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Free, secular and democratic: the curator’s view

Thursday 30 May 2013, 1:30pm - 2:30pm
Friday 31 May 2013, 11:00am - 12:00pm
Saturday 1 June 2013, 2:00pm - 3:00pm
Free
Keith Murdoch Gallery
Main entry, Swanston Street
Has wheelchair access

Join curator Harriet Edquist, Professor of Architecture at RMIT, as she traces the first 60 years of the Melbourne Public Library (now the State Library). Hear about the Library’s origins as the cultural centrepiece of 19th-century Melbourne.

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The Public Library (detail), 1860, watercolour
Thursday 30 May 2013 - Sunday 2 February 2014

Discover the cultural centrepiece of 19th-century Melbourne and the grand vision that inspired it. 

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