beautiful melbourne

The magnificent Royal Exhibition Building in Carlton Gardens was completed in 1880 for Melbourne’s first International Exhibition in the late nineteenth century. Melbourne was a prosperous city basking in the wealth from the richest gold rush in the world.

Today, the Royal Exhibition Building flourishes as one of the world's oldest exhibition pavilions, symbolising the great 19th century international exhibition movement, and on 1 July 2004 became the first building in Australia to achieve world heritage listing.


The magnificent interior, the paintings on the dome is the original painting and no touch up work has been done.





The picture shows how the flag on the peak of the Royal Exhibition Museum was erected when it was to first open.


The list shows the important events dating back as far as the opening of the Royal exhibition till 2001, which includes the opening of the Australian parliament on the 9th of May 1901.


Behind the Royal Exhibition Museum is the Melbourne Museum which contains collections stretching from evolution to aborigine arts and disputes.


As I was leaving the Carlton Gardens,




A stroll in a nearby park called...

"The shrine of remembrance" was build in remembrance of those who served and those who died in the Great War of 1914-1918 and armed conflicts and peacekeeping duties since.






The view from the balcony of the shrine of remembrance during sunset



More on the park...

The garden surrounding the shrine...



A beautiful day even during the cold winter...