State Library Victoria has today announced an exciting new exhibition that shines a light on the stories of women and their overlooked but significant contributions to innovation in artistic and scientific fields. The new show opens on Friday 24 June.

State Library Victoria will join five other cultural institutions across Melbourne for Art After Dark: a weekend of visual art installations and live performances, from 6pm to 1am on 13 and 14 May.

State Library Victoria is calling on the Victorian public to help preserve Melbourne’s architectural history with an End of Financial Year Appeal raising funds to help conserve the original drawings of St Paul’s Cathedral – some of which are six metres long.

$10,000 in seed funding and $20,000 of in-kind support, including coaching, mentoring and access to the StartSpace co-working space have been provided to eight winners of the Study Melbourne Future Founders Venture Scholarships.

President of the Library Board of Victoria, Christine Christian AO, has announced the appointment of three new members, Alex Cartel, Inala Cooper and Mark De Ambrosis for a three-year period.

To mark International Women’s Week, State Library Victoria is proud to unveil a number of significant acquisitions made thanks to its recently launched Women Writers Fund – the first of its kind to be launched by an Australian public library – at a free event on Friday 11 March.

Library on the Lawn Festival, an end of summer event program hosted by State Library Victoria, returns bigger and better this month with a huge line-up of free activities and entertainment for Victorians of all ages. 

The Redmond Barry Lecture returns this year headlined by acclaimed Melbourne-based journalist, documentary maker and author Angela Pippos on Tuesday 22 February.  

Bibliophiles can feast their eyes on more than 300 of the state’s rarest books when State Library Victoria unveils Australia’s largest exhibition dedicated to books, World of the book: 2022 the rare, the sacred and the iconic at 10am today.

State Library Victoria’s startup support service StartSpace, in partnership with Study Melbourne, has today launched Future Founders Venture Scholarships – a new scholarship program for international student startups.