Designing a Travelling Exhibition
Bairnsdale Library 22 Service St,, Bairnsdale, VIC, AustraliaPlease 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, AustraliaIn 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, AustraliaPlease 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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Heritage Festival & Antiques Sideshow, Geelong
Sacred Heart College Geelong Retreat Road, NEWTOWN, VIC, AustraliaAll 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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53RD ANNUAL VINTAGE MACHINERY RALLY WARRACKNABEAL
Wheatlands Agricultural Machinery Museum 34 Henty Highway,, Warracknabeal, VIC, AustraliaPlease 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, AustraliaWe 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.
Launch of Mike Rosel’s ‘A Rat of Tobruk’
Shrine of Remembrance Birdwood Ave, Melbourne, VIC, AustraliaTo 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.
GIPPSLAND WORKSHOP 5: LOOKING AFTER DIGITAL FILES
Federation University Gippsland Campus Library Northways Road, Churchill, VIC, AustraliaPOSTPONED 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.
GIPPSLAND WORKSHOP 6: MAKING COLLECTIONS ACCESSIBLE
Federation University Gippsland Campus Library Northways Road, Churchill, VIC, AustraliaPOSTPONED until further notice.
Objects need to be accessible, whether that is to people managing a collection, to visitors, or to the public. This workshop will introduce themes of copyright and privacy that relate to historical collections. Participants will learn how to optimise catalogue records for discovery, how to write for social media, and create digital exhibitions.
Victorian Collections Workshop
Ballaarat Mechanics Institute 117-119 Sturt St, Ballarat Central, VIC, AustraliaPlease contact the organiser before attending this event in case it has been cancelled. AMaGA presents a hands-on workshop which will guide you through the process of cataloguing on the Victorian Collections system and cover basic principles of collection management, object handling and digitisation AMaGA members $10 Non-members $20
239 A'Beckett Street Melbourne, Victoria, 3000 
03 9326 9288 
office@historyvictoria.org.au 
Office & Library: Weekdays 9am-5pm
