page_title: Queensland Museum
section_title: History
hierarchical_section_title: Queensland Museum / History
caption_attribution_description: English: The Windmill -- Wickham Terrace, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
context_page_description: The Queensland Museum is the state museum of Queensland, Australia. The museum currently operates from its headquarters and general museum in South Brisbane with specialist museums located in North Ipswich in Ipswich, East Toowoomba in Toowoomba, and in Townsville City in Townsville.
  The museum is funded by the Queensland Government.
context_section_description: The Queensland Museum was founded by the Queensland Philosophical Society on 20 January 1862, one of the principal founders being Charles Coxen, and had several temporary homes in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. The temporary homes included: The Old Windmill (1862–1869), Parliament House (1869–1873) and the General Post Office (1873–1879).
  The Queensland Government built a home for the museum in William Street (later called the John Oxley State Library), with Queensland Museum moving there in 1879.  The museum occupied the William Street location  for 20 years.
  In 1899, the Queensland Museum moved into the Exhibition Hall (now called the Old Museum), on Gregory Terrace in the Brisbane suburb of Bowen Hills, remaining there for 86 years.
  In 1986, the Queensland Museum moved to the Queensland Cultural Centre at South Bank, where the museum is adjacent to the Queensland Art Gallery. Both a tunnel and pedestrian bridge connect the Museum and Art Gallery buildings with the Queensland Performing Arts Centre.  Three lifts were added to the bridge in 2004 to provide access to the platforms of the Cultural Centre busway station.  There is a large sculpture of a Cicada in front of the centre lift.
caption: Queensland Museum — 1862–1869 — The Old Windmill in Wickham Terrace  (Queensland Museum's first home)
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