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The State Library of Victoria invites you to celebrate the centenary of its iconic dome

Since 1913 the Library's domed reading room has been the symbolic heart of our great institution. Celebrate the scholarship, creativity and learning this architectural icon has inspired for generations of Victorians. Learn more

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July 2013

A roving writers’ festival arrives at the Library

By tchanning
Friday 26 July 2013 0 Comments
Bookwallah, cowen gallery

If you wander up the stairs to the dome in the next few weeks, you’ll come across a collection of beautiful kangaroo-leather cases surrounded by bookshelves full of Indian literature. The books and cases are part of a travelling exhibition called...

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Categories: Behind the scenes

Sasha Grishin's spiritual home

By fnegrin
Thursday 18 July 2013 0 Comments
sasha grishin, fine arts, creative fellowship, intellectual hub
Portrait of Sasha Grishin

Professor Sasha Grishin has been a friend of the Library for a long time. He was a Library Creative Fellow in 2010, he wrote a history of Australian art at the...

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Categories: Dome stories

Back to the future at a Carnival of Curiosity

By fnegrin
Thursday 11 July 2013 0 Comments
Carnival of curiosity, oslo davis, dome centenary, free event
Drawing by Oslo Davis (detail)

The Library was transformed into a hive of discovery and surprises last Sunday as more than 5,500 people attended the free Carnival of Curiosity.

Marty McFly's DeLorean couldn't have competed with the Victorian-era time machine in the Library...

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Categories: Behind the scenes, Did you know?, Latest news

John Gollings pays tribute to the enchanted dome

By fnegrin
Monday 08 July 2013 0 Comments
john gollings, enchanted dome, architectural photography, the dome in art & literature, 1950s to today
John Gollings, State Library of Victoria 2004 (detail)

If architecture’s your thing, you’ll know the work of John Gollings.

John’s a legendary architectural photographer who specialises in photos of cities, buildings and landscapes from an aerial perspective...

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Categories: Behind the scenes, Dome stories

Atlases as sculpture

By tchanning
Thursday 04 July 2013 2 Comments
Theatrum Orbis Terrarum, Atlases as sculpture, Carnival of curiosity, dome centenary
Nicholas Jones

Nicholas Jones is a Melbourne-based sculptor who uses books and printed paper to make works which question how books are ‘read’. I talked to him about his...

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Categories: Behind the scenes, Dome stories

The hummingbird craze

By fnegrin
Wednesday 03 July 2013 0 Comments
harriet edquist, hummingbirds, john gould, frederick mccoy, natural history museum, free secular and democratic
Display case of hummingbirds (detail)

At the centre of the Free, secular and democratic exhibition is a display case of more than 200 tiny hummingbirds, whose marvellous metallic plumage has to...

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Categories: Behind the scenes, Did you know?

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