Museum Victoria is an organization which operates three museums in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. These three museums are the Melbourne Museum, Immigration Museum and Scienceworks Museum. It also manages the Royal Exhibition Building and a storage facility in the Melbourne suburb of Moreland.

The museum traces its history back to the establishment of the National Museum of Victoria in 1854 under the directorship of Frederick McCoy. It was founded in its current form under the Australian Museums Act (1983). The collections of around 16 million objects cover Indigenous items, science, history and technology.

Museum Victoria is the caretaker of the body of Phar Lap, Australia's most famous race horse. Phar Lap's skeleton is housed at the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa and his heart is kept at the National Museum of Australia.

The present Chief Executive Officer of Museum Victoria is Dr J. Patrick Greene.

[edit] External links

• Museum Victoria website

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