Museum · Carlton
Melbourne Museum
11 Nicholson Street, Melbourne 3053
Victoria's main natural and social history museum, in a large modern building beside the Royal Exhibition Building in Carlton Gardens. It holds a living forest gallery, the Bunjilaka Aboriginal Cultural Centre, dinosaur skeletons and the racehorse Phar Lap, and hosts touring blockbuster exhibitions.
Permanent exhibitions
- Forest Gallery: a living temperate forest under glass
- Bunjilaka Aboriginal Cultural Centre and First Peoples gallery
- Dinosaur Walk: skeletons of dinosaurs and marine reptiles
- 600 Million Years: the evolution of life in Victoria
- Phar Lap and the Melbourne Story gallery
- Wild: animals from around the world in a changing environment
- Te Pasifika Gallery
