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The Melbourne Museum is located in the Carlton Gardens in Melbourne, Australia. It shares these gardens with the Royal Exhibition Building. It is the largest museum in the Southern Hemisphere. Image File history File linksMetadata Download high resolution version (1024x768, 129 KB) Source Photographer: User:Vincentshia (Vincent Pac Soo) Website: Vincents Space Licensing File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. ...
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The Louvre Museum in Paris, one of the largest and most famous museums in the world. ...
The Royal Exhibition Building in the Carlton Gardens The Carlton Gardens is a World Heritage Site located on the northeastern edge of the Central Business District in the suburb of Carlton, in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. ...
This article is about the Australian city; the name may also refer to City of Melbourne or Melbourne city centre. ...
The Royal Exhibition Building from the main avenue of the Carlton Gardens The Royal Exhibition Building, viewed from the west The Royal Exhibition Building is located in Melbourne, Australia. ...
southern hemisphere highlighted in yellow (Antarctica not depicted). ...
The museum has seven main galleries, a Children's Gallery and a temporary exhibit gallery on three levels, Upper, Ground and Lower Level and was constructed by Baulderstone Hornibrook.
The Touring Hall is where temporary exhibits are displayed. Past exhibits include mummies from Egypt and dinosaurs from China. The Big Box is part of the Children's Gallery. Mummified cat from Ancient Egypt. ...
Orders & Suborders Saurischia Sauropodomorpha Theropoda Ornithischia Thyreophora Ornithopoda Marginocephalia Dinosaurs were vertebrate animals that dominated the terrestrial ecosystem for over 160 million years, first appearing approximately 230 million years ago. ...
In addition, the museum has other facilities such as the Sidney Myer Amphitheatre and The Age Theatre. The Discovery Centre, on the Lower Level, is a free public research centre. The museum also has a cafe and a souvenir shop. This article does not cite any references or sources. ...
IMAX Theatre, which is situated on the Lower Level is also part of the museum complex. It shows movies, usually documentary films, in 3-D format. Documentary film is a broad category of cinematic expression united by the intent to remain factual or non-fictional. ...
Main Permanent Exhibits
The main permanent exhibits include: - Australia Gallery - where Phar Lap, a race horse that won the Melbourne Cup during the depression era, is exhibited.
- Big skeleton of a pygmy blue whale
- CSIRAC - an early computer built in Australia by the forerunner organisation to the CSIRO
- Evolution Gallery - including a skeleton of a diprotodon (a giant wombat-like creature), skeletons of dinosaurs and other prehistoric animals
- Mind and Body Gallery - a gallery regarding the human body. It also features a world first exhibition about the mind (called The Mind: enter the labyrinth).
- Science and Life Gallery including the Virtual Room, Bugz Alive! exhibition and Marine Life.
- Forest Gallery - a temperate Victorian forest environment, complete with birds, reptiles, and other fauna
- Bunjilaka - a gallery with exhibitions concerning the Aborigines of Victoria
- Te Pasifika Gallery - an exhibition which highlights the history and watercrafts of Pacific Islanders
For the computer software, see: Phar Lap (company). ...
The Melbourne Cup is Australias major annual thoroughbred horse race. ...
CSIRAC (Council for Scientific and Industrial Research Automatic Computer), originally known as CSIR Mk I, was Australias first digital computer, and the fifth stored program computer in the world and presently the oldest intact (albeit inoperable) digital computer in the world. ...
The Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) is the national government body for scientific research in Australia. ...
Species Diprotodon opatum Diprotodon minor Diprotodon loderi Diprotodon annextans Cast of a Diprotodon skeleton at Queensland Museum. ...
For other uses, see Wombat (disambiguation). ...
Languages Several hundred Indigenous Australian languages (many extinct or nearly so), Australian English, Australian Aboriginal English, Torres Strait Creole, Kriol Religions Primarily Christian, with minorities of other religions including various forms of Traditional belief systems based around the Dreamtime Related ethnic groups see List of Indigenous Australian group names Indigenous...
History The museum had its earliest beginnings in the Government Assay Office which on 9 March 1854, opened some displays in La Trobe Street. In 1858, Frederick McCoy who was Professor of Natural History at the University of Melbourne was appointed Director of the National Museum.[1] is the 68th day of the year (69th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ...
1854 (MDCCCLIV) was a common year starting on Sunday (see link for calendar). ...
La Trobe Street (also LaTrobe) is a major street in the central business district of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. ...
Sir Frederick McCoy (1823 - May 16, 1899), British palaeontologist, the son of Dr Simon McCoy, was born in Dublin, and was educated in that city for the medical profession. ...
The University of Melbourne, is a public university located in Melbourne, Victoria. ...
The Melbourne Museum was originally located (along with the State Library and the old state gallery) in the city block between La Trobe, Swanston, Little Lonsdale and Russell Streets - the nearby Museum underground railway station was originally named after it, although following the move it station has been renamed Melbourne Central. The State Library now uses all the space in that building, the gallery also having moved to the NGV site.
A panoramic view of the library facade, forecourt and lawns from Swanston Street The State Library lit up at night. ...
Swanston Street, looking north from the corner of Bourke Street Swanston Street is a major thoroughfare in the centre of Melbourne, Australia. ...
Little Lonsdale Street is located in the centre of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. ...
Russell Street is a north-south street in the central business district of Melbourne, Australia, part of the Hoddle Grid laid out in 1837. ...
Comeng train at Melbourne Central Melbourne Central is an underground railway station in the suburban railway network of Melbourne, Australia. ...
National Gallery of Victoria The National Gallery of Victoria is an art gallery and museum in Melbourne, Australia. ...
Festival Melbourne 2006 Melbourne Museum was one of the venues of Festival Melbourne 2006, a city-wide art festival held in conjunction of the 2006 Commonwealth Games, which was held in Melbourne. Among the exhibitions held in the museum were 'Common Goods:Cultures Meet Through Craft', which featured crafts made by artists from various Commonwealth countries and 'CARVE:Indigenous carving practices', a series of demonstrations of traditional indigenous carving practices and techniques from Australia, New Zealand and Canada. The 2006 Commonwealth Games were held in Melbourne, Australia between March 15 and March 26, 2006. ...
The Commonwealth of Nations as of 2006 Headquarters Marlborough House, London, UK Official languages English Membership 53 sovereign states Leaders - Queen Elizabeth II - Secretary-General Don McKinnon (since 1 April 2000) Establishment - Balfour Declaration 18 November 1926 - Statute of Westminster 11 December 1931 - London Declaration 28 April 1949 Area - Total...
Besides that, there was a producers' market, 'Victorian Producers' Market', where the best produces from regional Victoria such as wine, cheese and others were sold. A cooking competition, 'Culinary Pro Am of the Commonwealth' was also held between top Melbourne chefs, each representing a Commonwealth country.
Another crowd drawer was the large screen on museum grounds where live actions of the Games were shown.
 Melbourne Museum from Nicholson Street Image File history File links Download high resolution version (4140x1067, 793 KB) Melbourne Museum exterior panorama File links The following pages on the English Wikipedia link to this file (pages on other projects are not listed): Melbourne Museum Category: ...
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- Melbourne Food and Wine during the 2006 Commonwealth Games
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