University of Melbourne Cultural Treasures Festival

The Cultural Treasures Festival will be held at the University of Melbourne on 26–27 July. Visitors to the Cultural Treasures Festival will also be able to visit the University’s architectural heritage campus sites in the Melbourne Open House program, and view the antiquarian and rare books, prints and maps in the Rare Book Fair in Wilson Hall.

The rich tradition of collecting at the University of Melbourne is  reflected in its diverse museums, scientific collections, archives, libraries and public art. Collections range from historic daisy specimens in the University Herbarium, collected by Sir Joseph Banks and Dr Daniel Solander on the first exploratory voyages to Australia in the early 1770s and a skeleton of the extinct New Zealand moa in the Tiegs Museum to Percy Grainger’s extraordinary collection of musical instruments and prints from the Renaissance and Baroque periods in the Baillieu Library Print Collection.

The 2014 Cultural Treasures Festival includes guided tours of the university’s art, botanical, literary, medical, musical, scientific and zoological collections, and special exhibitions. There will also be a range of talks including Alison Inglis on From Gallia to Grainger: The period room in Australia and Julianne Simpson on A story of bibliomania: The 2nd Earl Spencer and a passion for collecting.

List of Exhibitions

List of Talks

List of Tours

For further details of the Festival program, and all tour and talk
bookings go to: www.unimelb.edu.au/culturalcollections/treasuresfestival
For inquiries contact: cultural-collections@unimelb.edu.a