The La Trobes’ Music

La Trobe's Cottage cnr Birdwood Avenue and Dallas Brooks Drive, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

The La Trobes’ Music: celebrate the role music played in the life of the La Trobe family while they lived at 'Jolimont'. Musicians will perform the music that would have echoed around 'Jolimont' in the time of the La Trobe family. • the piano sonatas composed by La Trobe’s father Christian Ignatius • a song
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$4 – $12

Specialist history tour: Melbourne Observatory

Melbourne Observatory Birdwood Avenue, Royal Botanic Gardens, VIC, Australia

This event booked out in less than 24 hours! We hope to organise more tours in the New Year so keep an eye out for further announcements. The RHSV is organising a special historical tour of The Melbourne Observatory for our members. The Melbourne Observatory was constructed in 1861–63, and expanded until 1902 to eventually
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$25

Jack Wetherly under the microscope

RHSV ZOOM by Invitation , Australia

We are delighted to present a talk by Catherine Gill who has been volunteering at the RHSV. Catherine writes, "As part of my recently completed Masters in Cultural Materials Conservation, I was given opportunity to study the portrait of Jack Wetherly.  The original artwork was painted in 1840 by Thomas Napier.  Records at the RHSV
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Free

Looking Back, Looking Forward. Summer Fun in Yarra Plenty

Eltham Library Community Gallery 1 Panther Place, Eltham, Victoria, Australia

5 December 2019 - 6 January 2020 Historical photographs and original artworks are exhibited side by side in this celebration of all things summer - picnics, swimming, boating, horsing around, and enjoying nature with family and friends during long sunny days. The exhibition is presented in collaboration with members of the Yarra Plenty Heritage Group
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Free

Launch of A Guide to Historic St Kilda

Readings St Kilda 112 Acland St, St Kilda, VICTORIA, Australia

Where was the alpaca paddock? Who has the Palais chandelier? Was there a Banksy painting in a laneway? Join author, David Willis for the launch of his latest book, A Guide to Historic St Kilda on Tuesday 10 December at 6pm at Readings, 112 Acland St. RSVP: stkildapress@outlook.com

Free

RHSV Christmas lunch for volunteers

Radisson on Flagstaff Gardens 380 William St, Melbourne, VIC, Australia

For our volunteers and staff to celebrate a wonderful year working together at the RHSV.  

Free

Launch: Locating Australian Literary Memory

RHSV, Gallery Downstairs 239 A'Beckett Street, Melbourne, VIC, Australia

Brigid Magner's Locating Australian Literary Memory explores the cultural meanings suffusing local literary commemorations; orientated around eleven authors – Adam Lindsay Gordon, Joseph Furphy, Henry Handel Richardson, Henry Lawson, A. B. ‘Banjo’ Paterson, Nan Chauncy, Katharine Susannah Prichard, Eleanor Dark, P. L. Travers, Kylie Tennant and David Unaipon.

Free

ALL YOU NEED TO KNOW. MODULE 6: MAKING COLLECTIONS ACCESSIBLE

RHSV ZOOM by Invitation , Australia

The RHSV is offering a series of 6 linked workshops which cover cataloguing and digitisation. This series of workshops starts with basic concepts and builds in complexity. We have spaced the workshops so that participants have time in which to put into practice their new skills before the next workshop. Some participants will want to
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$25 – $35

Exhibition launch: The Swamp Vanishes

RHSV, Gallery Downstairs 239 A'Beckett Street, Melbourne, VIC, Australia

Before European settlers arrived in the Port Phillip district, a large wetland that lay between the Yarra River and the Moonee Ponds Creek sustained the indigenous people and the cultural traditions of the Kulin nation. While the wetland had initially been described in terms of beauty, within a few short years the swamp was noisome and reviled, and talk began of draining and reclamation. This exhibition traces the how a significant wetland vanished from sight.          

Free

Workshop: Born Digital Documents

RHSV ZOOM by Invitation , Australia

Presented by the Royal Historical Society of Victoria and Victorian Collections, this hands-on workshop provides an introduction to the principles of acquiring, storing, cataloguing and caring for born-digital material. This workshop is suitable for beginners who may have, or plan to acquire, digital images, media files or documents in their collection. Participants are asked to
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$30 – $50