Corporate Body

Science Museum of Victoria (1971 - 1983)

From
1971
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
To
1983
Functions
Collection Management, Museum , History of Australian Engineering, History of Australian Science and History of Australian Technology
Location
Melbourne, Victoria

Summary

The Science Museum of Victoria was established in 1971, taking the place of the former Institute of Applied Science. In 1983 the Science Museum was amalgamated with the National Museum of Victoria, creating the Museum of Victoria.

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 1870 - 1945 Industrial and Technological Museum
       1945 - 1971 Museum of Applied Science
             1971 - 1983 Science Museum of Victoria
                   1983 - 1998 Museum of Victoria
                         1998 - Museum Victoria

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Published resources

Books

  • Perry, Warren, The Science Museum of Victoria: a History of its First Hundred Years (Melbourne: Science Museum of Victoria, 1972), 203 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

Conference Papers

  • Hallett, Martin, 'The Objects of Science and Technology - Working with "Things"', in Recovering Science: Strategies and Models for the Past, Present and Future: Proceedings of a Conference Held at the University of Melbourne, October 1992 edited by Tim Sherratt, Lisa Jooste and Rosanne Clayton (Canberra: Australian Science Archives Project, 1995), pp. 87-93., https://www.asap.unimelb.edu.au/confs/recovering/hallett.htm. Details

Journal Articles

  • McGillivray, E., 'Report on research: Richard Daintree negatives at Science Museum of Victoria', WOPOP: working papers on photography, 7 (1981), 11-4. Details

Resources

See also

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