Melbourne Museum

The Melbourne Museum in Carlton Gardens Melbourne is the largest museum in the Southern Hemisphere. It was opened in November 2000. It is part of Museum Victoria, in the several museums of the state were summarized in Melbourne as the Scienceworks Museum ( science museum ), and the Immigration Museum ( immigration) and the Royal Exhibition Hall (for large exhibitions).

The architecturally sophisticated building houses on 80,000 square meters over 16 million exhibits. A major attraction is the 30 -meter-high Forrest Gallery, 82 plant and 25 animal species exist in the. Exhibits include, among others, a number of Australian and Chinese dinosaurs, including Tarbosaurus, Gallimimus, Hypsilophodon, Mamenchisaurus, Tsintaosaurus, a hadrosaur, Muttaburrasaurus and Pteranodon. In addition, among other things, Anomalocaris from the Burgess fauna, the skeleton of a Diprotodons and a skeleton of a Zwergblauwals. It also houses the Ethnographic (including Aboriginal ) collections, Egyptological collections and an Imax cinema.

It was in 1854 as the Museum of Natural History paleontologist from Frederick McCoy ( 1817-1899 ), Professor of Natural History at the University of Melbourne and previously assistant to the geologist Adam Sedgwick, Cambridge, was founded. From 1858 he was the first director of the then National Museum of Victoria. 1983 created by merger with the Technical Museum, the Museum of Victoria, which was renamed Museum Victoria in 1998. It then emerged the Melbourne Museum, which originally lay elsewhere in a building complex with the State Library. When this is expanded it moved, however, and opened in 2000 at the new location.