The Victoria Museum comprises three major museums located in Melbourne, - Melbourne Museum, the Immigration Museum and the Science Museum. It also operates the Royal Exhibition Centre in Carlton Gardens Park. It's also the Museum owns the body of Australia's most famous racehorse, the stallion Far Lapa, whose skeleton is in New Zealand's Te Papa Tongarewa Museum and whose heart is - in the National Museum of Australia in Canberra.
The museum traces its origins back to as far back as 1854, when the Museum of Museum of Natural and Economic Geology. In 1870 the Industrial Museum, a hundred years later renamed the Victoria Science Museum. В 1983 In 1983 they were merged into the Victoria Museum, later adding the Immigration Museum and the Melbourne Museum. Today, the museum's collections totalled some 16 million exhibits on the continent's Aboriginal history, the development of science, art and technology.
The Museum of Immigration introduces, as the name makes clear, the history of immigration to Australia. It was founded in 1998 and is housed in the old Customs House building on Fliders Street. As well as collecting collections on immigration, the museum hosts The museum hosts many temporary exhibitions and also runs a number of educational programmes. The museum is also famous for its Hall, an amazing example of Renaissance architecture.
