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Community Response & Connection

Community Response & Connection The declaration of the State of Emergency, and the implementation of the Stay at Home directive, had an almost instantaneous effect on the lives of Victorians. Suddenly many people found themselves living, working and schooling ...

2020 is Cancelled: Cancelled Events

2020 is Cancelled: Cancelled Events Almost immediately, the implementation of social distancing cancelled a large number of events across Victoria. From big internationally known gatherings, such as the Australian Grand Prix, the AFL season and the Melbourne Comedy ...

Leo Sterne - Austrian Refugee & L.J. Sterne Doll Company

Leo Sterne - Austrian Refugee & L.J. Sterne Doll Company The L.J. Sterne collection is significant as one of the few surviving collections related to an Australian toy and doll manufacturer, a once-thriving industry in Australia. Only the Lindsay Archive at the Powerhouse Museum ...

Gloweave, Clothing Manufacturers, Fitzroy

Gloweave, Clothing Manufacturers, Fitzroy On September 29, 1944, a young man in airforce uniform walked into the Comfort Shirt and Underclothing factory. Stepping in for his ill father-in-law, Saul Same had little time to learn the business of the ragtrade. The Company ...

Phar Lap, Champion Race Horse (1926-1932)

Phar Lap, Champion Race Horse (1926-1932) Phar Lap is Australia's most famous racehorse. He attained legendary status before his tragic death and this fame has continued to grow ever since. The Colt from TimaruHe was foaled at Seadown Stud, near Timaru, New Zealand, ...

Hudson's Hardware Store, 1920s-1980s

Hudson's Hardware Store, 1920s-1980s Hudson's Hardware Store operated at the Spencer Street end of Bourke Street from the 1920s until the 1980s, relocating to new premises in Richmond. The Bourke Street premises were originally built in 1876 as an ironmongery and ...

Ron Blaskett, Ventriloquist (1922-2018)

Ron Blaskett, Ventriloquist (1922-2018) Born in Melbourne in 1922, Ron Blaskett was always interested in a performing career on the stage. He saw his first ventriloquist performance at age 7, and was given his first doll by his grandmother when he was 13. Using books ...

Lyndon B Johnson Shirt, Australia Visit, 1966

Lyndon B Johnson Shirt, Australia Visit, 1966 In 1966, United States President Lyndon Baines Johnson declared that Melbourne had turned out 'The biggest crowd I've ever seen' for his visit. Johnson was in Australia at the invitation of Prime Minister Harold Holt, who declared ...

Phar Lap's Blanket, Melbourne, 1932

Phar Lap's Blanket, Melbourne, 1932 Although unexceptional in appearance, this woollen horse blanket is amongst the most precious items retained by Phar Lap's strapper, Tommy Woodcock. Its significance lies in the fact that it was worn by the great race horse on 5 ...

Pendle Hall Dolls' House

Pendle Hall Dolls' House Pendle Hall is a 21 room, four storey dolls' house built by Felicity Clemons, daughter of Sir Geoffrey Syme, Managing Editor of Melbourne's The Age and Leader newspapers from 1908 till his death in 1942. Born and educated in ...

1945-1980 - Suburban City

1945-1980 - Suburban City The post-war years brought enormous changes to Melbourne. The arrival of a million immigrants over a twenty year period, beginning with 'displaced persons' from war-ravaged Europe, ensured both a cultural and a physical ...

1920-1945 - Electric City

1920-1945 - Electric City In the decades following World War One, Melbourne was transformed by new opportunities and challenges. The "war to end all wars" was over, and few could yet see the shadow it cast into the future. It was time to enjoy life, and ...

Gerry Gee Doll, Melbourne, 1960s

Gerry Gee Doll, Melbourne, 1960s Dressed as a Richmond Football Club barracker, this doll is part of the museum's L J Sterne collection, one of the few surviving collections relating to Australia's once thriving toy and doll manufacturing industry. Lionel Sterne ...

Prue Acton, Fashion Designer (1943- )

Prue Acton, Fashion Designer (1943- ) Prue Acton was born in Benalla, Victoria, in 1943. After attending Firbank Grammar in Brighton, she completed a Diploma of Art (majoring in Textiles) at RMIT in 1962. The following year she started her own business in Flinders ...

Phar Lap Arsenic Mystery Solved

Phar Lap Arsenic Mystery Solved New research announced at Melbourne Museum today confirms champion racehorse Phar Lap ingested a lethal dosage of arsenic hours before his death. Researchers Dr Ivan Kempson from the University of South Australia and Dermot ...

Tommy Woodcock, Race Horse Strapper & Trainer (1905-1985)

Tommy Woodcock, Race Horse Strapper & Trainer (1905-1985) Aaron Treve Woodcock, better known to most as 'Tommy' Woodcock, was born at Uralgurra, near Kempsey, New South Wales, in 1905. His father was a coach driver with the firm Cobb & Co, which gave young Tommy first-hand experience ...

Leisure Collection

Leisure Collection The Leisure Collection is comprised of over 10,000 artefacts that explore the leisure and recreational activities that people have pursued in Victoria since European settlement. The Leisure Collection is focused on activities ...

Francis Collection

Francis Collection The collection of artefacts and books relating to the pre-history of cinematography was assembled in the period 1962-68 by David Francis, formerly the deputy curator at the National Film Archive of the British Film Institute in ...

Phar Lap in America, 1932

Phar Lap in America, 1932 By 1931, Phar Lap had won virtually every major Australian race, many of them twice. The next chapter in Phar Lap's life would consolidate his status as a national icon. The idea of taking 'Big Red' to the United States had been ...

Harry Telford, Race Horse Owner & Trainer (1877-1960)

Harry Telford, Race Horse Owner & Trainer (1877-1960) Harry Telford had grown up around horses, with his father training them for a living, first in Ballarat, and then near Wellington in New Zealand. Harry found himself fascinated by the pedigree charts of race horses from an early ...

David Davis, Entrepreneur & Race Horse Owner

David Davis, Entrepreneur & Race Horse Owner The American born businessman David J. Davis had made his money in Sydney through photography and importing domestic items such as dinnerware. Horse racing was a hobby. In the late 1920s he developed an association with the ...

Pendle Hall Dolls' House - Room 12 Entrance Hall

Pendle Hall Dolls' House - Room 12 Entrance Hall The entrance hall is one of 21 rooms in the dolls' house Pendle Hall. It was designed and decorated by Felicity Clemons over a forty year period, and each piece of furniture and fixture was handmade by her. She used books and ...

Pendle Hall Dolls' House - Room 11 Withdrawing Room

Pendle Hall Dolls' House - Room 11 Withdrawing Room The withdrawing room is one of 21 rooms in the dolls' house Pendle Hall. It was designed and decorated by Felicity Clemons over a forty year period, and each piece of furniture and fixture was handmade by her. She used books and ...

Pendle Hall Dolls' House - Room 17 Morning Room

Pendle Hall Dolls' House - Room 17 Morning Room The morning room is one of 21 rooms in the dolls' house Pendle Hall. It was designed and decorated by Felicity Clemons over a forty year period, and each piece of furniture and fixture was handmade by her. She used books and ...

Pendle Hall Dolls' House - Room 21 Chinese Bedroom

Pendle Hall Dolls' House - Room 21 Chinese Bedroom The Chinese bedroom is one of 21 rooms in the dolls' house Pendle Hall. It was designed and decorated by Felicity Clemons over a forty year period, and each piece of furniture and fixture was handmade by her. She used books and ...

Pendle Hall Dolls' House - Room 18 Blue Bedroom

Pendle Hall Dolls' House - Room 18 Blue Bedroom The blue bedroom is one of 21 rooms in the dolls' house Pendle Hall. It was designed and decorated by Felicity Clemons over a forty year period, and each piece of furniture and fixture was handmade by her. She used books and ...

Pendle Hall Dolls' House - Room 1 Larder & Store Room

Pendle Hall Dolls' House - Room 1 Larder & Store Room The larder and store room is one of 21 rooms in the dolls' house Pendle Hall. It was designed and decorated by Felicity Clemons over a forty year period, and each piece of furniture and fixture was handmade by her. She used books ...

Pendle Hall Dolls' House - Room 6 Kitchen

Pendle Hall Dolls' House - Room 6 Kitchen The kitchen is one of 21 rooms in the dolls' house Pendle Hall. It was designed and decorated by Felicity Clemons over a forty year period, and each piece of furniture and fixture was handmade by her. She used books and magazines ...

Pendle Hall Dolls' House - Room 9 Laundry

Pendle Hall Dolls' House - Room 9 Laundry The laundry is one of 21 rooms in the dolls' house Pendle Hall. It was designed and decorated by Felicity Clemons over a forty year period, and each piece of furniture and fixture was handmade by her. She used books and magazines ...

Pendle Hall Dolls' House - Room 5 Servant's Hall

Pendle Hall Dolls' House - Room 5 Servant's Hall The servants' hall is one of 21 rooms in the dolls' house Pendle Hall. It was designed and decorated by Felicity Clemons over a forty year period, and each piece of furniture and fixture was handmade by her. She used books and ...

Pendle Hall Dolls' House - Room 14 Library

Pendle Hall Dolls' House - Room 14 Library The library is one of 21 rooms in the dolls' house Pendle Hall. It was designed and decorated by Felicity Clemons over a forty year period, and each piece of furniture and fixture was handmade by her. She used books and magazines ...

Pendle Hall Dolls' House - Room 8 Cellar

Pendle Hall Dolls' House - Room 8 Cellar The cellar is one of 21 rooms in the dolls' house Pendle Hall. It was designed and decorated by Felicity Clemons over a forty year period, and each piece of furniture and fixture was handmade by her. She used books and magazines ...

Pendle Hall Dolls' House - Room 2 Nursery

Pendle Hall Dolls' House - Room 2 Nursery The nursery is one of 21 rooms in the dolls' house Pendle Hall. It was designed and decorated by Felicity Clemons over a forty year period, and each piece of furniture and fixture was handmade by her. She used books and magazines ...

Pendle Hall Dolls' House - Room 13 Dining Room

Pendle Hall Dolls' House - Room 13 Dining Room The dining room is one of 21 rooms in the dolls' house Pendle Hall. It was designed and decorated by Felicity Clemons over a forty year period, and each piece of furniture and fixture was handmade by her. She used books and ...

Pendle Hall Dolls' House - Room 3 Mr & Mrs Proudfoot's Bedroom

Pendle Hall Dolls' House - Room 3 Mr & Mrs Proudfoot's Bedroom Mr and Mrs Proudfoot's Bedroom is one of 21 rooms in the dolls' house Pendle Hall. It was designed and decorated by Felicity Clemons over a forty year period, and each piece of furniture and fixture was handmade by her. She used ...

Pendle Hall Dolls' House - Room 10 Linen Room

Pendle Hall Dolls' House - Room 10 Linen Room The linen room is one of 21 rooms in the dolls' house Pendle Hall. It was designed and decorated by Felicity Clemons over a forty year period, and each piece of furniture and fixture was handmade by her. She used books and ...

Pendle Hall Dolls' House - Room 4 (Servants) Bathroom

Pendle Hall Dolls' House - Room 4 (Servants) Bathroom The (servants) bathroom is one of 21 rooms in the dolls' house Pendle Hall. It was designed and decorated by Felicity Clemons over a forty year period, and each piece of furniture and fixture was handmade by her. She used books ...

Pendle Hall Dolls' House - Room 7 Pantry

Pendle Hall Dolls' House - Room 7 Pantry The pantry is one of 21 rooms in the dolls' house Pendle Hall. It was designed and decorated by Felicity Clemons over a forty year period, and each piece of furniture and fixture was handmade by her. She used books and magazines ...

Pendle Hall Dolls' House - Room 16 First Landing

Pendle Hall Dolls' House - Room 16 First Landing The first (floor) landing is one of 21 rooms in the dolls' house Pendle Hall. It was designed and decorated by Felicity Clemons over a forty year period, and each piece of furniture and fixture was handmade by her. She used books ...

Pendle Hall Dolls' House - Room 15 Bathroom

Pendle Hall Dolls' House - Room 15 Bathroom The bathroom is one of 21 rooms in the dolls' house Pendle Hall. It was designed and decorated by Felicity Clemons over a forty year period, and each piece of furniture and fixture was handmade by her. She used books and magazines ...

Pendle Hall Dolls' House - Room 20 Top Landing

Pendle Hall Dolls' House - Room 20 Top Landing The top landing is one of 21 rooms in the dolls' house Pendle Hall. It was designed and decorated by Felicity Clemons over a forty year period, and each piece of furniture and fixture was handmade by her. She used books and ...

Pendle Hall Dolls' House - Room 19 Oak Bedroom

Pendle Hall Dolls' House - Room 19 Oak Bedroom The Oak Bedroom is one of 21 rooms in the dolls' house Pendle Hall. It was designed and decorated by Felicity Clemons over a forty year period, and each piece of furniture and fixture was handmade by her. She used books and ...

Moomba Festival

Moomba Festival Moomba is one of Melbourne's longest running festivals which is run under the auspices of the City of Melbourne. Moomba is celebrated during the Labour Day long weekend (the first Friday to the second Monday in March), and has ...

Black Cat Cafe Collection

Black Cat Cafe Collection The Black Cat Café, opened in 1982 by Henry Maas, Toni and Brian Edwards, was a retro 1960s style café on Brunswick Street, Fitzroy. The café was located at the corner of Brunswick Street and Greeves Street, in Beswicke Terrace. ...

Le Forgeron Marionette Collection

Le Forgeron Marionette Collection On May 11th, 1935, the Melbourne newspaper The Argus wrote about a local theatre company which comprised of `150 actors who sleep in a storeroom'. Almost 70 years later, and 50 years after their last performance, the same group ...

Waltons, Melbourne, Victoria

Waltons, Melbourne, Victoria The Waltons chain was established in 1953. On 22 October 1964 Waltons opened 12 stores around Melbourne, including three department stores (City, Prahran and Brunswick) and nine 'Home Lovers' stores (including Footscray, ...

Richard Tyler, Fashion Designer (1946- )

Richard Tyler, Fashion Designer (1946- ) Designer Richard Tyler was born in the Melbourne suburb of Sunshine on September 22nd, 1946. His mother, Topsie Tyler, was a renowned seamstress, specialising in wedding dresses and theatrical attire (including costumes for the ...

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