Calendar of Events

Piano concert celebrating 70 years since the end of World War Two with piano, music and songs of the time. Pianist Deborah Jackson with guest pianists, singers and flute. Contact Details: Deborah Jackson Ph: 9569 9178 Email: dcjackson@bigpond.com

Piano concert celebrating 70 years since the end of World War Two with piano, music and songs of the time. Pianist Deborah Jackson with guest pianists, singers and flute. Contact Details: Deborah Jackson Ph: 9569 9178 Email: dcjackson@bigpond.com

Contemporary drawings by Craig Barrett, inspired by the works of Siegfried Sassoon and Wilfred Owen; British soldier/poets renowned for their evocative and insightful war poetry reflecting experiences on the Western Front during the First World War (1914-18). Craig created this exhibition, of large scale drawings in charcoal and coloured washes, specifically for the atmospheric surrounds […]

Contemporary drawings by Craig Barrett, inspired by the works of Siegfried Sassoon and Wilfred Owen; British soldier/poets renowned for their evocative and insightful war poetry reflecting experiences on the Western Front during the First World War (1914-18). Craig created this exhibition, of large scale drawings in charcoal and coloured washes, specifically for the atmospheric surrounds […]

Contemporary drawings by Craig Barrett, inspired by the works of Siegfried Sassoon and Wilfred Owen; British soldier/poets renowned for their evocative and insightful war poetry reflecting experiences on the Western Front during the First World War (1914-18). Craig created this exhibition, of large scale drawings in charcoal and coloured washes, specifically for the atmospheric surrounds […]

Victorian Collections is a free, online cataloguing system especially created for small museums in Victoria. This workshop offers a full day of training, beginning with basic collection management. By the end of the day each participant will have photographed and catalogued an item from their organisation‚Äôs collection using the Victorian Collections system. Each organisation should […]

Australian success in Papua between July 1942 and January 1943 checked the Japanese southward advance but the victories at Kokoda, Milne Bay and the Beachheads did not remove the Japanese presence in the Mandated Territory of New Guinea to Papua‚Äôs north. From early 1943, Australian troops embarked upon a series of campaigns in the Mandate‚Äìat […]

Girls‚Äô fiction published in England, the United States, Canada and Australia during and immediately after World War I reflects a patriotic fervour that extols imperialist greatness and international allegiances alongside a strong national pride, where girls are encouraged to understand and to accept their responsibilities to family, community, and nation in their support of the […]

Join us for the launch of a significant social history book, and a lecture by Professor Jay Winter. This Remembrance Day, World War One: A history in 100 stories, written by Monash University historians Professor Bruce Scates, Rebecca Wheatley and Laura James, will be launched. This social history remembers not just the men and women […]

Book launch - Invasion: the Gallipoli campaign through Turkish eyesDr John Basarin OAM and Mrs Hatice Basarin Authors Wednesday 11 November 6pm for 6.20pm - 7.30pm Dyason House

Australian success in Papua between July 1942 and January 1943 checked the Japanese southward advance but the victories at Kokoda, Milne Bay and the Beachheads did not remove the Japanese presence in the Mandated Territory of New Guinea to Papua‚Äôs north. From early 1943, Australian troops embarked upon a series of campaigns in the Mandate‚Äìat […]

Fred Ransome Smith, imprisoned by the Japanese during the Second World War, used art to document his captivity. Decades later he returned to this art to release and share wartime memories. Experience Fred’s wartime drawings as well as works he created in Australia from 1975 onwards