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.
Related entries
Timeline
1858 - 1983 National Museum of Victoria
1971 - 1983 Science Museum of Victoria
1983 - 1998 Museum of Victoria
1998 - Museum Victoria
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
- Carey, Jane, 'Hope Black, née Macpherson (1919- ): First Female Curator at the Musuem of Victoria', Australasian Science, 21 (5) (2000), 46. Details
- Darragh, Thomas A., 'Brief history of the palaeontological collection in the Museum of Victoria', The Fossil Collector Bulletin, 40 (1993), 7-12. Details
Resources
- Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009, https://nla.gov.au/nla.party-512729. Details
Theses
- Aitken, Richard, 'The Mining Collection of the National Museum of Victoria, 1856-1871', MA thesis, University of Melbourne, 1990. Details
See also
- White, Judy, The Art of Collecting National Heritage: the Letters of Henry Luke White 1910-1913 (Scone, N.S.W.: Seven Press, 2007), 190 pp. Details
Ailie Smith
Created: 16 July 2002, Last modified: 14 February 2023