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  • The Artwork of the BMI | Special Programs

    Lending Library Sturt Street, Ballarat Central, Victoria, Australia

    A detailed look at the restoration of The Girl in the Bonnet and other needy artworks in the collection. Book attendance | $15 BMI members | $25 Regular fee. Bookings View the full list of Ballarat Heritage Festival Events at the BMI Ballarat Heritage Festival | BMI Melba Opera Trust Scholars announced for 4 June […]

    $15
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    Living Heritage Exhibition

    Heritage Reading Room Sturt Street, Ballarat Central, VIC, Australia

    The BMI has recently worked with Grimwade Conservation Services to perform urgently required conservation work on a number of significant items from the Heritage Victoria registered collection. This work was carried out as part of a  Victorian Government Living Heritage Grant awarded in 2021, with work completed in December 2022. These items include original volumes […]

    $5

  • The Photography of the BMI | Special Programs

    Lending Library Sturt Street, Ballarat Central, Victoria, Australia

    The BMI is home to thousands of photographs of Ballarat through the ages.  Through the lens of several different photographers and collectors including Max Harris,  the BMI might just have that photograph you are looking for! Book attendance | $15 BMI members | $25 Regular fee. Bookings View the full list of Ballarat Heritage Festival […]

    $15
  • botanical specimens

    Living Heritage Exhibition

    Heritage Reading Room Sturt Street, Ballarat Central, VIC, Australia

    The BMI has recently worked with Grimwade Conservation Services to perform urgently required conservation work on a number of significant items from the Heritage Victoria registered collection. This work was carried out as part of a  Victorian Government Living Heritage Grant awarded in 2021, with work completed in December 2022. These items include original volumes […]

    $5
  • botanical specimens

    Living Heritage Exhibition

    Heritage Reading Room Sturt Street, Ballarat Central, VIC, Australia

    The BMI has recently worked with Grimwade Conservation Services to perform urgently required conservation work on a number of significant items from the Heritage Victoria registered collection. This work was carried out as part of a  Victorian Government Living Heritage Grant awarded in 2021, with work completed in December 2022. These items include original volumes […]

    $5
  • botanical specimens

    Living Heritage Exhibition

    Heritage Reading Room Sturt Street, Ballarat Central, VIC, Australia

    The BMI has recently worked with Grimwade Conservation Services to perform urgently required conservation work on a number of significant items from the Heritage Victoria registered collection. This work was carried out as part of a  Victorian Government Living Heritage Grant awarded in 2021, with work completed in December 2022.These items include original volumes of […]

    $5
  • botanical specimens

    Living Heritage Exhibition

    Heritage Reading Room Sturt Street, Ballarat Central, VIC, Australia

    The BMI has recently worked with Grimwade Conservation Services to perform urgently required conservation work on a number of significant items from the Heritage Victoria registered collection. This work was carried out as part of a  Victorian Government Living Heritage Grant awarded in 2021, with work completed in December 2022. These items include original volumes […]

    $5

  • Digitisation Workshop | AMaGa | Geraldine Brault

    The Ballaarat Mechanics' Institute 117-119 Sturt Street, Ballarat Central, VIC, Australia

    Digitisation workshop Capturing high-quality images of your catalogue records serve as a digital preservation copy of our collections while also allowing for increased public access and decreased physical handling. This workshop will provide you with an opportunity to work one-on-one to learn the basics of museum photography such as camera settings and operations, lighting, and image […]

  • The Photography of the BMI | Victorian Seniors Festival | Now fully Booked

    Lending Library Sturt Street, Ballarat Central, Victoria, Australia

    The BMI is home to thousands of photographs of Ballarat through the ages.  Through the lens of several different photographers and collectors including Max Harris.  Join us for a curator-led tour of the BMI's photographic exhibition as part of the Ballarat Foto Biennale, as well as a special viewing of some treasures from our collection […]

    $5

  • Exhibition | Not the Last Picture Show

    Hugh Williamson Foyer, Level 1

    May 17 @ 10:30 am - May 30 @ 4:00 pm Free MH 94 Coliseum Grenville Street, Ballarat Just a year after the Lumière brothers invented the cinematograph in 1895, the first screenings of this new technology of ‘moving pictures’ were held at the Mechanics’ Institute. By the 1970’s, cinema’s death was being heralded after […]

    Free
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    Exhibition | Not the Last Picture Show: From the Archives

    Heritage Reading Room Sturt Street, Ballarat Central, VIC, Australia

    May 17 @ 10:30 am - May 30 @ 4:00 pm Free – $5 This event is part of the Ballarat Heritage Festival 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 […]

    Free – $5