Museum for the People A History of Museum Victoria and Its Predecessors 1854-2000 Book

	Foreword
	Acknowledgments
	History of the Museum Project
	Guide to Directors and Name Changes 1854-2000
	A Museum for the People, 1854 to 2000	1
	From the Birr-arrung to William-meering (Yarra River to Mount William): A Journey Through Aboriginal Victoria	5
1	'a scientific vision of the colony': Founding a museum of natural history in the Colony of Victoria 1853-1856	10
	Wurrundi: A Rare Feather Ornament	12
	The Respectful Invader	18
	The Yarra Canoe	25
2	'a dedicated director was of paramount importance': Professor McCoy moves the Museum to the University of Melbourne 1856-1857	29
	Capturing Paradise: Alfred Russell Wallace's Red Bird of Paradise	33
	The Shell Collection	42
3	'the museum I am growing here': Progress of the National Museum of Victoria under Professor McCoy 1858-1870	46
	The National Museum of Victoria Mining Collection	48
	Buried Treasures	52
	Cranbourne Meteorites	58
	The John Curtis British Insect Collection	60
	Melbourne 1865: Gorillas at the Museum	68
	The Prodromus of Palaeontology and of Zoology	72
4	'valuable, practical information': Founding an Industrial and Technological Museum 1866-1889	76
	Let the Building be Remembered for This	88
	The Cowley Steam Traction Engine	91
5	'most carefully considered dimensions': Declining fortunes for the National Museum of Victoria and the Industrial and Technological Museum 1880-1899	96
	The Giant Gippsland Earthworm	101
	Andrew Goldie: Collector	104
	Graham Officer in the Solomon Islands, 1901	108
	The Changing Nature of the Preparators' Art	112
6	'nothing was so amazing': Professor Baldwin Spencer re-invigorates the National Museum of Victoria and introduces Anthropology 1899-1927	120
	The Horn Expedition Revisited	124
	Baldwin Spencer and Australian Mammalogy	132
	E. J. Dunn and his Rock and Minerals Collection	138
	Early Collection and Exhibition of Art Work by Aboriginal Artists	142
	Conserving the Museum's Biological Capital: Four Men and a National Park	146
7	'unsung and almost unhonoured': The rebirth of the Industrial and Technological Museum and further developments in the National Museum of Victoria 1915-1926	154
	The Wonder of Wax: Fruit and Vegetable Models, 1875-1960s	162
	H. L. White and Australian Ornithology	171
	Victoria's Gold Nugget Model Collection	175
8	'the people's university': 'Popularisation' programs conceived in the mid 1920s undermined by the financial set backs of the Great Depression 1925-1936	178
	A Listener's Reward: The Michell Crankless Engine	181
	'A place for perpetual preservation': Collections from Aboriginal Victoria	188
	Phar Lap	196
	Collectors of Time	200
9	'money to stagnate': Significant developments in Archaeology, Anthropology and wild life display in the National Museum of Victoria 1934-1945	204
	Manikinned Displays	209
	Collectors and Diggers: The Early Years of Aboriginal Archaeology	214
	'At least some things stay the same': The McCoy Hall Victorian Fauna Dioramas	220
10	'the march of progress': Post-war revitalisation of the newly named Applied Science Museum of Victoria and continued progress in the National Museum of Victoria 1946-1962	225
	Australia's First Computer: CSIRAC	229
	Rare Butterflies Stolen: 1946	235
	'A most remarkable job for a woman': Women and the Museums of Victoria 1870-1970	240
	The Library of Museum Victoria	246
	Documenting Change	251
	The Elusive Leadbeater	253
11	'a most depressing place to visit': The Museum of Applied Science prospers, while the National Museum of Victoria languishes through lack of a new, larger building 1957-1974	260
	The Planetarium	265
	The McKay Collection	271
	Burials and Beyond: Changing Directions for Aboriginal Archaeology	277
	The Donald Thomson Collection	282
12	'nobody makes gorilla eyes any more': The Museums finds new relevance but remain hampered by lack of space 1975-1982	287
	Skeleton of a Blue Whale	292
	Numismatics	296
	DNA and the Modern Museum	302
	The Discovery of Dinosaur Cove	310
	Caring for the Things We Keep	314
13	'a sense of place': The new Museum of Victoria incorporates the National Museum, the Science Museum and new responsibilities for social history 1983-1989	322
	The Biggest Family Album in Australia	326
	The Story of Victoria Exhibition	329
	Jack Skinner: Volunteer	333
	Negotiating New Relationships: The Museum and Indigenous Peoples	336
	An Object Lesson	343
14	'a handle on the past, a vision for the future': The establishment of Scienceworks at Spotswood and development of the social history collection 1989-1998	348
	The Spotswood Pumping Station	349
	The Working Life Collection	356
	The Immigration Museum	363
	Out of the Alcove: The De-installation of the Victorian Habitat Series	369
	Plus ca change, plus c'est la meme chose	372
15	'highly distinctive and irresistible tourist attraction': A new building for Victoria's major natural history, indigenous Australian and social history collections at last 1997-2000	377
	Melbourne Museum: A New Architectural Identity	381
	Melbourne Museum	384
	Museum Victoria in the Digital Age	392
	Returning to Country	397
	Significant Dates 1853-2000	401
	List of Contributors	405
App	Trustees, Councillors and Board Members 1870-December 2000	408
	Select Bibliography	410
	Index	417