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The Melbourne Museum is a natural and cultural history museum located in the Carlton Gardens in Melbourne, Australia.. Located adjacent to the Royal Exhibition Building, [1] the museum was opened in 2000 as a project of the Government of Victoria, on behalf of Museums Victoria which administers the venue.
This list of museums in Victoria, Australia contains museums which are defined for this context as institutions (including nonprofit organizations, government entities, and private businesses) that collect and care for objects of cultural, artistic, scientific, or historical interest and make their collections or related exhibits available for ...
It was designed to accommodate the Treasury Department, various government officials' offices including the Governor In Council, and basement vaults intended to house gold from the Victorian gold rush. It now houses a range of functions, including a museum of Melbourne history, known as Old Treasury Building Museum.
Museums Victoria is an organisation that includes a number of museums and related bodies in Melbourne.These include Melbourne Museum, Immigration Museum, Scienceworks, IMAX Melbourne, a research institute, the UNESCO World Heritage-listed Royal Exhibition Building and a storage facility in Melbourne's City of Merri-bek.
The National Gallery of Victoria, popularly known as the NGV, is an art museum in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. Founded in 1861, it is Australia's oldest and most visited art museum. The NGV houses its collection across two sites: NGV International, located on St Kilda Road in the Melbourne Arts Precinct of Southbank , and the Ian Potter ...
The museum was established in 1985 with a charter to present the history of Australians of Chinese ancestry, and is dedicated to documenting, preserving and displaying the history, heritage and culture of Australia's Chinese community. An extensive refurbishment funded by the Victorian Government was completed in 2010.
The Immigration Museum focuses on Melbourne and Victoria’s immigration history. First opened in 1998 as a division of Museums Victoria, Immigration Museum is located at the restored Old Customs House Building on Flinders Street in Melbourne, Victoria. [1]
Now Heide Museum of Modern Art operates as a non-profit company limited by guarantee, and on behalf of the Victorian Government, a Board of Directors is delegated as a Committee of Management. Dr Norman Wettenhall was appointed the first Chairman and the then Premier of Victoria, Sir Rupert Hamer was honoured as the inaugural Patron.