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24.01.2022 It gives us great pleasure to celebrate the hard work of the Victorian Collections community, with the announcement of the shortlist for the 2020 Victorian Collections Awards for Excellence in Museum Cataloguing. Awarded across three categories: Volunteer Organisations, Organisations with Paid Staff, and War Heritage Collections, the VC Awards acknowledge the work undertaken by organisations in documenting and preserving their heritage materials, using Victorian Collections. ... Congratulations to all organisations shortlisted for the Victorian Collections Awards for Excellence in Museum Cataloguing - Volunteer Organisations: Eltham District Historical Society, Tarnagulla History Archive, Greensborough Historical Society, Thompson’s Foundry Band and Brighton Historical Society. The Awards will be presented at the upcoming Victorian Museums and Galleries Awards on Tuesday 8 December. More information about the ceremony, including registration is available via the Australian Museums and Galleries Association Victoria website: https://amagavic.org.au/events?id=1567 Stay tuned to discover the shortlisted organisations for the remaining categories!

22.01.2022 We're back again, and given the hour, don't you think it's the perfect time for a cuppa? The curator of our newest Victorian Collections Story sure thinks so! Curated by Simone Ewenson, 'Sip, Slurp, Gulp! Tea Mania' explores Victorians' obsession with all things caffeinated. Head to Victorian Collections to start viewing and brewing: https://victoriancollections.net.au//sip-slurp-gulp-tea-ma Our new website allows avid curators to create digital Stories and Exhibitions featuring items from Victorian Collections and beyond. If you'd like to curate a VC Story, contact the team at [email protected] to express your interest.

22.01.2022 This week we've been sharing items from the #VeteransHeritageProject website, in anticipation of the 75th anniversary of #VictoryInThePacificDay this coming Saturday:

21.01.2022 While the VC team is working remotely and unable to spend time digitising collections, we're really enjoying having a peek into the processes of our colleagues across the GLAM sector. It should come as no surprise that we love this series from State Library Victoria

21.01.2022 Who doesn’t love a bit of positive news on a Monday morning? We’ve been sharing the organisations shortlisted for the 2020 Victorian Collections Awards for Excellence in Museum Cataloguing, and today we’ll be announcing those shortlisted for the Victorian Collections Awards for Excellence in Museum Cataloguing Organisations with Paid Staff: Flagstaff Hill Maritime Village, Federation University Historical Collection, Latrobe Regional Gallery Churchill Island Heritage Farm ...and Uniting Church Archives Synod of Victoria. Congratulations to all! Stay tuned to discover the shortlist for the third category of the Victorian Collections Awards for Excellence in Museum Cataloguing; War Heritage Collections. And if you still need to register to digitally join us for the awards ceremony, you can do so via the Australian Museums and Galleries Association Victoria website: https://amagavic.org.au/events?id=1567

21.01.2022 As Spring blossoms start to appear, so too has our new CMS. Would you like to learn more about the new CMS? Register now for our free Information Session via Zoom, happening next Monday! This information session will introduce you to the new system and help guides, as well as answer any questions you have about the redeveloped site. Head to the Australian Museums and Galleries Association Victoria website to book your spot: https://amagavic.org.au/events?date=2020-8-31... Image: Fundraising button, from the collection of Kew Historical Society

20.01.2022 Sometimes when exploring history, heritage and contemporary arts and culture, it's more about the journey than the destination. That's why we've created new ways for you to discover the diverse and fascinating items featured on Victorian Collections. Visitors can now browse by popular topics, from Ned Kelly for the history buffs, to contemporary and public art for fans of visual culture. Head to Victorian Collections to get your arts and culture deep dive underway: https://victoriancollections.net.au/collections#topic

19.01.2022 2020 has taught Victorians (and the world!) many things, one of them being the importance of high quality, digitally accessible education resources. In addition to offering teachers access to over 170,000 collection items, VC's Stories tab is a portal to a growing collection of curated online exhibitions. You can search and browse by theme, region or school topic, so you can be sure to find the resource that's just right for you! Many of the Stories also include formal education kits, which provide lesson ideas, worksheets and unit materials. Head to Victorian Collections to get your history and culture learning journey underway: https://victoriancollections.net.au/stories#school

17.01.2022 Season's greetings from the Victorian Collections Team! The AMaGA Victoria office will close for the year from 1pm December 24th, and reopen on January 4th. To everyone in the Victorian Collections community, we wish you a safe and restful break, and hope you return feeling energised for a productive year of preserving, digitising and cataloguing your collection! Image: Christmas postcard, Ringwood RSL Sub-Branch Collection

16.01.2022 Thanks to new, expanded functionality, we're excited to welcome gallery, library and archive collections to Victorian Collections. Over the coming weeks, we'll be introducing the organisations whose collections are newly accessible on the VC website. The first new contributor we'd like to highlight is Ararat Gallery TAMA - the Textile Museum of Australia. TAMA is distinctive amongst Australia's public galleries in its longstanding commitment to textile and fibre art. The gallery's extensive collection of traditional Japanese packaging, first showcased in the 1979 exhibition ‘The Art of the Japanese Package’ is now accessible to the public via Victorian Collections. Head to Victorian Collections to revel in these unique expressions of Japanese aesthetics: https://victoriancollections.net.au/org/ararat-gallery-tama

15.01.2022 Here at Victorian Collections, we get really excited about digitisation projects. And whilst it may not be possible to get any hands-on digitisation done at the moment due to Covid-19 restrictions, we can always enjoy some digitisation content from our colleagues across the GLAM sector. We love this video from Burke Museum and Beechworth Historic Precinct showing how the Museum team digitised their 19th Century bird collection https://www.facebook.com/watch/

15.01.2022 We’ve been sharing positive news from the VC Community in the light of a pretty tough time across the state. Our second happy update comes from Arapiles Historical Society , who were successful recipients of funding through Horsham Rural City Council's Community Development Grant. Back in February, the Society were visited by our Digitisation Officer Geraldine as part of the Regional Digitisation Project. The grant funding has enabled the Society to purchase digitisation eq...uipment which will in the future allow them to continue along the digitisation journey they commenced with Geraldine, and benefit from her training in an ongoing way. Congratulations to the Society, and we look forward to seeing your records on Victorian Collections! And remember, you are always welcome to share positive news with the Victorian Collections team - we love hearing what the VC Community has been up to.

15.01.2022 Autumn weather is divine, and ever more so when combined with a stroll through many of Victoria’s alluring public spaces. Head to our latest VC Story to join local historians Isaac Douglas Hermann & Heather Arnold on a wander through the extraordinary life of Carlo Catani, the visionary behind many of these historical sites: https://victoriancollections.net.au//carlo-catani-an-engin Our new website allows avid curators to create digital Stories and Exhibitions featuring items from Victorian Collections and beyond. If you’d like to curate a VC Story, contact the team at [email protected] to express your interest.

14.01.2022 We’re back with another of VC’s newest contributors. The Castlemaine Art Museum collection brings together prints, photographs, paintings, decorative arts and historic items spanning diverse themes. We think this Ethel Carrick Fox depiction of a French beach scene captures our holidays-are-almost-here feelings perfectly. Head over to https://victoriancollections.net.au//castlemaine-art-galle to start browsing the collection.

12.01.2022 Martin Hallett (1945-2019) was a former deputy chief executive of Museums Victoria, curator emeritus, and lifelong champion of public museum collections, community engagement and empowerment. Martin played an integral role in the formation of Victorian Collections during his time at Creative Victoria, and throughout his career, he championed the economic, social and cultural benefits that community collecting organisations offer to regional and metropolitan communities. In 20...20, Victorian Collections and AMaGA Victoria are honouring Martin’s significant contributions with the inaugural Martin Hallett Award for Individual Contribution to Community Heritage. This award will recognise and celebrate those who, like Martin, have played a significant role in the preservation of history in their communities. Victorian Collections is seeking nominations for an outstanding individual who has demonstrated a commitment to the preservation of community heritage through the use of Victorian Collections. Head to the AMaGA Victoria website for criteria, nomination form and submission details: https://amagavic.org.au//call-for-nominations-inaugural-ma Martin Hallett: Staff portraits: SMV Negatives. Image courtesy Museums Victoria; copyright Museums Victoria 1983

12.01.2022 We’re back with our final announcement of the shortlists for the 2020 Victorian Collections Awards for Excellence in Museum Cataloguing. The Awards acknowledge the hard work undertaken by these organisations in documenting and preserving their heritage materials, using Victorian Collections. The organisations shortlisted for the Victorian Collections Awards for Excellence in Museum Cataloguing War Heritage Collections are: Melbourne Legacy, Ringwood RSL Sub-Branch, Bendigo... Soldiers Memorial Institute Military Museum, 8th/13th Victorian Mounted Rifles Regimental Collection and Beechworth RSL Sub-Branch. Congratulations to all for your dedication to cataloguing and public access! If you’d like to join us for the free, digital Victorian Museums and Galleries Awards on Tuesday December 8, you can find more information and register via the Australian Museums and Galleries Association Victoria website: https://amagavic.org.au/events?id=1567

11.01.2022 Have you ever been allured by the romance of a solitary lighthouse? The curator of our latest Victorian Collections Story certainly has. Parks Victoria Heritage Officer, Catherine Bessant’s Story brings together art, photography and collection items from across the state. Head to Victorian Collections for a whiff of fresh sea air! https://victoriancollections.net.au//lighthouses-the-roman Our new website allows avid curators to create digital Stories and Exhibitions featuring items from Victorian Collections and beyond. If you'd like to curate a VC Story, contact the team at [email protected] to express your interest.

10.01.2022 Psssst! Spread the word - we’re kicking off 2021 with a brand-new suite of online workshops! Our latest training sessions have been tailor-made to offer participants a more content-focused and staged approach towards collections digitisation, management and access training: Workshop 1: Digitisation... Introduces the principles of catalogue photography/digitisation and digital file management Workshop 2: Managing Your Collections Introduces the principles of collections management and catalogue documentation using the Victorian Collections CMS Workshop 3: Making Your Collection Accessible Introduces the principles of collections access to help make your collections more discoverable, searchable and useable by the public There’s no need to follow the sessions in order. Feel free to jump in at the stage that's most relevant to your and/or your organisation’s needs! Our first three sessions are now available for booking, so head over to the AMaGA Victoria events page (https://www.amagavic.org.au/event) and secure your spot!

07.01.2022 If you tuned in to the Victorian Museums and Galleries Awards last night, you might have heard some very exciting news we're pleased to announce that Victorian Collections' new public website has been launched! Bringing together contemporary and historic art, social history, and military history collections, the site is your central portal to our State's cultural treasures. Head to https://victoriancollections.net.au/ to start exploring, and stay tuned as we introduce you to all of the wonderful new features and content in the coming weeks!

06.01.2022 While we can’t mark Remembrance Day and the 75th Anniversary of the End of WWII with traditional commemorations and gatherings, there are many ways we can connect with and thank our veterans from home. The cultural heritage found in military memorabilia collections provides a way for us to connect to significant historical events. Explore some of Veteran’s Heritage Project catalogued materials on Victorian Collections, such this humble water bottle from the Shepparton RSL Sub...-branch: https://victoriancollections.net.au//5db640f621ea6713c0144 The Veterans Heritage Project enables participants to transform their understanding of memorabilia as a representation of broader military experiences, and to recognise the value of their knowledge, stories and lived experiences. Through training, they are upskilled in digitisation, cataloguing, and creating best practice collection storage. You can explore events on the day through Recognise Remembrance Day activities: https://www.vic.gov.au/recognise-remembrance-day #RemembranceDay20 #VictoriaRemembers #RedtoRemember

06.01.2022 Is there a volunteer or staff member at your organisation who has demonstrated a commitment to preserving local history and heritage? Someone who’s been diligently working to make your collection accessible? Don’t miss your opportunity to acknowledge them nominations for the inaugural Martin Hallett Award for Individual Contribution to Community Heritage close tomorrow, 30 October. Head to the AMaGA Victoria website for the full details of the Award and the nomination form: https://amagavic.org.au//call-for-nominations-inaugural-ma

04.01.2022 This is the last of our posts to mark the upcoming 75th anniversary of #VictoryInThePacificDay. You can view these items, and many more on the #VeteransHeritageProject website. The website celebrates Victoria's military heritage by bringing together 100 objects and stories, digitised and catalogued by RSLs and military organisations across the State with the assistance of the VHP team: https://www.veteransheritageproject.com/

03.01.2022 Public Record Office Victoria have just announced the shortlist for this year's Victorian Community History Awards, and we couldn't help but spy a member of the VC Community in the announcement: congratulations to Kiewa Valley Historical Society, shortlisted for their display 'The POWER of Water - The History of the Kiewa Hydro Electric Scheme'. The award winners will be announced virtually on October 28th - head to PROV's website for more information about how to tune in, fellow community history fans! https://prov.vic.gov.au//grants-a/community-history-awards

02.01.2022 From koalas to ball gowns to contemporary art, the diversity of the items featured on Victorian Collections knows no bounds! It truly is the perfect central portal to our State's rich cultural treasures, and we hope you enjoy exploring the site as much as we do: https://victoriancollections.net.au/

01.01.2022 We heard a rumour that there’s a horse race taking place next week?! Rumours aside, the AMaGA Victoria office will be closed on Monday 2nd and Tuesday 3rd of November, which means the Victorian Collections Helpdesk will be taking a short break. We’ll be back on board and ready to respond to your tickets from Wednesday 4th of November. These most excellent equine images care of the collections of the Australian Racing Museum & Hall of Fame, Clunes Museum and Ringwood and District Historical Society.