A Museum for the People: a History of Museum Victoria and Its Predecessors, 1854-2000: A History of Museum Victoria and Its Predecessors, 1854-2000

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Number of Pages: 424

This is an illustrated history of Victoria’s museums of natural history, ethnography, applied science, technology, and social history from 1854 to the present. Mainly a chronological narrative, it is interspersed with short studies by 46 authors on the objects, specimens, stories, and people that are the essence of Museum Victoria. It will appeal to those interested in the cultural, social, and technological growth of the state of Victoria in Australia.