section_path: Academic profile/Museums and archives/Ed Muirhead Physics Museum
section_name: Ed Muirhead Physics Museum
paragraph_text: Ed Muirhead Physics Museum
  
  The Ed Muirhead Physics Museum is located at the university's Parkville campus in the School of Physics building. The museum is named in honour of Ed Muirhead, who was the Chairman of the School of Physics from 1980 to 1986, and initiated the museum during that time. The collection comprises items that are of historical and scientific interest, predominantly scientific apparatus constructed by former professors and staff for research purposes.