Australia - Travelling Back In Time At Melbourne Museum

Hello there!

Having completed my earlier travel posts on several interesting countries and regions, including Japan, Maldives, Indonesia, US, Europe and the latest one being New Zealand, it's time to fly over to Australia!

Australia is a country that I have been to twice in my life. The first time was to Sydney in 2009, and the second time was to Melbourne in 2011. And I realised that's 14 years since I was last there! Anyway, time to relive those moments as I share the sights and sounds of my experience!

Here are the posts so far:
Australia - The Amazing Views At Sydney Harbour Bridge
Australia - Admiring The Sydney Opera House
Australia - Exploring The Sydney Beaches
Australia - Story Books Come Alive At The Hunter Valley Gardens
Australia - Big Skyscrapers And Small Koalas In Sydney
Australia - Catching Rainbows On Top Of Eureka Skydeck At Melbourne

We are back at Melbourne and this time, we are headed to the Melbourne Museum! Even though I am not really a museum person, museums are still a good place to visit if you have some time to chill. It allows visitors to learn so much about the country's or the city's history and culture, and it's indoor so it can easily be a wet weather plan and there's air-condition. And who knows, one can find amazing things within sometimes! So let's go!

Big words to welcome visitors!

Something interesting to read...

And something interesting to see...

And probably the crowd's favourite - dinosaurs! Well, the skeleton version. It's amazing how huge these creatures were back then!

And then we have animals too! I would think these were dead animals that were preserved? They looked so real though and there were so many species on display.

Of course, the koala bear deserved a photo on its own!

We moved onto from animals and dinosaurs to the planets!

Could you believe Earth looked like that many billion years ago?

And then it become like this.

Not very interesting for me, unless you love geography. We moved on to the next section and there were minerals! If I am not wrong, that's a major part of Australia's economy.

Oh wow, what's this? Glow in the dark minerals? Are you kidding me?

Not kidding! Look at these minerals!!! This was probably the fascinating exhibit in the museum so far!

The museum was pretty big and we moved on along the corridor to our next section.

The Melbourne Story! It's a lot more history and culture focused.

One of the highlights for Melbourne Museum is the Pygmy Blue Whale exhibit! As we all know, blue whales are the largest living creatures on the planet. The skeleton displayed is the largest exhibit in the museum.

Just look at that! It effectively took over the entire corridor!

Despite not being a museum person, I still thoroughly enjoyed this visit to the Melbourne Museum. One thing I like about the exhibits were that it catered to different types of visitors and not focused on one specific theme. There's something fascinating for everyone, whether you like history, or geography, or living creatures, or plants, you can spend more time in the section of your interest. For me, the glow in the dark minerals were the eye opener because that's something I didn't know and haven't seen before.

And that's all I have today! Have you been to Melbourne Museum or Australia? Let me know in the comments below!

Finally, thanks for reading my post in the community under World Map Pin!