Due to the planned protests in the CBD on Saturday 13th September the library will not open.
With authorities asking people to reconsider any plans to travel into the city, we have made this decision to safeguard our members, volunteers and staff.
Thank you for your understanding.
The Melbourne Athenaeum Library will be closed on Friday September 26 for the Friday before the Grand Final public holiday.
The library will be open regular hours on Saturday September 27.
As part of the 2019 Rare Book Week celebrations, the library once again hosted an artist-in-residence. This year it was Melbourne-based cartoonist Chris Gooch who worked on and spoke about his latest graphic novel, Under-Earth.
As part of the 2019 Rare Book Week celebrations, the library once again hosted an artist-in-residence. This year it was Melbourne-based cartoonist Chris Gooch who worked on and spoke about his latest graphic novel, .
Chris won silver in the Ledger Awards for excellence in Australian comics, and was described by the Library Journal as demonstrating a masterly sense of storytelling and character development. He was selected for a 2016 TRANSIT artist residency at the Chicago Alternative Comics Expo and his story Mooreland Mates won the 2017 Melbourne Lord Mayor's Creative Writing Award.
