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City Circle Tourism Tram Script

Yarra Trams have requested the RHSV’s help to revitalise and rewrite the script for the City Circle tourism tram...

Submission to the Heritage Council: Federation Square

Federation Square is a unique, essential part of Melbourne because it fulfils so effectively a long-standing shared vision of a...

RHSV gains a grant for 2019 from the FRRR

The grant from the Foundation for Regional and Rural Renewal is to engage and train a Digital Co-ordinator to work with 4 historical societies which are all in areas affected by the 2009 bushfires...

Corkman Hotel Developer / Demolishers Get their Way

The Corkman Hotel saga ends with a complete victory for the developers. But the seeds of that victory were in the contradiction between the heritage overlay that was supposed to protect it and the planning scheme which encouraged developers to put up a 40 metre tower on the site!

Spotlight

Victorian Premier’s History Award

2018 Victorian Community History Awards

The arresting title sets the tone for this compelling book. In the 19th century, Victoria had the highest rate of insanity in Australia, not surprising given the turmoil of the gold rush.

Celebrating 35 Years of Operational Women at MFB
January 25 @ 9:00 am - 5:00 pm
Our first major exhibition in 2019 will celebrate 35 years since the Melbourne Metropolitan Fire Brigade (MFB) first opened its do...
Curator’s talk: Celebrating 35 years of operational women at MFB
February 13 @ 12:30 pm - 1:30 pm
Join us for a lunch-time curator talk and conversation with the team from Way Back When consulting historians and the MFB Director...
2019 Augustus Wolskel Lecture
February 19 @ 6:00 pm - 7:30 pm
Our first lecture in 2019 is also the first lecture in our new Distinguished Lecturer Series and we are delighted that Simon Moles...
Cold War Games
March 7 @ 5:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Exhibition Opening 5pm, Thursday 7 March 2019 Gallery Downstairs, RHSV. Free event. Curator: Harry Blutstein In 1956, an Olympic y...

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EXHIBITION - MAIN GALLERY

Putting it Out There: Melbourne in the 1970s - 14 September to 17 January 2019

Curator, Zoe Henderson, has grounded this exhibition in the domestic arena of 1970s Melbourne. We reflect on and explore the ways in which the life of the city and society were shaped by the changing ideas and actions of its citizens.

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Friends of St Kilda Cemetery Tour, Wonderful Women
February 24 @ 2:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Come and join us for this fabulous walk through the cemetery, visiting the graves of Wonderful Women and hearing about their lives...
Friends of St Kilda Cemetery – Mayors of St Kilda Tour
March 31 @ 2:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Come and join Friends of St Kilda Cemetery on this great historical tour of the graves of the early mayors of St Kilda. From the f...
Friends of St Kilda Cemetery – ANZAC Tour
April 28 @ 2:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Come and join the Friends of St Kilda Cemetery on our annual tour for Anzac Day and hear about the lives of those who fought durin...