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Virtual Tours

Explore our new virtual tours of the Rare Book Room and Noel Shaw Gallery

Past Events

Tuesday 23 April 2024 12:30pm - 1:10pm

Scroll Showcase: Daily Life in the 12th Century

Event
Tuesday 16 April 2024 12:30pm - 1pm

Collection Pop Up: Rare Books

Event
Thursday 11 April 2024 12:30pm - 1:10pm

Scroll Showcase: Daily Life in the 12th Century

Event
Tuesday 26 March 2024 3pm - 3:40pm

Here Lives Our Culture New Student Tour

Event
Tuesday 26 March 2024 12:30pm - 1pm

Collection Pop Up: Rare Music

Event
Tuesday 19 March 2024 12:30pm - 1pm

Collection Pop Up: Archives

Event
Tuesday 12 March 2024 12:30pm - 1pm

Collection Pop Up: Rare East Asian

Event
Tuesday 5 March 2024 12:30pm - 1pm

Collection Pop Up: Prints

Event
Friday 9 February 2024 3pm - 4pm

Scroll Showcase

Event
Thursday 8 February 2024 2pm - 3pm

Demonstrating the new University of Melbourne Archives catalogue

Event
Monday 27 November 2023 6pm - 7pm

The Fraser Oration: Making rights a reality - the need for a Human Rights Act for Australia

Event
Thursday 23 November 2023 2pm - 3pm

Demonstrating the new University of Melbourne Archives catalogue

Event
Monday 20 November 2023 9am - 5pm

New University of Melbourne catalogue

Event
Monday 2 October 2023 5pm - 8pm

Here Lives Our Culture @ Mid Autumn Moon Festival

Event
Monday 2 October 2023 12pm - 1pm

Here Lives Our Culture Student Welcome

event
Friday 15 September 2023 12:30pm - 2pm

Here Lives Our Culture Chinese Art and Craft Pop Up

event
Wednesday 19 April 2023 12pm - 1pm

The Architect and the Futurist

public program, exhibition, architecture
Tuesday 4 April 2023 12pm - 12:45pm

Medieval Song: Sacred and Secular

Event
Wednesday 1 March 2023 5:30pm - 6:30pm

“The Highest Developments of Civilised Life”: Performances of Wagner in Colonial Melbourne

Events
31 July 202222 January 2023

Gregory Burgess: From the Coalface

exhibition, architecture, student interns, archives
Wednesday 7 September 2022 12pm - 1:30pm

Architectural Drawing workshop

Event
Sunday 31 July 2022 12pm - 1pm

From the Coalface: Floor talk by architect Gregory Burgess

events, public programs, exhibition, floor talk, architecture
3 March 202226 June 2022

Epic and Divine: Dante's World

Exhibition
Thursday 23 June 2022 6pm - 7:30pm

Divine Inspiration: Poets Respond to Dante

Event
Thursday 16 June 2022 12pm - 1pm

Dante: Curators in Conversation

Event
Monday 30 May 2022 12pm - 1pm

Music in the time of Dante

Event
Wednesday 27 April 2022 1:20pm - 2:20pm

Divine Comic: Graphic Novel Workshop

Event
Wednesday 30 March 2022 12pm - 12:45pm

Curators' floor talk, Epic and Divine

Public Program
28 October 20211 February 2022

80 Years of Meanjin

Exhibition
Wednesday 21 July 2021 5:30pm - 8pm

CANCELLED Striving to 'talk poetry'

Event
Monday 26 April 2021 12pm - 1pm

Unpacking the cultural cringe: 80 years of Meanjin

Event