A Museum for the People: A History of Museum Victoria and its Predecessors 1854-2000

This is a superbly written, designed, and illustrated history of Victoria's museums of natural history, ethnography, applied science, technology, and social history from 1854 to the present. This mainly chronological narrative is interspersed with short studies by 46 authors on the objects, specimens, stories, and people that are the essence of Museum Victoria. It will appeal to the general reader with an interest in museums and history as well as those interested in the cultural, social, and technological growth of the state of Victoria in Australia.