Corporate Body

Museum of Victoria (1983 - 1998)

From
1983
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
To
1998
Functions
Collection Management, Museum , History of Australian Engineering, History of Australian Science and History of Australian Technology
Location
Melbourne, Victoria

Summary

The Museum of Victoria was formed in 1983, after an amalgamation took place between the Science Museum of Victoria and the National Museum of Victoria. In 1998 the Museum was renamed Museum Victoria.

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Timeline

 1870 - 1945 Industrial and Technological Museum
       1854 - 1858 Museum of Natural History
       1945 - 1971 Museum of Applied Science
             1858 - 1983 National Museum of Victoria
             1971 - 1983 Science Museum of Victoria
                   1983 - 1998 Museum of Victoria
                         1998 - Museum Victoria

Related People

Archival resources

The University of Melbourne Archives

  • Department of Otolaryngology - Bionic Ear Records, 1949 - 2000, 2004.0043 at U77/46-55; The University of Melbourne Archives. Details

Published resources

Books

  • Dixon, Joan M.; and Frigo, Lina, The cetacean collection of the Museum of Victoria: an annotated catalogue (Croydon, Vic.: Australian Deer Research Foundation, 1994), 38 pp. Details
  • Museum Victoria, Treasures of the Museum, Victoria, Australia (Melbourne: Museum Victoria, 2004), 206 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
  • Willis, Elizabeth (with Twigg, Karen), Behind Closed Doors: a catalogue of artefacts from Victorian psychiatric institutions held at the Museum of Victoria (Melbourne: Museum Victoria, 1994). Details

Journal Articles

  • Birch, W., 'The mineral collection of the Museum of Victoria', Mineralogical Society bulletin (1996), 13-5. Details
  • Birch, W. D.; and Henry, D. A., 'The geology collections of Museum Victoria, Melbourne', Australian Journal of Mineralogy, 6 (2) (2000), 83-91. Details

Resources

Theses

  • Aitken, Richard, 'The Mining Collection of the National Museum of Victoria, 1856-1871', MA thesis, University of Melbourne, 1990. Details
  • Kesik, Catherine Louise, 'Moving into the 20th century: from the National Museum of Victoria to the Melbourne Museum: a study of cultural revolution', MA thesis, Monash University, 1998. Details

See also

  • Kean, John, The Art of Science: Remarkable Natural History Illustrations from Museum Victoria (Melbourne: Museum Victoria, 2013), 177 pp. Details

Ailie Smith

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