Cultural Treasures Days 2008
Discover Our Cultural Treasures
Thursday 18, Friday 19, Saturday 20 & Sunday 21 September 2008
Supported by The Russell and Mab Grimwade Miegunyah Fund
The University of Melbourne is filled with many exciting museums and collections. Join us in this very special event where you will discover exhibitions, talks, demonstrations, displays, tours, performances and workshops. Four days of entertainment, fascination and fun for grown-ups and children, all just minutes from the city centre.
Silvia Dropulich, 'Treasures revealed', The Voice, vol. 3, no. 6, 11 August-8 September 2008, p. 15.
Download the program here or email treasures-days@unimelb.edu.au with your postal address to join our mailing list.
And check this web site for further details.
Feature Events
Thursday 18 September: Launch and Lecture, 6:30-7:30 pm
‘…no unimportant influence’: The Cultural Collections of the University of Melbourne
Elisabeth Murdoch Theatre, Map Ref F19
As Director of the Centre for Culture Materials Conservation, Associate Professor Robyn Sloggett has a unique and direct knowledge of all 33 of the University’s cultural collections. In this illustrated presentation she will take you into the storerooms and behind the display cases to explore their significance, their meanings, their past and their future. Join us afterwards for refreshments in the Ian Potter Museum of Art where recent and current postgraduates will present their work and research on collection objects.
Bookings preferred: treasures-days@unimelb.edu.au
Saturday 20 September, 12:30-1:15 pm; 3:00-3:45 pm
Culture outside
Explore the grounds of the University with a cultural eye. Dr Belinda Nemec will lead visitors from the Ian Potter Museum of Art to the Baillieu Library, stopping by sculptures, buildings and sites of interest along the way.
Limited numbers, bookings suggested: treasures-days@unimelb.edu.au
Sunday 21 September
Discover the secret of Melbourne University!
Search for the clues hidden across campus and help find out the mysterious secret of Melbourne University. Join our extraordinary tour guide Professor Reynard Eastley (PhD, Stories & Adventures) in this exciting and fun expedition. Tally-ho!
Special event for families.
Limited numbers, bookings essential: treasures-days@unimelb.edu.au
Musical treasures from the Grainger Museum
Join us for this musical grand finale. An illustrated lecture by Professor Richard Divall, featuring the music of George W. L. Marshall Hall and poetry readings.
Light refreshments served afterwards.
2:00 pm, Melba Hall, Conservatorium of Music, Royal Parade, Map Ref H11
Friday, Saturday and Sunday
Throughout the Cultural Treasures Days you can choose from a rich program of special talks, tours, demonstrations and hands-on activities with curators, librarians, students, conservators and museum directors. Keep checking this web site for further details, or email treasures-days@unimelb.edu.au to join our mailing list.
Getting Here
The University of Melbourne
Campus map (Pdf 375 Kb)
Enter campus from Swanston St or Grattan St (Carlton); Elizabeth St/Royal Pde (Parkville)
Melway maps 2B, 43 and 75A
By tram along Swanston Street: tram numbers 1, 3, 5, 6, 8, 16, 64, 67, 72
By tram along Elizabeth Street/Royal Parade: tram number 19
- Friday off-campus only. Thursday, Saturday and Sunday on campus, fees apply.
- Use gate 10 on Grattan Street. Park in marked bays only. The underground carpark off Wilson Avenue is recommended.
Museums and Collections You Will be Able to See
Classics and Archaeology Gallery
Earth Sciences display
East Asian Library
Ernst Matthaei Memorial Collection of Early Glass
Grainger Museum display
Henry Forman Atkinson Dental Museum
Ian Potter Museum of Art
Karagheusian Room
Legal Resource Centre
Louise Hanson-Dyer Music Library
Medical History Museum
MONIAC machine
Physics Museum
Rare Books Collection exhibition
Rare Maps Collection
Surveying and Geomatic Engineering Collection
Tiegs Zoology Museum
University of Melbourne Herbarium
University of Melbourne Herbarium exhibition
Display of material from the University of Melbourne Archives