-7. Details
- Cockburn, Sylvia, 'Seeking a lost collection at Museums Victoria: George Thomas Rice's "Museum of Island Curios"', Journal of Pacific History, 58 (1) (2023), 1-20. https://doi.org/10.1080/00223344.2022.2060197. Details
- Goodman, David, 'Fear of circuses: founding the National Museum of Victoria', Continuum: journal of media and cultural studies, 3 (1) (1990), 18-34. Details
- James, Rodney, 'The battle for Spencer barks from Australia to the U.S.A., 1963-68', La Trobe journal, 93/4 (2014), 181-95. Details
- Rasmussen, Carolyn, 'Professor Frederick McCoy and the National Museum of Victoria, 1856-1899', The Victorian naturalist, 117 (5) (2001), 230-239. Details
- Rasmussen, Carolyn, 'How Can a Museum Collect Dead Things and Remain Alive? Reflections on the History of Museum Victoria', Circa: the Journal of Professional Historians, 2102 (3) (2012), 63-73. Details
- Turnbull, Paul, ' Australian museums, Aboriginal skeletal remains, and the imagining of human evolutionary history', Museum & society, 13 (1) (2015), 72-87. https://doi.org/10.29311/mas.v13i1.318. Details
- Wilkinson, Ian R, 'The Battle for the Museum: Frederick McCoy and the Establishment of the National Museum of Victoria at the University of Melbourne', Historical Records of Australian Science, 11 (1) (1996), 1-11. https://doi.org/10.1071/HR9961110001. Details
Resources
- Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009, https://nla.gov.au/nla.party-488974. Details
Elizabeth Daniels
Created: 3 July 2018, Last modified: 14 February 2023