High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Immigration Museum
is a museum primarily displaying Australia's immigration
history. It is located on Flinders Street in Melbourne, Victoria,
in the Old Customs House. It is famous for its most important
space, the Long Room, which is a magnificent piece of Renaissance
revival architecture.The museum was founded in 1998, and is a
division of Museum Victoria which administers the cultural and
scientific collections of the State of Victoria. Its sister museums
are Melbourne Museum (including the Royal Exhibition Building) and
Scienceworks Museum.In addition to its work on documenting
immigraton history, the museum also hosts various travelling
exhibitions, and also provides educational programs.
