RMIT Media and Communications Student Project

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Untold Stories: People, Places, Open Spaces For the past twelve weeks, media students at RMIT have been undertaking a residency at Melbourne’s Living Museum of the West as part of their course. Students have been able to utilise many of the archival resources...

Arts Events Projects

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Contemporary Art Exhibitions

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The Living Museum hosts contemporary art exhibitions and projects which have relevance to the archive and organisations’ aims and objectives. Contemporary art exhibitions have been staged in three venues, the historic Bluestone building, the Museum Visitor...

Artist in Residency Program

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The Living Museum is currently taking proposals for artists in residencies.For more information email admin@livingmuseum.org.au More information about the artist in the residency program including current artist’s in residence can be found here… 2019...

Footscray Wharves and Environs

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 Local Institutions Man does not live on bread and beer alone, and it was not long before other institutions of civilization as we know it came to the small community on the banks of the Saltwater River. According to the records of St.Monica’s church in...

Footscray Wharves and Environs

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Wharves A view of the wharves on the west bank of the Salt Water River (now Maribyrnong River), from the east bank near the Hopetoun Bridge, in 1882. The three waterfront hotels in Maribyrnong Street are visible. From left to right the hotels are: The Stanley Arms,...