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Fishermans Bend: an urban renewal project unlike any other in Australia

Mary Kehoe Community Centre 224 Danks St, VIC, Albert Park, VIC, Australia

Please contact the organiser before attending this event in case it has been cancelled. Want to know more about what's going on with Fishermans Bend? U3A's Saturday seminar Fishermans Bend: an urban renewal project unlike any other in Australia is on 21 March from 2.30 to 4.00 pm at the Mary Kehoe Centre in Danks St. 
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Gippsland Art Gallery: tour and talk

Gippsland Art Gallery 70 Foster St, Sale, VIC, Australia

Please contact the organiser before attending this event in case it has been cancelled. Enjoy a guided tour of the Gippsland Art Gallery led by Director, Simon Gregg, and hear about the learnings and successes of the 2018 redevelopment of the gallery. Presented by AMaGA AMaGA members free Non-members $10 Bookings: www.amagavic.org.au/events or call 03
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Designing a Travelling Exhibition

Bairnsdale Library 22 Service St,, Bairnsdale, VIC, Australia

Please contact the organiser before attending this event in case it has been cancelled. This AMaGA workshop, targeted at small museums and volunteers will look at exhibition development, design principles, installation and display techniques for exhibitions that are easily transportable and can be displayed in a range of venues. AMaGA members $35 Non-members $40 Bookings:
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Teasing women’s stories from the archives

Old Treasury Building 20 Spring St, East Melbourne, VIC, Australia

In this seminar, three historians share their experience of researching women’s lives, as biographical dictionaries strive to increase their representation of women. From a medieval countess to Victoria’s female criminals, the stories uncovered range widely in both time and place, pointing to the richness the archives can yield 'with a little more effort and research'.

Our Chinese Community

ECHUCA HISTORICAL SCOEITY MUSEUM 1 Dickson Street, Echuca, victoria, Australia

Please contact the organiser before attending this event in case it has been cancelled. Our Chinese Community Exhibition opens daily from 1st April 11am till 3pm at Echuca Historical Society Museum, 1 Dickson Street Echuca 3564 This exhibition tells the story of some of our earliest residents the Chinese. Find out why our first Chinese
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$2 – $5

Heritage Festival & Antiques Sideshow, Geelong

Sacred Heart College Geelong Retreat Road, NEWTOWN, VIC, Australia

All are warmly invited to attend SHC’s inaugural Heritage Festival, featuring an Antiques Sideshow on Sunday 5 April 2020, 10.00am - 4.00pm. LEONARD JOEL – OBJECT VALUATIONS We are excited to have experts from Leonard Joel who will be available for valuations on the day. Leonard Joel, established 1919, is Australia’s largest multi-department auction house,
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Free

53RD ANNUAL VINTAGE MACHINERY RALLY WARRACKNABEAL

Wheatlands Agricultural Machinery Museum 34 Henty Highway,, Warracknabeal, VIC, Australia

Please contact the organiser before attending this event as we suspect it has been cancelled. Working Vintage Tractors & Machinery Wheatlands Agricultural Machinery Museum is located on the Henty Highway Warracknabeal and houses the most extensive collection of vintage agricultural machinery, tractors, stationary engines and other such equipment in Australia. Over three days of the
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ZOOM History Bookclub: Truganini

RHSV, Gordon Moffatt Room 239 A'Beckett St, Melbourne, VIC, Australia

We are thrilled that Professor Cassandra Pybus, author of our chosen book this month, Truganini, will be joining our book club for a discussion. The book club is now a ZOOM book club so we will be convening through video-conferencing. We can't pour you a glass of red but we can have a lively engaged conversation.

Free

Launch of Mike Rosel’s ‘A Rat of Tobruk’

Shrine of Remembrance Birdwood Ave, Melbourne, VIC, Australia

To mark the 80th anniversary of the Siege of Tobruk in 2021, Melbourne writer Mike Rosel has chosen many photographs from his father’s WWII albums, notably those from Tobruk – many not seen before.

Free

GIPPSLAND WORKSHOP 5: LOOKING AFTER DIGITAL FILES

Federation University Gippsland Campus Library Northways Road, Churchill, VIC, Australia

POSTPONED until further notice.
This is a basic digital preservation workshop. The workshop will begin with brief project management skills including templates for policies and procedures. We will discuss digital storage, how to create backups, and how to check if files are damaged. Participants will learn how to describe an object using Dublin Core so that digital files can be discoverable.

$30 – $45