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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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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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dmetrik: I sat under the dome @Library_Vic today. It is like falling into eternity or into creation's eye. http://t.co/w4rgMFZj

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