Category Archives: Exhibition

Moving on from Handwritten (almost, but not quite)

I’m sure many Library visitors will miss the richness, beauty and textures of the manuscripts they saw in Handwritten. I, for one, will greatly miss the privilege of seeing works by Mozart, Bach, Michelangelo and Galileo on a regular basis. … Continue reading

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The Handwritten Ensemble

For musicians, the Handwritten exhibition offered a rare, and treasured, opportunity; to see fifteen of the most celebrated pieces in the Western canon – pieces we have spent our lives performing, studying and listening to with such great pleasure – … Continue reading

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Handwritten closes

When Handwritten closed at midnight last night – we extended opening hours for the last weekend – 73,000 visitors had passed through the Exhibition Gallery. This is a wonderful result and makes this the third most popular show ever at … Continue reading

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Handwritten in the news – part 2

Given the breadth of individual human achievement represented in Handwritten, it’s no surprise that every day there is a new discovery or event related to the authors whose manuscripts feature in the exhibition. Just last month several letters by Albert … Continue reading

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Handwritten at the movies

There is only one week left of the Handwritten exhibition, it will close to the public on Sunday 18 March.  If you are like me and don’t want your fabulous exhibition experience to fade, you might consider some of the … Continue reading

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Handwritten in the news

Recently a number of news items have highlighted that many of the manuscripts and people in Handwritten still have relevance today. While defending Australian Wikileaks founder Julian Assange against extradition to Sweden his lawyers quoted from the Codex Iustinianus.  Originally … Continue reading

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Thinking about Medieval manuscripts

Professor Margaret Manion, the renowned, Melbourne-based international scholar of the art of the medieval manuscript joined us last Thursday evening and gave a wonderfully knowledgeable and entertaining lecture about the remarkable group of medieval manuscripts in Handwritten. Professor Manion spoke … Continue reading

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Developing Handwritten

This week we have had a few museum studies students and those interested in exhibition development asking us about how we put an exhibition like Handwritten together. We have also been asked whether photos of the exhibition are available – … Continue reading

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Caring for manuscripts on display

We had an interesting question on this blog regarding interleaving pages in some of the manuscripts in Handwritten. You can see the full question and our response on the Installing Handwritten post. This made me think about conservation considerations that … Continue reading

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New Year bubbles and wanderlust

New Year is a time for celebration, for resolutions, for planning new adventures, for looking back and looking forward. What better way to start than with champagne! This letter by young lawyer Karl Hartwig Gregor von Meusebach in 1804 is … Continue reading

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