Carlton Gardens, Melbourne |
Melbourne Museum and IMAX, Carlton Gardens |
Melbourne Museum and IMAX, Carlton Gardens |
Melbourne Museum |
Lobby of the Melbourne Museum |
Flag display for the 2006 Commonwealth Games |
12m Totem Pole, Melbourne Museum |
Melbourne's Totem Pole originally stood at Skidegate BC |
Replica of the 1910 Duigan biplane, the first plane designed and built in Australia |
Aboriginal art, Melbourne Museum |
Te Vainui O Pasifika - Pacific Island exhibition, Melbourne Museum |
Te Vainui O Pasifika gallery, Melbourne Museum |
South Pacific sails, Melbourne Museum |
Polynesian sail, Micronesian sail, Melanesian sail - Te Vainui O Pasifika, Melbourne Museum |
Te Vainui O Pasifika, Melbourne Museum |
Bark cloth (tapa) from Niue ca 1880 |
Fish Carving, Solomon Islands ca 1905 |
Papua New Guinea artist Mathias Mauage's interpretation of a satellite using traditional designs, 1999 |
Phar Lap, famous Australian racehorse (1926-1932) |
Sunshine Harvest Works, Australia |
Philatelic medal, Melbourne centenary, 1934 |
Melbourne Olympiad, 1956 |
Melbourne Olympiad, 1956 |
Melbourne Olympiad, 1956 |
Did anyone in your family wear chains? |
Tapestry, Melbourne Museum |
"I'd be wary of these boat people...in no time at all they'll be running the country" |
Tapestry, Melbourne 1901 |
"Because a moment can become Eternity depending on what it contains" |
Tapestry, Patrick White, Riders in the Chariot, Melbourne Museum |
Evolution of mankind gallery, Melbourne Museum |
Tarbosaurus, late Cretaceous, Melbourne Museum |
Tarbosaurus, late Cretaceous, Melbourne Museum |
Diprotodon optatum, the largest known marsupial went extinct over 50,000 years ago |
Giant goanna (Megalania prisca) also not seen alive in the last 50,000 years |
Insect collection, Melbourne Museum - iridescent green beetles |
Insect collection, Melbourne Museum - iridescent green beetles |
Insect collection, Melbourne Museum - butterflies |
Insect collection, Melbourne Museum - butterflies |
Insect collection, Melbourne Museum - giant green butterfly |
Hercules Beetle (Dynastes hercules) and Goliath Beetle (Goliathus regis) - neither from Australia |
Pygmy Blue Whale skeleton (18.7m) Melbourne Museum |
Australian fauna gallery, Melbourne Museum |
Common Brushtail Possum (Trichosurus velpecula) |
Common Wallaroo (Macropus robustus) |
Tasmanian Devil (Sarcophilus harrisii) highly endangered |
Tasmanian Devil (Sarcophilus harrisii) hunted to extinction on the mainland |
Tasmanian Tiger (Thylacine cynocephalus) extinct in 1936 |
Official protection of the Thylacine was introduced 59 days before the last known specimen died at Hobart Zoo |
Spotted Harrier (Circus assimilis) Melbourne Museum |
Tree-Kangaroo, Melbourne Museum |
Tree-Kangaroo, Melbourne Museum |
Mountain Brushtail Possum (Trichosurus caninus) |
Bird collection of the Melbourne Museum |
Major Mitchell's Cockatoo (Cacatua leadbeateri) |
Tawny Frogmouth (Podargus strigoides) |
Knobbed Hornbill (Aceros cassidix) native to Indonesia |
Unimpressive specs for CSIRAC compare to a basic laptop today |
Fangtooth (Anoplogaster cornuta) Melbourne Museum |
"Whale meets Squid for lunch" |
Giant Squid - Melbourne Museum |
Great White Shark - Melbourne Museum |
White Shark (Carcharodon carcharias) |
Tawny Frogmouth in the atrium of Melbourne Museum |
CSIRAC - National Engineering Landmark |
CSIRAC - Australia's first computer (1949-1964) |
CSIRAC (pronounced "sy-rack") |
CSIRAC was the 4th computer in the world |
Reel-to-Reel Computer Tape, Melbourne Museum |
Original IBM PC and Macintosh Classic II |
Harry John's Boxing & Wrestling Entertainers |
Melbourne Museum IMAX - Walking on the Moon and Wild Safari |