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January 2009
Ten Things You Can Do
 
 

Ten Things You Can Do with the Family at the State Library of Victoria



Get your family along to a free one-hour Library Heritage Tour! Run from Monday to Friday at 2pm. Bookings required for groups only.

See the armour of one of Australia’s most infamous outlaws. You can see Ned Kelly’s armour, his rifle and even one of his boots in The changing face of Victoria exhibition in our Dome Gallery.

Find and photocopy the front page of the newspaper published on the day you were born, in the Newspaper Reading Room!

Spin the latest grooves in our Arts Reading Room. Listen to the latest CDs and DVDs in our sound-proofed booths!

Drop by Experimedia to use the latest free AFL X-Box computer games and other exciting PC and X-Box games. Read ebooks with your kids!

Scroll through microfiche and find out more about your family tree in our Genealogy Centre.

Take a look at the paintings and portrait sculptures of famous and infamous Victorians in the Cowen Gallery exhibition.

Fight it out in a battle of wills in a game of chess!  The Chess room is located on the mezzanine level above the Arts Reading Room.

Spend half an hour surfing the internet for free in the Information Centre.

Read books on any subject from aircrafts to zebras in the Library!
 
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