August 13, 2010 02:51 by
JessieOver the last year Andrew has been part of a group of Museum staff busy getting a bike fleet for Museum Victoria. He has been doing this in between looking after the Forest Gallery, Milarri Gardens and all the other areas around the museum where we have exhibition gardens. Today – he got to pick up the first five bikes. These bikes will be housed across our 4 campuses of Museum Victoria: Melbourne Museum, Scienceworks, Immigration Museum and Moreland. We are lucky enough to have one of these bikes being hosted by our department, giving us naming rights. This bike has been called The Silver Perch – named after the fish in Milarri Ponds that are so speedy and agile – we are hoping the bike will be the same! So if you see The Silver Perch travelling the streets of Melbourne you will know where it has come from. We are hoping these bikes will help reduce the need to use cars and taxis to conduct short trips either between campuses or to do the quick run to the hardware store.
Andrew giving our bike its first test run on the Museum Plaza. These bikes will reduce our need to use cars and taxis travelling around Melbourne. Photo: Nicole Alley. Source: Museum Victoria.
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