Archives and Special Collections

Join us for an artist talk and zine-making workshop at our next #Spotlight program ✨Spotlight On: Artists' books and zines with Gracia and Louise 📅Thursday 2 April, 12:30 - 2:00pm 🎫Book now 🔗go.unimelb.edu.au/qxp2

Watch the eruption of Mt Vesuvius in the Baillieu Library foyer and discover our display of rocks from the F.A. Singleton Collection, School of Earth Sciences on the library's ground floor, currently on display until 28 June. #specialcollections #unimelb #whatson #exhibition

We're now accepting applications for the Joyce Thorpe Nicholson Creative Fellowship, aimed at emerging creative practitioners for new work responding to the Joyce Thorpe Nicholson collection. Applications close 4 May 🔗go.unimelb.edu.au/u9tp #australianwriting #fellowship

We are now accepting applications for our Malcolm Fraser Research Grant until 12 April! We'd love to hear you on research that interrogates, reframes, and advances understanding of liberal traditions in Australia Apply now 👉go.unimelb.edu.au/oqn2

We're still accepting applications for our Malcolm Fraser Research Grant, until 15 March. Don't miss your chance to apply for this incredible opportunity, drawing from our Malcolm Fraser Collection! #archives #researchgrant #auspol #politicalhistory

Join us for our first Spotlight program of this year, showcasing an incredible 17th century compendium of music theory, Musurgia Universalis, with philosopher Dr Jenny Judge Thursday 5 March 12 - 1pm Book your place 🔗go.unimelb.edu.au/bwr2

We're excited to share that newly digitised collection items are now available, as part of the JJ & EJ Clark Collection, at the University of Melbourne Archives. Explore our collection of their iconic Melbourne buildings🔗go.unimelb.edu.au/6ar2 #architecture #archives

The newly launched Malcolm Fraser Research Grant is a funded research opportunity for a scholar to undertake research of contemporary relevance on liberal traditions in Australia. Applications close 15 March 2026. Apply Now🔗go.unimelb.edu.au/ezx2

Today we're excited to launch the Malcolm Fraser Research Grant, an opportunity for a scholar to undertake funded research drawing on the Malcolm Fraser Collection. Learn more 🔗go.unimelb.edu.au/oqn2 Applications close 15 March 2026.

@thehistoriann Thanks for sharing!

Fraser’s long stint as Prime Minister overlapped with dictatorships and civil wars in the Americas that led to waves of Latin American migration to Australia, and the emergence of AU solidarity movements. Good to see funding to support research in this valuable collection

Recently, our Reading Room team were amazed to discover 36 individual pieces of #ephemera in a #rarebook requested by a student including pressed leaves, paper figurines even a recipe for sherbert. The herball or generall historie of plantes /gathered by John Gerarde.

Lucas van Leyden (c.1494 1533, Leiden, Netherlands), David playing the harp before Saul, c.1508, engraving, purchased 2024. Prints & Drawings Collection, 2024.0004.000.000. #printsanddrawings #specialcollections #unimelb #prints #dutchprintmaker

Summer at the beach 1920’s style 🏖️🩴 The Home : an Australian quarterly. Sydney : Art in Australia, December 1921, Rare Books Collection #rarebooks #summer #australia #1920s #specialcollections #unimelb

What will you be eating this festival season? Elizabeth Blackwell, A curious herbal : containing five hundred cuts, of the most useful plants London : Printed for Samuel Harding, 1737-1739, Rare Books Collection #summer #rarebooks #specialcollections #unimelb #botanical

The Grand Tour is awaiting your visit this summer break. The gallery will close on Wednesday 24 December and reopen on 2 January. Discover or dive deeper into the exhibition this summer and explore an immersive exhibition design by Pidgeon Ward. #exhibition #unimelb #whatson

Our Reading Room will be closed from Thursday 18 December, to Wednesday 7 January inclusive, reopening on Thursday 8 January. Appointments and requests can be made for January during this time will be fulfilled on or after Thursday 8 January. #readingroom #research #unimelb

✨New acquisition✨ Hertha KlugePott (1934 - 2025), Face of a site with isolepis and (and copper printing plate) 1999, drypoint, chine collé and plate, Gift of Hertha KlugePott, 2025, Prints & Drawings Collection, 2025.0022.000.000; 2025.0022.002.000

Interested in the history of Australian politics? Make sure you don't miss out on the upcooming symposium, 'True Liberal? The Record and Legacy of the Fraser Government 1975 - 1983'. Learn more in the media release published by @uommedia 🔗go.unimelb.edu.au/9ya2

On a recent tour of our current exhibition, The Grand Tour, a visitor shared with us these incredible negatives from her great grandparent's own grand tour of Europe in the 1950s. 📸Photos courtesy of the Keeling family. Have you visited #TheGrandTour yet?