Calendar of Events

Enjoy the rare opportunity to tour a 19th Century Coastal Artillery Fort. Fort Queenscliff is one of Victoria's most important heritage sites and one of the largest and best preserved forts in the country. Enjoy the rare opportunity to tour a 19th Century Coastal Artillery Fort (operating as an Australian Army Base) with over 150 […]

An exhibition of 10 content-rich panels from the Texas Tech University‚Äôs Vietnam Center & Archive , which gives the American perspective on a range of fascinating aspects to their helicopter war in Vietnam.¬† Enhanced with QR Codes (Hint: make sure your mobile phone has the QR code app), the embedded technology in the panels allows […]

A photographic story telling exhibition by Susan Gordon-Brown, based on Vietnam veteran stories associated with the Huey helicopter.¬† The companion exhibition to Behind the Wire, scheduled for the Shrine in 2014. Exhibition access included in your Museum entry ticket but gold coin donations are welcome. From 9 am to 5 pm most days , check […]

Get up close to the action, equipment, and heritage sites that will bring history to life at the 2013 Military Heritage Weekend. Together with local and regional community groups, individuals and businesses, Mitchell Shire Council is proud to announce¬†the second annual¬†Seymour Military Heritage Weekend to be held¬†over the 2013 Labour Day weekend: Saturday 9¬†March and […]

The Opening of Stage 2 is to be held at High Street, Seymour on Saturday 9th March 2013 at approx. 1pm. http://www.militaryheritageweekend.com.au/ For more information contact: Mitchell Shire Council, Tourism Development Officer (03) 5734 6200 tourism@mitchellshire.vic.gov.au

Indigenous Australians have served Australia in all major conflicts from the Boer War to the present. The armed services would provide a first experience of equal opportunity, although sadly not an enduring one. In this exhibition the Shrine celebrates the courage, tenacity and resourcefulness of Indigenous Australians in the armed forces. The exhibition uncovers the […]

Reflects the debt of honour owed by Australia to the Timorese people. In 1942 two of Australia's first Commando units who trained at Wilsons Promontory fought a guerrilla war against the Japanese in former Portuguese East Timor. The Commandos only survived through the support of the Timorese people who provided food and shelter, warned of […]

Presented by Deborah Tout-Smith, Liz Bramley & Nina Buchan, Museum VictoriaNext year marks the centenary of the outbreak of World War I, an event that profoundly influenced the development of our national identity and impacted on the lives of everyone living in Australia at the time. As part of a range of programs and activities […]

The Shift Theatre presents The Girls in Grey by Carolyn Bock and Helen Hopkins The Girls in Grey is a powerful play for all Australians, young and old, that brings to dramatic life the story of Australian Army Nurses during the Great War. Elsie Grace and Alice leave our shores in 1914 determined to prove […]

Presented in partnership with Reportage, festival of documentary photography. Between the height of the French Indochina War in the fifties and the fall of Phnom Penh and Saigon in 1975, 135 photographers from all sides of the conflict are recorded as missing or having been killed. This exhibition is a memorial to those men and […]

This illustrated talk will reveal some moving tales of the active involvement of the RACV in supporting the Australian military. Beginning in 1908 with the initiative of Automobile Club of Victoria Foundation Member, Colonel Harley Tarrant, the RACV‚Äôs involvement has included novel fundraising motor gymkhanas, the promotion of alternative fuels during petrol rationing and since […]

This event is planned to increase community awareness and focus attention on preparations for centenary commemorations 2014-18, with particular attention on the centenary of the Bacchus Marsh Avenue of Honour. Contributors will include The Great War Centenary Committee, the RSL, the National Trust, Historical Societies, Monash University, and local primary and secondary schools. Audio-visual and […]