Hidden gems - Museums in Thornbury, Australia not to miss (Updated December, 2023)

Museum

5.00 (15 reviews) (~8.08 km from centre)

Museum

👍 This collection incorporates the Melbourne Open Air Sculpture Museum. It has approximately 4000 historical and contemporary objects including architectural plans, photographs, civic and ceremonial objects, sister city gifts, commemorative objects, and a visual art collection. It is used for research...

4.80 (9 reviews) (~6.69 km from centre)

Open House For Kids

Museum

4.80 (5 reviews) (~7.4 km from centre)

Coburg Historical Society

Historical society

4.80 (5 reviews) (~2.77 km from centre)

Lyon Housemuseum and Housemuseum Galleries

Art museum

👍👍 Amazing experience: the space and the collection are sublime and I found experience to be creatively refreshing.

4.70 (74 reviews) (~7.38 km from centre)

ACMI Cinemas

Movie theater

😠 Just visited the ACMI theatre whilst on a year 12 exam revision lecture, I made the poor mistake of purchasing an (overpriced) toasted sandwich, I was only given a 10 minute break to eat my food for the entirety of the day. After trying to renter the theatre I was told no hot food was allowed so I s...

4.70 (60 reviews) (~6.89 km from centre)

Fire Services Museum of Victoria

Museum

👍👍 Excellent introduction by the volunteers! The displays are very detailed and interesting.

4.60 (125 reviews) (~5.76 km from centre)

Islamic Museum of Australia

Non-profit organization

👍👍 Amazing place with a wealth of knowledge, i highly recommend my fellow Australians to head down with your family to find out some real fact about Islam. Some of my learning, slam shares the same Abrahamic heritage as Judaism and Christianity and, therefore, espouses many similar beliefs and practic...

4.60 (90 reviews) (~1.23 km from centre)

Villa Alba Museum

Museum

😠 My daughter went to a huge amount of trouble to organize a lovely afternoon for myself, my Mother in-law, my Daughter and my best friend. You advertise that if you pay $23, per head, up front, you will be guarenteed a lovely Devonshire tea with your tour. Firstly there is no tour, you walk in the f...

4.60 (39 reviews) (~5.39 km from centre)

Airways Museum

Museum

👍👍 The hidden gem of Melbourne's museums. Aviation history in the form of machines actually used by industry. The guides are retired airtraffc controllers and equipment maintainers so you learn from the source. They also have video nights of old videos. Well worth the gold coin donation entry fee.

4.60 (32 reviews) (~9.37 km from centre)

Westgarthtown, Victoria

History museum

👍 Well worth a visit. Used to be called germantown long ago. Some beautiful old flowers.

4.60 (24 reviews) (~9.7 km from centre)

Essendon Historical Society

Historical society

👍👍 Beauty historical part of Melbourne. It's ashame the fire destroyed such a historical place. Bit funny thou the police station next door were all for knocking it door to build a car park all of a sudden the following few months the fire occurs? Either way such a shame to lose such a historical piece...

4.60 (10 reviews) (~6.13 km from centre)

The National Opal Collection

Jewelry store

👍👍 Absolutely phenomenal. The love and effort that has been put into showcasing the wonder of Australian opals shines out as you move from showcase to showcase. The rendering that has been put into the plastering to resemble the walls and roof of underground opal mines is so realistic that one would be...

4.50 (129 reviews) (~6.68 km from centre)