REMETTE PORTABLE TYPEWRITER, c.1950
Private Collection

An ordinary typewriter.
What untold secrets and stories does it reveal about Melbourne?

What's On at City Museum at Old Treasury Melbourne
May 2008

/ Current Exhibitions

MELBOURNE, AND OTHER MYTHS
Until 25 May 2008
FINAL WEEKS!

See the city in a strange new light as Melbourne and Other Myths infects the City Museum this autumn.

Bear witness to the lives of three Melbourne eccentrics as they explain their unique visions of the city. Through the stories of these odd characters, illustrated with sounds, images and curious artefacts, the exhibition explores Melbourne's urban myths and impossible secrets. Other surprises – some fact, some fiction – will leave unsuspecting visitors seeing familiar landmarks in peculiar new ways.

Melbourne, and Other Myths combines the work of acclaimed Melbourne writer Martyn Pedler and animations from screen collective TAPE Projects, pollinated with still photography from three of Melbourne’s leading photographers. These disparate ingredients coalesce in a bizarre, at times hallucinatory journey through the secret histories of Melbourne, where the authenticity of the museum – and perhaps the very fabric of the city itself – is thrown into question.

Melbourne. Maybe it's not where you think.

Exhibition Partners:

Melbourne, and Other Myths coincides with the release of three intriguing new publications, made possible by the generous support of Chase and Galley:
PERFECT EMPTY STREET
BE FAMOUS AND DIE
NO MAGICIANS

Making Melbourne

Tracing the story of the city from early settlement to the present day.

Built on Gold

The story of Victoria’s gold, its journey and legacy in the years 1852-1862.

Growing Up in the Old Treasury

Recreating the caretaker’s apartments, as occupied 1916-1928.

Gold and Prosperity

The Vizard Foundation collection of colonial gold and silver.

/ Coming Up

AUSTRALIAN RULES:
AROUND THE GROUNDS
7 June – 24 August 2008

Australian Rules: Around the Grounds turns away from the centre bounce to celebrate the action taking place around the boundaries of our national football code.

In this era of football professionalism, where the analysis of matches, coaches and players extends the parameters of the code into seemingly ever-expanding levels of complexity, the MGA has brought together photographers who capture the action away from the media spotlight. Australian Rules: Around the Grounds features the work of five photographers: Donna Bailey, Paul Dunn, Rennie Ellis, Grant Hobson and Jesse Marlow.

A Monash Gallery of Art travelling exhibition

/ Events

Tuesday 13 May
2.00pm
Curators Talk
Join exhibition curators Simon Gregg and Martyn Pedlar for a behind-the-scenes tour of Melbourne, and Other Myths.
Free with entry

Thursday 29 May
10am
Breaking the Code
Join the ‘morse codians’ – keepers of this lost language of beeps and dots – for an revealing insight into their world, as part of Making Melbourne.
Free with entry

Tuesday 8 July and
Wednesday 9 July
10.30am-noon
Football stories
Five photographers … five views from around the grounds.
Visit our exhibition and create stories to fit the images.
Holiday Workshop
for 9-12 year olds
$7 per child

For more information and bookings for all events please contact City Museum on (03) 9651 2233.