Past Exhibitions
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Past Special Collections Exhibitions
Past Art in the Library Exhibitions
Past University of Melbourne Archives Exhibitions
Past exhibitions at the Ian Potter Museum of Art
Past exhibitions at the Medical History Museum
2008
Cambridge Collected: The Pierre Gorman Story
Leigh Scott Gallery, Baillieu Library, 20 March to 30 May 2008
A Baillieu Library Special Collections Exhibition
Cambridge in Prints and Books
Comprising close to 3000 items dating from 1568 to the present, the collection of books and prints at the University of Melbourne relating to Cambridge – the University and the town – may well be the most extensive outside Cambridge itself. The University of Melbourne since its establishment in 1853 has had strong links with Cambridge University and collected books on all aspects of Cambridge. The acquisition of Pierre Gorman’s collection in 1994 on the initiative of the then Collections Management Librarian, Juliet Flesch, was therefore a valuable addition to the University’s material and the additions since that time, mostly donated by Pierre Gorman, has made the University of Melbourne collection of Cambridge books and prints truly world class. Amongst the particular strengths of the Cambridge Collection are the guide books and the histories of the university and colleges, many of them illustrated by the foremost artists of their day. There are important black and white or colour illustrations in various sizes by notable artists including Loggan, the Harradens, the Storers, Mason, Dyer, among many others. The University of Melbourne Library is the only Australian library to possess the rare Loggan 1st edition (1690) and the even rarer 2nd edition (1715). A highlight of the collection is a splendidly illuminated 1662 heraldic manuscript depicting the arms of the Earls of Cambridge, the Chancellors of Cambridge University and the colleges of Cambridge University.
Dr Pierre Patrick Gorman (1924-2006)
Pierre Gorman was born in Melbourne as the only child of Sir Eugene and Marthe Gorman. After graduating from Melbourne Grammar and then from the University of Melbourne with a BAgSci in 1949 and a BEd in 1951, Pierre went on to study at Cambridge University, from where in 1960 he became the first deaf person to take out a PhD. Pierre was totally deaf from birth but, through the dedication of his parents and teachers as well as his own willpower and intelligence, he learnt to master the spoken language and became an expert lip reader. Pierre had a long and distinguished career in England and Australia as educator of the deaf and a tireless advocate against discrimination towards people with disabilities. After retirement from the Faculty of Education at Monash in 1983 he offered his large collections of books and prints relating to Cambridge to the University of Melbourne where they were acquired in 1994 and 1995 respectively. Perhaps because he did not have a sense of hearing, Pierre came to be particularly interested in the visual arts. He collected in great depth all aspects of the history of the University and town of Cambridge, but especially prints and books relating to his beloved Corpus Christi College. The books and prints in the Gorman Cambridge Collection at the University of Melbourne were collected over a lifetime and to the end of his life Pierre continued to collect Cambridge books and donate them to the University. He documented the Gorman Cambridge collection in an exhaustive bibliography which also includes books on Cambridge found in other parts of the University of Melbourne collections. For his services to the University of Melbourne Pierre was awarded an LLD honoris causa in 2000.
Madhubani Paintings
Ian Potter Museum of Art, 24 January to 11 May 2008
Curator: Bala Starr
The University of Melbourne holds a collection of thirty vibrant and unusual Madhubani paintings on paper from North India. Originally acquired in 1982 as an aid in teaching Hindu mythology by the then-Department of Indian Studies, the collection reflects the strong connections between the University’s cultural collections and its teaching programs.
The Engraver's Hand in the Medical Text
Medical History Museum, 11 to 28 March 2008
See: Janine Sim-Jones, 'Centuries-old medical books on display', The Voice, vol. 2, no. 4, 17 March-14 April 2008, p. 8.
Cypriot Antiquities
5 September 2007 to 30 March 2008, Classics and Archaeology Gallery, Ian Potter Museum of Art
An exhibition of Cypriot antiquities from the University's Classics and Archaeology Collection opened at the Ian Potter Museum of Art on 5 September. Curated by Dr Andrew Jamieson, R.E. Ross Trust Curator and Lecturer in the Ian Potter Museum of Art and the Centre for Classics and Archaeology, the exhibition also coincides with the launch of a new book on the Cypriot collection by Sally Salter. The University’s collection is representative of the human history on this strategically important island and includes a wide range of Bronze and Iron Age artefacts that were brought to Australia by the late Professor JR Stewart from the 1930s until the early 1960s.
Joe Burke's Legacy: The History of Art History in Melbourne
Leigh Scott Gallery, Baillieu Library, 15 January to 7 March 2008
Coinciding with the 32nd Congress of the International Committee on Art History, Crossing cultures: Conflict, migration, convergence, held at the University in January, an exhibition on art history teaching and research at the University of Melbourne was staged in the Baillieu Library. Curated by PhD student Ben Thomas, the exhibition drew upon the papers of such seminal figures as Joseph Burke (the first Herald Professor of Fine Arts), Ursula Hoff, Margaret Manion, Franz Philipp, Ludwig Hirschfeld-Mack and Leonhard Adam, all held at the University of Melbourne Archives, as well as works from the University Art Collection, including the Leonhard Adam Collection of international Indigenous Culture.
Ben Thomas presented a seminar for the History of the University Unit at 1:00 on Tuesday 4 March in the Leigh Scott Room, First Floor, Baillieu Library.
Sir Andrew Grimwade's speech opening the exhibition
Silvia Dropulich, 'Art as History', The Voice, vol. 2, no. 2, 8 February-3 March 2008, p. 8.
2007
Facing Percy Grainger
Ian Potter Museum of Art, 25 October 2007 to 3 February 2008
Originally presented in 2006 by the National Library of Australia in association with the Grainger Museum, Facing Percy Grainger is a major exhibition that explores the life, artistic world and musical achievements of this unique Australian. Forever associated, perhaps to his detriment, with the tuneful 'Country Gardens', Percy Grainger (1882-1961) was a celebrated pianist and composer, a pioneering folklore collector, musical inventor, social commentator and archivist.
Percy Grainger was an obsessive autoarchivist who left the University of Melbourne a diverse and internationally recognised archive and artefact collection numbering over 100,000 items. His collection reflects his many enthusiasms and parallel interests including his experience as a virtuosic concert pianist, his career as a composer and arranger, and ‘free music’ experimenter, his pioneering work in folk song collecting and his untiring voice as a social commentator.
This colourful and thought-provoking exhibition will be on display at the Ian Potter Museum of Art at the University of Melbourne Parkville campus from 25 October until 3 February 2008.
A substantial catalogue of essays published by the National Library of Australia accompanies this exhibition.
Curators: Brian Allison and Astrid Britt Krautschneider
From Nature: John Gould and Margaret Stones
6 September 2007 to 20 January 2008, Ian Potter Museum of Art
Drawn from the University of Melbourne Art Collection, this exhibition features 17 hand-coloured lithographs, mostly from John Gould's famous publication The birds of Australia (1840-48) and completed by artists Elizabeth Gould, Henry Constantine Richter and William Hart, alongside more than 30 botanical illustrations in watercolour and ink by Australian artist Margaret Stones, dating from the early 1940s to the late 1970s.
John Harry Grainger: Architect and Civil Engineer
Leigh Scott Gallery, Baillieu Library, 22 October 2007 to 7 January 2008
Accompanying online exhibition
Accompanying book: Brian Allison (ed.), John Harry Grainger: Architect and Civil Engineer, Melbourne: University of Melbourne, 2007.
An exhibition that investigates the life and works of John Harry Grainger, father of Percy Grainger. Opening on 22 October in the Leigh Scott Gallery at the University of Melbourne’s Baillieu Library, the exhibition highlights the extraordinary achievements of this gifted architect and engineer who has been largely overlooked by history.
Grainger’s most complex engineering project in Australia was the design for Princes Bridge over the Yarra River in Melbourne. He also designed an innovative swing bridge over the Latrobe River near Sale in Gippsland.
Grainger worked as an architect in a number of lucrative partnerships winning prestigious design prizes which included the ‘Georges’ building in Melbourne’s Collins Street, the northern wing to Melbourne Town Hall as well as the impressive French Renaissance revival style art gallery and library in Auckland, New Zealand. Grainger also held the post of principal architect in the Public Works Department in Perth Western Australia. By the end of his relatively short working life he had designed buildings in all states of Australia as well as in New Zealand and Colombo.
The majority of items displayed in this exhibition are drawn from the Grainger Museum collection. A substantial catalogue of essays published by the University of Melbourne will accompany the exhibition.
Curators: Brian Allison and Astrid Britt Krautschneider
Missionaries of Civilisation: The Commercial Travellers' Association of Victoria
18 June to 5 October 2007, Leigh Scott Gallery, Baillieu Library
Before the development of retail chains, commercial travellers rode the nation’s back roads, dusting off their sample kits in front of the keen eyes of storekeepers.
Many would spend weeks away from their families living in hotels, mixing with other commercial travellers and drinking with locals. In addition to their valued merchandise they were carriers of gossip and conveyers of news from town to town.
Commercial Travellers’ Associations sprung up in each Australian state in the second half of the nineteenth century. These influential bodies created support networks for the often isolated traveller.
An exhibition highlighting the Commercial Travellers’ Association of Victoria, the show draws from the University of Melbourne Archives Collection.
Curators: Brian Allison and Loretta Shepherd, in association with Helen McLaughlin
See: Katherine Smith, 'Knights of the road supplied a nation', The Voice, vol. 10, no. 1, 23 July-6 August 2007.
Discovering Egypt
31 March to 26 August 2007
The Egyptians are one of the most fascinating peoples of the ancient world. This exhibition in the Ian Potter Museum includes artefacts drawn from University of Melbourne and Queen's College collections.
Needles and Syringe Cultures Exhibition
18 to 28 July 2007, Executive Lounge, Level 1, Alan Gilbert Building, The University of Melbourne, Corner of Grattan & Barry Streets.
This exhibition, curated by Associate Professor John Fitzgerald, VicHealth Senior Research Fellow in the School of Population Health, provides a broad and fascinating perspective on the syringe, organised thematically around the strongly emotional attitudes which syringes evoke. Each attitude is explored through a series of video stories. The exhibition also includes items from two of the University of Melbourne's Cultural Collections: the Medical History Museum and the Henry Forman Atkinson Dental Museum, both in the Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry and Health Sciences.
See: Janine Sim-Jones, 'Needles and syringes – a cultural exhibition', The Voice, vol. 1, no. 9, 9-23 July 2007, p. 6.
Tea: The Global Infusion - A Cultural Collections Exhibition
20 March to 15 June 2007
An exhibition in the Baillieu Library planned to coincide with the 2007 Melbourne Wine and Food Festival, Tea: The Global Infusion draws from the local and wider community. A range of Cultural Collections items are on display, along with art works created especially for the exhibition. A number of aspects of this everyday pleasure are explored, including the history of tea, its social importance, medicinal uses, tea growing, tea trade and tea merchants.
Romance or Pulp Fiction? It’s Your Choice
14 February to 9 March 2007
An exhibition in the ground floor exhibition space, Baillieu Library by Special Collections, curated by Chen Chen.
The Facsimile and the Manuscript
1 February to 9 March 2007
An exhibition in the Leigh Scott Gallery, First Floor, Baillieu Library by Special Collections, curated by Dr Bronwyn Stocks of Monash University.
Being Patient: Care and Convalescence, 1850-1950
2006
From Canton Club to Melbourne Cricket Club: The Architecture of Arthur Purnell
4 October 2006 to 30 January 2007
A Baillieu Library Cultural Collections Exhibition, Leigh Scott Gallery, First Floor, Baillieu Library, curated by Dr Derham Groves in association with Brian Allison.
Derham Groves, From Canton Club to Melbourne Cricket Club: The architecture of Arthur Purnell (exhibition catalogue, University of Melbourne, 2006).
Creation Tracks and Trade Winds: Groote Eylandt Bark Paintings from the University of Melbourne Art Collection
Ian Potter Museum of Art, 23 September 2006 to 21 January 2007
Download a PDF of the exhibition brochure. Related Collection: The Leonhard Adam Collection of International Indigenous Culture.
Illuminations: Middle Eastern Manuscripts
An exhibition at the Ian Potter Museum of Art of manuscripts from the Special collections of the Baillieu Library from 2 September to 26 March 2007.
Opening speech by Professor Bernard Muir.
Bowerbird to Lyrebird: The Louise Hanson-Dyer Music Collection (August to September 2006)
Richard Excell & Jenny Hill, Bowerbird to Lyrebird: The Louise Hanson-Dyer Music Collection, A Baillieu Library exhibition (exhibition catalogue, Information Division, University of Melbourne, 2006).
See also Richard Excell, 'Bowerbird to Lyrebird: The Louise Hanson-Dyer Music Collection', Arts Events Ideas, Issue 3 2006, p. 7.
Facing Percy Grainger
An exhibition held at the National Library of Australia, Canberra in association with the Grainger Museum (July to October 2006). See also:
Brian Allison, 'Facing Percy Grainger', Art Events Ideas, Issue 2, 2006, pp. 8–9.
Percy Grainger: 'Warts and All'
David Pear, 'Facing Percy Grainger', National Library of Australia News, vol. 16, no. 9, June 2006, pp. 3–6.
David Pear (ed.), Facing Percy Grainger (exhibition catalogue, National Library of Australia, 2006).
Andrew Simpson, 'Facing Percy Grainger', CAUMAC Newsletter, vol. 14, no. 2, 2006, pp. 10-14.
Under the Burning Sun of the Colony: The Eight-hour Day Movement
An exhibition at the Ian Potter Museum of Art commemorating the 150th anniversary of the gain of the eight-hour day in Victoria (June to September 2006)
Grace McQuilten, Under the burning sun of the colony: The eight-hour day movement (exhibition catalogue, Ian Potter Museum of Art, the University of Melbourne, in partnership with the University of Melbourne Archives, 2006).
Art Bound: A Selection of Artists' Books (May to July 2006)
Speak out!: Social change through community activism in the arts: a photographic exhibition by John Ellis: Works from the John Ellis Collection, University of Melbourne Archives (Counihan Gallery, Brunswick, 21 April to 14 May 2006)
Notabilia & curiosa: Recent acquisitions and discoveries: A Cultural Collections exhibition (Baillieu Library, 20 February to 5 May 2006)
2005
Kelmscott: A Medieval Adventure in the Age of the Machine (June to December 2005), See also:
Brian Allison & Astrid Britt Krautschneider, Kelmscott: A medieval adventure in the age of the machine (exhibition catalogue, Information Division, University of Melbourne, 2005).
Recent Acquisitions: An Exhibition of New Material in Special Collections, the Grainger Collection and the University Archives (April to May 2005)
Peregrinations in Asia Minor: European Description and Cartography in the 16th and 17th Centuries (February to April 2005). See also:
Julieann Simpson & David Jones, Peregrinations in Asia Minor: European description and cartography in the 16th and 17th centuries: An exhibition of items from the University of Melbourne’s Ronald and Pamela Walker Collection of maps of Asia Minor, and the Special Collections (exhibition catalogue, University of Melbourne Library, 2005).
View the catalogue (Pdf - 2.57 Mb)
Treason, Tichborne and Tait: Trials from the Legal Resource Centre and the University of Melbourne Archives (Legal Resource Centre, University of Melbourne, 2005)
2004
From life: Works by early generations of students at the National Gallery Art School (exhibition of works from the VCA Art Collection, held at the Victorian College of the Arts, 28 October to 13 November 2004)
Rush to rebellion: Victorian gold rushes 1851-1854: A Baillieu Library exhibition commemorating the 150th anniversary of the Eureka Rebellion, drawing on the Baillieu Library Special Collections and the University of Melbourne Archives (Baillieu Library, 1 November to 10 December 2004)
Mad Monks, Sham Ruins and Damsels in Distress: Aspects of Medievalism from the University of Melbourne Collections (Baillieu Library, August to October 2004)
Performing Revolution: France 1789-1945, drawing on material from the Robert Brécy Collection, Special Collections (Baillieu Library, 7 June to 30 July 2004, to coincide with the XIVth George Rudé Seminar of French History)
Treating the Past: How Medical Melbourne Came of Age (May to September 2004)
Burning clouds & leaping glaciers: An exhibition on volcanoes, drawing on the Rare Books collection of the Earth Sciences Library and the Baillieu Library Special Collections (Baillieu Library, 16 February to 26 March, 2004)
2003
The faculty reflects: 150 years of medical history, exhibition held at the Medical History Museum (2003-2004)
Curiosity: 150 Years of Collecting at the University of Melbourne (pdf 814Kb)
The baker of Maldon: A Baillieu Library exhibition commemorating the centenary of the George McArthur Bequest, 1903 (Baillieu Library, 22 September to 7 November 2003)
Nature's instrument: 150 years of amateur choral music in Melbourne: Royal Melbourne Philharmonic and Royal Victorian Liedertafel - a Grainger Museum exhibition (Baillieu Library, June to July 2003)
What a Place for an Education! (April to May 2003)
Susan Reidy, Michelle Hall & Lesley Caelli, What a place for an education!: 1853 to 2003 - the University of Melbourne: A Baillieu Library exhibition celebrating the University's 150th anniversary (exhibition catalogue, Information Division, University of Melbourne, 2003).
From Bologna to Melbourne: Universities and the World of Learning (Baillieu Library, February to March 2003)
Electrifying the Past, Engineering the Future: An Exhibition by the University of Melbourne Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering (2003)
2002
Through lens and speculum: Views of medical student life, exhibition held at the Medical History Museum (2002)
Bounty of the sea: Selected works from the Leonhard Adam collection of international indigenous culture, exhibition held at the Ian Potter Museum of Art (2002)
The Full Majesty of Nature: The Collection of Dr Samuel Arthur Ewing (September 2002 to June 2003)
Judging by their covers: A Baillieu Library exhibition of fine bindings from the 16th century to the present in the Special Collections (Baillieu Library, 19 August to 4 October 2002)
Inscribing the Daily: An exhibition of and about diaries (June to August 2002)
The Waverley operas: Musical adaptations of Sir Walter Scott (Baillieu Library, 1 May to 14 June 2002)
The Accidental Wunderkammer: Decorative Arts and Curiosities from the Grainger Collection (April to October 2002)
Brian Allison, The accidental Wunderkammer: Decorative arts and curiosities from the Grainger Collection (exhibition catalogue, Grainger Museum, 2002).
Fashion: The cultural imagery of clothing (Baillieu Library, March to April 2002)
Perspectives: Conservation and the Art of Investigation (November 2001 to February 2002)
2001
'Don't spit!' The control of TB in Victoria, exhibition held at the Medical History Museum (2001-2002)
The rise of technology in the practice of medicine, exhibition held at the Medical History Museum (2001)
Norman Macgeorge: Man of art, exhibition held at the Ian Potter Museum of Art (2001)
Half a painter's nature: Percy Grainger as designer - a Grainger Museum exhibition (Baillieu Library, September to November 2001)
Australian life in the Federation years, 1890–1914: A University of Melbourne Library exhibition, drawing on the Baillieu Library Special Collections and the University of Melbourne Archives (Baillieu Library, 2001)
2000
2000 x Christmas: A University of Melbourne Library exhibition (Baillieu Library, 10 November 2000 to 5 January 2001)
Other healers: 150 years of complementary medicine in Victoria, exhibition held at the Medical History Museum (2000)
A collection and a cottage (Selected works from the Russell and Mab Grimwade Bequest, The University of Melbourne), exhibition held at the Ian Potter Museum of Art (2000)
Significant others: The representation of women in early printed books (Baillieu Library, 8 September to 31 October 2000)
Sensational tales: Australian popular publishing 1890s-1990s (Baillieu Library, 27 January to 24 March 2000)
1999
Not gone but forgotten: Poliomyelitis in Victoria, exhibition held at the Medical History Museum (1999-2000)
A closed world: The asylum system in Victoria 1848 to 1920, exhibition held at the Medical History Museum (1999), then toured to Darebin and West Gippsland Arts Centres
Aubrey Beardsley and the 1890s: A tribute: An exhibition from the collections of the University of Melbourne Library (Baillieu Library, 20 September to 22 December 1999)
Your Greatest Challenge: An Exhibition Marking the 60th Anniversary of the Outbreak of World War 2 using Material from the University of Melbourne Archives (August to September 1999)
Chinese maps and regional resources: An exhibition of selected books and maps from the University of Melbourne Library and the private collection of Professor David Holm (Baillieu Library, 24 May to 10 July 1999)
Images of chivalry: Richard the Lionheart, 1157–1199 (Baillieu Library, 7 April to 16 May 1999)
Male order: Addressing menswear (based on clothing from the Grainger Museum Collection, exhibition held at the Ian Potter Museum of Art, February to April 1999)
Introducing the Baillieu Library: A 40th birthday celebration (Baillieu Library, 24 February to 1 April 1999)
1998
From the Granta to the Yarra: Cambridge in books (Baillieu Library, 19 October to 18 December 1998)
Mallarmé and Australia (Baillieu Library, 7 September to 9 October 1998)
Percy Grainger: From meat-shun-ment to cut-cure-craft (Grainger Museum, July 1998)
Feminine Industry: Nursing Work at the Bedside and Beyond (June to November 1998)
Mapping the bourgeois mind & la Chanson de la rue (Baillieu Library, 4 May to 24 July 1998)
From research to career: 50 years of PhD Programs at the University of Melbourne (Baillieu Library, 18 February to 24 April 1998)
Percy Grainger and the sea: From water, wind and the sea evolved the soundscapes of Percy Grainger's mind (Grainger Museum, 1998)
From rise to boom to fall: A survey of etching (Special Collections/Gippsland Art Gallery, 1998)
1997
Art, industry and science: The Grimwade legacy: Works of art from the Russell and Mab Grimwade bequest, exhibition held at the Ian Potter Museum of Art (1997)
To all the little masters and to all the little misses: Early English books for children in the Morgan Collection of children's books (Baillieu Library, 20 October to 19 December 1997)
Quacks, Eccentrics & Alternative Therapies: Tales of Colonial Medicine (August to December 1997)
Jane Austen and the romance of the regency: An exhibition of material from The University of Melbourne Library (Baillieu Library, 4 August to 26 September, 1997)
'Gentlemen, the ladies are going to publish': Books by women graduates of the University of Melbourne from the Baillieu Library collections (Baillieu Library, 2 June to 25 July 1997)
Life and death in Georgian England (Baillieu Library, 2 April to 23 May 1997)
Views and landscapes: A topographical journey through the collections of the Baillieu Library (Baillieu Library, 27 January to 21 March 1997)
Percy Grainger 1882–1961: artist and art collector (Grainger Museum, 1997)
1996
The Image of the Pacific in maps (Baillieu Library, 4 November 1996 to 31 January 1997)
Brian Warburton, The Pacific in maps: an exhibition from the Map Section (exhibition catalogue, University of Melbourne Library, 1996).
Books by women graduates of the University of Melbourne (Baillieu Library, 25 to 27 October 1996)
William Morris: Romantic to Revolutionary 1834-1896 (University Gallery, 2 September to 11 October 1996)
Boats II: From the Print Collection (Leigh Scott Room, Baillieu Library, 8 August to 29 October 1996)
South Africa: A changing society (Baillieu Library, 8 August to 22 October 1996)
Henry Lawson: Examples of Lawsoniana from the McLaren Collection (Baillieu Library, 8 May to 31 July 1996)
The Iliad and the Odyssey: Homeric Prints from the Collection of the University of Melbourne Library (Leigh Scott Room, Baillieu Library, 8 May to 31 July 1996)
The age of ex libris: Bookplates from the Library's collection (Leigh Scott Room, Baillieu Library, 6 February to 30 April)
For Percy Grainger (1882-1961) the band plays on, and on, and on, and on (Grainger Museum, 1996)
1995
The art of William Palmer Robins: Selected from the Print Collection of the Baillieu Library (Leigh Scott Room, Baillieu Library, 7 November to 5 December 5 1995)
The art of war: Interpretations in prints from several centuries (Leigh Scott Room, Baillieu Library, 2 August to 20 October 1995)
Preserving the past: Disasters!: Abused art works from the print collection of the University of Melbourne Library (Leigh Scott Room, Baillieu Library, 1 June to 26 July 1995)
Australian women artists and the illustrated book: An exhibition from the Library’s Special Collections (Baillieu Library, 6 March to 26 May 1995)
Australian women printmakers (Leigh Scott Room, Baillieu Library, 24 February to 26 May 1995)
Australians at war: An exhibition selected from resources of the University of Melbourne Archives (University of Melbourne Archives, 1995).
Percy Grainger's gift to the land of his birth: A strange heterogeneous treasure hoard-house (Grainger Museum, 1995)
1994
The lure of the Pacific (Baillieu Library, 6 October 1994 to 31 January 1995)
Fifteenth & sixteenth century illustrated books (Baillieu Library, 21 July to 30 September 1994)
The influence of Albrecht Dürer: An exhibition of prints by Dürer’s contemporaries (Baillieu Library, 21 July to 30 September 1994)
Lives in Isolation: Australian pioneer women of the bush and outback (Baillieu Library, 5 May to 5 July 1994)
Gardens of the mind: French, English and Australian garden books from the 17th to the 20th century (Baillieu Library, 9 March to 29 April 1994)
Still life - living images: Wood engravings by Lionel Lindsay (Special Collections/Arts Victoria, February 1994)
Percy Grainger's paradoxical quest for 'world music': Free music & free music machines (Grainger Museum, 1994)
1993
The Studio Magazine: A Centenary Celebration Exhibition (Baillieu Library, 12 October 1993 to 31 January 1994)
Ruskin and 19th century book illustration: Prints from the collection of the Baillieu Library (Baillieu Library, October to November 1993)
Illustrated Books from the Medical Rare Books Collection (Baillieu Library, 4 August to 30 September 1993)
The City: Urban scenes and views interpreted in prints from the 16th to the 20th centuries (Leigh Scott Room, Baillieu Library, 1 August to 30 October 1993)
Facsimiles of Illuminated Medieval Manuscripts (Baillieu Library, 4 June to 31 July 1993)
Victorian Aerial Photographs 1945-1993 (Leigh Scott Room, Baillieu Library, 4 June to 30 July 1993)
Images of the European Landscape: Landscape as portrayed by printmakers from 1553 to 1928 - a joint exhibition between the Print Collection, Baillieu Library and the Hamilton Art Gallery (University Gallery, 5 May to 30 June 1993)
A vision splendid: Illustrated books of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries depicting the natural history and topography of Australia (Baillieu Library, 21 April to 28 May 1993)
The Nordic inspiration: Percy Grainger, 1882–1961 and Edvard Grieg, 1843-1907: An exhibition to commemorate the 150th anniversary of Grieg (Grainger Museum, 1993)
1992
A pretty fardel of books: Five centuries of books and prints from the Poynton Collection (Baillieu Library, 2 June to 18 July 1992)
Percy Grainger: The noble savage: Featuring original costumes, photographs, memorabilia, ethnographic artefacts and music (Grainger Museum, 1992)
An exhibition of exquisite rare maps of Asia Minor from the Ronald and Pamela Walker Collection (Rare Map Collection, 1992)
1991
'First you catch your ...': An exhibition of cookery books from the University of Melbourne Library collection (Baillieu Library, 10 December 1991 to January 1992)
Formative years of Percy Grainger: Baby and child (Grainger Museum, 1991)
Man of science: Michael Faraday, 1791–1867: An exhibition of selected sources in Baillieu Library's collection (Baillieu Library, 1991)
1990
Percy Grainger's 'Nordic princess': Courtesan and 20th century woman (Grainger Museum, 1990)
1980-9
1989
Works of art from the Russell and Mab Grimwade bequest: the University of Melbourne Art Collection, exhibition held at the Museum of Art, University of Melbourne
'Liberty or death'!: Voices from a stormy decade: The French Revolution, 1789–1799 (Baillieu Library 24 July to 29 September 1989)
1988
The Leonhard Adam Collection (University Gallery, 7 September to 21 October, 1988)
The Rose Grainger costume collection (Grainger Museum, 1988)
1987
The Grimwade collection: A selection of works from the bequest of Sir Russell and Lady Grimwade (University Gallery, 22 July to 4 September 1987)
The art of Lucas van Leyden: Prints from the Baillieu Library, University of Melbourne: Baillieu Library, University of Melbourne, City of Hamilton Art Gallery, 1987 (Baillieu Library Print Collection/City of Hamilton Art Gallery, 1987)
1985
The University of Melbourne art collection: 1855–1985 (University Gallery, 26 June to 2 August 1985)
The three faces of Percy Grainger - a Grainger Museum exhibition (Performing Arts Museum, Victorian Arts Centre, July to September 1985)
1984
The Fabian Society centenary, 1884–1984: An exhibition of books by Fabians from the University of Melbourne Library's collection (Baillieu Library, 18 June to 31 July 1984)
1983
The eighteenth century book: An exhibition of examples from the University of Melbourne Library's collection (Baillieu Library, 29 August to 15 November 1983)
Percy Grainger (Newcastle Regional Gallery, 1983)
1970-9
1979
Percy Grainger & the arts of the Pacific (exhibition to celebrate the 18th General Assembly, International Music Council (Unesco), presented by the Grainger Museum at the CBA Bank, Collins Street, Melbourne, 24 September to 5 October 1979)
Norman Lindsay: Catalogue of the centenary exhibition from the University of Melbourne collection (University Gallery, 5 May to 10 June 1987)
Exhibition of maps of India, chiefly from the 18th to the 20th century (Print Room, Baillieu Library, February 1979)
1978
Objects, documents and pictures to reflect upon, selected from the Grainger Museum and the Archives Collections of the University of Melbourne (University Gallery, February to April 1978)
Exhibition of mapping by Commonwealth Government Authorities (exhibition originally displayed at State Library of Victoria, supplemented at the University of Melbourne by examples of early Commonwealth mapping from the Baillieu Library's map collection, displayed in the Leigh Scott Room, Baillieu Library, October to November 1978)
Resources of the Map Section (March to May 1978)
1977
Exhibition of early Australian thematic maps (September 1976 to January 1977)
1976
Types of mapping (March to May 1976)
1975
Cartography in Switzerland (exhibition on the historical development of mapping, presented by the University of Melbourne Library and the Australian Map Curators' Circle, displayed in the Leigh Scott Room, Baillieu Library, 25 August-5 September 1975)
Victoria in maps (February to April 1975)
1973
The Leonhard Adam Ethnological Collection University Art Gallery, June-August 1973)
Date Unknown
Brave sons of the Empire: Imperialism and juvenile literature, 1870-1914
Novel débuts: Serial fiction in Victorian periodicals: An exhibition of selected sources in the Baillieu Library's collection (Baillieu Library, 198-)
The wayfarers: Women travellers and their world (Baillieu Library, 9 October to 15 December 198-)