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    Day Tours of the Ballaarat Mechanics’ Institute – Each Tuesday

    Library Ground Floor Sturt Street, Ballarat Central, VIC, Australia

    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

  • 21 HEARTS: Vivian Bullwinkel and the Nurses of the Vyner Brooke, a THEATRE 180 production | SOLD OUT

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

    Due to popular demand we have a second evening session. Saturday 11 July at 7pm > July 10 @ 11:00 am - 12:50 pm $38.50 – $77 Minerva Theatre Get Tickets Written by Jenny Davis A compelling true story from WWII, honouring the bravery strength, love and hope of Australian Army Nurses in the face […]

    $38.50 – $77

  • 21 HEARTS: Vivian Bullwinkel and the Nurses of the Vyner Brooke, a THEATRE 180 production | SOLD OUT

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

    Due to popular demand we have a second evening session. Saturday 11 July at 7pm > July 10 @ 7:00 pm - 8:50 pm $38.50 – $77 Minerva Theatre Get Tickets Written by Jenny Davis A compelling true story from WWII, honouring the bravery strength, love and hope of Australian Army Nurses in the face […]

    $38.50 – $77

  • 21 HEARTS: Vivian Bullwinkel and the Nurses of the Vyner Brooke, a THEATRE 180 production

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

    Due to popular demand we have a second evening session. Saturday 11 July at 7pm > July 11 @ 11:00 am - 12:50 pm $38.50 – $77 Minerva Theatre Get Tickets Written by Jenny Davis A compelling true story from WWII, honouring the bravery strength, love and hope of Australian Army Nurses in the face […]

    $38.50 – $77

  • 21 HEARTS: Vivian Bullwinkel and the Nurses of the Vyner Brooke, a THEATRE 180 production

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

    July 11 @ 7:00 pm - 8:50 pm $38.50 – $77 Minerva Theatre Get Tickets Written by Jenny DavisA compelling true story from WWII, honouring the bravery strength, love and hope of Australian Army Nurses in the face of adversity. Directed by Stuart HaluszFeaturing Caitlin Beresford-Ord, Rebecca Davis, Michelle Fornasier, Alex Jones, Tegan Mulvany and […]

    $38.50 – $77
  • Pressed dried flowering plant specimen with roots on paper

    Arresting the Ephemeral: The Beautiful Usefulness of a Victorian Herbarium

    BMI - Humffray Room 117-119 Sturt Street, Ballarat Central, VIC, Australia

    July 24 @ 11:00 am - 12:30 pm Free Humffray Room Get Tickets The Ballaarat Mechanics’ Institute is custodian of the most intact surviving set of the Educational Collections of Victorian Plants (1874–1876). A herbarium and series of books compiled by the first Chief Botanist of the Colony of Victoria, Baron Sir Ferdinand von Mueller. This presentation […]

    Free

  • Pressed dried flowering plant specimen with roots on paper

    150 Years of Botanical Communication

    Lending Library Sturt Street, Ballarat Central, Victoria, Australia

    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