Behind the Lines: The Best Political Cartoons of 2021
COMING 1 May 2022
It was a year of the ‘new normal.’ With ever-present predictive models Australia’s cartoonists made us laugh just as often as they made us think. But most of all they comforted us in the uncertainty that was the year 2021.
Lost Jobs: The Changing World of Work
Have you ever heard of a ‘nightman’, a ‘scoop boy’, or a phrenologist? How about a ‘fairy tapper’, a telegrapher, a ‘dolly boy’ or a lumper? These were all jobs that were once common, but have disappeared completely. Many jobs have vanished in Victoria over the years, while others have emerged, sometimes in completely new industries.
Protest Melbourne
Ongoing exhibition. Public protest has a long history in Victoria. From as early as the 1840s Melburnians took to the streets to express their views on a wide range of issues, from the right to vote to workers’ rights.
Yarra: Stories of Melbourne's River
Ongoing exhibition. This exhibition charts some of the history of Melbourne’s Yarra River and of the people who lived along it.
Women Work for Victory in WWII
Discover the roles of women on the home front during the Second World War. Women Work for Victory is an important reminder of the contribution played by women across Australian society in the cause of an Allied victory.
A Nation Divided: the Great War and Conscription
Melbourne: Foundations of a City
Growing up in Old Treasury
