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Travelling Treasures Tour a Success
12 April 2006
The Library’s Travelling Treasures program has just returned from the first of its four tours for 2006. The program attracted over 800 people at schools and public libraries in Hastings, Mornington, Rosebud, Queenscliff and Geelong.
Now in its third year, the program brings items from the State Library’s collections to Victorian regional areas, providing rare and intimate access to some of the Library’s most extraordinary books, documents and artefacts.
The 2006 treasures demonstrate the depth and breadth of the Library’s Rare Books Collection and reflect key themes from the Library’s newest permanent exhibition Mirror of the World: books & ideas. They include Robert Hooke's 1665 Micrographia, containing the first illustrations resulting from the use of a microscope for scientific purposes, and a beautiful illuminated Book of Hours.
Program manager Paul Bateman says, 'Travelling Treasures takes experts from the Library into the community to share their knowledge of, and passion for, the collection. It engages young Victorians with a world they might not otherwise encounter, giving many who cannot easily travel to Melbourne a chance to share in the great resources held in trust for them.'
The program will be on the road again in June, August and October.
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