News and Events
Managing volunteers in museums and cultural collections: ten things you should know by Helen Arnoldi
Helen Arnoldi’s splendid new publication Managing volunteers in museums and cultural collections: ten things you should know was launched by Margaret Birtley, General Manager of Heritage and Tourism, Melbourne Cricket Club, on 22 September in the Leigh Scott Room, Baillieu Library. This practical, comprehensive and user-friendly publication is now available as a downloadable PDF under Research and Publications on the Cultural Collections website.
Primary Sources, University of Melbourne Archives, Baillieu Library
Currently on display over the 1st, 2nd, and 3rd Floors of the Circular stairs in the Baillieu Library are items, panels and stories showcasing some of the collections held at UMA. A major component of the display is a frieze made from a selection of business letterheads. The frieze recalls schema for wall decoration in Victorian and Edwardian times and features plumbing, printing, undergarments, machinery, factories and a union, grocers, a fishmonger and biscuit makers, purveyors of household goods, musical instruments and bicycles from Melbourne and regional Victoria. The display will run until the 16th October, 2011.
Blood: A Medical History Museum Exhibition
The Medical History Museum’s current exhibition Blood showcases items from the Museum’s collection alongside artworks, rare books and teaching models from seven other University of Melbourne collections and some private lenders. The exhibition illustrates strengths of the Medical History Museum’s collection, particularly items relating to the history of blood transfusion and the recording of blood pressure. It runs from 20 June to 9 December 2011, 9-5pm, in the Medical History Museum (Level 3, Brownless Biomedical Library).
University Acquires Rare Cultural Treasure
The University of Melbourne Library’s Special Collections has acquired a page from an original Gutenberg Bible, the first European printed book. See 'University acquires rare cultural treasure', MUSSE Newsletter, issue 58, 13 April 2011.
News Items
'A cultured community', MUSSE Newsletter, issue 63, 11 June 2011.
'Cultural Collecting', Voice, vol. 7, no. 5, 9 May-5 June 2011, p. 8.
'University acquires rare cultural treasure', MUSSE Newsletter, issue 58, 13 April 2011.
Katrina Raymond, 'Reproducing the ancient world', Voice, vol. 7, no. 4, 10 April-8 May 2011, p. 7.
Katrina Raymond, 'Trademarks: international indigenous culture', Voice, vol. 7, no. 4, 10 April-8 May 2011, p. 7.
'An international internship', MUSSE Newsletter, issue 57, 30 March 2011.
Katrina Raymond, 'Experimental gentlemen', Voice, vol. 7, no. 3, 14 March-10 April 2011, p. 7.
Kate Hannah, 'University appoints new Archivist to head Australia's largest non-paper archive', MUSSE Newsletter, issue 54, 16 February 2011.
'Did you know? The Medical History Museum', MUSSE Newsletter, issue 54, 16 February 2011.
Anna Frey Taylor, 'Politics of poaters', Art Events Ideas, vol. 10, 2011, pp. 22-3.
'Tossing for it in the ancient world', Art Events Ideas, vol. 10, 2011, p. 15.