Corporate Body

Museum Victoria (1998 - )

From
1998
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Functions
Collection Management, Museum , History of Australian Engineering, History of Australian Science and History of Australian Technology
Website
http://www.museum.vic.gov.au
Location
Melbourne, Victoria

Summary

In 1998 the Museum of Victoria was renamed Museum Victoria. The Museum was relocated to new premises at Carlton gardens in 2000.

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Timeline

 1858 - 1983 National Museum of Victoria
 1971 - 1983 Science Museum of Victoria
       1983 - 1998 Museum of Victoria
             1998 - Museum Victoria

Related People

Published resources

Books

  • Kean, John, The Art of Science: Remarkable Natural History Illustrations from Museum Victoria (Melbourne: Museum Victoria, 2013), 177 pp. Details
  • Museum Victoria, Treasures of the Museum, Victoria, Australia (Melbourne: Museum Victoria, 2004), 206 pp. Details

Book Sections

  • 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

Journal Articles

  • Birch, W. D.; and Henry, D.A., 'The geology collections of Museum Victoria, Melbourne', Australian Journal of Mineralogy, 6 (2) (2000), 83-91. 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

Resources

Reviews

  • Rasmussen, Carolyn, (together with 46 specialist contributors): A Museum for the People: a History of Museum Victoria and its predecessor institutions, 1854-2000, Scribe Publications, Carlton North, Victoria, 2001.
    Pharaoh, Mark, Historical Records of Australian Science, 14 (1), (2002), 107-109. https://doi.org/10.1071/HR02901D_BR. Details
  • Museum Victoria, Treasures of the Museum, Victoria, Australia (2004)
    Sherratt, Tim, Historical Records of Australian Science, 16 (1), (2005), 122-124. https://doi.org/10.1071/HR05006. Details

Theses

  • Aitken, Richard, 'The Mining Collection of the National Museum of Victoria, 1856-1871', MA thesis, University of Melbourne, 1990. Details

See also

  • Anon, 'Changing of the guard in mineralogy at Museum Victoria, Melbourne', Australian Journal of Mineralogy, 17 (2) (2015), 61-2. Details
  • Hewish, Marilyn, 'Biographical Notes on George Lyell, Victorian Lepidopterist [Part 1]', Victorian Entomologist, 44 (5) (2014), 96-106. Details
  • Howes, Hilary; Jones, Tristen; and Spriggs, Matthew eds, Uncovering Pacific pasts: histories of archaeology in Oceania (Canberra: ANU Press, 2022), 577 pp. http://doi.org/10.22459/UPP.2021. Details
  • Jones, Mike, Artefacts, archives, and documentation in the relational museum (London: New York: Routledge, 2022 [ie 2021]), 183 pp. Details
  • Knapman, Gareth, 'Mapping an Ancestral Past: Discovering Charles Richards' Maps of Aboriginal South-Eastern Australia', Australian Aboriginal Studies, 2011 (1) (2011), 17-33. Details
  • Taçon, Paul S. C., Taylor, Luke, May, Sally K., Goldhahn, Joakim, Jalandoni, Andrea, Ressel, Alex and Mangiru, Kenneth, 'Majumbu ('Old Harry') and the Spencer-Cahill bark painting collection', Australian archaeology, 89 (1) (2023), 14-31. https://doi.org/10.1080/03122417.2023.2177949. Details

Ailie Smith

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