Victorian Seniors Festival | Card Making & Dried Floral Arrangement with Fay Marshall
Victorian Seniors Festival | Allow your creativity flourish. More Information Views: 191
Our Library | New Releases & Recommendations October 2023
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Rosemary’s Book of the Week | 2 October 2023
Rosemary’s Book of the Week Night Train to Marrakech by Dinah Jefferies. Vicky Baudin steps onto the train through Morocco looking for the truth about …
BMI Spring Book Sale | Calling for pre-loved books
If you are having a spring clean and clearing your book shelves for your summer reading, then we would like to take delivery of them …
Past Truths/Bright Futures
An evening of history and hope with local historian Dr Marguerita Stephens and local documentary film-maker James Freemantle. More Event Listing The Years of Terror, …
Victorian Seniors Festival | Curator Tour BMI Max Harris Collection images, Foto Biennale
Victorian Seniors Festival | Curator Tour followed by morning tea only $5 for seniors free for BMI members – bookings essential. More Information Views: 191
BMI Library & Building Development & Restoration Fund
We are reaching out to history enthusiasts, community supporters, and those who value preserving cultural heritage. We invite you to join us in preserving and …
BMI Fundraiser | Fashion Parade and High Tea | Vintage & Collectables
Be a part of our Fashion Parade Fundraiser The BMI vintage & Pre-loved Shop are showcasing their wares. Make time for a lovely get together. A …
Unsettling: An insight into landscape change from Barry Golding
Professor Barry Golding is speaking on his insights into the changing conservation and care of 6 peaks in Southern Dja Dja Wurrung Country. More Event …
In Conversation with Clare Fletcher
Be sure to register for our next Library Event go to our Event Listing > Our Library > Love Match | Clare Fletcher More information Views: …
We want your vote | Music Victoria Awards | voting closes 12 noon 13 October
Minerva Ballaarat has also been nominated for Best Regional Live Music Venue (Under 50 gigs) in the Music Victoria Awards? The Public Vote closes at …
Victorian Seniors Festival at the BMI
Victorian Seniors Festival Events at the BMI: Tours of the BMI $5 per personCurator Tour of the Max Harris Exhibition $5 per personUnder Minerva’s Gaze: A …
BMI AGM 2023 – Wednesday 25th October, 4pm
The Institute’s 2023 Annual General Meeting will be held on Wednesday, October 25th at 4pm. All members of the Institute are invited to attend. …
From the Curator | The Coliseum Fire
We are featuring a photograph from our Ballarat International Foto Biennale exhibition of photographs from the Max Harris Collection, ‘Coliseum Fire.’ The Coliseum was built …
Rosemary’s Book of the Week | 18 September 2023
The Benevolent Society of Ill-Mannered Ladies by Alison Goodman. Rosemary’s Book of the Week Lady Augusta Colebrook, ‘Gus’ is determinedly unmarried bored by society life, …
Minerva’s Secrets, Night Tours
Explore tales of the weird and supernatural – the Ballaarat Mechanics’ Institute at night. Looking for a unique way to explore Ballarat’s rich history and …
From the Curator | Spring 1938
Spring is in full swing! This week we’re flashing back to another time when the City of Ballarat was in full bloom. In March 1938, …
Rosemary’s Book of the Week | 11 September 2023
Rosemary’s Book of the Week Tom Lake by Ann Patchett. In the spring of 2020, Lara’s three daughters return to the family’s orchard in Northern …
Book Sale | Shirley Flight Air Hostess by Judith Dale, collectable books
Shirley Flight has always dreamed of becoming an air hostess. She applies to work for Transcontinental Air Lines and her application is accepted — on …
From the Curator | We are open, Ballarat International Foto Biennale
We are open for the Ballarat International Foto Biennale! Come visit our exhibition of photographs from the Max Harris Collection on the theme of Rupture.For …
Rosemary’s Book of the Week | 4 September 2023
Wifedom: Mrs Orwell’s Invisible Life by Anna Funder. Rosemary’s Book of the Week Looking for wonder and some reprieve from the everyday, Anna Funder slips …
Rex’s Snippits | Governor Sir Charles Darling
This work is the large painting between the stairs leading to the Humffray Room. It seems it was left over from the BMI Art Union of …
Our Library | New Releases & Recommendations September 2023
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Would you like to help in delivering BMI services
A call for expressions of interest for:1) Anyone with the RSA certificate (or anyone willing to undertake the ‘Responsible Service of Alcohol’ certificate) to volunteer …
Rosemary’s Book of the Week | 28 August 2023
Look for the Red Umbrella by Geoff McArthur. Rosemary’s Book of the Week Look for the Red Umbrella | Geoff McArthur Of the thousands who headed to …
Rosemary’s Book of the Week | 21 August 2023
Chinese Roots by Yvonne Horsfield. A biographical account of the well-known Ballarat Tong Way Family from 1863 onward. This account is filled with the historical …
Rex’s Snippits | Is it AA or A in Ballaarat?
Extract from the Heritage Victoria Register BMI statement of significance. “The Ballaarat Mechanics’ Institute in Ballarat was built in two main stages, in 1860-61 and …
Our Library | New Releases & Recommendations August 2023
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Rex’s Snippits | UNESCO 2010 Honourable Mention
Did you know that in 2010 the Ballaarat Mechanics’ Institute received recognition from UNESCO? It was in the form of a Honourable Mention in the …