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A museum for the people: a history of Museum Victoria and its predecessors, 1854-2000.
First Published in 1999. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Treasures of the Museum spans the familiar and the unfamiliar, the priceless and the everyday. This superb book features exquisite photographs of the Museum Victoria's most treasured objects, and as well as fascinating insights into each by curators, collection staff and eminent Australians. This outstanding collection, chosen from 16 million items from Australians and their environment, are not just of interest to those from down under but the anecdotes and background stories relate to all who have ever had a family or lived in a community or a nation. Art, memorabilia, children's toys, scientific instruments, broken pottery and fossils are all included in the Museum's treasures and are displayed in this book to reveal a living history of Australia.
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A website giving a pictorial introduction to the history of Museum Victoria. Includes a selection of essays on collections, research and exhibitions at the museum over the past century and a half.