Type History museum Phone +61 3 9662 2888 | Curator Sophie Couchman Function Museum | |
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Location 22 Cohen Place, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia Website www.chinesemuseum.com.au Address 22 Cohen Pl, Melbourne VIC 3000, Australia Hours Closed now Sunday10AM–4PMMonday10AM–4PMTuesday10AM–4PMWednesday10AM–4PMThursday10AM–4PMFriday10AM–4PMSaturday10AM–4PM Similar Chinatown - Melbourne, Immigration Museum - Melbourne, Old Melbourne Gaol, Her Majesty's Theatre, Museum Victoria Profiles | ||
The Chinese Museum or Museum of Chinese Australian History is an Australian history museum located in Melbourne's Chinatown. The Museum was established in 1985 with a charter to present the history of Australians of Chinese ancestry. An extensive refurbishment funded by the Victorian Government was completed in 2010. Since then, the Museum has also acted as a Chinatown Visitor Centre.
It holds an extensive collection of Chinese clothing and textiles, photographs, documents and artifacts that reflect the social fabric and activities of the Chinese community in Australia from the 1850s. The Museum is also home to Dai Loong and the Millennium Dragon, the largest Chinese dragon in the world.
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Chinese Museum, Melbourne Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA