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A not-so-familiar Father Christmas: A Merry Christmas Polka from 1847
Looking at Christmas music in the Rare Music collection from Victorian-era Britain, I was surprised to see an unfamiliar Father Christmas-figure—a grinning giant—at the head of a very worn copy of the...
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Delius Buys a Gauguin
Delius, Jelka (1868-1935), Nevermore, Object 1, painting,(n.d),Grainger Museum Collection, University of Melbourne. Here at the Grainger Museum we have a copy of Paul Gauguin’s Nevermore currently on...
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A lost eighteenth-century harp method rediscovered, Michel Corrette’s...
Published in Paris in 1774, Michel Corrette’s Nouvelle méthode pour apprendre à jouer de la harpe [New method for learning to play the harp] is an exciting new addition to the Rare Music collection....
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“Something with a cow in it”: Dairying in Victoria’s Western District...
In 1914, when playwright Louis Esson exhorted his fellow playwrights to write “authentic” Australian plays, he used the throwaway line “something with a cow in it” to get his idea across.1) Theatrical...
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Honing drawing skills with cultural collections
Drawing workshops run by the University of Melbourne Student Union with Museums and Collections on campus are an important means to hone artistic skills. Students in the workshops visited the Medical...
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Percy Grainger performing the museum
I visited the Grainger Museum on Tuesday 21 August. As the 2018 recipient of the IMAC award, I have been keen to explore the many collections based on campus at the University of Melbourne. The only...
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A Day in the Life of a Curator
Special Collections and Grainger Museum Blogger Anastasia Vassiliadis chats to Dr Heather Gaunt about her role as Curator at the Grainger Museum. Can you tell me a bit about the Grainger Museum? The...
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Insurance records are not exciting
By Catherine De Luca This is not a particularly controversial statement if the first conference for the History capstone subject at the University of Melbourne in 2018 is anything to go by. David...
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When Greer came home: January – March 1972 ‘Save us from shaggy Germ, O Man.’
Vanessa O’Neill is the recipient of the Joyce Thorpe Nicholson Fellowship. Her research has explored the impact of Greer’s provocations at key points in time over the past 50 years, primarily through...
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UMA’s tribute to John Ellis, Activist Archivist Photographer
Deputy University Archivist Sue Fairbanks attended the Memorial for John Ellis in Geelong, Sunday 11 August. Sue’s Tribute. John Ellis at the exhibition launch for Protest! Archives from the University...
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