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Name | Location | Region | Type | Summary | Allansford Cheese World Museum | Allansford | Farming | [https://web.archive.org/web/20130108101200/http://www.cheeseworld.com.au/cheese-world-museum.htm 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 Regional Art Gallery | Ararat | Western District | Art | 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 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 | [https://archive.is/20130205182341/http://www.visitvictoria.com/regions/Great-Ocean-Road/Activities-and-attractions/Art-theatre-and-culture/Museums-and-libraries/Bass-Strait-Shell-Museum.aspx 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 |
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 | Maritime | World War II Bathurst class corvette museum ship |
Castlemaine Art Gallery and Historical Museum | Castlemaine | Goldfields | Art | Australian art and local history |
HMAS Cerberus Museum | HMAS Cerberus (naval base) | Mornington Peninsula | Maritime | [https://web.archive.org/web/20121001200312/http://www.crestcerberus.com.au/node/37 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 | [https://web.archive.org/web/20120919123210/http://home.vicnet.net.au/~dromana/flinders.htm 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 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 Art 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 | 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 | [https://web.archive.org/web/20121109234846/http://www.mrsc.vic.gov.au/Page/Page.aspx?Page_Id=227 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 | [https://web.archive.org/web/20100325224258/http://www.heyfield.net/pages/museum/museum.htm information], steam engines, tractors, combustion engines, saws, farm machines |
Langi Morgala Museum | Ararat | Western District | Local history | [https://web.archive.org/web/20120610195342/http://home.vicnet.net.au/~langimor/ 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 | [https://archive.is/20130205193641/http://www.visitvictoria.com/regions/Gippsland/Activities-and-attractions/Art-theatre-and-culture/Museums-and-libraries/Mallacoota-Bunker-Museum.aspx 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 | 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 | 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 | [https://web.archive.org/web/20130130043617/http://home.vicnet.net.au/~dromana/hastings.htm 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 | [https://www.vietnamvetsmuseum.org/ 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, operated by the National Trust of Australia, historic flour mill with local history displays |
Portland Maritime Discovery Centre | Portland, Victoria | Maritime | [https://web.archive.org/web/20130420192249/http://www.glenelg.vic.gov.au/Page/PagePrint.asp?Page_Id=557 website] |
Portland Powerhouse Motor & Car Museum | Portland, Victoria | Automotive | [https://web.archive.org/web/20120117082939/http://www.visitvictoria.com/regions/Great-Ocean-Road/Activities-and-attractions/Art-theatre-and-culture/Museums-and-libraries/Portland-Powerhouse-Motor-and-Car-Museum.aspx 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 Complex | Doncaster | Melbourne suburbs | Open air | website, operated by the Doncaster Historical Society |
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 |
Sir Reginald Ansett Transport Museum | Hamilton | Western District | Aviation | website, birthplace of the Ansett transport empire |
Smythesdale Court House | Smythesdale | Goldfields | Local history | [https://web.archive.org/web/20130409030851/http://woadyyaloakhistoricalsociety.org.au/index.php?option=com_content&view=category&layout=blog&id=6&Itemid=11 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 | [https://web.archive.org/web/20120619005131/http://www.boxhilltownhall.com.au/BHTH-Whitehorse-Art-Space.html 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 | [https://web.archive.org/web/20121114020557/http://www.yarraranges.vic.gov.au/Things_To_Do/Yarra_Ranges_Regional_Museum website], cultural heritage of the Yarra Ranges region |
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