The Immigration Museum focuses on Melbourne and Victoria’s immigration history.
First opened in 1998 as a division of
Museums Victoria
Museums Victoria is an organisation that includes a number of museums and related bodies in Melbourne. These include Melbourne Museum, Immigration Museum, Scienceworks, IMAX Melbourne, a research institute, the UNESCO World Heritage-listed Roy ...
, Immigration Museum is located at the restored Old Customs House Building on
Flinders Street in
Melbourne
Melbourne ( , ; Boonwurrung language, Boonwurrung/ or ) is the List of Australian capital cities, capital and List of cities in Australia by population, most populous city of the States and territories of Australia, Australian state of Victori ...
,
Victoria.
History
The architects of Customs House were
Peter Kerr, with additional input by
J.J. Clark and
Arthur Ebden Johnson. Constructed between 1855 and 1876, its creation was a reflection of vastly expanded trade and soaring revenue from the
goldrush, resulting in one of Melbourne's grand buildings. The museum's most important space, the Long Room, is a notable piece of
Renaissance Revival architecture
Renaissance Revival architecture (sometimes referred to as "Neo-Renaissance") is a group of 19th-century Revivalism (architecture), architectural revival styles which were neither Greek Revival architecture, Greek Revival nor Gothic Revival ar ...
.
The site was listed in 1948 as one of the key sites for the modernisation of Melbourne.
An 11 storey £750,000 Customs House office tower was proposed,
however did not proceed.
References
External links
Immigration Museum website
Museums in Melbourne
History museums in Australia
Buildings and structures in Melbourne City Centre
Museums of human migration
Museums established in 1998
1998 establishments in Australia
Museums in Victoria (state)
Tourist attractions in Victoria (state)
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Maritime museums in Australia