A Diverse State

Our towns, cities, people and events.

Intimate stories of personal experience, and public struggles for change.

Among Mates: Caulfield RSL

Caulfield RSL, with its beginnings shaped by its proximity to the State’s repatr...

But That's Another Story

This innovative collaboration between community musems and local artists capture...

Digital Stories of the Mind and Body

Stories of the mind and body are a tribute to the resilience of the human mind a...

Digital Stories of Young Adults

Digital Stories from young adults, from being a teenage mother, to expressing th...

Drouin: A Small Town at War

A collection of photographs of the dairying town of Drouin in West Gippsland Vic...

Early photographs - Gold

Antoine Fauchery and Richard Daintree produced iconic images of the early gold d...

Eureka Stories

Key documents from the Eureka Rebellion in 1854.

Family Stories

In this collection of digital stories and videos, Victorians share their family ...

Felon Families

Stories of women prisoners and their families

Geelong Voices

The Geelong Voices Oral History Project was established by Gwlad McLachlan in 20...

Goldfields Stories: A Station with a Town Attached

Myths surround the presence of one of the nation's grandest Railway stations is ...

Goldfields Stories: An Eye for Eucalypts

In his hometown of Ararat in western Victoria, Stan Kelly (1911 – 2001) was know...

Goldfields Stories: Dai Gum San, Big Gold Mountain

It may come as a surprise to some that the oldest Imperial Dragon in the world, ...

Goldfields Stories: Lola Montez, Star Attraction

In the mid-nineteenth century, as goldrush town Ballarat teeters between turbule...

Goldfields Stories: Made in Bendigo, Cold Beer!

In the late 1800s, three brothers from Denmark founded a small cordial factory i...

Goldfields Stories: Punching the Bundy

In 1888, Williard LeGrand Bundy patented the first employee time clock. Bundy's ...

Goldfields Stories: The Cycling Wedding Photographer

Wal Richards loved weddings. Uninvited, he would cycle to local weddings and ta...

Goldfields Stories: The Girl from Carisbrook

In 1881 an itinerant blind missionary, Thomas James, traveling the country teach...

Goldfields Stories: The Leviny Sisters

Buda house in Castlemaine is a remarkable archive of a family, occupied by two g...

History In Place

History in Place, addresses the disconnect between the digital literacy of prima...

Images of Melbourne

Works featuring Melbourne from the National Gallery of Victoria.

In My Day

In 2004, at Natimuk Primary School, local animator, Dave Jones worked with stude...

James Harrison: Journalist, Inventor & Visionary

This documentary looks at James Harrison & his achievements.

Jewish Australian Families

Circles and Cycles: The myth of the Jewish family rests on the notion of ...

Memories from a Soldier Settlement

Once the largest irrigated soldier settlement in the country, Red Cliffs is now ...

Moomba

Moomba is one of Australia's most enduring festivals, first held in 1955.

Ned Kelly

Ned Kelly, the most famous of our "Wild Colonial Boys", was born in 1855. He gre...

North Shore: Geelong's Boom Town 1920s-1950s

The heydays of North Shore

Objects Faces Places

Objects Faces Places celebrates the community museums of the Victorian Goldfield...

Our Town Our Scene

Sixty aspiring young secondary school filmmakers from three towns have one week ...

Tallangatta

When the Hume Dam is at a low ebb, the ghostly remains of Tallangatta, in northe...

The Australian Family

Australian and Victorian family history comes blazingly to life in this superb c...

The Last Stand of the Kelly Gang: Sites in Glenrowan

In this series of images, we examine key sites in Glenrowan connected to the inf...

The Ross Sea Party

As Shackleton’s ambitious Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition of 1914 foundered,...

The Welsh Swagman

Joseph Jenkins was a Welsh itinerant labourer in late 1800s Victoria. Exceptiona...

Villers-Bretonneux

The Villers-Bretonneux School Photograph Collection housed at the Public Record ...

Walhalla: fires, floods and tons of gold

In a remote, steep, and heavily timbered valley in the Victorian Alps, in the su...

Wangaratta, Textile Town

At the end of First World War, a group of Wangaratta businessmen decide to build...

Women's Suffrage

In 1891 Victorian women took to the streets, knocking door to door, in the citie...
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