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View free exhibitions featuring items from the Public Record Office Victoria collection at the Victorian Archives Centre, Old Treasury Building, online and throughout regional Victoria. Click on each exhibition below for information. 

Reception this way: motels - a sentimental journey with Tim Ross

people standing on a motel balcony
Now showing at the Victorian Archives Centre

Belongings: objects of a family life

colour advertising from the 1940s a woman with a camera and the word Kodak
Now showing at Old Treasury Building

Protest Melbourne

black and white photo of a protest in action
Now showing at Old Treasury Building

Yarra: Stories of Melbourne's River

map
Now showing at Old Treasury Building

First Peoples and the Gold Rush

gold diggings painting
Now showing at Old Treasury Building

A Nation Divided

poster
Now showing at Old Treasury Building

Melbourne: Foundations of a City

painting of Melbourne in 1854
Now showing at Old Treasury Building

Material in the Public Record Office Victoria archival collection contains words and descriptions that reflect attitudes and government policies at different times which may be insensitive and upsetting

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