Melbourne Museum

Initially the museum was not in our list, but since students have free entry and I haven't been there before, so we just went there on one fine day.

A video of a giant marsupial. It's like a giant wombat. So cute.

This is a giant millipede Arthropleura. It was the largest land animal of its time. This can give people nightmares.

A prehistoric shark with spikes on its head. They still have no idea what were those spikes for.

There's this insects wall of fame which I find it interesting. This is a double drummer, the world's loudest insect.

Collections of beetles. From the smallest to the largest.

I wish all of them can move once the museum is closed at night. I'm gonna be so happy. Lol.

There's a psychology section with quite a lot of interesting facts. This is the ames room. It's a trapezoid room that appears cubic when viewed through the peep hole because it removes any clue of stereovision. So our visual perception is tricked thinking it's a cube. The person in the room also appears to grow or shrink when moving from one corner to the other. This is a snapshot of Vivien's epic blur moment. She didn't know that there was a CCTV in the room to allow people to look at how the ames room works. I should have recorded the whole process. Hahaha.

Are experts born or made?

 A picture of Melbourne in the very olden days.

Little Lon was the dark side of Melbourne city in the 1860's, where prostitutes, drunks, nuns, tradesmen and recent immigrants lived. It was called Little Lon maybe because the area was bounded by Lonsdale, Exhibition, Little Lonsdale and Spring streets. This is the area and it's like a haunted house.

The old radio. So cute. Lol!

I think this is a pie warmer if I'm not mistaken.
The visit took longer than I expected. I expected that we would finish within 2 hours but we took 3 hours to reach the exit. Lol.