Chinese Museum, Museum of Chinese heritage in Melbourne, Australia.

The Chinese Museum occupies a five-storey red-brick building at 22 Cohen Place, between Little Bourke Street and Lonsdale Street in Melbourne's Chinatown. Built in 1890 by Cohen Bros as a furniture warehouse, it now holds over 8,000 items across five floors, including clothing, textiles, photographs, documents and tools. The ground-floor Dragon Gallery displays the Dai Loong and Millennium dragons, the latter 64 metres long and needing more than 200 people to carry it.

The building was put up in 1890 by the Cohen Brothers as a furniture warehouse and was later used to store theater costumes for a nearby venue. It eventually became a museum, giving the site a new purpose connected to the Chinese community that had long been part of the surrounding neighborhood.

The museum keeps three processional dragons used in Melbourne's Chinese New Year and Moomba parades, including the retired "Grandpa Dragon" and Dai Loong, danced for 27 years. The Millennium Dragon, made in Foshan, Guangdong, arrived in 2003; it is 64 metres long, its head alone needs eight carriers, and over 200 people are required to dance the whole body.

The museum is on Cohen Place, a short walk from Bourke Street Mall in central Melbourne, and is easy to reach on foot from the city center. Guided tours run on most days, but you can also move through the exhibitions at your own pace if you prefer.

The Dragon Gallery houses the Dai Loong, a processional Chinese dragon that is considered the longest in the world and is still carried through the streets during celebrations. This makes it one of the few objects in the museum that leaves the building and takes part in public life.