Painting Annex (Prior to the Magnolia tree planting) for Victorian College of the Arts part of the I&T Museum C. 1870
Postcard C.1870
Melbourne's Industrial & Technological Museum
First opened its doors to the public on Friday, 9th September 1870, following an inaugural public lecture entitled 'On the Methods of Diffusing Technical Knowledge' presented by Professor Frederick McCoy to an audience of almost 200, in the museum auditorium the previous evening.
The I&T Museum's first home was in the Great Hall and adjoining Rotunda, designed by Melbourne architects Reed & Barnes for the Intercolonial Exhibition of 1866-67, and constructed behind the Public Library on Swanston Street, where the Dome Reading Room of the State Library now stands.