PAST PROGRAMS

The Australiana Research Collection holds many treasures, including books relating to Australia’s maritime history. The display features Matthew Flinders’ diaries (1814) of his journey charting the Australian coastline. Facsimiles include William Bligh’s notebook and accounts by explorers Jean La Perouse and Jacob Le Maire of their Australian expeditions. 
 

Paul E Mason exploits the language of the museum in meticulously crafted sculptures that comment on the legacy and continuation of the global colonial project and its contribution to environmental destruction.

The Australiana Research Collection holds many treasures, including children’s books from the late Victorian era to the early twentieth century. 

In 2014 Ballarat community members created a replica Eureka Flag that was raised to mark the 160th anniversary of the 1854 Eureka Stockade. This community flag is featured in this exhibition alongside the tools and materials used to create it and photographs that tell its story.

'People Watching' is an exhibition of large-scale photographs by Clement Hong Yui Chan that capture scenes of everyday life in his home city of Hong Kong.

Gordon Monro is an artist who makes images from data. He has used data about the 1854 Eureka Stockade to generate imagery from the mathematical fragmentation of an eight-pointed Eureka star.

Craig Barrett’s paintings explore The Berry Consols – a series of abandoned gold mines, just north of Creswick and capture the subtle shifts in colour of the mullock heaps that dominate the area.

Lily Mae Martin's exhibition, ‘Overburden’ addresses the legacy of gold rush era mining and explores our perception of the natural world.