State Library Victoria’s $88 million Vision 2020 redevelopment has won the 2020 Victorian Premier’s Design Award for Architectural Design, announced in Melbourne last night. 

State Library Victoria’s $88 million Vision 2020 redevelopment was announced winner of the National Exemplar award at the 2021 ALIA Australian Library Design Awards.

State Library Victoria today launched a new membership program designed to reward curious minds with additional and exclusive access to some of the Library’s spaces, resources and events.

Victorians returning to the CBD will be rewarded with a mammoth month of free outdoor entertainment and activities at State Library Victoria for Library on the Lawn, a COVID-safe celebration of summer launching today until 28 February.

State Library Victoria celebrates local street art culture in a new free online gallery, Behind the Paint.

Victorian kids will get to celebrate the end of a year like no other with State Library Victoria’s interactive program of summer activities, kicking off with a dress up disco on 18 December. 

State Library Victoria will reopen from Thursday 19 November, in line with the Victorian Government’s latest easing of coronavirus (COVID-19) restrictions.

Bold ideas, radical thoughts and could-be solutions are set to be posed by Australia’s leading thinkers, creatives and innovators in a new online talk series and podcast presented by State Library Victoria, launching Thursday 29 October. 

As primary school children across Victoria head back to school after months of lockdown, State Library Victoria will launch its first ever virtual Children’s Book Week with free live events, workshops and podcasts kicking off Monday 19 October.

Award-winning journalist, author and founding editor of The Saturday Paper Erik Jensen will deliver the Stephen Murray-Smith memorial lecture, hosted by State Library Victoria on 13 October 2020.