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Parkville Facts Map
EXPLORE
the
UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE
PARKVILLE CAMPUS
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.
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
easy five-minute walk west to the campus.
BY TRAM, TRAIN OR BUS
Catch the number 19 tram on Elizabeth Street and
alight at Stop 14, or tram number 1, 3/3a, 5, 6, 16,
GRAB A MEMENTO OF YOUR VISIT 88
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 City Loop station is Melbourne Central.
8,000 Staff
Southbank Campus Situated in the heart of Melbourne’s arts
district at Southbank is the University’s arts
precinct.
To get the best view of the colleges, take Students from OVER
130 countrieS
a walk along College Crescent. If you’d like
to wander through college grounds, please
check in at reception first.
www.colleges.unimelb.edu.au
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
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: mhm-info@unimelb.edu.au
Entry by donation
the School of Natural Philosophy in the 1880s.
Wed – Fri: 12pm – 5pm Free
Free Mon – Fri: 10am – 5pm
Mon – Fri: 9am – 5pm Sat: 1pm – 5pm
83 George Paton Gallery Closed Sundays
www.umsu.unimelb.edu.au
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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,
Townend Creek that once rose near what the creek was a migration stream for
COMPUTER IN THE COUNTRY AT THE TIME OF ITS LAUNCH - 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-Chancellor, thank you for
right down to the Yarra River. 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.
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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.
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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 Graduate School of Education
5 ••••••• Athletics track and hockey pitch 50 ••••••• Melbourne Law School
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 ••••••• Ormond College
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 ••••••• Raymond Priestley Building
25 ••••••• Eight-hour working day plaque 70 ••••••• Redmond Barry Building
26 ••••••• Elisabeth Murdoch Building 71 ••••••• River Red Gums
27 ••••••• Ernie Cropley Pavilion 72 ••••••• Sidney Myer Asia Centre
28 ••••••• Flying Capital sculpture – Norma Redpath 73 ••••••• South Lawn and reflection pool
29 ••••••• Foundation plate replica 74 ••••••• St Hilda’s College
30 ••••••• Frank Tate Building 75 ••••••• St Mary’s College
31 ••••••• Gatekeeper’s Cottage 76 ••••••• Stop 1
32 ••••••• Giblin Eunson Library 77 ••••••• Sun Ribbon sculpture – Inge King
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 ••••••• Howard Florey 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 ••••••• Janet Clarke Hall 85 ••••••• University House
41 ••••••• John Medley Building 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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