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The exhibition was held in the Rare Books Exhibition space, Sir Louis Matheson Library, Monash University from 28 September - 25 November 2011 Opening address given by Sarah Bodman, Senior Research Fellow for Artists' Books, Centre for Fine Print Research (CFPR), University of the West of England. The Rare Books Collection hosted a display of Artists' books in conjunction with the international multi-disciplinary printmaking conference IMPACT7 2011 hosted by Monash University, Art & Design. The artists' books in this exhibition are created to reflect on political and social realities from several eras. Some items kindly loaned by Monica Oppen

The exhibition was held in the Rare Books Exhibition space, Sir Louis Matheson Library, Monash University from 19 October 2006 - 28 February 2007 Opening address given by Seamus O'Hanlon, Lecturer, School of Historical Studies, Monash University. The library's new exhibition is a display of "Ephemera", printed material which is used for various purposes and then discarded. These fragments of the past illuminate previous lives for future generations. Items displayed range from 17th century to the present. Among the earliest are pieces concerned with an execution in 1678; tourist notices from the early 19th century; early greetings cards including valentines; a colour brochure for the first Holden car from 1950; the first Moomba programme from 1955; and lots of current posters and fliers for music events and political campaigns. The exhibition is drawn from the holdings of the Monash University Library's Rare Books Collection. The library has been collecting ephemera since the early 1990's in support of research by social historians.

The exhibition was held in the Rare Books Exhibition space, Sir Louis Matheson Library, Monash University from 9 June - 1 August 1993. Since the foundation of Monash University in 1961, research on Indonesia has been a speciality of this University. Today, its contribution to Indonesian studies is recognized world-wide. With the growing interest in South-East Asia since World War II, major tertiary institutions in Australia began to assemble collections of material to support the academic study of the region's history. The early 1960s was a time when Australian scholars began to concentrate on Indonesian studies. This was in response to the need felt by many in the community to attempt to understand an Indonesia which seemed to be a mysterious, and even a threatening, neighbour. A team of young and enthusiastic Australians were attracted to teaching and researching Indonesia at the newly established Monash University. Scholars such as John Legge, Herbert Feith, J.A.C. Mackie, and many others, all played major roles in the establishment of courses of study in Indonesian politics, history, language, economics, anthropology and geography. Later, with the introduction of graduate studies and the founding of the Centre of Southeast Asian Studies, the Library began a systematic approach to building a collection to support both teaching and research. This must have been an exciting and rewarding project. Funds were readily available in the 1960s! With the inspired contribution of the late Mrs. Paulette (Bob) Muskens, Southeast Asian Studies Librarian between 1961 and 197 5, and guidance from a team of Indonesian specialists on campus, a large and comprehensive core collection was built-up. As well as this basic collection of English language material, a remarkable collection of Dutch East Indies publications, archival material, newspapers, journals, and books of early travel accounts in Southeast Asia were purchased. Some of this material is on display in this Exhibition. Over the years the collection has continued to develop with areas of special strength in history, language, literature, and politics. These strengths reflect the interests of those "Indonesianists" teaching and carrying out research at Monash. Today the Indonesian Collection is the only one of its kind in Victoria, and is one of the largest in Australia. Material is collected in many formats; books, manuscripts, pamphlets, serials, and microform. The collection attracts scholars from all over Australia; as well as from Indonesia and other parts of Asia. Since 1961 over seventy Masters and Ph.D. theses on Indonesia have been written at this University. While it is true that many academics have contributed towards establishing and maintaining the South-East Asian collection, with this Exhibition of Rare Books on Java, we would like to pay tribute to the contribution made by Professor Merle Ricklefs in guiding and encouraging the Library to build on the strengths of our Indonesian Collection. His special area of research is late seventeenth, early eighteenth century Java. Since coming to Monash in January 1980, he has been closely associated with the library staff in selecting new and antiquarian books on South-East Asia.

The exhibition was held in the Rare Books Exhibition space, Sir Louis Matheson Library, Monash University from 24 July - 12 September 1997. The exhibition includes original writings from the time and provides an insight into the politics and history of the era, including the amoral lifestyle of the court, the execution of Catholics during the Popish Plot scare and the 'glorious revolution', which saw the flight into exile of Charles's brother James II.

The exhibition was held in the Rare Books Exhibition space, Sir Louis Matheson Library, Monash University from 2 November 1995 - 4 March 1996. French literature has been part of the curriculum at Monash University since 1961. The collections in the Rare Book Room reflect quite accurately the way in which teaching and research in the subject have developed. Over the first twenty-five years there was a strong emphasis on the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Latterly there has been more focus on developments since 1830, even if earlier periods have not been neglected. Thus, alongside the modern critical editions and reprints in the Library's undergraduate and research stacks, there are materials, essentially original printings, that enable students and scholars to examine the production, distribution and reception of many French literary works. The present exhibition is concerned with narrative fiction from the Middle Ages to the twentieth century. From the chansons de geste and the romans courtois of the twelfth and thirteenth centuries on to the novels and short stories of our own time, there is a long, continuous history in France of these genres. Inevitably, given the unevenness of the Rare Book Room's own holdings, some eras are better represented than others. Nonetheless, it is our aim to show something of the great diversity of what was published and read in France and in all the other places where French was taught to and effectively used by the educated. A substantial public in Britain and other English-speaking countries was part of the world audience for what emanated from Paris. Whether in the original or in translation, many French authors were directly available in local printings to readers in London, New York, and even Melbourne. The works exhibited show this dimension of the impact of French fiction quite clearly. Medieval romances and the novels of the Renaissance are here represented for the most part in editions of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Although Romantic rediscovery of the Middle Ages was responsible for many pseudo-facsimile reprints, it is important to note that the Enlightenment period was not totally oblivious of literary traditions that were out of fashion. The Library's real strength in narratives from the 150 years encompassing the reigns of Louis XIV, Louis XV and Louis XVI can be displayed only selectively. Samples are provided of some of the great names from the canon, including authors like Fenelon and Le Sage from whom schoolchildren the world over learnt French for several generations. In addition, the massive publishing enterprises of the 1770s and 1780s that brought together whole libraries of fairy stories, imaginary voyages and digests of fiction of all kinds are given due prominence. Literary history in France did not have to wait until recent decades to recognize the major role played by women writers from the Middle Ages onwards. Marguerite de Navarre, Mme de Lafayette, Mme de Genlis, Mme Cottin, and Mme de Stael are just some of the figures whose success was solid and durable long before the international triumphs of a Marguerite Yourcenar and a Marguerite Duras in our own time. The last two centuries appear here more through English translations than original editions. In a roll-call that includes Eugene Sue, Gustave Flaubert, Jules Verne, Emile Zola and Marcel Proust distinctions between the popular and the recherche are not always meaningful. What is certain is that the French novel since Romanticism has an assured place in the imaginative world of readers everywhere. Beyond misunderstandings, quarrels and temporary discords in politics this is the permanent reality of French fictions. Some items kindly loaned by private collectors

Australia's historical and political records regularly omit Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander perspectives on the ongoing struggle for Indigenous rights. Their experiences are often framed solely from the viewpoint of relations between Indigenous Australians and Europeans, or as a modern phenomenon that came into being as a result of the Civil Rights movements of the mid-twentieth century. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people have a long history of resisting colonialism, fighting for their rights, and protesting injustice. Stories of these struggles for rights are well known within communities, having been passed on through oral traditions since 1788. They are recorded in Indigenous journalism, art, literature, academia, and now in the online landscape. These voices of protest have always been imaginative and resourceful, combining Federal advocacy with regional leadership, and engaging in direct action, community programs, consultation, and promoting cultural diversity. This exhibition from Monash University Library Special Collections showcases some of the creativity of Indigenous communities in print. November 2018 to June 2019 The Gallery, Ground Level, Sir Louis Matheson Library, Clayton Campus

The exhibition was held in the Rare Books Exhibition space, Sir Louis Matheson Library, Monash University from 16 March - 27 May 2005 Opening address given by Dr. Peter Lentini, School of Political and Social Inquiry, Faculty of Arts. Over 150 items are on display, covering all aspects of Communism from the USSR, Britain, America, China, Indonesia, and Australia. Also featured is material on student activism and Vietnam, as well as anti-Communist publications from the 1930s to the 50s. The exhibition draws upon the wealth of pamphlet material held in the Monash Rare Book Collection. It even features an anti-Communist comic, from our extensive comics collection, and a Communist children's annual from the Lindsay Shaw Collection of rare children's books.

The exhibition was held in the Rare Books Exhibition space, Sir Louis Matheson Library, Monash University from 26 August - 17 October 1994. The happy accidents that a private collection in Melbourne holds a bundle of papers relating to the library of Marshal Louis-Nicolas Davout (1770-1823), and that we have been given Frenche access to the material, make the present exhibition possible. The aim is to show - with the aid of titles acquired over more than thirty years in support of French studies at Monash - a sample of the sorts of books that Davout owned. The wider interest of this is that he accumulated a collection that reflected many of the tastes and preoccupations of the generation of the Revolution and of the First Empire. In other words this is a French "gentleman's library" of the early nineteenth century with all that that rather conventional description implies. Davout belonged to a poor noble family from Burgundy with strong military traditions. He trained as an officer, and, having espoused the Revolution, advanced through the ranks in the latter part of the 1790s. The first list of his books was compiled some time between his acquisition of the castle at Savigny-sur-Orge in 1802 and his promotion to marshal in 1804. Davout was one of Napoleon's ablest lieutenants and a thoroughly professional soldier. His victories at Auerstadt in 1806 against the bulk of the Prussian army and at Eckmuhl in 1809 were celebrated by the conferral of the titles of Duke and Prince respectively. At the end of his active career he was Napoleon's Minister for War during the 100 Days. The library reflects Davout's military interests in its titles relating to tactics, battles and army organisation and in its large number of maps and plans (including the England Napoleon contemplated invading). This area falls outside Monash's concerns, but we are able to show - with a little help from a private collection (items asterisked in the catalogue) - the main trends of the rest. Almost everything is in French, including the works of authors from classical antiquity. Standard reference works abound alongside large sets of the seventeenth- and eighteenth-century authors who had become an established part of the canon. Enlightenment philosophers are strongly represented, alongside the great preachers of the age of Louis XIV, and other religious works. Science and, even more, travel are also present in some quantity. Booksellers' and binders' accounts among the papers, and a substantial list of titles recommended for a library of this kind, indicate clearly enough the objective of providing a ready-made storehouse of the accepted culture of the time. Nonetheless there are personal emphases. Even though one can imagine that many of Davout's sets remained on the shelves to be admired rather than consulted, this was not just a library for show. There is evidence that the maps and the professional books accompanied him on his campaigns. As far as possible we have exhibited the editions that Davout owned. But not, of course, his own copies of them. In some cases we have had to be content with other, mostly earlier, editions of the same authors. It was not a collection of rare books, but a selection of what was conceived to be the best of contemporary and near-contemporary, as well as classical, literature (in the widest sense of that term). As such, it is certainly instructive for the modern student of the culture of 1800 and 1810. Some items kindly loaned by private collectors

The exhibition was held in the Rare Books Exhibition space, Sir Louis Matheson Library, Monash University from 8 September - 25 November 2005 Opening address given by Dr Penny Graham, Centre of Southeast Asian Studies, Monash University. A selection of more than 120 items exemplifying the depth and diversity of the Asian language collections of Monash University Library. The exhibition showcases materials in three broad theme areas: political events and movements, popular and traditional culture, and women; and includes materials in a range of formats.

The centre of Melbourne is filled with stories about the city's pasts. Like all of Australia's cities, it is a place that is dominated by markers of the settler-colonial past. Yet when it comes to its Indigenous pasts, the city is mostly a place of silence. Since the 1990s, however, Indigenous histories have been brought into central Melbourne's commemorative landscapes. Monuments, memorials, namings and artworks have all been used to mark the city's Indigenous pasts. These historical markers can be found in the everyday places of parks, roads, bridges and thoroughfares. Taken together, they are an incursion into the city's commemorative landscapes. Places of Reconciliation tells the story of the introduction of official commemorations of Indigenous peoples and histories into the heart of Melbourne since 2000. It explains how they came to be part of the city, and the ways in which they have challenged the erasure of its Indigenous histories. In telling this story, the book also examines the kind of places that have been made and unmade by these commemorations, and how we might understand them as public historical projects in the early decades of the twenty-first century

Abstract
In 2016, The Melbourne Museum staged the world premiere of Jurassic World: The Exhibition, a globally touring exhibition inspired by Universal Pictures' blockbuster film, Jurassic World (2015), featuring animatronic dinosaurs created by Melbourne's Creature Technology. The exhibition had the most successful opening month of any exhibition at the Museum to date, selling over 100,000 tickets. Yet Jurassic World also met with controversy for its theme park-esque design and pervasive branding, prioritization of spectacle and attraction over cultural heritage and education, and seamless integration of fact and fiction. In this article, we carry out a close analysis of Jurassic World's combination of theme park and museum exhibition practices, situating the exhibition as a particularly significant example of the developing trend towards the creation of immersive 'narrative environments' in twenty-first century museums, as museums increasingly draw upon the devices of popular entertainment to engage and attract guests. Drawing from Norman Klein's model of the 'scripted space' and Joseph Pine and James Gilmore's 'experience economy', which has its roots in Disney theme parks, our analysis shows how Jurassic World plays with the boundaries of fact and fiction in a way that self-reflexively interrogates the contemporary relationship between popular entertainment and museums.