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Map V4 EXPLORE the UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE STORIES SECRETS ONE OF THE WORLD’S MOST BEAUTIFUL DISCOVER AND INSPIRING UNIVERSITY CAMPUSES. WELCOME! WELCOME TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE, 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 150 YEARS OF MELBOURNE’S HISTORY, ABOUT TO STUDY OR WORK HERE, OR JUST WANT TO EXPLORE OUR BEAUTIFUL CAMPUS. GETTING AROUND ON FOOT MELBOURNE VISITOR SHUTTLE The Parkville campus is a 15–20 minute walk The Melbourne Visitor Shuttle hop-on-hop-off bus north of Melbourne’s CBD. includes a stop at the University of Melbourne. Climb aboard and explore any of the 13 precincts. The University is Stop 7. Tickets are $10. BY TRAM, TRAIN OR BUS www.thatsmelbourne.com.au Catch the number 19 tram on Elizabeth Street and alight at Stop 14, or tram number 1, 3/3a, 5, 6, 8, 16, GRAB A MEMENTO OF YOUR VISIT 64, 67 or 72 on Swanston Street and alight at the Melbourne University Tram Stop. TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE The 401 bus from North Melbourne train station is A great selection of University of Melbourne clothes a free shuttle for validated public transport ticket and merchandise is available at the Co-op Bookshop holders stopping at the Royal Melbourne and at Stop 1 on the corner of Grattan and Swanston Women’s hospitals and the University of Melbourne’s Streets or online: www.shop.unimelb.edu.au Gate 10 on Grattan Street. The closest City Loop station is Melbourne Central. FACILITIES 26 A hairdresser, travel agents, pharmacy, newsagent, banks and ATMs, groceries, disabled facilities and baby change 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 Melbourne Museum and Exhibition Gardens to the east, 47,000 students and Melbourne Zoo to the 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, Shepparton and Werribee. 6,500 Staff Southbank Campus Situated in the heart of Melbourne’s arts district at Southbank is the University’s Victorian College of the Arts. Visit the Margaret Lawrence Gallery to 360,000 OVER see work by some of Melbourne’s leading emerging artists, or visit www.vca-mcm. alumni worldwide 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 rst. 130 countrieS www.colleges.unimelb.edu.au 2,600 Melbourne Medical Precinct bike parking The Melbourne Medical School is the University’s gateway to the Parkville spaces Medical Precinct. Medical students and researchers work and learn in the Bio21 Institute of Molecular Science and Biotechnology, the Doherty 108 141 Institute, the Brain Centre, the Royal Melbourne and Women’s Hospitals, the olympic AFL/VFL Victorian Comprehensive Cancer Centre and several afliated research institutes. athletes Players 9 Australian test cricketers WE’VE GONE GREEN SUSTAINABILITY IS Melbourne Bike Share: 28 You’ll nd a Farmers Market on the Union The City of Melbourne runs a bike share Lawn on Wednesdays during term time EVERYBODY’S BUSINESS program to help make short CBD journeys from 10.30am – 2.30pm selling organic carbon neutral. Two bike share stations are on produce, bread and honey, as well as food truck AND WE’RE DOING OUR campus, and inexpensive helmets are sold at temptations. 7-Eleven stores. BEST TO MINIMISE Our campuses are smoke and plastic water- 58 Smell the fragrant herbs at the Melbourne bottle free. Fill your reusable bottle at one of ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT. University Community Garden. the many bubblers across campus. www.mucgarden.weebly.com HERE’S HOW: Solar panels on top of Wilson Hall help reduce 26 The University runs a comingled recycling and our power bill. waste program, making sure we’re minimising our contribution to landll. The Food Co-op www.sustainablecampus.unimelb.edu.au in the Union Building sells bulk staple items during term time. Bring your own containers! 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, AND FOR A RANGE OF TASTES AND BUDGETS FROM MELBURNIANS ARE FUSSY ABOUT QUICK CREPES TO HEARTIER MENU ITEMS. 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. 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 54 The Dax Centre 23 Physics Museum 66 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 than Visit the nineteenth-century Savory and Moore and wellbeing through art created by people 350 items of historical and scientic interest, Pharmacy complete with pharmaceutical with lived experience of mental ill health concentrating on scientic apparatus constructed jars and equipment in the Medical History or psychological trauma, selected from by professors and staff for research purposes. Museum. This fascinating museum will the extensive Cunningham Dax Collection. It includes equipment and photographs spanning give you a unique look at medicine over the Exhibitions change regularly. the history of the School of Physics, which was centuries. Book a tour: established as the School of Natural Philosophy mhm-info@unimelb edu.au Entry by donation in the 1880s. Wed – Fri: 12pm – 5pm Free Free Mon – Fri: 10am – 5pm George Paton Gallery Mon – Fri: 9am – 5pm Sat: 1pm – 5pm Closed Sundays www.umsu.unimelb.edu.au 72 Henry Forman Atkinson Dental Museum The George Paton Gallery has been a 27 www.museums.mdhs.unimelb.edu.au 52 Noel Shaw Gallery dynamic alternative art space since 1975. It has featured many high prole experimental Unique in Australia for the age and range of its www.library.unimelb.edu.au and emerging Australian artists. collection, the Dental Museum offers insights The Baillieu Library’s Noel Shaw Gallery into the social history of health and dentistry Free showcases the University’s outstanding in Victoria. Book a tour: Mon – Fri: 11am – 5pm cultural collections in a series of themed [email protected] rotating exhibitions, featuring materials from Grainger Museum Free the nationally signicant print collection, rare 35 Mon – Fri: 9am – 5pm books, and archives. www.grainger.unimelb.edu.au Free Percy Grainger, pianist and composer of 31 Ian Potter Museum of Art Mon – Fri: 10am – 5pm the folk song Country Gardens, established www.art-museum.unimelb.edu.au Weekends and public holidays during his autobiographical museum in 1938. Library opening hours This fascinating museum houses more Founded in 1972, the Ian Potter Museum of than 50,000 items and artifacts of Art is the University of Melbourne’s primary Grainger’s life 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 eld. Closed Saturdays Free Tues – Fri: 10am – 5pm Sat & Sun: 12pm – 5pm Closed Mondays IT HAPPENED HERE! (SECRETS+STORIES FROM AROUND THE CAMPUS) 46 IT IS SAID THE GHOST OF NELLIE MELBA, 51 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. 53 THE FIRST WILSON HALL - DUNK TANK 28 QUACK A GRAND GOTHIC STRUCTURE – BURNT TO THE Before it was lled, 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.