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Melbourne Museum

The Melbourne Museum is a natural and cultural history located in the in , Australia. Located adjacent to the , the museum was opened in 2000 as a project of the Government of Victoria, on behalf of Museums Victoria which administers the venue.
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  • Opening hours: 10:00 AM—5:00 PM and 9:00 AM—5:00 PM
  • Type: Museum
  • Description: museum in Victoria, Australia
  • Address: 11 Nicholson Street, Carlton, VIC 3053
  • Wheelchair access: yes

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Royal Exhibition Building and IMAX Melbourne.

Photo: Diliff, CC BY 2.5.
The is a UNESCO World Heritage-listed building in , Victoria, , built in 1879–1880 as part of the international exhibition movement, which presented over 50 exhibitions between 1851 and 1915 around the globe. is situated 160 metres south of Melbourne Museum.

Movie theater
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is an IMAX movie theatre in , , Australia. It is the largest IMAX theatre in the Southern Hemisphere, the largest 1.43:1 screen in the world, and the second largest IMAX theatre in the world by overall screen size and capacity.

Library
Photo: Donaldytong, Public domain.
State Library Victoria is the , Australia. Located in , it was established in 1854 as the Melbourne Public Library, making it Australia's oldest public library and one of the first free libraries in the world. is situated 1 km southwest of Melbourne Museum.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Little Italy and Chinatown.

Neighborhood
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in Victoria, Australia, is a cultural precinct of the Italian community of Melbourne. It is situated along in the inner- suburb of .

Neighborhood
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is an ethnic enclave in the of , Victoria, Australia. Centred at the eastern end of Little Bourke Street, it extends between the corners of Swanston and Spring streets, and consists of numerous laneways, alleys and arcades.

Photo: Wikimedia, CC0.
Melbourne's is a vibrant and diverse area, home to a number of cultural and social icons of . It is famed for the popular Lygon Street Italian district, while next door lies the University of Melbourne, the best university in Australia by many rankings.

Melbourne Museum

Latitude
-37.80324° or 37° 48′ 12″ south
Longitude
144.9717° or 144° 58′ 18″ east
Elevation
92 metres (302 feet)
Operator
Museum Victoria
Open location code
4RJ65XWC+PM
Open­Street­Map ID
way 4817074
Open­Street­Map feature
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Open­Street­Map feature
tourism=­museum
Open­Street­Map attribute
wheelchair=­yes
Geo­Names ID
12640033
Wiki­data ID
Q1353869
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In Other Languages

From Basque to Vietnamese—“Melbourne Museum” goes by many names.
  • Basque: “Melbourneko museoa”
  • Belarusian: “Мельбурнскі музей”
  • Belarusian: “Мэлбурнскі музэй”
  • Belarusian: “Мэльбурнскі музэй”
  • Catalan: “Museu de Melbourne”
  • Chinese: “墨爾本博物館”
  • Dutch: “Melbourne Museum”
  • Esperanto: “Melburna Muzeo”
  • Finnish: “Melbournen museo”
  • French: “musée de Melbourne”
  • French: “Musée de Melbourne”
  • German: “Melbourne Museum”
  • Greek: “Μουσείο της Μελβούρνης”
  • Hausa: “Gidan kayan gargajiya na Melbourne”
  • Hebrew: “מוזיאון מלבורן”
  • Indonesian: “Museum Melbourne”
  • Japanese: “メルボルン博物館”
  • Korean: “멜버른 박물관”
  • Mazanderani: “ملبورن موزه”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Melbourne Museum”
  • Norwegian: “Melbourne Museum”
  • Polish: “Melbourne Museum”
  • Russian: “Мельбурнский музей”
  • Russian: “Музей Мельбурна”
  • Turkish: “Melbourne Müzesi”
  • Ukrainian: “Мельбурнський музей”
  • Vietnamese: “Bảo tàng Melbourne”

Localities in the Area

Explore places such as Inner north and Inner east.

Nearby Places

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