1893 ITM Museum moves to McCoy Hall in Russell Street. 1899 National Museum opens in the Public Library building. Industrial and Technological Museum reopens in the State Library. It is renamed the Museum of Applied Science in 1945, and then the Science Museum of Victoria in 1970. A pastoralist from the Hunter Valley, Henry White, donates 8500 Australian birds, stored in hundreds of drawers inside carefully constructed wooden cabinets.
Government proposes building a new museum.
Annexe established at Abbotsford. 1977 Victorian Government says the library and museum will move to the site of the Victorian market. 1979 Friends of the National Museum of Victoria Association established. Volunteer guides service begins. The Museum entrance is closed after large stone rosettes fall off the portico.