What’s On
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31 Jul 2010
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2 Aug 2010
Uncover and discover -
2 Aug 2010
Simone Weil lecture on human value
News
See the winners and finalists in the world's richest art prizes: Doug Moran National Portrait Prize and Moran Contemporary Photographic Prize (MCPP). The winners will be announced on 10 August. The exhibition runs from 9 August to 5 September.
On 5 and 6 August join us for an introductory daytime talk on the amazing family history resources offered by the Library. Meet our Family History Service librarians and view unique items from our collections, including rare shipping correspondence. Meet at 10am in the Macquarie Street foyer.
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The secret history of Governor Macquarie’s Collector’s Chest is revealed in a new, lavishly illustrated book Rare and Curious by Elizabeth Ellis OAM, Emeritus Curator, Mitchell Library.
This inaugural Sydney Morning Herald exhibition features the finest prints and multimedia by Herald photographers in 2009/10. Over 100 images will be displayed in our Macquarie Street entrance foyer and upstairs on Level 1, until 1 August.
Macquarie’s controversial secret list of enemies is among 120 amazing objects including journals, letters, maps, plans, pictures, rare books and personal items to feature in the State Library’s major bicentennial exhibition, The Governor: Lachlan Macquarie, 1810 to 1821. On show from 3 July to 10 October.
