Macleay Museum
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The Macleay Museum, devoted to the history of science, is located on the Main Campus of the University of Sydney, Australia.
The collections of the Macleay Museum are based largely on the efforts and acquisitions of the Macleays, one of the pre-eminent families in colonial Sydney: Alexander Macleay, William Sharp Macleay and William John Macleay.
The strengths of the collection lie in Insects (Entomology), Natural History, Ethnography, Scientific Instruments and Historic Photographs. The George Masters Exhibition Space of the Museum is devoted to temporary exhibitions. Overall, the museum houses one of the most important natural history and ethnography collections in Australia, surpassed in Sydney only by the Australian Museum.
The building in which the Museum is housed was built off Science Lane in 1887.
