Travelling Treasures

The State Library of Victoria's collection experts take to the road each year with a selection of our treasures. Visiting regional public libraries (and council chambers) and schools, the Travelling Treasures program offers children and adults alike the chance to see some of our most precious collection items.

The 2007 program will be available soon.

What has been on tour in the past?

• Book of Hours - an exquisite example of the kind of prayer book that was popular in medieval Europe, 1400s
• Shakespeare's Fourth Folio - a rare edition of the collected works of William Shakespeare, 1685
• Micrographia - by Robert Hooke, containing the first illustrations resulting from the use of a microscope for scientific purposes, 1665
• De Revolutionibus - a second edition of Nicolaus Copernicus' masterpiece, 1566
• Parkinson's Endeavour journal - a record of Captain James Cook's first voyage to the South Seas by on-board artist Sydney Parkinson, 1773.