In 1977, to mark the Museum's 150th anniversary, bronze lower case letters were added to the façade identifying the building as "The Australian Museum". This International Style extension became known as the Parkes/Farmer eastern wing.
There were also two basement floors providing workspace for scientific staff. In 1963, the floor space of the museum almost doubled when Joseph van der Steen under the Government Architect, Edward Farmer, designed a six-story extension linked to the Lewis building for the scientific and research collections, the reference library and a public restaurant. A third storey was added to the north Lewis wing in 1890, bringing cohesion to the building design. In order to accommodate the expanding collections of the museum, Barnet was responsible for the construction of the neoclassical west wing along William Street in 1868. This is a handsome building of Sydney sandstone in the Greek Revival style on the corner of College and William Streets, opposite Hyde Park, designed by the Colonial Architect James Barnet, and it was first opened to the public in May 1857. The Long Gallery is part of the wing designed by New South Wales Colonial Architect Mortimer Lewis, and the earliest building on the site, c. The first location of the museum in 1827 was probably a room in the offices of the Colonial Secretary, although over the following thirty years it had several other locations in Sydney, until it moved into its current home in 1849. Its current CEO and Executive Director is Kim McKay AO. The museum is mentioned in the poem William Street by notable Australian poet Henry Lawson. The Australian Museum building and its collection was added to the New South Wales State Heritage Register on 2 April 1999. The museum was renamed in June 1836 by a sub-committee meeting, when it was resolved during an argument that it should be renamed the "Australian Museum". The museum is located at the corner of William Street and College Street in the Sydney central business district, in the City of Sydney local government area of New South Wales, and was originally known as the Colonial Museum or Sydney Museum. The scientific stature of the museum was established under the curatorship of Gerard Krefft, himself a published scientist. In the museum's early years, collecting was its main priority, and specimens were commonly traded with British and other European institutions.
Apart from exhibitions, the museum is also involved in Indigenous studies research and community programs. It was first conceived and developed along the contemporary European model of an encyclopedic warehouse of cultural and natural history and features collections of vertebrate and invertebrate zoology, as well as mineralogy, palaeontology and anthropology. It is the oldest museum in Australia, and the fifth oldest natural history museum in the world, with an international reputation in the fields of natural history and anthropology. The Australian Museum is a heritage-listed museum at 1 William Street, Sydney central business district, New South Wales, Australia.
0 kommentar(er)
