News and Events
Critical environmental history comes to archives
As featured in Alumni eNews, The University of Melbourne Archives will soon be receiving the records of the Australian Club of Rome, an important record of the early environmental movement in Australia.
University of Melbourne Cultural Treasures Festival
The biennial University of Melbourne Cultural Treasures Festival is a free program of exhibitions, thematic walks, talks and seminars, demonstrations and displays, and guided tours which showcases the University's rich array of museums and collections.
The Cultural Treasures Festival is a free two-day event and will take place over the weekend of 28 and 29 July, 2012.
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.
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.