The work was on display for five weeks, at the end of which the sponsor spoke of donating it to the Melbourne Museum.
The station opened as Museum on 24 January 1981 after the adjacent Melbourne Museum in the State Library of Victoria complex on Swanston Street.
In 1858, Prof. Frederick McCoy (Sir Frederick from 1891), who was Professor of Natural History at the University of Melbourne, was appointed Director of the National Museum.
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The period in which the Victorian government was led by the Premier Sir Rupert Hamer (1972 - 1981) was one of policy development for museums in Victoria.
Just to the north lie the Royal Exhibition Building and the Melbourne Museum, both in Carlton Gardens, and St Vincent's Hospital.
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His collections of 8500 bird skins and over 4200 egg clutches were donated to the National Museum of Victoria, Melbourne where they are known as the H. L. White Collection.