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1870
The Government of Victoria establishes The Industrial and Technological
Museum, initially built around material exhibited at the Intercolonial
Exhibition of 1866-67. James Cosmo Newbery, a chemist and assayer, is
appointed as the first Scientific Superintendent.
Despite Professor McCoy's opposition, mining and agricultural collections
from the Museum at the University of Melbourne are transferred to the
new museum, a timber building at the rear of the Public Library in Swanston
Street, central Melbourne.
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Everything you always wanted to know about agriculture and more.
This photograph by Charles Nettleton shows a view inside the Industrial
and Technological Museum, in 1872.
Source: Museum Victoria
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