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Grainger Museum

Locality: Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Phone: +61 3 8344 5270

Address: Gate 13, Royal Parade, Parkville 3052 Melbourne, VIC, Australia

Website: http://www.grainger.unimelb.edu.au/

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21.01.2022 Are you signed up for the Grainger eNews? If not, you may have missed out on our recent 'From the Collection' post, featuring the backstory to this Lincolnshire Posy "For Two Pianos - Four Hands". Intrigued? Head over to the News section of the Grainger website to learn more!

21.01.2022 The Grainger Museum has seen countless students pass through the campus, and through our doors, since opening in 1938. This week we welcome students back to campus for semester one and can’t wait to introduce them to our collections! . . Stop by and engage in our exhibitions, peruse our unique objects, and snap your own pictures of the museum. We love this photograph taken from Royal Parade in the 1960s!

19.01.2022 In recognition of International Women’s Day we would like to celebrate Ella Grainger, a strong woman in Percy's life & pivotal in establishing the Grainger Museum. Ella & Percy in toweling outfits in White plains, 1950. #InternationalWomensDay #GraingerMuseum #IWD #EllaStröm#EllaGrainger #PercyGrainger

19.01.2022 "C# for Mrs Percy Grainger to play" - From a selection of glasses adapted to make musical instruments, made by Percy & Ella in the 1930s. Currently on display in our current exhibition 'How it Plays: Innovations in Percussion'. #graingermuseum #percygrainger

17.01.2022 Season's greetings from all of us at the Grainger Museum! Tomorrow, Friday 20 December, is our final opening day of the decade. We will open again with our usual opening hours on Monday 13 January, eager to embrace the '20s and welcome you to join us for an exciting new year. We wish all our supporters a happy and safe festive season and a wonderful new year. #graingermuseum #unimelb Images: Christmas postcard and photographs from Truth scrapbook, created by Dorothy Ruther...ford (nee Mattingley), compiled 1920s-1970s. Dorothy Mattingley graduated with a Bachelor of Music from the University of Melbourne in 1931. The Truth scrapbook details Dorothy’s lifetime of involvement in music in Melbourne. Grainger Museum Collection. Gift of David Rutherford, 1996. 01.2077

17.01.2022 Join the International Percy Grainger Society in its presentation, Performing Percy Grainger: the man, the music, the mishaps - a conversation with Sir Andrew D...avis. This pop-up webinar will take place live at 11am (central US time) on Friday, 14 August, 2020. Prior registration is necessary. To register: https://percygraingeramerica.org/Events

16.01.2022 Looking for a new place to experience arts and culture online? https://culturalcommons.edu.au/ features The University of Melbourne Archives, Special Collections, Museums and Galleries and of course, plenty of all things Grainger. Buxton Contemporary The Ian Potter Museum of Art Science Gallery Melbourne Special Collections, University of Melbourne University of Melbourne Archives

16.01.2022 Is this my best side?? - Happy #museumselfie Day from the Grainger Museum! We’re excited to be open again after our short break, ready to take on 2020! We look forward to welcoming both new and returning visitors to the Grainger Museum this year. See you soon! Bronze portrait bust of Percy Grainger, 1977. Kaare Kristian Nygaard (1903-1989). 1978.3000. Cast in 1977 (15 years after Percy’s death), from a mould originally made during the mid 1950s.

11.01.2022 BBC Radio 3's program 'Composer of the Week' is a series of daily 1-hour programs examining the lives of composers, and their music, in detail. Last week, Percy Grainger was the subject of this 5-part audio documentary, produced by Donald Macleod. The entire program is available to stream online for the next three weeks, for those living outside the UK. It's well worth a listen! https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000c4kd... #bbc #bbcradio3 #graingermuseum #unimelb

08.01.2022 The Grainger is open on this sunny Labour Day afternoon! Why not pop in if you’re in the area? There is heaps to see, learn and of course, play! #graingermuseum #percygrainger #howitplays

07.01.2022 In response to the COVID-19 situation, the Grainger Museum will be temporarily closed from Wednesday 18 March. This decision was made to ensure the health and safety of our staff, volunteers, visitors & community. Please visit our website for more information.... http://ow.ly/QO8A50yNtH5

05.01.2022 The Grainger Museum will be closed on Monday 27 January for the public holiday. We look forward to welcoming visitors to the Museum when we resume our regular opening hours from Tuesday 28 January, 12pm.

02.01.2022 Happy 81st birthday to Percy Grainger's 'hoard-house'! Construction began in 1935 and the Museum first opened its doors #OnThisDay in 1938. In 1969, Grainger's close friend Cyril Scott reflected on his bemusement at Grainger's idea of creating a Museum about himself and his world: "Manuscripts, clothes, books, pictures, photographs and thousands of letters are to be housed in this ‘hoard-house’, as he calls it, including, to my horror, papiermâché effigies of his friends, li...ving and dead. At first he thought to have us all there as wax figures, à la Madame Tussauds, but when I wrote and warned him that waxworks were highly inflammable (he has a phobia about fire) he modified his original idea." [1] Today we say a very big thank you to everyone who has visited us over the past 81 years! Swipe through to see a collection of photos of the Museum at various stages of its history. #graingermuseum #otd #unimelb [1] Cyril Scott, Bone of Contention (London: The Aquarian Press, 1969), p. 71.

01.01.2022 Today is #InternationalVolunteerDay. Our volunteers are the face of the museum. Whether students at The University of Melbourne or broader music enthusiasts, each of our volunteers brings interests and stories that contribute to the museum’s warm atmosphere. They’re at the front desk welcoming visitors as they arrive, informing them on the history and contents of the collection and listening to visitors’ thoughts and connections to Percy and his work. Our volunteers also help us look after the collections, clean the exhibits, make sure the collections are safe and that everything is in its right place. #thankyou #celebrate #IVD2019