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Scienceworks and Melbourne Planetarium

3015 Spotswood, Australia (Victoria)
Address 2 Booker St.
 
 
Floor area unfortunately not known yet  
 
Museum typ Exhibition
Science Museums in general
  • Technical Museum in general
  • Planetarium

Opening times
 daily 10am – 4:30pm

Admission
Status from 11/2023
 Adult: $15; Seniors: $10.00; Child (3-16): free
Planetarium or Lightning Room: $10.00
Contact
Tel.:+61-3-9392-4819  eMail:mvbookings museum.vic.gov.au  
Homepage
to Location / Directions
www.museumsvictoria.com.au/scienceworks
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Location / Directions
S37.831480° E144.892673°S37°49.88880' E144°53.56038'S37°49'53.3280" E144°53'33.6228"

Public Transport

Public transport via train (Werribee and Williamstown Lines) to Spotswood; allow for a 10 minute walk.

Ferry available daily from Southbank - Williamstown Ferries (03) 9682 9555.

Cyclists

Scienceworks is located close to bicycle routes along the Maribyrnong River, Hyde Street, the Yarra River and Hudsons Road. There is bicycle parking available near the front of the Scienceworks building.

Car Park

Free limited onsite parking is available.
Description

Scienceworks is a science and technology museum with a strong focus on the education of younger visitors and the encouragement of their interest in science and technology.

It also houses a very large collection of scientific and technological objects which are not on display but which are progressively being made available for view in the Web. This collection includes over 1000 vacuum tubes (valves), a number of significant domestic radios and a collection of Marconi spark transmission and receiving equipment.

For the valve collection, see:
http://museumvictoria.com.au/collections/search?q=Electronic+valves
For some of the Marconi material, see:
http://museumvictoria.com.au/collections/search?q=Marconi+spark


The website is very much a work-in-progress, quite a lot of new pictures of Marconi and other spark era objects are planned to be put on to the website and images of some of the more interesting valves will be upgraded.

The main campus of Museum Victoria is in Carlton, here there are some radios on display and CSIRAC the oldest first generation computer still in existence is on permanent display, see:
http://museumvictoria.com.au/csirac/
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