SciencePublic

= P ublic S cience = ==== Bureau of Meteorology | University of Melbourne | Melbourne Museum ====

As science is studied in Melbourne, most of it is open to the public so that people can learn about what is studied.

**Bureau of Meteorology:**
One building open to the public is the Bureau of Meteorology, inside you can check the weather forecast all over Australia, you can also enter their website to check out the weather forecast for the day and nine days ahead. You can also find out what they are studying, how they study the weather. You can check the weather in terms of humidity, rainfall, wind, heat, fog and frost potential. You can also check the weather ten days into the future so you know the weather forecast.

**University of Melbourne:**
The University of Melbourne is also open to the public, they give public lectures to inform the public on what they are working on or what they are going to be working on.

**Melbourne Museum:**
Melbourne Museum is a museum where members of the public can come in and take a look at various exhibits, such as the Dinosaur Walk, the Melbourne Story and the Human Body. There is also a touring hall where temporary exhibitions are held. Melbourne Museum is part of Museums Victoria, an organization that provides activities and events to Melbourne Museum, Immigration Museum, Scienceworks and the Royal Exhibition Building.

Melbourne Museum has twenty permanent exhibitions that are shown in different sections of the museum. The gallery with the most exhibitions is the Science and Life Gallery, home to the Dynamic Earth, Bugs Alive, Wild: Amazing animals in a changing world, Marine life: exploring our seas, Dinosaur Walk, Sam the Koala, The Human Body and 600 Million Years: Victoria Evolves exhibitions. Other galleries include the Children's Gallery, the Melbourne Gallery, the Te Pasifika Gallery, the Mind and Body Gallery, the Forest Gallery and the Evolution Gallery.

On the lower floor of the museum there is a touring hall where touring international exhibitions are held, such as the Hatching the Past: Dinosaur Eggs and Babies, A Day in Pompeii and Tutankhamun exhibitions. It's one of Melbourne's largest purpose-built function venues.

The museum is also home to IMAX, a cinema with the world's third largest screen (23 metres by 32 metres). It shows educational films as well as new movies in both 2D and 3D. Schools can organize excursions to IMAX, where they can watch one of many films stored in the IMAX film library.

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