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Old Museum Brisbane
Red-brick Federation-era exhibition hall rebuilt after an 1888 fire, once home to a natural history museum.
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This guide to the Old Museum in Bowen Hills, Brisbane opens with the fire that destroyed its wooden predecessor in eighteen eighty-eight, and the brick fortress the colony raised in its place. It follows the building's eighty-six years as home to the Queensland Museum, when zoological and mineral collections shared its halls with opera recitals by stars like Dame Nellie Melba. Best heard standing beneath the original terracotta roofline at the entrance.
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