Melbourne Fire Musuem

The Melbourne Fire Musuem showcases many historical items from over the years from Melbourne and it's suburbs and rural areas fire services.

This collection includes things such as horse drawn fire engines, gunpowder operated sprinklers, 1950s portable radios, and a wall full of fire helmets.

The 'devout' atheists go to St Paul's cathedral

We had a look around St Paul's cathedral today.

St Kilda botanic gardens.

St Kilda botanic gardens was quite small but had some nice roses.

Weribee open range zoo

We went to Weribee open range zoo which has lots of African and Australian animals.

This zebra is a week old!

Melbourne Musuem

The Melbourne Musuem is a large collection of galleries with many exhibitions, such as a dinosaur exhibition focussing on one of the world's most complete triceratops fossils, a history of Melbourne section including Phar Lap, and Aboriginal and Pacific / Torres strait islander sections.

The triceratops in question.

A couple of other sets of bones, including a pterodactyl.

Miniature Rolls-Royce Phantom and some mechanical parts.

https://youtu.be/I9SnjbZvIIs

Video of a couple.

Locked glove, the mortal enemy of the teenager.

A collection of Goldfields weaponry and a large amythst geode.

Some snakies and a 600+y old tree.

A couple other items from the musuem's collection.

We also did a tour of the Royal exhibition building across from the musuem. In order: the great hall, the dome above, the view from the promenade.