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Set up a date with history when you are sightseeing in Melbourne and nothing can be better than making a trip to the various Melbourne museums. The best thing about the museums in Melbourne is that there is one to suit the preference and interest levels of a wide range of people. Melbourne Museums
If you really want to know to Melbourne from close quarters during your stay, visit the Gold Treasury Museum, Melbourne. It houses exhibits that help you turn an insightful eye on the city’s history, its evolution, the architecture, arts and contemporary life and culture. Melbourne’s history is interlinked with the history of the immigrants to Australia and especially to the state of Victoria. The Immigration Museum, Melbourne brings to the forefront and to life, snippets from the lives of immigrants from the 1800s till date. Those who profess a penchant for the past can also drop in by the Jewish Holocaust Museum and Research Center, Melbourne, where the vignettes of racism will leave you shell-shocked. Very few museums in Australia will actually stir such intense sentiments. Give a fond thought to those tumultuous days of the Battle of Anzac and shed a tear for the martyrs, at the Shrine of Remembrance, Melbourne. This is one of the largest war memorials in Australia and attracts visitors by the hordes at the annual observances on Anzac Day and Remembrance Day. Melbourne tourist attractions come in various forms. There is the Melbourne amusement parks and the Melbourne parks & gardens. There are also many national parks & wild life sanctuaries in Melbourne. But not many match the diversity of the Melbourne museums. It is obvious that your eight-year G.I. Joe-engrossed son won’t approve much of cultural and ethnic history. His Melbourne vacations can be perked up with visits to the Melbourne Tank Museum, the largest of the private military museums in Melbourne. It houses exhibits from the 1st and the 2nd World Wars and the wars in Korea, Vietnam and Turkey. If horses are his calling, take him to the Australian Racing Museum. You can be assured that he will have a whale of time learning about thoroughbreds and colts, courtesy the vibrant and dynamic multimedia presentations. Melbourne, Australia has been at the forefront of the arts movement in the country and your Melbourne holidays will really remain incomplete if you do not have a glimpse of the art scene in Melbourne, its evolution, the contemporary trends and the influences that have shaped it. There are quite a few Australian museums that are dedicated to the art arena and two of the best ones just happen to be in Melbourne. When you are meandering through the Melbourne museums, do make the trip to The Arts Centre, Melbourne and the Australian Centre for the Moving Image, Melbourne. The former is the veritable arts, entertainment and cultural hub of Melbourne while the latter is dedicated to the preservation and promotion of the various forms of moving images, film, television, video and animation. If you are wondering what to see in Melbourne, head for the Melbourne museums first. You can be sure that you won’t have a better Melbourne travel guide to the city’s past and the present. Know Melbourne better with visits to: - Melbourne Museum, Melbourne
- NGV Australia, Melbourne
- NGV International, Melbourne
- Scienceworks Museum, Melbourne
- Ian Potter Classics and Archeology Collections, Melbourne
- Moorabbin Air Museum, Melbourne
- Victoria Police Museum, Melbourne
- Salvation Army Heritage Centre, Melbourne
- Grainger Museum, Melbourne
- Medical History Museum, Melbourne
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