Victoria

Victoria

Birchip History Museum

This former Courthouse built in 1914 holds a collection of small domestic and agricultural artefacts on display and features a War Memorial Room. Documents include family, school, church, district, shire, sports and railway histories as well as ndividual files.

Churchill Island

Churchill Island is a State Park and Sanctuary which features historic buildings, artefacts and an Agricultural Museum. The historic buildings date from 1866. The Agricultural Museum houses a unique collection of farm engines, machinery, tools and implements.

Royal Historical Society of Victoria Inc.

Housed in the historic former Army Medical Corps Drill Hall, this major archive specialises in Victorian history and contains manuscripts, documents, photographs and some artefacts (a catalogue is available).

Port Phillip Contemporary Art and Heritage Collection

Items in the City of Port Phillip Contemporary Art and Heritage Collection are stored in three former Town Halls. The Contemporary Art Collection is partly on display at the St Kilda Town Hall.

James Alipius Goold Museum

This ecclesiastical collection is housed in an 1880s building and covers the history of the Catholic Church in Victoria. Photographic displays, rare books, embroidered vestments and illuminated manuscripts are housed here.

Dromana and District Historical Society Museum

An extensive range of early photographs, documents, books and memorabilia of the Dromana, Safety Beach, Red Hill, Red Hill South Rosebud, Boneo, Arthurs Seat, and Main Ridge areas are kept by the Society.Approximately 2000 historical photographs and 500 objects

Victorian School for Deaf Children History Room

Commenced in 1866, this building has been devoted to supporting deaf children continuously except when evacuated during WWII, until the present time. The heritage building is still being used for its original purpose.

Stonnington Local History Collection - Prahran

The Stonnington Local History Collection is a collection of archival material held at two separate locations, Malvern and Prahran. Each archive houses historical photographs, plans, correspondence and ephemera.

Stonnington Local History Collection - Malvern

The Stonnington Local History Collection is a collection of archival material held at two separate locations, Malvern and Prahran. Each archive houses historical photographs, plans, correspondence and ephemera.

Museum of Lillydale

Situated near the home of Dame Nellie Melba, the Museum provides the only permanent display of Melba memorabilia in Australia. Housed in the 1889 Shire Offices, the Museum also offers changing thematic exhibitions.

Latrobe Regional Gallery

The Latrobe Regional Gallery is Eastern Victoria's premier art gallery. Following an extensive refurbishment, the gallery reopened to the public in June 2003.

Heide Museum of Modern Art

Heide, the former home of John and Sunday Reed is the site of an art museum, park and garden. The Museum's collection strengths are Australian modern art from the 1930s to present.

Port Fairy Historic Lifeboat Station

Original buildings (lifeboat house 1862 and rocket house 1886), house an exceptional collection of maritime rescue equipment from the 19th and early 20th centuries.

Benalla Art Gallery

Situated in the heart of Victoria's bushranger country, the Benalla art Gallery occupies a striking modernist building by the lake.

Port of Echuca

The authentic site and buildings of this inland port which feature an historic red gum wharf. The collection includes a fleet of barges, original river paddle-steamers, railway carriages, locomotives and a selection of allied steam machinery.

Moorabbin Air Museum

This museum exhibits civil and military aircraft with an emphasis on Australian design and/or manufacture. Exhibitions display photographs and artefacts.Estimate 40 aircraft total collection including 21 aircraft on public display, plus 7 buildings with 4 open to the public

Mildura Arts Centre Gallery

Founded in 1956, the Gallery was originally housed in Rio Vista House, now a historic house museum (see separate entry).

Gippsland Regional Maritime Museum

Set in the historic seaside town of Port Albert established in 1841 the Gippsland Regional Maritime Museum is housed in the former Bank of Victoria built in 1862 to receive gold from Gippsland’s goldfields.

Savill's Bower Bird Nest and Botanical Gardens

A collector's paradise, the Museum presents over 200 collections in thirty rooms. Set amidst five acres of International Gardens (the Savill Gardens), its special attractions include the fourteenth portable gaol built in Victoria and the state's smallest church.Estimate over 1 million items

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