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Rare Book Week | BMI Vintage Book Sale

July 22 @ 10:30 am - July 27 @ 3:00 pm

Hooper Room, Ground Floor

Vintage Book Sale

 Rare Book Week this year, runs from 18th July – 27th July, and to complement this, the BMI will be holding a book sale featuring a variety of vintage titles including fiction and non-fiction.  These items are not only interesting content wise, but are very visually appealing to anyone looking for interior design options, printed material to be recycled as the basis for art works or simply reading material in front of the open fire!

The items on sale are generally duplicates or things that don’t fit in the BMI Heritage Collection criteria.

This special event will offer items which are very reasonably priced, offering good value to collectors wishing to give these treasures a new home.  The funds raised will go to the conservation and curation of the BMI collection and the maintenance of the building which houses the collection. We will run this event through the week unless we sell out prior to this.

We are thrilled to be part of Rare Book Week and we hope our book sale will bring many new faces into the BMI.  Don’t miss this rare opportunity.

Rare Book Week

The Ballaarat Mechanics’ Institute has been invited to participate in Rare Book Week 2024,  through a special event on 26th July.  The event will focus on the recently restored von Mueller specimens and a talk by curator Ellen Becker on the topic, followed by a discussion between Ellen and Toni Burton from the State Library of Victoria. 

This event takes place on Wadawurrung Country. Ballaarat Mechanics’ Institute acknowledges the Wadawurrung People of the Kulin Nation as the first inhabitants and Traditional Custodians of the lands where we work, learn and create. Always Was, Always Will Be, Aboriginal Land.

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