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Day Tours of the Ballaarat Mechanics’ Institute – Each Tuesday

Library Ground Floor Sturt Street, Ballarat Central

Tuesdays at 2pm | A colourful history of the Ballaarat Mechanics’ Institute and it’s people. By appointment only, (to organise a volunteer guide we require 24hrs notice). Group Tours: Group tours can also be accommodated on other days. We also offer specialty tours, information on these can be found on our Building Tours webpage.

$11.00

Pressed dried flowering plant specimen with roots on paper

150 Years of Botanical Communication

Lending Library Sturt Street, Ballarat Central

August 7 @ 6:00 pm - 7:00 pm $15 Get Tickets Before digital databases and photography, how did we learn about the natural world? This Biodiversity Week, discover the BMI’s rare set of Ferdinand von Mueller’s Educational Collections of Victorian Plants (1874–1876). Designed to “diffuse information on the native vegetation” across Victoria, this historic herbarium […]

$15

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Blake Pavey: A Bit Scared

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BMI - Minerva Space 117-119 Sturt Street, Ballarat Central

August 7 @ 7:30 pm - 8:40 pm $44.90 Minerva Space Presented by KEG Touring Get Tickets A Bit Scared Blake Pavey rose to online fame at just 17 years old through his character based sketch comedy on TikTok. Since then, he has amassed over 1 Million followers across social media. He's now converted his […]

$44.90