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Map V4 EXPLORE the UNIVERSITY OF PARKVILLE CAMPUS STORIES

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ONE OF THE WORLD’S MOST BEAUTIFUL DISCOVER AND INSPIRING UNIVERSITY CAMPUSES. WELCOME! WELCOME TO THE , AN INTERNATIONALLY RECOGNISED RESEARCH-INTENSIVE UNIVERSITY WITH A TRADITION OF EXCELLENCE IN TEACHING AND LEARNING, RESEARCH AND RESEARCH TRAINING, AND COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT.

THE UNIVERSITY WAS FOUNDED IN 1853, AND IS SITUATED IN THE HEART OF THE WORLD’S MOST LIVEABLE CITY. USE THIS MAP TO PLAN YOUR VISIT – WHETHER YOU’RE DISCOVERING OVER 160 YEARS OF MELBOURNE’S HISTORY, ABOUT TO STUDY OR WORK HERE, OR JUST WANT TO EXPLORE OUR BEAUTIFUL CAMPUS.

GETTING AROUND

ON FOOT HOP-ON HOP-OFF BUS The Parkville campus is a 15–20 minute walk The Melbourne City Sightseeing Tour hop-on hop-off north of Melbourne’s CBD. bus stops at Lygon Street, Carlton, near the Faraday Street intersection (Stop 10). From this stop, it is an BY TRAM, TRAIN OR BUS easy five-minute walk west to the campus. Catch the number 19 tram on Elizabeth Street and GRAB A MEMENTO OF YOUR VISIT 88 alight at Stop 14, or tram number 1, 3/3a, 5, 6, 16, 64, 67 or 72 on Swanston Street and alight at the A great selection of University of Melbourne accessible Melbourne University tram stop. clothes and merchandise is available online Every tram stop marked on this map is accessible. www.shop.unimelb.edu.au and at the University’s Visitor Centre and Shop at Gate 10. The closest station is Melbourne Central.

The 401 bus runs direct from North Melbourne train station to Parkville during the week and stops at the FACILITIES 83 southern end of campus. Banks and ATMs, food outlets, travel agents, accessible bathrooms and a baby change room are located in the Union Building. CAMPUS INFORMATION

Parkville Campus BY THE numbers:

The University is located just north of the Melbourne CBD, close to the and to the 48,000 students east, and Melbourne to the north-west.

As well as city campuses in Parkville and Southbank, the University has a campus dedicated to horticulture at Burnley, and regional campuses for rural health, veterinary and agricultural studies at Creswick, Dookie, and Werribee. 8,000 Staff

Southbank Campus Situated in the heart of Melbourne’s arts district at Southbank is the University’s arts precinct. 360,000+ Visit the Margaret Lawrence Gallery to OVER see work by some of Melbourne’s leading alumni worldwide emerging artists, or visit www.vca-mcm. unimelb.edu.au/events to see what’s on show at the Grant Street Theatre or 100 Federation Hall. RESEARCH CENTRES Colleges Melbourne’s residential colleges, offering students opportunities to enhance their University of Melbourne experience, are situated on the edge of the Parkville campus.

To get the best view of the colleges, take Students from OVER a walk along College Crescent. If you’d like to wander through college grounds, please check in at reception first. 130 countrieS www.colleges.unimelb.edu.au 1,800 Melbourne Medical Precinct bike parking The Melbourne is the University’s gateway to the Parkville spaces Medical Precinct.

Medical students and researchers work and learn in the of Molecular Science and Biotechnology, the Doherty 108 141 Institute, the Brain Centre, the Royal Melbourne and Women’s Hospitals, the AFL/VFL Victorian Comprehensive Cancer Centre and olympic several affiliated research institutes. athletes Players 9 Australian test cricketers WE’VE GONE GREEN

SUSTAINABILITY IS Melbourne Bike Share 84 You’ll find a Farmers Market on the Union The City of Melbourne runs a bike share Lawn on Wednesdays during semester from EVERYBODY’S BUSINESS 9 program to help make short CBD journeys 10.30am–2.30pm selling delicious ready-to- carbon neutral. Two bike share stations are eat lunches, organic produce, baked goods AND WE’RE DOING OUR on campus, and inexpensive helmets are and much more. sold at 7-Eleven stores. Fill your reusable bottle at one of the BEST TO MINIMISE 19 Smell the fragrant herbs at the Melbourne University’s many free drinking water University Community Garden. fountains across campus. ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT: www.mucgarden.weebly.com Solar panels on top of sites including Wilson 83 The University runs a commingled recycling Hall help us reduce our power bill. and waste program, making sure we’re The University is committed to sustainability minimising our contribution to landfill. The with the launch of the Sustainability Plan 2017- Food Co-op in the Union Building sells bulk 2020 and strives to be a leader in sustainable staple items during term time. Bring your practice, innovation and education. own containers! www.ourcampus.unimelb.edu.au/ sustainability-plan EATING AND DRINKING YOU’LL FIND CAFES AND KIOSKS LOCATED ACROSS NOTHING FUELS THE PURSUIT OF CAMPUS AND AROUND ITS PERIMETER, CATERING KNOWLEDGE LIKE COFFEE, FOR A RANGE OF TASTES AND BUDGETS FROM AND MELBURNIANS ARE FUSSY QUICK CREPES TO HEARTIER MENU ITEMS. ABOUT THEIR BEAN AND BREW.

This is Wurundjeri Country

THE UNIVERSITY ACKNOWLEDGES THE TRADITIONAL CUSTODIANS OF THE LAND ON WHICH IT STANDS, AND OFFERS RESPECT TO THE ELDERS PAST AND PRESENT OF THE WURUNDJERI PEOPLE OF THE KULIN NATIONS. TO LEARN MORE ABOUT HOW INDIGENOUS PEOPLE LIVED ON THIS LAND BEFORE THE COLONIAL ERA, FOLLOW BILLIBELLARY’S WALK, NAMED AFTER THE NGURUNGAETA (CLAN HEAD) OF THE WURUNDJERI PEOPLE AT THE TIME OF MELBOURNE’S SETTLEMENT.

Billibellary’s Walk is a cultural interpretation of the University’s Parkville campus landscape and provides an experience of connection to Country which Wurundjeri people continue to have, both physically and spiritually. Download the app and look for the signs on campus, or book a guided tour before you go.

www.murrupbarak.unimelb.edu.au MUSEUmS + GALLERIES

THE UNIVERSITY’S CULTURAL COLLECTIONS ARE A TREASURE TROVE OF RARE HISTORICAL MATERIALS AND EXQUISITE OBJECTS ON DISPLAY IN NINE GALLERIES.

The collections explore everything from contemporary art, classics and archaeology, medical and dental history, to music and the sciences. As you wander the campus grounds, you might also come across some unique sculptures, murals and artworks by notable Australian artists. Visit the collections website to learn about opening times and what’s currently on show: www.library.unimelb.edu.au

43 The Dax Centre 66 Physics Museum 46 Medical History Museum www.daxcentre.org www.ph.unimelb.edu.au/museum www.museums.mdhs.unimelb.edu.au The Dax Centre promotes mental health The Physics Museum comprises more Visit the nineteenth-century Savory and and wellbeing through art created by people than 350 items of historical and scientific Moore Pharmacy complete with with lived experience of mental ill health interest, concentrating on scientific apparatus pharmaceutical jars and equipment in the or psychological trauma, selected from constructed by professors and staff for Medical History Museum. This fascinating the extensive Cunningham Dax Collection. research purposes. It includes equipment museum will give you a unique look at Exhibitions change regularly. and photographs spanning the history of the medicine over the centuries. School of Physics, which was established as Book a tour: [email protected] Entry by donation the School of Natural Philosophy in the 1880s. Wed – Fri: 12pm – 5pm Free Free Mon – Fri: 10am – 5pm 83 George Paton Gallery Mon – Fri: 9am – 5pm Sat: 1pm – 5pm Closed Sundays www.umsu.unimelb.edu.au 35 Henry Forman Atkinson Dental Museum The George Paton Gallery has been a www.museums.mdhs.unimelb.edu.au 6 Noel Shaw Gallery dynamic alternative art space since 1975. It www.library.unimelb.edu.au has featured many high profile experimental Unique in for the age and range and emerging Australian artists. of its collection, the Dental Museum offers The ’s Noel Shaw Gallery insights into the social history of health and showcases the University’s outstanding Free dentistry in . cultural collections in a series of themed Mon – Fri: 11am – 5pm Book a tour: [email protected] rotating exhibitions, featuring materials from the nationally significant print collection, Free 34 Grainger Museum rare books, and archives. Mon – Fri: 9am – 5pm www.grainger.unimelb.edu.au Free Percy Grainger, pianist and composer of 37 Museum of Art Mon – Fri: 10am – 5pm the folk song Country Gardens, established Weekends and public holidays during Library www.art-museum.unimelb.edu.au his autobiographical museum in 1938. opening hours This fascinating museum houses more than Founded in 1972, the Ian Potter Museum of 50,000 items and artifacts of Grainger’s life Art is the University of Melbourne’s primary and career. art museum. Housed in an award-winning building opened in 1998, the Potter is the Free largest university-based art museum in Sun – Fri: 12pm – 4pm Australia and a national leader in the field. Closed Saturdays Free Tues – Fri: 10am – 5pm Sat & Sun: 12pm – 5pm Closed Mondays IT HAPPENED HERE! (SECRETS+STORIES FROM AROUND THE CAMPUS)

48 IT IS SAID THE GHOST OF , 56 BACK IN THE 1930S – WHEN THERE AUSTRALIA’S MOST FAMOUS OPERA SINGER, WERE STILL SEVERAL FAMILIES HAUNTS MELBA HALL. LIVING ON CAMPUS – A GROUP OF There have been numerous reports of an MISCHIEVOUS STUDENTS CAUSED THE unexplained whistling sound during or after a OLD ARTS CLOCK TO TOLL 466 TIMES, performance, thought to be the soprano voice of Dame Nellie either singing high praise or telling the STARTING AT 6.30AM. performer to get off the stage.

90 THE FIRST WILSON HALL - DUNK TANK 84 QUACK A GRAND GOTHIC STRUCTURE – BURNT TO THE Before it was filled, Union Lawn (also called GROUND IN 1952. THE EVENT WAS CAUGHT ON Concrete Lawn) was a recreational lake. In the FILM BY A PASSING SUPER-8 ENTHUSIAST. early 20th Century, any overly vocal students were dunked in the lake to quieten them down. A stained glass window panel by Napier-Waller, known as the Leckie Window (on display in the ), was rescued from the ashes, along with a small number of stone sculptures depicting the heads of kings and queens of England. From the ‘new’ Wilson Hall foyer, 82 THE SOUTH LAWN, OR UNDERGROUND CAR PARK, IS FAMOUS FOR ITS Tudor royalty watches over students as they transition GOTHIC-LIKE PILLARS AND EERIE ATMOSPHERE. ACCESS IS VIA A CARVED through exams and graduation. DOORWAY WHERE TWO LOOMING STONE FIGURES WELCOME YOU INSIDE. THE CAR PARK’S DRAMATIC ARCHES AND MONOCHROME PALETTE HAVE FEATURED IN SEVERAL FILM AND TV PRODUCTIONS, FROM MAD MAX TO MASTERCHEF.

10 SLIPPERY STUDENTS THE CSIRO MARK I COMPUTER - THE ONLY OPERATING Take Billibellary’s Walk to find out about In Billibellary’s time, around the 1830s, COMPUTER IN THE COUNTRY AT THE TIME OF ITS LAUNCH - Townend Creek that once rose near what the creek was a migration stream for is now Melbourne Cemetery and was short-finned eel. Eels sometimes still WAS HOUSED AT THE UNIVERSITY BETWEEN 1956 AND 1964. redirected underground as the campus swim upstream and get trapped in the was developed. The creek originally pipes. You just might see one pop out of The computer executed a simple program, with an output message flowed south through the University site the pipes in the pond of the Redmond rate of five characters per second: ‘Mr Vice-, thank you for right down to the . Barry courtyard. declaring me open. I can add, subtract, and multiply; solve linear and differential equations; play a mediocre game of chess and also some music,’ the computer informed onlookers. It is now housed at the Melbourne Museum.

Dr David Solomon, Professorial Fellow in the Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, led the team that worked with the Reserve Bank of Australia to develop the first plastic banknote issued in 1988. As part of the process, he built a secret mini-production line to demonstrate to the Reserve Bank the 17 practicality of plastic money, which has been $ adopted widely around the world. 6 OVER 200,000 RARE 25 AND HISTORIC BOOKS, WORKING IT 86 THE ATHLETICS ASSOCIATION WAS SERIALS, PAMPHLETS AND FORMED IN 1883 AND EMPLOYED LITERARY ARCHIVES ARE HOUSED In 1856, stonemasons working A CARETAKER WHO WAS ALLOWED IN THE BAILLIEU LIBRARY’S at the University downed TO GRAZE A COW ON THE OVAL. SPECIAL COLLECTIONS. tools, joined other labourers IT IS THE LARGEST NON- and marched to parliament to As part of his employment, the GOVERNMENTAL ARCHIVE IN declare their right to work an caretaker was required to bowl to AUSTRALIA AND IF YOU LINED eight-hour day. Their protests members of the cricket club for two UP THE STORAGE BOXES SIDE BY led to improved working hours each afternoon during the conditions across the country SIDE THEY WOULD EXTEND FOR and our holiday. cricket season. ABOUT 15 KILOMETRES.

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1 ••••••• 1888 Building and Graduate Student Association 46 ••••••• Medical History Museum 2 ••••••• Alan Gilbert Building 47 ••••••• Melbourne Business School 3 ••••••• Alice Hoy Building 48 ••••••• Melbourne Conservatorium of Music 4 ••••••• Arts West Building 49 ••••••• Melbourne of Education 5 ••••••• Athletics track and hockey pitch 50 ••••••• Melbourne 6 ••••••• Baillieu Library and Noel Shaw Gallery 51 ••••••• Melbourne School of Design 7 ••••••• Baldwin Spencer Building 52 ••••••• Melbourne University Sport 8 ••••••• Beaurepaire Centre 53 ••••••• Murrup Barak / Melbourne Inst. for Indigenous Development 9 ••••••• Bike Share station 54 ••••••• Natural Philosophy Building 10 ••••••• Billibellary’s Walk (start) 55 ••••••• Newman College 11 ••••••• Biosciences 1 56 ••••••• Old Arts Building and Clocktower 12 ••••••• Biosciences 2 (formerly Botany) 57 ••••••• Old Engineering Building 13 ••••••• Bulpadock bull sculpture 58 ••••••• Old Geology Building 14 ••••••• Business and Economics (The Spot) 59 ••••••• Old Geology South Building 15 ••••••• Carriage Gates (original) 60 ••••••• Old Metallurgy Building 16 ••••••• Chapel of the Holy Spirit, Newman College 61 ••••••• Old Physics Building 17 ••••••• Chemical Engineering Building 62 ••••••• Old Quadrangle 18 ••••••• Chemistry Building 63 ••••••• 19 ••••••• Community garden 64 ••••••• Peter Doherty Institute 20 ••••••• Cussonia Court 65 ••••••• Peter Hall Building 21 ••••••• David Caro Building 66 ••••••• Physics Museum 22 ••••••• Deakin Court 67 ••••••• Professors Walk 23 ••••••• Doug McDonell Building 68 ••••••• Queen’s College 24 ••••••• Eastern Resource Centre (ERC) 69 ••••••• Building 25 ••••••• Eight-hour working day plaque 70 ••••••• Building 26 ••••••• Elisabeth Murdoch Building 71 ••••••• River Red Gums 27 ••••••• Ernie Cropley Pavilion 72 ••••••• Sidney Asia Centre 28 ••••••• Flying Capital sculpture – 73 ••••••• South Lawn and reflection pool 29 ••••••• Foundation plate replica 74 ••••••• St Hilda’s College 30 ••••••• Building 75 ••••••• St Mary’s College 31 ••••••• Gatekeeper’s Cottage 76 ••••••• Stop 1 32 ••••••• Giblin Eunson Library 77 ••••••• Sun Ribbon sculpture – 33 ••••••• Graduate House 78 ••••••• System Garden 34 ••••••• Grainger Museum 79 ••••••• Townend Creek path (Billibellary’s Walk) 35 ••••••• Henry Forman Atkinson Dental Museum 80 ••••••• Trinity College 36 ••••••• Institute 81 ••••••• Trinity College Chapel 37 ••••••• Ian Potter Museum of Art 82 ••••••• Underground car park (Atlantes entrance) 38 ••••••• Infrastructure Engineering Building 83 ••••••• Union House and George Paton Gallery 39 ••••••• Iron fence (original remnant) 84 ••••••• Union Lawn / Concrete Lawn 40 ••••••• 85 ••••••• University House 41 ••••••• 86 ••••••• University Oval 42 ••••••• John Smyth Building 87 ••••••• University Square 43 ••••••• Kenneth Myer Building and The Dax Centre 88 ••••••• Visitor Centre and Shop 44 ••••••• MacFarland Court 89 ••••••• Walter Boas Building 45 ••••••• Medical Building 90 ••••••• Wilson Hall

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