Australian Museum

Scientific organisation

Australia's oldest natural history museum, founded in 1827.

Names
Alternate
Colonial Museum
Positions
Architect
Lewis, Mortimer
1844
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1849
Director
Ramsay, Edward Pierson
1874
-
1894
Director
Anderson, Charles
1921
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1940

Australian Museum

by Laila Ellmoos, 2008

 

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The Australian Museum building in College Street was begun in the 1840s and has been extended in stages to house the museum's growing and changing collection and staff.
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