Past Exhibitions up to 1999
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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
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)
Viewing the invisible:An installation by Fred Wilson (Ian Potter Museum of Art, 1998). Exhibition included objects from the Medical History Museum, the University of Melbourne Anatomy Museum (now the Harry Brookes Allen Museum of Anatomy and Pathology), and the University of Melbourne Art Collection, as well as several regional art galleries and the State Library of NSW.
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)
Turbulence: An interactive museum of unnatural history (Ian Potter Museum of Art, 12 October to 4 November 1995). Exhibition combined works by computer artist Jon McCormack with specimens from the Tiegs Zoology Museum, University of Melbourne.
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)
Zen made in Australia (Ian Potter Museum of Art, 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)
A selection from the University Art Collection: The University of Melbourne Museum of Art, guest curator Peter Timms; exhibition held in the University Gallery, 1991, including bark paintings from Groote Eylandt; coins of the Roman Republic; Greek vases; paintings, monoprints and drawings by Rupert Bunny; and some recent Australian art.
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 library of a Victorian pioneer, George McArthur, 1842-1903: An exhibition of books from his bequest to the University of Melbourne (Baillieu Library, 5 September to 10 October 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)
Mortuary objects from North East Arnhem Land and Cape York Peninsula: The Donald Thomson Collection (University Gallery, 3 August to 16 September 1983)
Women artists: Works from the permanent collection (University Gallery, 26 July to 30 August 1983)
Percy Grainger (Newcastle Regional Gallery, 1983)
1981
The Ewing collection, (Ewing Gallery, Melbourne University Union, 1981)
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)
Margaret Stones: Retrospective (University Gallery 1975)
Victoria in maps (February to April 1975)
1973
The Leonhard Adam Ethnological Collection (University Art Gallery, June-August 1973)
1966
An exhibition of rare books illustrative of Russian history and literature, with a special section on Australian associations, selected mainly from the C. M. Hotimsky collection recently acquired by the Baillieu library (Baillieu Library 1966).
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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-)