Old Treasury Building Annual Report 2018-19

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CONTENTS

The Year in Brief...... 3 Strategic Vision...... 5 Strategic Priorities for 2019-20...... 7 Exhibition Program The Exhibition Program – In-House...... 8 Gold Rush: 20 Objects, 20 Stories...... 10 A 1920s Christmas...... 12 Wayward Women?...... 15 Exhibitions in the Gold Vaults...... 16 The Exhibition Program – Incoming Early Melbourne Paintings, 1840-1880...... 18 Behind the Lines...... 18 Public Programs...... 20 Programs Arranged in Partnership...... 22 Education Programs...... 24 Public Events...... 26 Marketing...... 28 Digital Programs...... 29 Social Media...... 30 Volunteer & Guide Program...... 32 Maintaining Heritage Value...... 35 Administration and Finance...... 36 Other Income...... 36 Security and Risk Management...... 36 Financial Outcome 2017-18...... 38 Operating Statement...... 38 Governance and Administration Committee of Management...... 41 Organisational Structure...... 41 ’ during Open House Melbourne 2018. Photo by Katie Dunning. Katie by ’ during Open House Melbourne 2018. Photo

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RESPONSIBLE BODY’S DECLARATION

I am pleased to present the Old Treasury Building Reserve Committee of Management’s Annual Report for the year ending 30 June 2019.

Professor Marian Quartly Chair Late 2019

2 THE YEAR IN BRIEF

The Committee of Management is pleased to report another year of successful management of the Old Treasury Building. PUBLIC ACCESS PROGRAMS EXHIBITIONS THE BUILDING Public access to the building New exhibitions were installed in Several works projects on the continued to grow: the building’s gold vaults and in heritage structure itself were -93,935 people visited the the temporary exhibitions gallery completed successfully during exhibitions and programs on the ground floor: the year. They included: -8,156 school students attended a -Three new long-term exhibitions -Replacement of internal water booked program (a 27% increase) were installed in the vaults tanks -11.8 million impressions on presenting stories of the gold rush -Completion of a dilapidation digital and social media. -A 1920s Christmas was once report on the downpipes again displayed in the basement -Cleaning and re-grouting of the THE VOLUNTEER PROGRAM area once the caretaker’s flat forecourt and front steps, and An active professional -A new temporary exhibition repointing and replacing several development program was Wayward Women? was curated degraded steps. offered to the 72 volunteers and in-house education guides. -The in-coming exhibition Behind In addition the building was the Lines 2018: The Year’s connected successfully to the The Old Treasury Building was Best Political Cartoons was NBN, enabling vastly-improved entered into the TripAdvisor shown during the Melbourne internet access. Hall of Fame, after achieving International Comedy Festival. Certificates of Excellence for five The exhibitions were supported FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT successive years. by a program of over 70 The public and works programs associated lectures, talks and were all managed within budget tours, many associated with the and planned timescales. temporary exhibition Gold Rush: 20 Objects, 20 Stories, and by a busy education program.

Marian Quartly, Chair Margaret Anderson, Director

3 Our Vision- The Old Treasury Building -inspiring museum and cherished heritage icon- STRATEGIC VISION

STATEMENT OF PURPOSE OLD TREASURY BUILDING THE BUILDING We present lively and inclusive GOVERNANCE The Old Treasury Building is one programs that tell Victorian The Old Treasury Building is of Australia’s finest nineteenth- stories, contribute to community managed by the Old Treasury century buildings. It was connectedness and inspire a Building Reserve Committee constructed between 1858 and sense of place. of Management Inc., under 1862 to store the gold then the Crown Land Reserves Act flooding into Melbourne from We bring the Old Treasury (1978). Committee members the Victorian gold fields. Above Building to life and nurture it are appointed by the Minister ground it provided offices for for the people of Victoria and for Finance. The building is senior government officials, beyond. part of the Treasury Reserve including the Governor of Precinct and is included on the Victoria. The historic Executive Victorian Heritage Register. The Council Chamber is still used on Committee’s responsibilities a weekly basis, in a remarkable under the Act are to: sequence of continuous use. -Ensure public access to the building through a mix of cultural The ground floors and basement and promotional activities vaults now house a free public -Preserve the building’s heritage history museum, open on six value days each week. Accommodation -Use its best endeavours to in upper floors is leased to a operate on a self-funded basis. range of tenants, including a former governor and former premiers. Income derived from these tenancies funds museum operations.

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FUTURE PRIORITIES

THE STRATEGIC PRIORITIES FOR 2019-20 INCLUDE: -Curate and install temporary exhibition The Invention of Melbourne: A Baroque Archbishop and a Gothic Architect -Create associated education program for The Invention of Melbourne -Offer relevant public programs to expand on the exhibition. -Complete long-term display on the Yarra River -Create digital support material for Yarra -Devise new Education program associated with Yarra River for both History and Geography curricula -Create associated Public Program for Yarra exhibition Install long-term exhibition Protest Melbourne -Create digital material to support Protest Melbourne -Devise associated Education Program for Civics curriculum -Initial research for long-term display in the Gold Vaults on goldfields diversity (including Chinese history) -Display incoming exhibition Behind the Lines 2019: The Year’s Best Political Cartoons during the International Comedy Festival -Participate in other festivals as relevant (e.g. History Festival, Heritage Festival, Women’s History Month, Seniors Week, Law Week, Rare Book Week) -Continue to offer a diverse public program of lectures, short talks, seminars, workshops and occasional theatrical performances around temporary and long-term exhibitions -Seek external funding for programs -Develop and review annual Marketing Strategy -Maintain strong development program for guides and volunteers -Support partnerships with PROV, History Council of Victoria and Monash University -Complete building works as scheduled, including repair of downpipes -Manage expenditure within budget

7 LEFT: The gold vaults in the Old Treasury Building. Photo by Katie Dunning Katie by Building. Photo in the Old Treasury vaults The gold LEFT: EXHIBITION PROGRAM

THE EXHIBITION PROGRAM – IN-HOUSE

The museum at the Old Treasury Building is presented on the ground floor and in the former gold vaults in the basement. Exhibitions present aspects of the history of Victoria relevant to the building and its context. Principal themes are the history of gold in Victoria, its impact on the City of Melbourne, the growth of the city itself and the evolution of a democratic system of government. We also interpret the building, and the career of its talented architect J J Clark.

The exhibition program tries to combine one or more temporary exhibitions, with changes to longer term displays to refresh exhibits, attract new audiences and ensure the preservation of artefacts. It is presented in partnership with Public Record Office Victoria (PROV).

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EXHIBITIONS IN 2018-19

GOLD RUSH: 20 OBJECTS, 20 STORIES TEMPORARY EXHIBITION FROM JULY – JUNE

This exhibition presented 20 stories of gold-rush Victoria, focussing on 20 individual objects. The intention was to present both different types of objects and a wide diversity of stories. Objects ranged from paintings to costume, from documents to archaeological artefacts and they came from a wide range of lending institutions. All were chosen to reflect differing perspectives on a well-known period in Victoria’s history.

THE OBJECTS PRESENTED WERE:

Race to the Gold Diggings board game A children’s board game, printed in Britain in the early 1850s, exemplifying the excitement and universal allure of gold. Courtesy National Museum of Australia Samuel Thomas Gill 1 Watercolour Diggers on road to Bendigo Depicting the long, hard journey to the gold diggings in the 1850s. Courtesy State Library Victoria Caroline Chisholm 2 Manuscript letter proposing ‘Stations for Immigrants’, Gold Washing cradle November 1854 c. 1860s Courtesy Public Record Office Victoria 3 Courtesy Gold Museum Ballarat ‘Welcome Stranger’ gold nugget replica 4 A nineteenth century replica of the largest gold nugget in the world when discovered in 1869 5 Shipping Register of the Royal Charter A clipper ship wrecked within sight of the English coast in August 1859. On board were many returning miners with their gold. Few survived. Courtesy Public Record Office Victoria 6 Manuscript diary of an unknown miner working on the Ballarat Goldfield in 1855-6 Courtesy State Library Victoria Pistol 7 mid-nineteenth century Eureka Lead, Ballarat Courtesy Heritage Victoria 8 Gold license, 1854 The controversial gold license, giving the right to dig a claim. The cost of licenses was the underlying cause of the Eureka Rebellion in late 1854. 9 Courtesy Gold Museum, Ballarat Day dress crinoline style mid-1850s 10 Old Treasury Building Collection 10 Manuscript memoir of life at the diggings written by Sarah Davenport Courtesy State Library Victoria 11 Manuscript Ballarat Cemetery Records, 1855-66 Revealing the high death rate, especially amongst young children, on the diggings. Courtesy Ballarat Cemetery

Manuscript report, Henry E. Pulteney Dana, Superintendent Native Police Corps,12 April 1852. The ‘Native Police Corps’ was the first police presence on the gold fields and was central to the maintenance of law and order. Courtesy Public Record Office Victoria 13 Samuel Thomas Gill, ‘Native Police’ in The Australian Sketchbook, published 1865 Courtesy Art Gallery of Ballarat and the Parliament of Victoria (shown sequentially)

Glass tools made by the Dja Dja Wurrung (Djarra) People 14 c. mid-nineteenth century Courtesy Dja Dja Wurrung Clans Aboriginal Corporation 15 Manuscript petition The humble petition of the Chinese Storekeepers, miners and others now resident on and in the neighbourhood of the Bendigo gold fields, 2 December 1856. Protesting against discrimination. Courtesy Public Record Office Victoria 16 Tin box with Chinese characters Found on the Buckland Valley Goldfield 17 Courtesy Bright Historical Society Chamber pot from Melbourne Lord Mayor John Thomas Smith’s house, c. 1850s Courtesy Museum Victoria 18 Absinthe bottle from Little Lon Courtesy Museum Victoria 19 The Old Treasury Building itself! 20

The stories associated with these very different objects allowed us to explore new histories of gold, including those drawn from new scholarship in Victorian Aboriginal and Chinese histories of the gold rush era.

Gold Rush was supported by a large public program, including 21 floor talks presented from July to May. (see full list at pp. 20).

11 After the success of this small Christmas decorations exhibition in the last two years, it was decided to present another similar display in the basement rooms that once housed building caretakers, the Maynard Family. Once again patterns were A 1920S CHRISTMAS sourced from contemporary TEMPORARY EXHIBITION FROM NOVEMBER – JANUARY newspapers and journals to create decorations appropriate to the post-war period and the 1920s – the period of occupancy more intricate and ambitious An important addition to the of the Maynard Family. patterns. The result was a varied program this year was a period and colourful display that was cookery book entitled Recipes Although commercial decorations featured in the City of Melbourne’s from a Family Home. The print were available for purchase Christmas campaign. run from this publication sold out at this time, many families in just four months. could not afford the expense As in previous years the exhibit of shop-bought decorations, proved very popular, with many A 1920s Christmas was listed as preferring to make their own. visiting specifically to see the part of the City of Melbourne Patterns were published in local decorations. The decorations Christmas campaign, which newspapers to provide guidance themselves were also more included listing on the associated to crafty Victorian families. vibrant with more visual impact ‘What’s On’ website, Twitter Marketing Officer Katie Dunning

than last year. Several schools mentions and inclusion in a blog. Dunning Katie by Photo ’. A 1920s Christmas once again researched these requested detailed instructions The accumulated estimated reach patterns, translating the intricate so that their classes could attempt was 1.675 million users. instructions for our willing band to make their own decorations. of volunteer decorators. As our The Christmas display is likely to dexterity improved, we were remain a permanent fixture in the able to re-create several of the exhibition calendar. BELOW: Detail of the exhibition ‘ of the exhibition Detail BELOW: Home’. a Family from book ‘Recipes of recipe Detail RIGHT: PUDDING RECIPE TIPSY CAKE “C.J.C.” (Mirboo North) sends the following Ingredients- 1 pint recipe for Cocoa Pudding. Nestle’s Condensed Milk, 6oz. breadcrumbs, ¾ pint of milk, 3 eggs, 2 3 eggs, a sponge cake, tablespoonfuls sugar, 1 tablespoonful cocoa, 2 ozs. almonds, ⅓ pint 1 teaspoonful essence of vanilla, 2oz. butter, brandy, 1½ gills sherry. a pinch of salt. Boil the milk, and pour it over the breadcrumbs; add the butter, sugar, and Method- Put the sponge in a the cocoa mixed to a smooth paste, with a glass dish, prick it with a skewer, tablespoonful of boiling water. Beat the yolks of and pour all over it the brandy the eggs, and add them with the vanilla. Pour and sherry mixed together. the mixture into a buttered piedish, and bake for As the liquor drains off, half an hour. Beat the whites of the eggs to a stiff pour it back over the cake froth, sweeten, and flavour with vanilla, and pile on the top of the pudding. Return it to the oven, until the patter is fully and brown lightly. Serve at one. Pieces of stale soaked. Blanch the bread put through the mincing machine serve almonds, cut them very well for this pudding. One teaspoonful of into four lengthways, lemon-juice added to the whites of eggs when and stick them all over beaten is a great improvement. it. Make the custard in the usual way, and, when cold, pour it over and round Shortcrust. the cake. “E.S.” (Fairfield) asks for a recipe for shortcrust CHARLOTTE RUSSE The following recipe for shortcrust is satisfactory:-- Sift together ½lb. plain flour, Ingredients- ¼ pint half teaspoonful baking powder, quarter- lemon jelly, ½ oz. gelatine, teaspoonful salt. Mix the yolk of one egg, ¾ pint Nestle’s Condensed slightly beaten, with two table-spoonfuls Milk, ⅛ pint of water, pint of water, or a little more in winter, one brandy, 4 ozs. savoy biscuits. teaspoonful of lemonjuice, and 5oz. or Method- Dip the biscuits in to 6oz. of butter, lard and dripping mixed, or all butter and lard. Rub the butter and lard the jelly, and line the sides of a round into the flour with the tips of the fingers, cake tin, pressing them together to make add the liquid, and mix well. Knead the them adhere nicely. Pour the rest of the pastry into a round lump. Dust the pastry- jelly over the bottom of the tin, and board with flour, and put paste on it. arrange the cherries in it. Dissolve the Knead very slightly, and roll out to size gelatine in the water, add brandy to and shape required. it, and when cold mix it grandually with the condensed milk. Stir until it shows signs of setting, then pour into the prepared mould to set.

HONEY BISCUITS Put 1lb of honey and ¼lb of butter into a saucepan on the fire. Let these cook together, then remove and stir in 1lb of flour, some chopped almonds and flavouring to taste. When the mixture is cool, place it in a cold place over night. Then roll the dough out to the thickness of the little finger, cut into narrow strips, decorate with a split almond at one end and a piece of citron at the other, and bake a light brown.

WAYWARD WOMEN? TEMPORARY EXHIBITION FROM JUNE This exhibition is about women The exhibition presents 10 The women featured were: who did not fit the stereotype stories. It features nine women -Brettena Smyth, feminist, of ideal womanhood in late and two little girls. Some were socialist, lecturer on women’s nineteenth century Victoria. Many women who pushed social and health and purveyor of at the time would have described moral boundaries and prospered. contraceptive devices to women them as ‘wayward’. Some like Others felt the full force of the -Olga Radaylski (born Elizabeth Brettena Smyth set about law. But we argue that they all in Elburn), convicted of the murder challenging those stereotypes some way contributed to the long of seventeen-year-old Mabel directly. She lectured to women process of making life better for Ambrose, while attempting to about their biology and openly women. perform an abortion supported contraception. Others -Margaret Walters, a fifteen- like Caroline Hodgson, better In many instances, the publicity year-old domestic servant who known as Madame Brussels, surrounding these cases attracted was convicted of concealing the found a way of profiting from the attention and the compassion birth of her illegitimate daughter prevailing moral codes. But many of noted social reformers, who -Madame Brussels, the most other women were simply poor, campaigned to provide support famous brothel-keeper in or deceived, or often both. services for women and to Melbourne improve the position of women -Frances Knorr, convicted ‘baby- At the end of the nineteenth before the law. farmer’ century Melburnians liked to -Martha Needle, convicted of think of their city as ‘Marvellous We have added a question murder, almost certainly suffering Melbourne.’ But under the mark to the exhibition title to from a mental illness surface life was anything but emphasise that what may be -Emma Williams, convicted of marvellous for the poor. This considered to be wayward in one drowning her two-year-old son was especially true during the particular time and place, will be -Maggie Heffernan, convicted of terrible depression of the 1890s. quite acceptable in another. drowning her illegitimate infant And poor women were the most Extended essays on each of son vulnerable. This was a time when the women were uploaded to -Beatrice Phillips, once the sexual double standard saw the website. Several contribute described as the ‘worst woman men and women judged by very original research. in Melbourne’, had at least 227 different moral standards. It convictions over 47 years from was also a time before reliable Manuscripts and artefacts 1896 contraception, when abortion featured in the exhibition were -Sarah Lawton (11) and Gertie was illegal and dangerous and kindly lent by the following Bigwood (12) convicted of being when there was no social security organisations: neglected children and ‘leading net. Women on their own with -National Trust of Australia depraved lives’ after they gave children faced an extremely (Victoria) evidence in a carnal knowledge difficult future. If they had babies, -Police Museum Victoria case in 1904. they could not find work. Even if -Public Record Office Victoria they could work, women were -Royal Australian and New An extensive public program paid at about half the rate of Zealand College of Obstetricians is planned to complement the men – nowhere near enough to and Gynaecologists exhibition. support a family. Some women -State Library Victoria were driven to actions we now ’. Photo by Katie Dunning Katie by Photo ’. Women? Wayward find shocking and indeed, many at the time found them shocking too.

15 LEFT: Detail of exhibition ‘ of exhibition Detail LEFT: EXHIBITIONS IN THE GOLD VAULTS

Three new long-term exhibitions were developed and installed in this period. They fulfilled a strategic priority to redevelop displays in the gold vaults. These spaces are very popular with the public, but the displays in the vaults were more than twenty years old and very dated. Three new thematic displays were installed:

GOLD RUSH FIRST PEOPLES AND THE This display introduced the GOLD RUSH Victorian gold rush and outlined This exhibition was created aspects of life on the gold in partnership with the Dja fields. It described how miners Dja Wurrung Clans Aboriginal journeyed to the fields and how Corporation and Public Record they went about digging for gold. Office Victoria (PROV). It drew on One section describes life on the extensive PROV manuscript the gold fields for women and collection to present the story children. In the centre of the of the Native Police Corps – the vault we displayed the replica of first police presence on the gold the ‘Welcome Nugget’ until early fields. The displays also presented June 2019, and thereafter the the findings of new scholarship in ‘Welcome Stranger’ – the largest Aboriginal history, reconsidering gold nugget found in the world the ways in which Aboriginal to that date. It was discovered in People responded to the gold 1869. discoveries. Included in displays were fascinating glass tools, fashioned by Dja Dja Wurrung (Djarra) people from discarded glass, to replace the traditional quartz. Access to traditional quartz quarries was increasingly restricted by mining activities.

16 POLITICAL UNREST ON THE GOLD FIELDS This vault explored the increasingly-explosive political situation on the gold fields as the police tried to collect the government’s onerous licensing fees. As opposition to the gold licenses grew, diggers formed associations drawing on the principles of radical political movements in Britain and Europe. They included Chartist demands for democratic reform and culminated in the short-lived Eureka ‘rebellion’. We also discussed women’s involvement in politics on the gold fields and the unresolved debate about who made the Eureka flag.

The new displays were supported by two additional floor talks in

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Two new temporary exhibitions were received from other museums or collections.

INCOMING EXHIBITIONS EARLY MELBOURNE BEHIND THE LINES BEHIND THE LINES PAINTINGS: 1840-1880 2017: THE YEAR’S BEST 2018: THE YEAR’S BEST From the Roy Morgan Research POLITICAL CARTOONS POLITICAL CARTOONS Collection AUGUST - OCTOBER MARCH - APRIL From the Museum of Australian From the Museum of Australian Rare and early pictures tracing the Democracy, Canberra. Democracy, Canberra. growth of Melbourne, from very early pencil drawings of the town These exhibitions featured the best political cartoons of the previous in the 1840s, to later watercolours year, as selected by curators at the Museum of Australian Democracy and oils of the emerging city. (MoAD). They were marvellous years for political cartooning, both in From July Australia and abroad, with several changes of federal leadership in Some of these pictures accompany Australia and the continuing antics of President Donald Trump in the the Melbourne: Foundations of a United States. City exhibition: others are hung on the first floor and were presented In 2017, Cartoonist of the Year In 2018 Cartoonist of the Year via booked public tours. We are David Rowe designed a new image Matt Golding drew a wonderful very grateful to the Roy Morgan for the exhibition- ‘Trumpcircus’. hero cartoon based on the Alice Research Collection for making The exhibition launched with an in Wonderland theme. these rare and beautiful pictures engaging discussion between available to us. Museum of Australian Democracy The exhibition launched on 7 Senior Curator Michael Evans March with a public discussion and David Rowe, complete with between Matt Golding and drawings for the audience. Senior Curator from MOAD Libby Stewart, after which Matt Golding drew for the audience. Behind the Lines 2018 was included in the program for the Melbourne International Comedy Festival. Visitor numbers increased by

about 6 per cent over the same Dunning Katie by Photo Behind the Lines 2018 ’. period in the previous year.

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PUBLIC PROGRAM

A program of 70 talks, lectures, seminars and workshops was presented in association with the exhibitions, or to contribute to popular community festivals and events. Some were presented in partnership with other organisations or individuals. EXHIBITION RELATED PROGRAMS

GOLD RUSH: 20 OBJECTS, 20 Old Treasury Building NEW GOLD VAULT STORIES with Gabrielle Keating INSTALLATIONS 20 November 2018 Diggers on the road to Bendigo - The Native Police with Gabrielle Keating Race to the Diggings board game with Jack Norris 12 July 2018 with Paige Morrison 3 March 2019 - 24 January 2019 - Caroline Chisholm’s sketch and - Gold Rush Melbourne letter of 15 Nov 1854 Diggers on the road to Bendigo with Gabrielle Keating with Faye Dennis with Gabrielle Keating 11 June 2019 17 July 2018 12 February 2019 - - Gold washing cradle Absinthe bottle from Little Lon with Rob Edmonds with Faye Dennis A NATION DIVIDED: 16 August 2018 21 February 2019 THE GREAT WAR AND - - CONSCRIPTION Welcome Stanger nugget Chinese petition from humble shopkeepers with Marguerite Bell Readings with Emily Cross 21 August 2018 A Dreadful Time for Mothers: 19 March 2019 - Violet and Rose Productions - An 1850’s day dress 11, 18, 25 November 2018 Caroline Chisholm’s proposal for with Margaret Anderson 10 March 2019 4 September 2018 ‘Immigrant Stations’ - with Faye Dennis Pistol from the Eureka lead 21 March 2019 with Ailsa Brackley du Bois - 13 September 2018 Bakery Hill poster - with Marguerite Bell A woman’s dress c.1850 16 April 2019 with Helen Marson - 18 September 2018 The chamber pot from Mayor - Smith’s house Bakery Hill poster with with Marguerite Bell Marguerite Bell 2 May 2019 23 October 2018 - - Gold licence The gold licence with Lynne Robertson with Lynne Robertson 14 May 2019 8 November 2018 - - A woman on the diggings: Sarah Aboriginal troopers Davenport with Jack Norris with Paula Lindley 15 November 2018 23 May 2019 20 ’. Photo by Margaret Anderson Margaret by Photo Mothers ’. ‘ A Dreadful Time for present & Rose Violet RIGHT:

PROGRAMS ARRANGED IN PARTNERSHIP

HISTORY COUNCIL OF KENNETH PARK- LECTURES KENNETH PARK- WALKS VICTORIA- MAKING PUBLIC HISTORIES Georgian Architecture Victoria Parade 8 July 2018 SEMINAR PROGRAM 10 July 2018 - - Great Cities: York East Melbourne No 2 What’s new in Aboriginal history? 4 September 2018 16 September 2018 10 July 2018 - - - Architecture of the Victorian Era The names behind our streets History and fiction 30 October 2018 and lanes 28 August 2018 - 20 October 2018 - Great Architects: Christopher - Curating the Anzac Centenaries: Wren and Robert Adam A Walk in the Park War, Memory and the museum 27 November 2018 28 October 2018 13 November 2018 - - - The art of Christmas More of Docklands Death, disease and pandemics 4 December 2018 17 November 2018 12 March 2019 - - - Lord Byron Albert Park Lake Politics of Heritage 15 January 2019 9 December 2018 14 May 2019 - - - Discovering the Chateauesque Around Fawkner Park Living histories: Innovative 19 February 2019 2 February 2019 approaches to oral history - - 11 June 2019 Coco Chanel: style icon Lanes of Melbourne no.4 5 March 2019 6 April 2019 - - Budapest: the city and its Lanes of Melbourne No3 museums 25 May 2019 12 March 2019 - - From South Melbourne Beach to Tudors to Windsors Exhibition Gasworks Art Park for the Royal Overseas League 15 June 2019 30 April 2019 - The Legacy of Gianni Versace 7 May 2019 - Portraits of a Queen 4 June 2019

22 SPECIAL EVENTS

Open House Melbourne 29 July 2018 - AFL Grand Final Parade 28 September 2018 - Eliza Nelson and Dr John Singleton: incidents in the lives of two remarkable memorialists 5 March 2019 INTERNATIONAL WOMEN’S DAY - Dr Dianne Reilly AM : ‘The Australian Sketchbook: Colonial life and art of ST Gill’ 1 July 2018 RARE BOOK WEEK - Assoc. Prof. Andrew Dodd: ‘The Story of the Old Treasury Building and its precocious creator 9 October 2018 HISTORY WEEK LECTURE

23 EDUCATION PROGRAMS

The Old Treasury Building is a unique resource for teachers and students and this year offered 14 individual programs for schools. Programs offered included the impact of the gold rush on Victoria, the growth of Victoria from Colony to State and the development of democratic government. Program content was aligned to curricula for levels 2 to VCE.

School visits increased A comprehensive professional Professional Development for significantly this year to 8,156 development program was also museum presenters was offered students – a 27.5% increase. We offered to sessional teachers, through the following programs: were delighted with this result. with some programs offered Royal Exhibition Building Tour Programs were delivered by 28 in partnership with different 16 August 2018 certified teachers, employed as professional associations. part-time staff members on a These associations included the Discovering More About the Old sessional basis. Australian Museums and Galleries Treasury Workshop Association Education Network 17 September 2018 In addition this year the museum Victoria, the Civics and Citizenship - developed a new ‘Social Script’ to Education Network, Deakin Guiding at Old Treasury in 2019 assist both teachers and parents University, Cultural Heritage Briefing to prepare students on the autism Management, Melbourne City 29 January 2019 spectrum for visiting the building. Experience Teacher Professional - Learning and the Victorian Law Public Record Office Victoria Foundation Education Forum. Orientation Five internal professional 14 March 2019 development workshops were - offered in addition. Wayward Women? exhibition Briefing 25 June 2019

24 RIGHT: Gabrielle Keating leading a tour during Law Week. Photo courtesy Victorian Law Foundation. Law Victorian courtesy Week. Photo tour during Law leading a Gabrielle Keating RIGHT:

PUBLIC EVENTS

During each year the Old Treasury Building contributes to many community festivals and events with special programs. But from time to time the building itself is also the location for major public events. Last year these included the annual Grand Final Parade launch on Grand Final Friday (28 September) and two large assemblies for School Strike 4 Climate (November and March).

GRAND FINAL FRIDAY SCHOOL STRIKE 4 CLIMATE CENTENARY OF ARMISTICE SEPTEMBER Equally numerous gatherings of NOVEMBER This immensely popular Victorian a different sort marked the two As part of this national program public holiday is marked by protest rallies of the campaign to recognise the centenary of a parade of the two teams group School Strike 4 Climate. Armistice Day a large red letter competing in the year’s Australian installation #REMEMBER was Rules Football Grand Final. It These large rallies of school mounted on the front steps of leaves from the Old Treasury children assembled to seek the building. The project was Building and ends at the MCG. government’s commitment to managed by RSL Victoria and the In 2018 the successful teams more efforts addressing climate letters were decorated by various were the West Coast Eagles and change, and on both occasions primary schools. Collingwood and their supporters they assembled on the forecourt formed an enthusiastic and of the Old Treasury Building. This colourful crowd assembled in was the latest in a long history front of the building to cheer of the building’s involvement in their teams. political protest. However as a result the building was mentioned in some 202 news stories and brand recognition was boosted with mentions in some 1.4 million social media accounts. Curatorial staff also took the opportunity to collect some of the campaign banners and stories to use in a future exhibition about political protest in Melbourne.

26 RIGHT: ‘Change the System not the Climate’ sign at School Strike 4 Climate, March 2019. Photo by Katie Dunning Katie by 2019. Photo March 4 Climate, School Strike sign at not the Climate’ the System ‘Change RIGHT:

MARKETING

The Old Treasury Building has a very limited budget for marketing and must make the most of every opportunity. We tend to focus on digital marketing and on participation in programs offering promotion of our exhibitions and other programs. Examples in this year were the Heritage Festival (April), Melbourne International Comedy Festival (April), Law Week (May), Rare Book Week (July), History Week (October), Seniors Festival (October), City of Melbourne Christmas Campaign (December) and City of Melbourne Summer Campaign (January). Since our visitor numbers continue to rise, we believe that the strategy has been successful. In addition Twitter events like #MuseumWeek brought higher brand recognition on this social media platform. TRIPADVISOR HALL OF THE OLD TREASURY FAME BUILDING GAZETTE This year we were delighted to see The Gazette keeps subscribers our TripAdvisor rating increase. up to date with new programs, We were ranked 34 of 497 things associated talks and lectures and to do in Melbourne, which is a general information. There are notable achievement. We also 1008 subscribers (an increase of entered the TripAdvisor Hall of 2.5 per cent) to the newsletter, Fame after receiving Certificates with a 35 per cent read rate. of Excellence for overall visitor experience in each of the last five years.

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28 . Photo by Katie Dunning Katie by . Photo War and Conscription’ in ‘ A Nation Divided: the Great on display posters Conscription RIGHT: DIGITAL PROGRAMS The Old Treasury Building In the last few years it has At present the entry page for maintains a digital presence also been our policy to our newest exhibition Wayward via a dedicated website and create complementary digital Women? has the highest click active participation on various information for each new -through rate, meaning that more social media accounts, including exhibition. Often the digital people choose to read additional Twitter, Facebook, Instagram information expands on the content associated with the stories and YouTube. The website was information available in exhibition of individual women featured in redeveloped in 2017 and was texts. This is time-consuming for the exhibition. This content is less indexed properly by search the small research, curatorial likely to be accessed by schools engines in about August 2018. and digital team, but has been and probably reflects visits from Users of the new website have rewarding in terms of audience. general visitors/readers. increased as a result – by 67 per The most popular individual page cent when compared with the for several years has been the previous year. On average users page on ‘Propaganda and the also spent 27 per cent longer Conscription Debate’, created on the site, with 13.6 per cent to accompany the exhibition A reading past the homepage. Nation Divided: The Great War and Conscription. This page examines propaganda posters in detail and includes both historical and visual analysis. Visit patterns indicate a higher visit rate during school terms, suggesting that the content is accessed by schools in particular. Several school libraries link directly to the page. Of interest is the fact that despite overall digital trends, the majority of users still visit our website from desktop computers. This may reflect strong usage by educational institutions. 29 SOCIAL MEDIA The Old Treasury Building’s social media continues to grow in members, and reach. The Twitter follower count Last year #MuseumWeek gave Facebook engagement was the increased by 21 per cent during us a huge boost in followers and highest ever recorded by the 2018-19, resulting in a 15 per cent impressions. This year’s impact Old Treasury. Facebook ‘likes’ increase in retweets. Mentions was felt less, with over 700,000 increased 19 per cent this financial decreased over the same period, views of content - down by one year, and 2018-19 was our most resulting in an overall reach just million from last year. Some of successful year yet! Overall reach 2% below the previous year. Total this is attributed to lower quality and engagement increased by Twitter reach for 2018-19 was just mentions: users sharing our 38 per cent compared to 2017- over 5 million accounts. During content this year had, on average, 18. Reach for accounts which #MuseumWeek however the Old half as many followers as last year. only mentioned the Old Treasury Treasury Building was listed in the Interestingly, even though we had Building were recorded for top ten ‘influencers’ for Oceania. less retweets this year, the quality the first time this year, with an We were listed as the 7th overall of the retweets exceeded those estimated reach of 4.5 million and 4th for a museum in Oceania. of last year. It was also noted users. (On individual days we excelled, that the official Museum Week reaching 2nd for #PhotoMW!) account retweeted less this year. Since this program included many very large museums, it was an excellent achievement.

30 RIGHT: Volunteer Nicola Richie poses for #HeForShe, a UN campaign to raise awareness for gender equality. Photo by Katie Dunning Katie by Photo equality. gender for awareness raise to a UN campaign #HeForShe, Richie poses for Nicola Volunteer RIGHT:

VOLUNTEER & GUIDE PROGRAM

The Old Treasury Building is BRIEFINGS DURING THE YEAR During the year the Old Treasury fortunate to have retained a WERE OFFERED ON: Building worked with several peer remarkable group of volunteers groups to assist in benchmarking who provide an essential front-of- ‘Discovering More about Old volunteer programs. They house presence and assist in other Treasury’ were the Cultural Volunteers administrative tasks. Our small 17 September 2018 Managers’ Network, Volunteers staff could not hope to manage - Victoria and the Managers of the increased visitor numbers ‘2019 – the year ahead’ Volunteers Network Melbourne. without their assistance. 12 February 2019 In addition we participated During this year there were 63 - in National Volunteers Week, volunteers, some of whom are ‘Wayward Women?’ offering free tours for volunteers also sessional teachers. Many of 25 June 2019 from associated organisations. these volunteers have been with the Old Treasury Building for Recruitment drives during the many years. We are committed VISITS WERE ALSO ORGANISED year added 18 new guides and at Old Treasury to ensuring DURING THE YEAR TO: volunteers to assist at times of that volunteering and guiding high pressure on programs. is an enjoyable and rewarding The Supreme Court experience and with that in 6 July 2018 Visits during the year mind offer a program of social - engagement and professional The Royal Exhibition Building & Social engagement development throughout the Vikings Theatre Party: Lip Service year. A recognition program 16 August 2018 18 July 2018 also ensures that volunteers - and guides feel valued for their Melbourne Star Observation Xmas Cheer contributions. Wheel 7 December 2018 Long-term service was recognised 24 October 2018 with five year service badges for - OTB 9 year Celebration both guides and volunteers. This State Library of Victoria: 6 June 2019 year’s recipients were: Russell Street Welcome Zone Volunteers: Ann Gibson, Val 13 November 2018 Sherry, Emy Mina, Carol Owen, - Karen Bellamy, Doug Robertson Public Record Office Victoria and Liz Fitzpatrick 14 March 2019 Guides: Ana Green and Michele - Scott. Star Observation Wheel Volunteer and guide: Marguerite 15 April 2019 Bell. Villa Alba 25 May 2019

32 RIGHT: Volunteers Catherine and Clare enjoy the view from the Melbourne Star Observation Wheel. Photo by Katie Dunning Katie by Wheel. Photo Observation the Melbourne Star from the view enjoy and Clare Catherine Volunteers RIGHT:

MAINTAINING HERITAGE VALUE

Maintenance of the Old In addition the Old Treasury Treasury Building is managed in Building undertook the following: conjunction with the Treasury -Refit of the kitchen on Level 1 Reserve Precinct. A five-year -Repair of several original tables capital works and maintenance and chairs to repair damage schedule was developed in 2015- through use. 16 and implementation began in -More lights in the building 2016-17. changed to LED to conserve energy and reduce maintenance Projects completed this year -An internal survey of the building included: was completed for all tenancies. -Replacement of internal water tanks -Cleaning and re-grouting of the forecourt and front steps, pinning and relaying of several bluestone steps that had been damaged over time -A dilapidation report on the downpipes in the building was completed and a plan for rectifying work was commissioned. A project to remove rubble from ceiling spaces was commenced, but was delayed by work, health, safety concerns.

35 LEFT: Repair to the bluestone steps and forecourt of the Old Treasury Building. Photo by Katie Dunning Katie by Building. Photo of the Old Treasury and forecourt steps the bluestone to Repair LEFT: ADMINISTRATION AND FINANCE

The Old Treasury Building is OTHER INCOME SECURITY AND RISK required under its enabling Additional income was derived MANAGEMENT regulations to pursue financial from tours, education programs A security presence in the front self-sufficiency. The main source and hiring spaces within the entrance assisted in managing of income in any year is rental building for events, photography access to the building. Additional from the range of tenancies in the or film locations. These included security measures were building. All rentals are based on the following: introduced to limit access to formal reviews completed by the -AFL Grand Final Parade launch upper floors and to increase staff Valuer-General. -Hogarth Australia – fashion shoot personal security The following occupied tenancies -Revolver – Target Christmas TV in 2018-19: commercial Work, health and safety training -Department of Premier and -Lauritz Productions – brand was on-going for all staff and Cabinet on behalf of the Governor photo shoot tenants and regular fire drills in Council and other tenants -Celebrate India – illumination of were held at random intervals. -Department of Justice (Victorian the building for Diwali One whole-building evacuation Marriage Registry) -Kenneth Park – monthly lectures was conducted without warning -Office of the Victorian -History Council of Victoria and during public hours and was Government Architect Monash University – seminar effected successfully. -Leadership Victoria. series -And several book launches. Administrative delays within the Department of Premier and Cabinet resulted in delays renewing those leases and saw an accumulation of rental arrears. This had a material impact on the budget during the year.

36 RIGHT: A couple take their wedding photos on the Old Treasury Building steps. Photo by Katie Dunning Katie by Photo Building steps. on the Old Treasury photos their wedding take A couple RIGHT:

ADMINISTRATION AND FINANCE

The financial outcome for 2018- 19 saw a positive increase in total equity to $343,843. Expenditure during the year was less than budgeted due principally to success in attracting external funding for the temporary exhibition ‘The Invention of OPERATING STATEMENT Melbourne’ (opened July 2019). Income Note: Some expenditure will fall Tenant Income $599,658.73 within the 2019-20 financial year. Museum Admissions $76,749.19 Other Income $143,066.47 Total Income $819,474.39

Cost of Sales $906.16 Gross Surplus $818,568.23

Expenses Employment Expenses $474,610.81 Exhibitions and Tours $196,361.99 General Expenses $91,209.33 Total Expenses $762,182.13

Net Surplus/Deficit $56,386.10

BALANCE SHEET Assets Cash and Equivalents $347,833.40 Trade Debtors $10,876.47 Non Current Assets $7,249.45 Total Assets $365,959.32

Liabilities $22,115.93 NET ASSETS $343,843.39

Equity Retained Earnings $237,457.29 Current Year Earnings $106,386.10 TOTAL EQUITY $343,843.39

38 RIGHT: The AFL Grand Final Parade, September 2018. Photo by Katie Dunning Katie by 2018. Photo September Final Parade, The AFL Grand RIGHT:

GOVERNANCE AND ADMINISTRATION

COMMITTEE OF MANAGEMENT STAFF The Committee of Management The following staff training was met on four occasions in this undertaken during the year: period. -First Aid and CPR to retain certification Members were: -Volunteer Management (several -The Committee of Management sessions) met on four occasions in this -Ongoing fire response and period. warden training Members were: -Technology upskilling (various Professor Marian Quartly (Chair) workshops) Associate Professor Don Garden Sean Sammon

Committee meetings were held on 23 July, 24 September, 1 April and 17 June.

ORGANISATIONAL STRUCTURE

OTB Reserve Committee of Management Professor Marian Quartly (Chair) Associate Professor Don Garden Sean Sammon

Margaret Anderson OTB Director (FT)

Sally Bodinnar (FT) Katie Dunning (PT) Ian Watts (PT) Curator (PT) Operations Manager Marketing & Digital Public Programs

Front of House (PT) Sessional guides Volunteers

41 LEFT: Sunshine Heights Primary School dance on the Old Treasury Building steps for Harmony Day. Photo by Katie Dunning Katie by Photo Day. Harmony for Building steps Primary School dance on the Old Treasury Sunshine Heights LEFT: Old Treasury Building Museum 20 Spring Street Melbourne @OldTreasuryMelb (03) 9651 2233 /OldTreasuryBuildingMuseum [email protected]