Corporate entry Museum Victoria (1998 - )

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

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

Museum Victoria, Treasures of the Museum, Victoria, Australia, Melbourne, 2004, 206 pp. 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, vol. 11, no. 1, 1996, pp. 1-11. Also available at http://www.publish.csiro.au/paper/HR9961110001.htm. Details

Pharaoh, Mark, review of 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., Historical Records of Australian Science, vol. 14, no. 1, 2002, pp. 107-109. Also available at http://www.publish.csiro.au/?act=view_file&file_id=HR02901D_BR.pdf. Details
Sherratt, Tim, review of Museum Victoria, Treasures of the Museum, Victoria, Australia (2004), Historical Records of Australian Science, vol. 16, no. 1, 2005, pp. 122-124. Also available at http://www.publish.csiro.au/?act=view_file&file_id=HR05006.pdf. Details

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

Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009, http://nla.gov.au/nla.party-783826. Details

Ailie Smith

Created: 16 July 2002, Last modified: 17 June 2010

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