Melbourne Museum

Last Saturday, Mat and I made a trip to the Melbourne Museum. It was a pretty cold day, so, yeah, more or less Matrix has come out.

Sorry lah, this matrix has no leather pants or boots yet lah… wait lah… leather boots expensive you know And seems like it’s not cold enough for michelin man to come out yet.

This is not the museum. This is the royal exhibition building opposite the museum.

Entrance fee is $6 and I think it’s pretty cheap, given the amount of things to see. The museum is so big that if you read everything by detail, you can’t finish in a day. We had to glance through everything like window shopping.

So happen this month they have a special temporary exhibition on dinosaur eggs.

Truthfully, it look just like rocks.

It’s worth it if you have kids. It’s built to be kid friendly, with sand pits for you learn how to brush off sand if you find dinosaur bones and stuff.

We felt as hungry as dinosaurs after this mini exhibition, we decided to have our lunch first before we enter the main museum exhibits.

I had fish and chips.

Mat had ham and cheese sandwiches.

Pretty good food.

By the way, we couldn’t take much photos in the museum, because most of the sections, photography is not allowed. The museum is divided into a few sections: The Aboriginal Centre, The Pasifika Gallery, Mind and Body Gallery, The Evolution Gallery, Science and Life Gallery, and Forest Gallery.

Somemore dinosaurs in the museum

We loved the section on how the history of Victoria came about. Very interesting.

Everything also interesting. In the Science and Life Gallery, they even have a life ant nest and colony.

The Ant Nest – mind you, everything is real

The ants, the eggs, everything, real.

This squid is of course dead, but it’s real, preserved. Sperm whales eat this. It will be one heck of a calamari ring!

In the mind and body gallery, I would say it’s “pretty” interesting. Was wondering whether it’s a good place to bring your kids to teach them where they come from… hahaha! With pictures of naked boy and girl babies to teens to adulthood – in all their glory. There’s even a video on how conception is done and someone giving birth… yes, you can see everything… i mean, EVERYTHING! They even have a real slice of the human body placed between 2 plastic or glass panels for you to see. And alot of real brains around.

This guy just came from Mars

In this virtual room, you get to put on 3d glasses to watch some robot who was deported by humankind to Mars to capture films and photos of a red desert.

Ever seen the world’s first computer? Well, this museum has the world’s 4th unit of the world’s 1st computer. If I’m not mistaken, it takes 1 year to assemble this computer.

World’s 1st computer

And picture above, the CPU of the computer… ahem… not just that cabinet, you see the other closed cabinets?… they are all part of the CPU. Try fitting this computer on your computer table.

Highly recommend visiting the Melbourne Museum.