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Grainger Museum reopening Melbourne Conservatorium of The Grainger Museum officially Music; Dr Peter Tregear of Monash re-opened on Friday 15 October, University; and Brian Allison and following a seven-year closure. Astrid Krautschneider, Curators of Over the past few years substantial the Grainger Museum. conservation works were carried out The Grainger Museum is located on the heritage-registered building on Royal Parade, near Gate 13, under the supervision of conservation Parkville Campus. The opening architects Lovell Chen, along with hours are Tuesday to Friday 1pm to improvements to the facilities for 4.30pm and Sunday 1pm to 4.30pm. visitors, collections and staff. The new Closed Monday and Saturday, public suite of exhibitions, curated by the holidays and Christmas through Grainger Museum staff and designed January. Percy’s Café is open 8am to by Lucy Bannyan of Bannyan Wood 5pm, Monday to Friday. For further Design, explore Grainger’s life, times information or to join the mailing list and work. Funding was provided see www.grainger.unimelb.edu.au. by the University, the University Library, the University Annual MacPherson, Ormond Professor of G.W.L. Marshall-Hall: Appeal, bequests and donors. The Music and Director of the Melbourne A symposium guest speaker at the launch was Conservatorium of Music. Professor The collections of the Grainger Professor Malcolm Gillies, Vice- Gillies’ keynote paper ‘Grainger Museum provide an invaluable Chancellor of London Metropolitan 50 years on’ explored Percy Grainger’s research resource that extend far University and a leading Grainger current place in both the world of beyond the life and music of Percy scholar. The evening was hosted music and in Australian studies Grainger. As is the case with most by the Chancellor, the Hon. Alex more broadly. Following this was a museums, the items on public display Chernov ao qc and included musical series of shorter presentations from at any given moment are but a tiny performances by Vivien Hamilton, Dr David Pear and Dr Belinda fraction of the collection as a whole. Glen Riddle and the University of Nemec, editors of the forthcoming Among the Grainger Museum’s Melbourne Saxophone Ensemble publication Grainger Studies: comprehensive archival holdings are conducted by Ian Godfrey. An Interdisciplinary Journal; Vincent the papers of G.W.L. Marshall-Hall The following day a symposium Plush of the National Film and (1862–1915), conductor, composer, on the theme ‘Let us sit in wait no Sound Archive; poet Jessica L. critic and the first Ormond Professor longer: Future directions in Percy Wilkinson and composer Simon of Music at the University of Grainger scholarship, performance Charles who performed a ‘Suite Melbourne. In 1890s Melbourne, and interpretation’ was held in Melba for Percy Grainger’; Dr Suzanne Marshall-Hall assisted the precocious Hall and chaired by Professor Gary Robinson, Research Fellow at the young Percy Grainger in travelling

52 University of Melbourne Collections, Issue 7, December 2010 Opposite: The Grainger Museum’s Duo-Art reproducing piano, on display in the Grainger Museum, with a large-scale photograph of Percy Grainger ‘in the round’. Exhibition design by Bannyan Wood Design. Photography by Michael Silver.

Below: Professor Reynard Eastley (actor Bernard Caleo) reminiscing with his former lecturer, Ms Monica MacCallum, outside Wilson Hall on Cultural Treasures Day.

to Europe to further his studies. Cultural Treasures Day Some four decades later, Grainger The University held its second purchased from Marshall-Hall’s Cultural Treasures Day on Sunday widow and son his early benefactor’s 14 November, giving all members collection of musical manuscripts and of the community the chance to visit published scores, correspondence, the University’s museums and other scrapbooks, albums, photographs and collections. artworks. In addition to having the On 11 and 12 November the opportunity to see and hear about Melbourne Conservatorium of Music many of the collections, in particular convened a symposium dedicated those not open to the public, other to studies of Marshall-Hall’s music, highlights included the family conducting, links with Melbourne tour ‘Discover more secrets of Visitors enjoyed numerous other bohemians, and associations with Melbourne University!’ with the talks, exhibitions, demonstrations and friends and colleagues. These inimitable and ever popular Professor tours across the campus. provided an up-to-date portrait of Reynard Eastley (PhD, Stories Cultural Treasures Day 2010 the musician who dominated music and Adventures), aka Bernard was made possible by the generosity in Melbourne for 20 years but whose Caleo; the Friends of the Baillieu of the late Estelle Dow. career was marred by controversy. Library seminar The glorious garden: The symposium concluded with a Books and beyond which included Primary sources: concert of works by Marshall-Hall, discussion of the newly purchased 50 stories from 50 years Percy Grainger and Fritz Hart. Highgrove florilegium and its beautiful at the Archives Coinciding with the symposium illustrations of plants from Prince This exhibition celebrating the was the reprinting of Thérèse Charles’ garden at Highgrove, and the 50th anniversary of the founding Radic’s important work based on launch of the Men of flowers by Peter of the University of Melbourne the Grainger Museum’s holdings: Lyssiotis and Humphrey McQueen, Archives was launched in the Leigh G.W.L. Marshall-Hall: A biography commissioned by the Library as part Scott Gallery, Baillieu Library, and catalogue (Melbourne: The of its 50th anniversary celebrations on 8 December (and will run to Marshall-Hall Trust, 2002, reprinted (to be discussed in a future issue of 25 February 2011). 2010 by the University of Melbourne University of Melbourne Collections); Created mainly for the benefit Custom Book Centre). This work and finally the concertTo rend the of researchers and students of can be downloaded at www.grainger. heart with chords: Choral music of the University, but also with the unimelb.edu.au/publications/ Percy Grainger, featuring the wider community in mind, UMA radicmarshallhall.pdf or purchased Consort of Melbourne, conducted remains a treasure trove of primary from the Melbourne University by Peter Tregear, with pianists source material which continues to Bookshop. Timothy Young and Anna Carson. grow. Items on display in Primary

University of Melbourne Collections, Issue 7, December 2010 53 Builders Laborers’ Union, Anti-conscription campaign poster, c.1917. Acc. no. 1988.006, Victorian Trades Hall Council Collection, University of Melbourne Archives.

sources are very diverse, for example It explored the social history, held at the State Library of Victoria. a letter book documenting the early technical developments and Melbourne has a long history correspondence of the University professional foundation of dentistry of banning books (both Australian council, temporarily based at the in Victoria. Drawing upon the and imported; past and modern) Supreme Court, which includes extensive collection of the Henry that reflects the transience of social Redmond Barry’s notification to Forman Atkinson Dental Museum norms and community values. the colony’s Lieutenant Governor and other cultural collections of the The exhibition highlighted the of his election to the position of University of Melbourne including complexity of the state’s role in Chancellor of the University in May the Ian Potter Museum of Art, policing the boundaries of acceptable 1853; examples of the 1,250 glass Baillieu Library Special Collections, and unacceptable publications plate photographic negatives from the Medical History Museum, the and how Australian publishers Benalla’s Howship Studios dating from University of Melbourne Herbarium have deliberately challenged the about 1904 to 1964; the beautifully and the University of Melbourne authorities. The exhibition—curated illuminated address presented by the Archives, the displays told the story by Ms Jenny Lee, Associate Professor government of Victoria to Charles of dentistry in Victoria from the early David Bennett and Associate Alfred Topp in 1899 for his work days of European settlement and Professor Richard Pennell, from relating to the impending Federation; establishment, to the beginning of the the Faculty of Arts, and designed the 1920–1922 diary of virologist 20th century and the emergence of an with the help of recent Faculty of and 1960 Nobel Prize winner for organised, qualified dental profession. the VCA and Music graduate medicine Sir Frank Macfarlane The exhibition was curated Ms Jenny Chang—incorporated Burnet; and a photograph of by Professor Emeritus Henry F. books, photographs and documents the delegates at the 1937 Jubilee Atkinson, Honorary Curator, and from the University of Melbourne’s Convention of the Women’s Christian Louise Murray, Curator, of the Henry collections and private collections Temperance Union, Victoria. Forman Atkinson Dental Museum. as well as artists’ explorations of the A commemorative publication An illustrated catalogue accompanied exhibition’s theme. accompanies the exhibition.1 the exhibition.2 In conjunction with the exhibition a public forum on the topic of Cavities, keys and camels: Banned books in Australia censorship in Australia was held on Early dentistry in Victoria This exhibition was held in the 12 August. Chaired and convened by This intriguing exhibition from the Leigh Scott Gallery of the Baillieu Associate Professor David Bennett, Henry Forman Atkinson Dental Library from 7 June to late August, speakers included Dr Donald Museum in the Faculty of Medicine, coinciding with the Bibliographical McDonald, Director, Classification Dentistry and Health Sciences was Society of Australia and New Board; Dr Philip Nitschke; Associate held in the Leigh Scott Gallery, Zealand’s Annual Conference for Professor Robert Nelson, Monash Baillieu Library, from 9 September 2010 titled To deprave and corrupt: University; Associate Professor to 28 November. Forbidden, hidden and censored texts Richard Pennell, University

54 University of Melbourne Collections, Issue 7, December 2010 of Melbourne; and Dr Lauren university collections’, spoke of both museums delegates in the newly Rosewarne, University of Melbourne. the progress that has been made, but refurbished Grainger Museum. Many of these presentations can the challenges still ahead, in managing Many of the conference be heard online at http://tinyurl. that substantial portion of Australia’s papers will be published online at com/2do8vef and are included in the distributed cultural heritage that is www.ma2010.com.au. publication which is available from managed by universities, some the University Bookshop.3 15 years after the publication of the Barry Tuckwell Collection two Cinderella collections reports.4 In 2009 the Louise Hanson-Dyer Museums Australia National The international speakers, to Music Library at the University of Conference 2010 name but a few, included Professor Melbourne purchased a substantial The University of Melbourne was Richard Sandell, Director and Head collection of materials belonging the principal partner and host of the of Department of Museum Studies to the eminent Australian French 14th Museums Australia National at the University of Leicester (whose horn player and conductor Barry Conference from 28 September to visit was supported by the University’s Tuckwell ac obe.5 Tuckwell is widely 2 October, on the theme of Interesting Cultural and Community Relations recognised both as the foremost times: New roles for collections. The Advisory Group); David Revere horn player of his generation and for event was highly successful, with well McFadden, Chief Curator and extending the instrument’s technical over 600 Australian and international Vice-President, Museum of Arts possibilities. delegates attending. The formal and Design in New York; Michelle The collection was acquired with opening in Wilson Hall included a Hippolite, Kaihautū of Te Papa the generous assistance of a grant welcome from our Vice-Chancellor, Tongarewa, Museum of New from the Ian Potter Foundation to Professor Glyn Davis ac, who spoke Zealand; Professor Stephen Heppell, support the linking of education and of the importance of the cultural CEO of Heppell.net; Professor the arts. On 11 October this year, the collections in teaching, research Dietrich Wildung, Professor of University welcomed Lady Potter ac and engagement at the University Egyptology, Free University Berlin and other representatives of the of Melbourne. The conference was and former Chief Curator, Egyptian Potter Foundation, who included officially launched by the Hon. Peter Museum and Papyrus Collection, Professor Geoffrey N. Blainey ac, Batchelor MP, then Victorian Minister Berlin; and Professor Morris Vogel, the Hon. Sir Daryl Dawson ac kbe for the Arts. President of the Lower East Side cb qc, Mr Charles Goode ac and The plenary presentation by Tenement Museum in New York. Mrs Janet Hirst (Chief Executive Professor Warren Bebbington, Delegates, among whom were many Officer) as well as Barry Tuckwell Deputy Vice-Chancellor (University University staff and students, also and other distinguished guests, Affairs) and Chairman of the enjoyed the opportunity to visit some to view selected items from the University’s Cultural Collections of the University’s many cultural collection and to hear about the work Advisory Group, entitled ‘Cinderella collections, including a welcome that the Library has been undertaking awaits her wedding: Managing reception for regional and remote in cataloguing and preserving the

University of Melbourne Collections, Issue 7, December 2010 55 Museums Australia National Conference 2010, the Hon. Peter Batchelor MP, then Victorian Minister for the Arts, officially launching the conference on 29 September in Wilson Hall. Simon Fox Photography.

collection. All the music scores, Acquisition: The Marshall Anders and the ship of fools (2001); manuscripts, and commercial sound Browne Archive The eye of the abyss (2002); Inspector recordings have been catalogued, Earlier in 2010 Baillieu Library Anders and the blood vendetta (2006); and the collection of approximately Special Collections acquired the Rendezvous at Kamakura Inn (2006) 4,000 concert programs has been archive of the award-winning novelist and The iron heart (2009). listed and transferred to archivally Marshall Browne. The collection A list of the Marshall Browne safe conditions. A finding aid has consists of unpublished manuscripts, Archive is available at www.lib. been published and is available online original drafts of published novels, unimelb.edu.au/collections/special/ at http://unimelb.libguides.com/ research material, articles and reviews. guides/brownearchivelist.pdf. tuckwell. It complements other holdings of Australian crime and popular fiction Notes Donald Thomson Collection in Special Collections, such as the on tour papers of Arthur Upfield, creator of 1 Helen McLaughlin, Michael Piggott, Cecily Close and others, Primary sources: In 2009 the Ian Potter Museum of the well-loved character Detective 50 stories from 50 years of the Archives, Art at the University of Melbourne Inspector Napoleon Bonaparte, or Melbourne: University of Melbourne Library, hosted the exhibition Ancestral ‘Bony’. 2010. 2 Henry Atkinson, Louise Murray and others, power and the aesthetic: Arnhem Land Marshall Browne was born in Cavities, keys and camels: Early dentistry in paintings and objects from the Donald Melbourne in 1935. A banker by Victoria (exhibition catalogue), Melbourne: Thomson Collection, a joint project of profession, while living in Hong Henry Forman Atkinson Dental Museum, 6 University of Melbourne, 2010. Museum Victoria and the Potter. The Kong between 1974 and 1981 he 3 David Bennett, Jenny Lee, Richard Pennell Donald Thomson collection is housed started writing novels in his spare and others, Banned books in Australia at Museum Victoria but includes time. These early works, including (exhibition catalogue), Melbourne: University of Melbourne Custom Book Centre, 2010. material owned by the University and City of masks, a thriller set in the 4 Australian Vice-Chancellors’ Committee. by the Thomson family. banks and back streets of Hong Kong, University Museums Review Committee, The exhibition was very successful have a Far-East flavour. He has also Cinderella collections: University museums and collections in Australia: The report of the and is now going on tour. Thanks to written a series of historical novels University Museums Review Committee, funding from Visions of Australia, set in Melbourne in the 1880s and Canberra: Australian Vice-Chancellors’ the exhibition will be seen at Benalla 1890s: The gilded cage (1996), The Committee, 1996; Transforming Cinderella collections: The management and conservation Regional Art Gallery; Museum and burnt city (1999) and The trumpeting of Australian university museums, collections Art Gallery of the Northern Territory angel (2001) bring to life many of the and herbaria: The report of the DCA/AV-CC (Darwin); Wagga Wagga Regional characters, locations and events of University Museums Project Committee, Canberra: Australian Vice-Chancellors’ Art Gallery; Queen Victoria Museum that lively period of our city’s history. Committee, 1998. and Art Gallery, Launceston; Albury Marshall Browne’s other novels 5 Evelyn Portek, ‘Acquisitions’, University of Regional Art Gallery; Ballarat Fine include Dragon strike (1981); Dark Melbourne Collections, issue 5, November 2009, p. 47. Art Gallery; and Gippsland Art harbour (1984); The wooden leg of 6 ‘Ancestral power’, University of Melbourne Gallery in Sale. Inspector Anders (1999); Inspector Collections, issue 4, June 2009, p. 55.

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