Australian Museum
Darlinghurst
The Australian Museum, originally known as the Colonial Museum or Sydney Museum, is a heritage-listed museum at 1 William Street, Sydney CBD, New South Wales. It is the oldest natural history museum in Australia and the fifth oldest natural history museum in the world, with an international reputation in the fields of natural history and anthropology.
It was first conceived and developed along the contemporary European model of an encyclopedic warehouse of cultural and natural history, and features collections of vertebrate and invertebrate zoology, as well as mineralogy, palaeontology and anthropology. The scientific stature of the museum was established under the curatorship of scientist Gerard Krefft in the 1860s.
Photo: Shkuru Afshar (CC BY-SA 4.0); GordonMakryllos (CC BY-SA 4.0); John Rae (Public domain)
It was first conceived and developed along the contemporary European model of an encyclopedic warehouse of cultural and natural history, and features collections of vertebrate and invertebrate zoology, as well as mineralogy, palaeontology and anthropology. The scientific stature of the museum was established under the curatorship of scientist Gerard Krefft in the 1860s.
Photo: Shkuru Afshar (CC BY-SA 4.0); GordonMakryllos (CC BY-SA 4.0); John Rae (Public domain)