This list of museums in Victoria, Australia contains museums which are defined for this context as institutions (including nonprofit organizations, government entities, and private businesses) that collect and care for objects of cultural, artistic, scientific, or historical interest and make their collections or related exhibits available for public viewing. Also included are non-profit art galleries and university art galleries.
| Name | Location | Region | Type | Summary | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Allansford Cheese World Museum | Farming | website, dairy farming, butter and cheese making | |||
| Railway | website, heritage tramway, railroad and forestry museum | ||||
| Melbourne suburbs | Historic house | website, operated by the Altona Laverton Historical Society Inc | |||
| Melbourne suburbs | Local history | website, operated by the Knox Historical Society | |||
| Andrew Ross Museum | Local history | website | |||
| Apollo Bay Museum | Southwest | Local history | website | ||
| Art | Oldest and largest regional art gallery in Australia | ||||
| Art | website Permanent collection specialises in contemporary textile fibre art | ||||
| Australian Army Artillery Museum | Military | website, currently in storage awaiting new facility | |||
| Australian Army Museum, Bandiana | Northeast | Military | website, history of various corps of the Australian Army | ||
| Australian Army Signals Museum | Melbourne suburbs | Military | website, history of the Royal Australian Corps of Signals | ||
| Sports | website, tells the story of surfing | ||||
| Australian National Veterans Arts Museum (ANVAM) | Melbourne suburbs | Art | website, Supporting wellbeing of Australia's veteran community through the Arts | ||
| Melbourne suburbs | Railway | Victorian Railways steam locomotives | |||
| Railway | Electric and horse-drawn street tramways and trams | ||||
| Geelong suburbs | Historic house | website, operated by the National Trust of Australia, mid 19th century Victorian brick villa | |||
| Historic house | website, operated by the National Trust of Australia, mid 19th century 42-room mansion and stables | ||||
| Bass Strait Shell Museum | Southwest | Natural history | information | ||
| Northeast | Prison | 19th century former prison | |||
| Northeast | Art | Exhibits of Australian and international art | |||
| Northeast | Fashion | website, clothing dating from 1770 to the present with regularly changing exhibitions, also local history | |||
| Art | |||||
| Historic house | website, 20th century period mansion and gardens | ||||
| History | Post World War II migrant training camp | ||||
| Broadmeadows Museum | Melbourne suburbs | Local history | website, operated by the Broadmeadows Historical Society | ||
| Historic house | website, features furnishings, decorative art objects, artworks and books dating from the goldrush era of the 1850s up until 1981 | ||||
| Melbourne suburbs | Art | website, city's contemporary art gallery and exhibits of city history | |||
| Northeast | Local history | website, Aboriginal artefacts, Chinese mining community, 19th century streetscape, gold, Ned Kelly gang, natural history | |||
| Melbourne suburbs | Art | website, arts centre with exhibition, performing arts spaces | |||
| Maritime | Lighthouse tours | ||||
| Maritime | |||||
| Melbourne suburbs | Maritime | World War II Bathurst class corvette museum ship | |||
| Castlemaine Art Museum | Art | Australian art and local history | |||
| Maritime | website, history of the naval base and the Victorian Colonial Navy | ||||
| Charlie's Arthur's Seat Auto Museum | Automotive | information | |||
| Literary | website, novels and publications by local authors, local history displays and memorabilia | ||||
| Automotive | information | ||||
| Farm | website, working heritage farm | ||||
| Local history | website, period room displays, agriculture, mining and woodworking items | ||||
| Gippsland | Open air | website | |||
| Northeast | Local history | website | |||
| Coleraine Car Museum | Western District | Automotive | information | ||
| Melbourne suburbs | Historic house | Operated by the National Trust of Australia, Colonial mansion and gardens | |||
| Art | Features eight individual galleries featuring new local and international artists, the original restored chapel, a museum with the history of the building set up by the nuns | ||||
| Historic house | Late 19th century mansion-like homestead, gardens and nature reserve | ||||
| Local history | website | ||||
| Medical | website, operated by the National Trust of Australia, 19th century pharmacy in use until 1968 | ||||
| Dromana Historical Museum | Local history | website, operated by the Dromana & District Historical Society | |||
| Echuca Historical Society Museum | Local history | website | |||
| El Dorado Museum | Northeast | Local history | website, life and times from 1850 to 1950, including mining, farming and social history | ||
| Media | website, operated by the National Trust of Australia, working printing press | ||||
| Melbourne suburbs | Firefighting | website, includes uniforms, vehicles, equipment, memorabilia | |||
| Southwest | Maritime | 1870s maritime village with living history demonstrations | |||
| Flinders Historical Museum | Local history | website, operated by the Flinders District Historical Society | |||
| Automotive | Heritage of the Ford Motor Company in Australia | ||||
| Forestry Heritage Museum | Northeast | Forestry | website, | ||
| Southwest | Military | Restored mid 19th century fort | |||
| Gippsland | Local history | website | |||
| Melbourne suburbs | Automobile | website, classic cars including Bentley, Ferrari, Jaguar, Porsche and Mercedes Benz models | |||
| Geelong | Art | Municipal regional art gallery | |||
| Geelong | Maritime | ||||
| Gippsland | Open air | website | |||
| Military | website | ||||
| Art | website | ||||
| Maritime | website, also known as Port Albert Maritime Museum | ||||
| Gippsland | Automotive | website | |||
| Bendigo | Ethnic | History of Chinese people who immigrated to the region | |||
| Historic house | website, operated by the National Trust of Australia, mid 19th century mansion and farm | ||||
| Ethnic | website, Chinese immigrant miners on the Victorian Goldfields in the mid-1800s | ||||
| Art | website | ||||
| Hastings-Western Port Historical Society | Local history | website, operated by the Hastings – Western Port Historical Society | |||
| Melbourne suburbs | Art | Contemporary art museum | |||
| Geelong suburbs | Historic house | website, website, operated by the National Trust of Australia | |||
| Art | website | ||||
| Prison | Former prison used to house the criminally insane | ||||
| Railway | website, heritage railway and steam museum | ||||
| Local history | website | ||||
| Melbourne suburbs | Historic house | website, operated by the National Trust of Australia, 19th century mansion | |||
| Historic house | website, operated by the National Trust of Australia, childhood home of author Henry Handel Richardson | ||||
| Lakeside Antique Machinery Museum | Technology | information, steam engines, tractors, combustion engines, saws, farm machines | |||
| Langi Morgala Museum | Local history | website, operated by the Ararat and District Historical Society | |||
| Gippsland | Art | website | |||
| Local history | website | ||||
| Maffra Sugar Beet Museum | Local history | website, features history of the area sugar beet industry, also a separate dairy interpretive centre | |||
| Local history | website | ||||
| Maldon Vintage Machinery Museum | Maldon | Goldfields | Technology | website | |
| Gippsland | Local history | information, operated by the Mallacoota & District Historical Society, World War II bunker with local history displays | |||
| Melbourne suburbs | Art | website, municipal art gallery | |||
| Historic house | Operated by the National Trust of Australia, mid 19th century homestead | ||||
| Melbourne suburbs | Technology | Industrial machinery and steam engines | |||
| Melbourne suburbs | Railway | Features over 20 fully restored trams in a depot | |||
| Railway | Operated by the Tramway Museum Society of Victoria, trams from Melbourne, Geelong, Ballarat and Adelaide | ||||
| Melbourne suburbs | Local history | Area history, culture, natural history | |||
| Melbourne suburbs | Art | Municipal art and photography gallery | |||
| Historic house | website, operated by the National Trust of Australia, home of D.J.S (Scobie) Mackinnon and film star Claire Adams, also working farm and nature reserve | ||||
| Mornington Old Post Office Museum | Local history | website, operated by the Mornington Historical Society | |||
| Art | Exhibits Australian and international art | ||||
| Historic house | website | ||||
| Historic house | website, operated by the National Trust of Australia, home of artist Daryl Lindsay and author Joan Lindsay, features collection of Australian art, Georgian furniture and glassware, and Staffordshire ceramics | ||||
| Melbourne suburbs | Ethnic | website, experience of Italian migration and the culture created by Italians in Australia | |||
| Sports | Ski history | ||||
| National Holden Motor Museum | Automotive | website, Holden cars | |||
| Industry | Australia's wool industry from raising sheep to creating fabric | ||||
| Military | website, weapons, aircraft, vehicles and equipment, uniforms, dioramas, photos, art | ||||
| Ned Kelly Museum | Northeast | Biographical | website, history of bushranger Ned Kelly's last stand | ||
| Open air | Pioneer township portraying the settlement era of Gippsland | ||||
| Open air | website, features over 50 original and replica heritage buildings | ||||
| Southwest | Local history | website, operated by the Port Fairy Historical Society | |||
| Mill | website, http://www.zades.com.au/nattrust/mill.htm operated by the National Trust of Australia, historic flour mill with local history displays | ||||
| Maritime | website | ||||
| Automotive | information, information | ||||
| Ballarat | Art | Gallery housed in an historic post office | |||
| Southwest | Local history | website | |||
| Southwest | Maritime | ||||
| Melbourne suburbs | Historic house | Operated by the National Trust of Australia, 19th century mansion and gardens | |||
| Military | Over 70 tanks, armoured fighting vehicles and history of the Royal Australian Armoured Corps | ||||
| Royal Australian Army Pay Corps Museum | Melbourne suburbs | Military | website, history of the Royal Australian Army Pay Corps | ||
| Sale Historical Museum | Local history | information, operated by the Sale Historical Society | |||
| Schramm's Cottage Museum Complex | Doncaster East | Melbourne suburbs | Local History | website, operated by the Doncaster Templestowe Historical Society. Iincludes the stone Schramm's Cottage, the Waldau Cemetery and a farm equipment collection. | |
| Melbourne suburbs | Historic house | Operated by the Whitehorse Historical Society, late 19th century pioneer stone cottage and outbuildings | |||
| Seymour | Railway | ||||
| Northeast | Art | website | |||
| Shepparton Heritage Centre | Shepparton | Northeast | Local History | website | |
| Western District | Aviation | website, birthplace of the Ansett transport empire | |||
| Local history | website, open by appointment with the Woady Yaloak Historical Society | ||||
| Mornington Peninsula | Local history | Operated by the Nepean Historical Society, museum, library and gallery | |||
| Ballarat | Open air | Depicts Ballarat's first ten years after the discovery of gold in 1851, includes the Gold Museum about the Australian gold rushes of the 1850s | |||
| Gippsland | Mining | 20th century coal mine with buildings, equipment and underground tours | |||
| Local history | website | ||||
| Melbourne suburbs | Railway | ||||
| St Arnaud Historical Museum | Local history | website, operated by the St Arnaud Historical Society | |||
| Sports | website, Australia's contribution to the development of surfing around the world | ||||
| Art | Collections include Naïve art, Australian works on paper, prints and drawings | ||||
| Art | website, Australian art from the second half of the twentieth century to the present day | ||||
| Melbourne suburbs | Art | website, operated by the National Trust of Australia | |||
| Literary | website, features over 1400 Bibles, together with models and artefacts associated with the Bible message | ||||
| Aerospace | website, theme park and museum based on the de Havilland Tiger Moth | ||||
| Local history | website | ||||
| Melbourne suburbs | Music | Australian jazz heritage | |||
| Melbourne suburbs | Historic house | website, late 19th century mansion under restoration | |||
| Wangaratta Art Gallery | Northeast | Art | website | ||
| Wangaratta Museum | Northeast | Local history | website, operated by the Wangaratta Historical Society | ||
| Warrandyte Post Office Museum | Melbourne suburbs | Local history | website, operated by the Warrandyte Historical Society | ||
| Southwest | Art | website | |||
| Melbourne suburbs | Historic house | Includes late 19th century mansion, gardens, an equestrian centre, a zoo and a contemporary sculpture walk | |||
| Melbourne suburbs | Art | website, municipal art gallery located in town hall | |||
| Melbourne suburbs | Local history | website | |||
| Worsley Cottage Complex | Historic house | website, operated by the Maryborough Midlands Historical Society | |||
| Northeast | Local history | website, operated by the Yackandandah and District Historical Society | |||
| Melbourne suburbs | Local history | website, cultural heritage of the Yarra Ranges region | |||
