The Louise Hanson-Dyer Music Collection is over 100 years old, having supported the original Faculty of Music (now Fine Arts and Music) through the decades.  It is considered to be one of the finest music collections in Australia.  It is diverse and comprehensive including books, journals, collected editions, facsimiles and monuments of music, music scores, sound recordings and video – in paper and online – full-text and streaming. It also has an extensive range of microfilms of unique manuscripts and other material held in major music collections in the United Kingdom and elsewhere.

The collection (and former Music Library) honours Louise Hanson-Dyer (1884-1962). A Melbourne born patron of the arts and music publisher, Louise founded the publishing house Editions de l’Oiseu-Lyre in Paris, which became a pre-eminent publisher of early music recordings, collected editions and championed contemporary Australian composers. A bequest on her death has supported teaching and research activities in the Faculty of Music.

Her own personal library and extremely fine Rare Music Collection is now located in the Rare Music Collection as is the Archive of Editions de l’Oiseu-Lyre. These are accessible to researchers at the Baillieu Library Reading Room.

The new auditorium is also honoured with her name - located in the Ian Potter Southbank Centre, home of the Melbourne Conservatorium of Music.

Further information about Louise Hanson-Dyer can be found in:

Australian Dictionary of Biography

Louise Hanson Dyer: A life and legacy of uplifting artists

The Lenton Parr Visual and Performing Arts Collections consist of some of the richest collections of books, sound and video in these art forms.

Formerly the Lenton Parr Music, Visual and Performing Arts Library, it was named in honour of Lenton Parr (1924-2003), the distinguished sculptor, arts educator and Founding Director of the Victorian College of the Arts (VCA).  The collection was founded with the National Gallery School Library collection when the VCA was proclaimed in 1972. The two founding Schools of Art and Music provided early strengths in these areas including books, journals, music scores and sound recordings. The addition of the Schools of Drama, Dance, Film and TV, and Production in the following decades are reflected in the collection, with extensive audiovisual collections on laser disc, video and DVD.

https://blogs.unimelb.edu.au/vcamcm-direct/2012/06/13/vca-founding-director-lenton-parr-a-spectrum-of-human-experience

Learn more about Lenton Parr:

Lenton Parr and the birth of the Victorian College of the Arts in this ART150
article by Professor Emeritus Andrea Hull AO

VCA Founding Director Lenton Parr: a spectrum of human experience

The Victoria Police Depot, historically significant as a police training establishment and hospital, was located on the St Kilda Road site , which also housed Canvas Town in 1852-54 and the Immigrants Home from 1856-1914.

The Former Victoria Police Depot, including the Stables, the Riding School, and Drill Hall (1912-13), Police Hospital and Dispensers Residence (1914) , Police Stores and Workshop, (c.1916-20), Police Barracks (1925 ) and Rough Riders Residence (1929) , was constructed between 1912 and 1929 as the headquarters for police training and mounted police operations in Victoria.

Learn more about:

Former Victoria Police Depot, Victorian Heritage Database.

The heritage-listed Old Police Hospital is born again

Mounted police officer shares memories as stables in Southbank to close after 104 years

Victoria Mounted Police , 1932