Melbourne Museum

The Melbourne Museum is a natural and cultural history museum in Melbourne, Australia's Carlton Gardens. The museum, which is next to the Royal Exhibition Building, opened in 2000 as an initiative of the Victorian government on behalf of Museums Victoria, which manages the site. In 2011, the museum received the Australian Tourism Awards for Best Tourist Attraction.

In addition to its galleries, the museum includes Curious?, a location to meet staff and get answers about Museums Victoria's collections, research, and behind-the-scenes activity, as well as a cafe and a gift shop. Some of Victoria's State Collections are housed in the back-of-house area, which contains over 17 million items relating to Indigenous Australian and Pacific Islander cultures, geology, historical studies, paleontology, technology and society, and zoology, as well as a library collection of 18th and 19th-century scientific monographs and serials. The museum complex also has the world's biggest IMAX theatre screen, which shows movies and documentaries in large-screen 3-D format.

Location: 11 Nicholson St, Melbourne, VIC 3053

Website: museumsvictoria.com.au/melbournemuseum