Melbourne's Living Museum of the West
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About
Melbourne's Living Museum of the West is a community history, culture and ecomuseum, located in Maribyrnong, a western suburb of Melbourne, in Victoria, Australia. The focus of the museum is to document, preserve and interpret the industrial, environmental, social and Indigenous history of the western suburbs of Melbourne.
Established as part of Victoria's sesquicentenary in 1984, along with the Children's Museum and the Museum of Chinese Australian History, the museum is contained within the Pipemakers Park and forms part of the Pipemakers Park Complex, a former manufacturing site that consists of three historic bluestone buildings and other structures. The Pipemakers Park Complex was added to the Victorian Heritage Register on 20 August 1982, in advance of the museum's establishment, due to its historical, archaeological and architectural significance. In 2025, the museum temporarily moved to the Maribyrnong Library whilst refurbishments are completed at the Pipemakers Park site.
The museum is located on the traditional lands of the Wurundjeri people.
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