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This natural history museum has extensive collections of natural science and cultural artefacts. Visit the website to find information on a topic or area, or explore the whole of the Australian Museum online.
Australian Science and Technology Heritage Centre (more info)
Austehc is a centre of the Department of History and Philosophy of Science in the Faculty of Arts, University of Melbourne. Austehc is Australia's leading web publisher of information about the history of Australian science, technology, engineering a...
A register of more than 4,100 people involved in the development of science, technology and medicine in Australia, including references to their archival materials and bibliographic resources. This site is very extensive and includes an Australian sc...
The Macleay Museum website includes information regarding the Museum's historical collections, exhibitions, newsletter, tours, educational programs and the Macleay Fellowship. The museum houses one of the most important natural history and ethnograph...
Melbourne University Map Collection - Historical (more info)
The Map Collection includes approximately 15,000 rare historic maps of countries and regions from around the world, the majority representing Australia. This includes some of the earliest cartographic works by explorers of Australiasia and the pacifi...
Museum of Human Disease (more info)
The Museum contains over 2,700 specimens which display diseased human tissue at the macroscopic level, preserved in formalin. Includes some specimens of diseases which have become rare (e.g. diphtheria), are over 60 years old, and are irreplaceable.
Museum Victoria, Australia's largest public museums organisation, in Museum Victoria has a history of scientific and cultural research and collection development. The organisation operates three public museums,Australia's major education and researc...
Questacon - The National Science and Technology Centre (more info)
Questacon is Australia's leading Hands-on Science Centre. Questacon promotes understanding and appreciation of science and technology through a wide variety of interactive exhibitions and programs for young children.
Royal Geographical Society of South Australia (RGSSA) (more info)
The Royal Geographical Society of South Australia, founded in 1885, is a voluntary, not-for-profit organisation for advancing geographical science and promoting public interest in geography and related topics. In addition to the Society's unique coll...
Scitech Discovery Centre (more info)
Scitech Discovery Centre is a an interactive science museum located in Perth Western Australia. Their mission is to increase interest and participation by Western Australians in science and technology.
Surveying & Geomatic Engineering Collection (more info)
The Department of Geomatics Collection includes examples of each of the types of surveyors' instrument used for astronomical, angular and distance measurement, together with instruments for the computation, plotting and presentation of the survey dat...
The Henry Forman Atkinson Dental Museum (more info)
The Henry Forman Atkinson Dental Museum contains over 2500 objects, photographs, documents and catalogues relating to the history of dentistry and dental education in Victoria. Objects in the collection date from the early 1700s and provide insights ...
The School of Physics Museum (more info)
The School of Physics Museum The collection of the The School of Physics Museum at the University of Melbourne comprises some 350 items of historical and scientific interest, concentrating on scientific apparatus constructed by former professors and ...
The Underwater World website provides information about the complex, including the education programs it runs, the kids club, visiting the complex and the various functions that can be held at the complex.
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