> Latest grants to help Victorians make history

14 May 2012

Fifty-eight Victorian community groups will undertake important local history projects this year thanks to more than $340,000 in grants through the Victorian Government’s Local History Grants program.

> From the Premier's Office: Golden Oldie: Old Treasury Building celebrates 150 years

17 April 2012 Premier and Minister for the Arts, Ted Baillieu visited Old Treasury Building to mark its 150th anniversary.

> Shake Your Family Tree Day 2012

Tuesday 13 March The National Archives of Australia is encouraging Victorians to ‘byte’ into their family tree at the annual Shake Your Family Tree day which will be held at the Victorian Archives Centre on Saturday 31 March.

> Celebrating Women in History

28 February 2012

> Golden Oldie - Old Treasury Building celebrates 150 years

31 January 2012

> New record openings in 2012

Every year on January 1, Public Record Office Victoria staff open boxes of records that have not been seen for up to 99 years. View the full list of new openings here. There is much to be discovered in 2012!

> A summer of cossies, togs and bathers

10 November 2011 An extraordinary exhibition highlighting Australia’s fascination with the sun and sea will return to Melbourne this summer. Summers Past: Golden Days in the Sun 1950–1970 explores our enduring love affair of all things summer, invoking memories of carefree sunny days at the beach in the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s.

> Preserving Koorie Culture

3 November 2011 Victoria’s leading experts on Indigenous records and cultural collections will provide a rare insight into researching Koorie family history in a special two-day workshop on preserving community and culture.

> Winners of the Victorian Community History Awards announced

26 October 2011 A book about influential women in Melbourne’s history, an illustrated walking tour of historic Maldon, an exhibition about Melbourne’s Yiddish community and a recreated map of routes used to cross the Bass Strait in the early 1800s, are among the winners of the 2011 Victorian Community History Awards.

> Applications open for $350,000 Local History Grants

Applications are now open for Public Record Office Victoria’s annual $350,000 local history grants.

> $39,000 for Victorian Aboriginal groups to preserve their history

Public Record Office Victoria and Aboriginal Affairs Victoria have awarded $39,000 in funding to Victorian Aboriginal groups to preserve and share this stories and culture.

> 81 community groups to share in $355,000

1 July 2011 Eighty-one community groups across Victoria will share in $355,000 in grants from the Victorian Government to help record and preserve their local stories and share them with future generations.

> $20,000 prize pool for Victorian Community History Awards

28 June 2011 The prize money for the Victorian Community History Awards, now in their thirteenth year, has been doubled in all categories – bringing the total prize pool to $20,000. Applications close Friday 19 August.

> $1.83M Archives Centre opens in Bendigo

16 June 2011 The Bendigo Regional Archives Centre is set to be home to public records including records created by government departments and authorities, courts, municipalities, public hospitals and other public offices.

> Sir Ruper Hamer Records Management Awards 2011

31 May 2011 Outstanding, innovative records management in the public and community sectors were recognised at the annual Sir Rupert Hamer Records Management Awards ceremony held on Thursday 19 May at Queens Hall, Parliament House.

> Cartoonists go behind the lines at Old Treasury Building

17 May 2011 Through the eyes of Australia’s top cartoonists, a National Museum of Australia exhibition captures the twists and turns of another eventful year in Australian politics. The exhibition opens at the Old Treasury Building on the 29th May 2011.

> Landmarks exhibition at Old Treasury Building

1 April 2011 A new exhibition at Old Treasury Building explores the whacky entries of the Victorian Government’s Melbourne Landmarks Ideas Competition 1978. We could have had a giant six-legged crocodile for the banks of the Yarra. Instead we have Federation Square.