List of museums in Victoria (state)
This list of museums in Victoria, Australia contains museums which are defined for this context as institutions (including nonprofit organizations, government entities, and private businesses) that collect and care for objects of cultural, artistic, scientific, or historical interest and make their collections or related exhibits available for public viewing. Also included are non-profit art galleries and university art galleries.
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| Name | Location | Region | Type | Summary |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Allansford Cheese World Museum | Allansford | Farming | website, dairy farming, butter and cheese making | |
| Alexandra Timber Tramway | Alexandra | Railway | website, heritage tramway, railroad and forestry museum | |
| Altona Homestead Museum | Altona | Melbourne suburbs | Historic house | website, operated by the Altona Laverton Historical Society Inc |
| Ambleside Park Museum | Ferntree Gully | Melbourne suburbs | Local history | website, operated by the Knox Historical Society |
| Andrew Ross Museum | Kangaroo Ground | Shire of Nillumbik | Local history | website |
| Apollo Bay Museum | Apollo Bay | Southwest | Local history | website |
| Art Gallery of Ballarat | Ballarat | Goldfields | Art | Oldest and largest regional art gallery in Australia |
| Ararat Gallery TAMA | Ararat | Western District | Art | website Permanent collection specialises in contemporary textile fibre art |
| Australian Army Artillery Museum | Puckapunyal | Military | website, currently in storage awaiting new facility | |
| Australian Army Museum, Bandiana | Bandiana | Northeast | Military | website, history of various corps of the Australian Army |
| Australian Army Signals Museum | Macleod | Melbourne suburbs | Military | website, history of the Royal Australian Corps of Signals |
| Australian National Surfing Museum | Torquay | Surf Coast Shire | Sports | website, tells the story of surfing |
| Australian National Veterans Arts Museum (ANVAM) | Southbank | Melbourne suburbs | Art | website, Supporting wellbeing of Australia's veteran community through the Arts |
| Australian Railway Historical Society | Williamstown North | Melbourne suburbs | Railway | Victorian Railways steam locomotives |
| Ballarat Tramway Museum | Ballarat | Goldfields | Railway | Electric and horse-drawn street tramways and trams |
| Barwon Grange | Newtown | Geelong suburbs | Historic house | website, operated by the National Trust of Australia, mid 19th century Victorian brick villa |
| Barwon Park | Winchelsea | Surf Coast Shire | Historic house | website, operated by the National Trust of Australia, mid 19th century 42-room mansion and stables |
| Bass Strait Shell Museum | Apollo Bay | Southwest | Natural history | information |
| Beechworth Gaol | Beechworth | Northeast | Prison | 19th century former prison |
| Benalla Art Gallery | Benalla | Northeast | Art | Exhibits of Australian and international art |
| Benalla Costume and Pioneer Museum | Benalla | Northeast | Fashion | website, clothing dating from 1770 to the present with regularly changing exhibitions, also local history |
| Bendigo Art Gallery | Bendigo | Goldfields | Art | |
| Beleura | Mornington | Mornington Peninsula | Historic house | website, 20th century period mansion and gardens |
| Bonegilla Migrant Reception and Training Centre | Bonegilla | History | Post World War II migrant training camp | |
| Broadmeadows Museum | Broadmeadows | Melbourne suburbs | Local history | website, operated by the Broadmeadows Historical Society |
| Buda Historic Home and Garden | Castlemaine | Goldfields | Historic house | website, features furnishings, decorative art objects, artworks and books dating from the goldrush era of the 1850s up until 1981 |
| Bundoora Homestead Art Centre | Bundoora | Melbourne suburbs | Art | website, city's contemporary art gallery and exhibits of city history |
| Burke Museum (Australia) | Beechworth | Northeast | Local history | website, Aboriginal artefacts, Chinese mining community, 19th century streetscape, gold, Ned Kelly gang, natural history |
| Burrinja Cultural Centre | Upwey | Melbourne suburbs | Art | website, arts centre with exhibition, performing arts spaces |
| Cape Otway Lightstation | Cape Otway | Maritime | Lighthouse tours | |
| Cape Schanck Lighthouse | Cape Schanck | Mornington Peninsula | Maritime | |
| HMAS Castlemaine | Williamstown | Melbourne suburbs | Maritime | World War II Bathurst class corvette museum ship |
| Castlemaine Art Museum | Castlemaine | Goldfields | Art | Australian art and local history |
| HMAS Cerberus Museum | HMAS Cerberus (naval base) | Mornington Peninsula | Maritime | website, history of the naval base and the Victorian Colonial Navy |
| Charlie's Arthur's Seat Auto Museum | Arthurs Seat | Mornington Peninsula | Automotive | information |
| Chiltern Athenaeum | Chiltern | Shire of Indigo | Literary | website, novels and publications by local authors, local history displays and memorabilia |
| Chiltern Motor Museum | Chiltern | Shire of Indigo | Automotive | information |
| Churchill Island Heritage Farm | Churchill Island | Farm | website, working heritage farm | |
| Clunes Museum | Clunes | Goldfields | Local history | website, period room displays, agriculture, mining and woodworking items |
| Coal Creek Community Park and Museum | Korumburra | Gippsland | Open air | website |
| Cohuna & District Historical Society Museum | Cohuna | Northeast | Local history | website |
| Coleraine Car Museum | Coleraine | Western District | Automotive | information |
| Como House | South Yarra | Melbourne suburbs | Historic house | Operated by the National Trust of Australia, Colonial mansion and gardens |
| Convent Gallery | Daylesford | Goldfields | Art | Features eight individual galleries featuring new local and international artists, the original restored chapel, a museum with the history of the building set up by the nuns |
| Coolart Wetlands and Homestead Reserve | Somers | Mornington Peninsula | Historic house | Late 19th century mansion-like homestead, gardens and nature reserve |
| Creswick Museum | Creswick | Goldfields | Local history | website |
| Dow's Pharmacy | Chiltern | Shire of Indigo | Medical | website, operated by the National Trust of Australia, 19th century pharmacy in use until 1968 |
| Dromana Historical Museum | Dromana | Mornington Peninsula | Local history | website, operated by the Dromana & District Historical Society |
| Echuca Historical Society Museum | Echuca | Local history | website | |
| El Dorado Museum | Eldorado | Northeast | Local history | website, life and times from 1850 to 1950, including mining, farming and social history |
| Federal Standard Printing Works | Chiltern | Shire of Indigo | Media | website, operated by the National Trust of Australia, working printing press |
| Fire Services Museum Victoria | East Melbourne | Melbourne suburbs | Firefighting | website, includes uniforms, vehicles, equipment, memorabilia |
| Flagstaff Hill Maritime Village | Warrnambool | Southwest | Maritime | 1870s maritime village with living history demonstrations |
| Flinders Historical Museum | Flinders | Mornington Peninsula | Local history | website, operated by the Flinders District Historical Society |
| Ford Discovery Centre | Geelong | Automotive | Heritage of the Ford Motor Company in Australia | |
| Forestry Heritage Museum | Beechworth | Northeast | Forestry | website, |
| Fort Queenscliff | Queenscliff | Southwest | Military | Restored mid 19th century fort |
| Foster and District Historical Society Museum | Foster | Gippsland | Local history | website |
| Fox Classic Car Collection | Docklands | Melbourne suburbs | Automobile | website, classic cars including Bentley, Ferrari, Jaguar, Porsche and Mercedes Benz models |
| Geelong Art Gallery | Geelong | Art | Municipal regional art gallery | |
| Geelong Maritime Museum | Geelong | Maritime | ||
| Coal Creek Community Park and Museum | Sale | Gippsland | Open air | website |
| Gippsland Armed Forces Museum | Sale | Gippsland | Military | website |
| Gippsland Art Gallery | Sale | Gippsland | Art | website |
| Gippsland Regional Maritime Museum | Port Albert | Gippsland | Maritime | website, also known as Port Albert Maritime Museum |
| Gippsland Vehicle Collection | Maffra | Gippsland | Automotive | website |
| Golden Dragon Museum | Bendigo | Goldfields | Ethnic | History of Chinese people who immigrated to the region |
| Gulf Station | Yarra Glen | Yarra Valley | Historic house | website, operated by the National Trust of Australia, mid 19th century mansion and farm |
| Gum San Chinese Heritage Centre | Ararat | Western District | Ethnic | website, Chinese immigrant miners on the Victorian Goldfields in the mid-1800s |
| Hamilton Gallery | Hamilton | Western District | Art | website |
| Hastings-Western Port Historical Society | Hastings | Mornington Peninsula | Local history | website, operated by the Hastings – Western Port Historical Society |
| Heide Museum of Modern Art | Bulleen | Melbourne suburbs | Art | Contemporary art museum |
| The Heights Heritage House | Newtown | Geelong suburbs | Historic house | website, website, operated by the National Trust of Australia |
| Horsham Regional Art Gallery | Horsham | Wimmera | Art | website |
| J Ward | Ararat | Western District | Prison | Former prison used to house the criminally insane |
| Kerrisdale Mountain Railway & Museum | Kerrisdale | Railway | website, heritage railway and steam museum | |
| Kyneton Museum | Kyneton | Shire of Macedon Ranges | Local history | website |
| Labassa | Caulfield North | Melbourne suburbs | Historic house | website, operated by the National Trust of Australia, 19th century mansion |
| Lake View House | Chiltern | Shire of Indigo | Historic house | website, operated by the National Trust of Australia, childhood home of author Henry Handel Richardson |
| Lakeside Antique Machinery Museum | Glenmaggie | Gippsland | Technology | information, steam engines, tractors, combustion engines, saws, farm machines |
| Langi Morgala Museum | Ararat | Western District | Local history | website, operated by the Ararat and District Historical Society |
| Latrobe Regional Gallery | Morwell | Gippsland | Art | website |
| Lilydale & District Historical Society Museum | Lilydale | Yarra Valley | Local history | website |
| Maffra Sugar Beet Museum | Maffra | Gippsland | Local history | website, features history of the area sugar beet industry, also a separate dairy interpretive centre |
| Maldon Museum | Maldon | Goldfields | Local history | website |
| Maldon Vintage Machinery Museum | Maldon | Goldfields | Technology | website |
| Mallacoota Bunker Museum | Mallacoota | Gippsland | Local history | information, operated by the Mallacoota & District Historical Society, World War II bunker with local history displays |
| Maroondah Art Gallery | Ringwood | Melbourne suburbs | Art | website, municipal art gallery |
| McCrae Homestead | McCrae | Mornington Peninsula | Historic house | Operated by the National Trust of Australia, mid 19th century homestead |
| Melbourne Steam Traction Engine Club | Scoresby | Melbourne suburbs | Technology | Industrial machinery and steam engines |
| Melbourne Tram Museum @ Hawthorn Depot | Hawthorn | Melbourne suburbs | Railway | Features over 20 fully restored trams in a depot |
| Melbourne Tramway Museum | Bylands | Shire of Mitchell | Railway | Operated by the Tramway Museum Society of Victoria, trams from Melbourne, Geelong, Ballarat and Adelaide |
| Melbourne's Living Museum of the West | Maribyrnong | Melbourne suburbs | Local history | Area history, culture, natural history |
| Monash Gallery of Art | Wheelers Hill | Melbourne suburbs | Art | Municipal art and photography gallery |
| Mooramong | Skipton | Western District | Historic house | website, operated by the National Trust of Australia, home of D.J.S (Scobie) Mackinnon and film star Claire Adams, also working farm and nature reserve |
| Mornington Old Post Office Museum | Mornington | Mornington Peninsula | Local history | website, operated by the Mornington Historical Society |
| Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery | Mornington | Mornington Peninsula | Art | Exhibits Australian and international art |
| Mont De Lancey Homestead and Museum | Wandin North | Yarra Valley | Historic house | website |
| Mulberry Hill (Langwarrin South, Victoria) | Langwarrin South | Historic house | website, operated by the National Trust of Australia, home of artist Daryl Lindsay and author Joan Lindsay, features collection of Australian art, Georgian furniture and glassware, and Staffordshire ceramics | |
| Museo Italiano | Carlton | Melbourne suburbs | Ethnic | website, experience of Italian migration and the culture created by Italians in Australia |
| National Alpine Museum of Australia | Mount Buller | Sports | Ski history | |
| National Holden Motor Museum | Echuca | Automotive | website, Holden cars | |
| National Wool Museum (Geelong) | Geelong | Industry | Australia's wool industry from raising sheep to creating fabric | |
| National Vietnam Veterans Museum | Newhaven | Phillip Island | Military | website, weapons, aircraft, vehicles and equipment, uniforms, dioramas, photos, art |
| Ned Kelly Museum | Glenrowan | Northeast | Biographical | website, history of bushranger Ned Kelly's last stand |
| Old Gippstown | Moe | Gippsland | Open air | Pioneer township portraying the settlement era of Gippsland |
| Pioneer Settlement Swan Hill | Swan Hill | Open air | website, features over 50 original and replica heritage buildings | |
| Port Fairy History Centre | Port Fairy | Southwest | Local history | website, operated by the Port Fairy Historical Society |
| Portarlington Mill | Portarlington | Bellarine Peninsula | Mill | website, [1] operated by the National Trust of Australia, historic flour mill with local history displays |
| Portland Maritime Discovery Centre | Portland, Victoria | Maritime | website | |
| Portland Powerhouse Motor & Car Museum | Portland, Victoria | Automotive | information, information | |
| Post Office Gallery | Ballarat | Goldfields | Art | Gallery housed in an historic post office |
| Queenscliffe Historical Museum | Queenscliff | Southwest | Local history | website |
| Queenscliffe Maritime Museum | Queenscliff | Southwest | Maritime | |
| Rippon Lea Estate | Elsternwick | Melbourne suburbs | Historic house | Operated by the National Trust of Australia, 19th century mansion and gardens |
| Royal Australian Armoured Corps Memorial and Army Tank Museum | Puckapunyal | Military | Over 70 tanks, armoured fighting vehicles and history of the Royal Australian Armoured Corps | |
| Royal Australian Army Pay Corps Museum | Macleod | Melbourne suburbs | Military | website, history of the Royal Australian Army Pay Corps |
| Sale Historical Museum | Sale | Gippsland | Local history | information, operated by the Sale Historical Society |
| Schramm's Cottage Museum Complex | Doncaster East | Melbourne suburbs | Local History | website, operated by the Doncaster Templestowe Historical Society. Includes the stone Schramm's Cottage, the Waldau Cemetery and a farm equipment collection. |
| Schwerkolt Cottage | Mitcham | Melbourne suburbs | Historic house | Operated by the Whitehorse Historical Society, late 19th century pioneer stone cottage and outbuildings |
| Seymour Railway Heritage Centre | Seymour | Railway | ||
| Shepparton Art Museum | Shepparton | Northeast | Art | website |
| Shepparton Heritage Centre | Shepparton | Northeast | Local History | website |
| Sir Reginald Ansett Transport Museum | Hamilton | Western District | Aviation | website, birthplace of the Ansett transport empire |
| Smythesdale Court House | Smythesdale | Goldfields | Local history | website, open by appointment with the Woady Yaloak Historical Society |
| Sorrento Museum | Sorrento | Mornington Peninsula | Local history | Operated by the Nepean Historical Society, museum, library and gallery |
| Sovereign Hill | Ballarat | Goldfields | Open air | Depicts Ballarat's first ten years after the discovery of gold in 1851, includes the Gold Museum about the Australian gold rushes of the 1850s |
| State Coal Mine | Wonthaggi | Gippsland | Mining | 20th century coal mine with buildings, equipment and underground tours |
| Stawell Historical Society Museum | Stawell | Wimmera | Local history | website |
| Steamrail Victoria | Newport | Melbourne suburbs | Railway | |
| St Arnaud Historical Museum | St Arnaud | Goldfields | Local history | website, operated by the St Arnaud Historical Society |
| Surf World Museum | Torquay | Sports | website, Australia's contribution to the development of surfing around the world | |
| Swan Hill Regional Art Gallery | Swan Hill | Art | Collections include Naïve art, Australian works on paper, prints and drawings | |
| TarraWarra Museum of Art | Healesville | Yarra Valley | Art | website, Australian art from the second half of the twentieth century to the present day |
| Tasma Gallery | East Melbourne | Melbourne suburbs | Art | website, operated by the National Trust of Australia |
| The Bible Museum | St Arnaud | Goldfields | Literary | website, features over 1400 Bibles, together with models and artefacts associated with the Bible message |
| Tiger Moth World | Torquay | Aerospace | website, theme park and museum based on the de Havilland Tiger Moth | |
| Upper Yarra Museum | Yarra Junction | Yarra Valley | Local history | website |
| Victorian Jazz Archive | Wantirna | Melbourne suburbs | Music | Australian jazz heritage |
| Villa Alba | Kew | Melbourne suburbs | Historic house | website, late 19th century mansion under restoration |
| Walhalla Museum | Walhalla | |||
| Wangaratta Art Gallery | Wangaratta | Northeast | Art | website |
| Wangaratta Museum | Wangaratta | Northeast | Local history | website, operated by the Wangaratta Historical Society |
| Warrandyte Post Office Museum | Warrandyte | Melbourne suburbs | Local history | website, operated by the Warrandyte Historical Society |
| Warrnambool Art Gallery | Warrnambool | Southwest | Art | website |
| Werribee Park | Werribee | Melbourne suburbs | Historic house | Includes late 19th century mansion, gardens, an equestrian centre, a zoo and a contemporary sculpture walk |
| Whitehorse Art Space | Box Hill | Melbourne suburbs | Art | website, municipal art gallery located in town hall |
| Williamstown Historical Society Museum | Williamstown | Melbourne suburbs | Local history | website |
| Worsley Cottage Complex | Maryborough | Goldfields | Historic house | website, operated by the Maryborough Midlands Historical Society |
| Yackandandah Museum | Yackandandah | Northeast | Local history | website, operated by the Yackandandah and District Historical Society |
| Yarra Ranges Regional Museum | Lilydale | Melbourne suburbs | Local history | website, cultural heritage of the Yarra Ranges region |
