Inspection of windows by architect Norman Peebles and clerk of work, Melbourne Public Library, c. 1913, unknown photographer, gelatin silver photograph
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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Discover the cultural centrepiece of 19th-century Melbourne and the grand vision that inspired it.




