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Specialty Museum Attractions In Greater Melbourne

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Melbourne is the capital and most populous city of the Australian state of Victoria, and the second-most populous city in Australia and Oceania. Its name refers to an urban agglomeration of 9,992.5 km2 , comprising a metropolitan area with 31 municipalities, and is also the common name for its city centre. The city occupies much of the coastline of Port Phillip bay and spreads into the hinterlands towards the Dandenong and Macedon ranges, Mornington Peninsula and Yarra Valley. It has a population of approximately 5 million , and its inhabitants are referred to as Melburnians.The city was founded on the 30 August 1835, in what was the British colony of ...
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Specialty Museum Attractions In Greater Melbourne

  • 1. Pumping Station Spotswood
    Scienceworks is a science museum in Melbourne, Australia. It is a venue of Museums Victoria which administers the cultural and scientific collections of the State of Victoria. It is located in the suburb of Spotswood. Opened on 28 March 1992, Scienceworks is housed in a purpose-built building styled along industrial lines near the historic Spotswood Pumping Station, constructed in 1897, whose steam engines form an associated exhibit.Displays and activities offered by the museum include hands-on experiments, demonstrations, and tours. The lightning room is a 120-seat auditorium that presents demonstrations about electricity, featuring a giant Tesla Coil, capable of generating two million volts of electricity, producing three metre lightning bolts. Melbourne Planetarium is housed on site. Un...
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  • 2. Islamic Museum of Australia Thornbury
    The Islamic Museum of Australia is a community museum in Thornbury, Melbourne. It began as a not-for-profit foundation founded in May 2010 with the purpose of establishing the first Islamic museum in Australia. It aims to showcase the artistic heritage and historical contributions of Muslims in Australia and abroad through the display of artworks and historical artefacts.
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  • 3. Australian National Aviation Museum Moorabbin
    The Australian National Aviation Museum is an aviation museum at the Moorabbin Airport in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. It was founded in 1962 as the Australian Aircraft Restoration Group, an attempt to maintain a World War II-era Bristol Beaufighter aircraft. It has since become a museum, with a large aircraft collection. It was originally named the Moorabbin Air Museum. As of 2008 it held 50 aircraft and 25 engines.
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  • 4. B-24 Liberator Memorial Restoration Australia Werribee
    The B-24 Liberator Memorial Restoration Fund is an Australian non-profit organisation founded in 1988 to acquire and restore a Consolidated B-24 Liberator for display as a memorial to all allied airmen who served on B-24 Liberators during World War II in defence of Australia.The major parts of the airframe were acquired in the 1990s and the aircraft under restoration is located in Werribee, Victoria, Australia in a World War II era hangar. The aircraft is not expected to be made flightworthy but will be put on display restored to its original appearance.
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  • 5. Bulldogs Museum Footscray
    The Western Bulldogs is a professional Australian rules football club that competes in the Australian Football League , the sport's premier competition. Founded in 1877 in Footscray, an inner-western suburb of Melbourne, the club won nine premierships in the Victorian Football Association before gaining entry to the Victorian Football League in 1925. The club has won two VFL/AFL premierships, in 1954 and 2016, and was runner up in 1961. The Western Bulldogs' home guernsey features two thick horizontal hoops—one red and one white—on a royal blue background. The club's headquarters and training facilities are located in Footscray at Whitten Oval, nicknamed The Kennel, its original home ground. The club draws much of its supporter base from Melbourne's traditionally working class western ...
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  • 6. Trans Australia Airlines Museum Airport West
    Trans Australia Airlines or TAA was one of the two major Australian domestic airlines between its inception in 1946 and its merger with Qantas in September 1992. As a result of the COBRA project, the entire airline was rebranded Qantas about a year later with tickets stating in small print Australian Airlines Limited trading as Qantas Airways Limited until the adoption of a single Air Operator Certificate a few years later. At that point, the entire airline was officially renamed Qantas Airways Limited continuing the name and livery of the parent company with the only change being the change of by-line from The Spirit of Australia to The Australian Airline under the window line with the existing Qantas title appearing above. During its period as TAA, the company played a major part in the ...
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  • 7. Jewish Museum of Australia St Kilda
    The Jewish Museum of Australia is the only Jewish community museum in Australia, which aims to explore and share the Jewish experience in Australia. It is located in St Kilda, a suburb of Melbourne.
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  • 8. Heritage Hill Museum and Historic Gardens Dandenong
    This page combines data from a dozen written reference books about Australian heritage gardens, from 200 years of garden heritage. Private gardens have been excluded from the list.
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  • 9. Mulberry Hill National Trust Langwarrin
    Mulberry Hill is a heritage-listed home in Langwarrin South, Victoria, Australia. It was the home of the writer Joan Lindsay and her husband Sir Daryl Lindsay from 1926 to 1984. Joan Lindsay left the house to the National Trust when she died. It is still owned by the National Trust and is open to the public. It is also heritage-listed at the federal and state level.
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  • 10. Hawks Museum Mount Waverley
    The supercarrier USS Kitty Hawk , formerly CVA-63, was the second naval ship named after Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, the site of the Wright brothers' first powered airplane flight. Kitty Hawk was both the first and last active ship of her class, and the last oil-fired aircraft carrier in service with the United States Navy. Kitty Hawk was laid down by the New York Shipbuilding Corporation, Camden, New Jersey, on 27 December 1956. The ship was launched on 21 May 1960, sponsored by Mrs. Camilla F. McElroy, wife of Defense Secretary Neil H. McElroy. Kitty Hawk was launched by flooding her drydock; the conventional slide down method was ruled out because of her mass and the risk that she might hit the Philadelphia shore on the far side of the Delaware River. The ship was commissioned 29 April ...
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  • 12. Scienceworks Spotswood
    Scienceworks is a science museum in Melbourne, Australia. It is a venue of Museums Victoria which administers the cultural and scientific collections of the State of Victoria. It is located in the suburb of Spotswood. Opened on 28 March 1992, Scienceworks is housed in a purpose-built building styled along industrial lines near the historic Spotswood Pumping Station, constructed in 1897, whose steam engines form an associated exhibit.Displays and activities offered by the museum include hands-on experiments, demonstrations, and tours. The lightning room is a 120-seat auditorium that presents demonstrations about electricity, featuring a giant Tesla Coil, capable of generating two million volts of electricity, producing three metre lightning bolts. Melbourne Planetarium is housed on site. Un...
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