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3 unusual facts about Museum Victoria


Colin Defries

The engine now belongs to Museum Victoria, where it is regarded by the curator, David Crotty, as "one of the most significant aeronautical artefacts" in the collection.

Euclemensia woodiella

one by the Natural History Museum, London, and the type, which is in the Curtis Collection at Museum Victoria.

Kryoryctes

The holotype, NMV P20894, was described in 2005 and is currently housed in the Museum Victoria Palaeontological Collection.


Leo Cussen

In 1916, Cussen had been made a trustee of the State Library of Victoria, the Victorian Museum and the National Gallery of Victoria, then run by a single board of trustees, and in 1928 he was made President of the board.

Roper River Scrub Robin

Some of these clutches are now in the H. L. White Collection at the National Museum of Victoria, but upon reappraisal have been found to be those of misidentified Buff-sided Robins.


see also

Janjucetus

They are held in the Museum Victoria Palaeontology Collection in Melbourne, Australia.