Present Pasts

Museums and interesting things.

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Cast of a gallimimus, an ornithomimosaur, Late Cretaceous, Mongolia. At the Melbourne Museum, Melbourne.

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Parts of different sets of armour with etched and gilded decoration, late 16th-17th century, Germany and/or Italy. At the Burrell Collection, Glasgow.

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A wedge tailed eagle at the Western Australian Museum, Perth.

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Cast of an amargasaurus fossil, cretaceous period, Argentina. At Melbourne Museum, Melbourne.

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Cast of a protoceratops fossil, cretaceous period, Mongolia. At Melbourne Museum, Melbourne.

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Canoes and crab-claw sails by Pacific Islander artists in Melbourne, Australia. At Melbourne Museum, Melbourne.

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Sailors and soldiers fathers' association of Victoria flag that reads ‘carry on’, c. 1918, Australia. At Melbourne Museum, Melbourne.

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Cast of a tsintaosaurus fossil found in China, cretaceous period. At the Melbourne Museum, Melbourne.

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The Addyman Plesiosaur, the finest known opalised skeleton of a cretaceous period plesiosaur, Australia. At the South Australian Museum, Adelaide.

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Cast of a skeleton of a hypsilophodon, an ornithopod, cretaceous period, England. At the Melbourne Museum, Melbourne.

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Cast of a diprotodon fossil, the largest and heaviest marsupial to ever have lived, cenozoic, Australia. At the Melbourne Museum, Melbourne.

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A kiwi at Melbourne Museum, Australia.

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Pig-footed Bandicoot (Chaeropus ecaudatus), a now extinct marsupial, last sighting 1950s, Australia. At the Melbourne Museum, Melbourne.

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Replica skeleton of a Quetzalcoatlus northropi, a pterosaur that may have been the largest flying animal to ever have existed, Cretaceous period, North America. At the Melbourne Museum, Melbourne.

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The Ranken family's coach, a landau, c. 1820, Scotland. At the National Museum of Australia, Canberra.

After 1860 it was transformed into a mourning vehicle, and is now one of the oldest surviving horsedrawn vehicles in Australia.

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The Saw Doctor's wagon, the travelling home and workshop made by, decorated and lived in by Harold Wright, 1935, Australia. At the National Museum of Australia, Canberra.

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Top section of an Intercolonial Boring Company Simplex windmill from Kenya station, c. 1925, Australia. At the National Museum of Australia, Canberra.

These windmills were used to pump water from sub-artesian aquifers.