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History

The story that unfolds here is about a unique organisation which continues to contribute to the city's culture in a building that was first completed in 1842.

Exhibitions, meetings, musical, theatrical and other entertainments, films, lectures, educational classes, dances and formal balls have been held within the building's walls. The theatres continue to entertain Melbourne's people and provide a space for social and cultural events.

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Books

And the Women Came Too
And the Women Came Too
By Anne Marsden, 2018.
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The Making of the Melbourne Mechanics' Institution
The Making of the Melbourne Mechanics' Institution
by Anne Marsden, 2016.
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Cultured Colonists: George Alexander Gilbert and his family, settlers in Port Phillip
Cultured Colonists: George Alexander Gilbert and his family, settlers in Port Phillip
by Margaret Bowman, 2014.
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The Melbourne Athenaeum: a journal of the history of a Melbourne Institution
The Melbourne Athenaeum: a journal of the history of a Melbourne Institution
by Ray Lawler, Marcus Niski, Matthew Gisborne, R.W.E. Wilmot, Margaret Bowman, Pam Baragwanath, Garryowen, L.J. Stephens, and Jenny Mitchellhall, 2009.
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The Melbourne Athenaeum 1839-1939: history and records of the Institution
The Melbourne Athenaeum 1839-1939: history and records of the Institution
by R.W.E. Wilmot, 1939.

Journal Articles

Taking the lift to Toronto
by Margaret Bowman and Ellen Ramsay, 2017.
Published in issue 1 of Shelf Life.
Elizabeth Douglass's Scrapbook
by Margaret Bowman, 2016.
Published in volume 15, number 3 of Latrobeana, Journal of the CJ La Trobe Society.
Writers and Readers: Melbourne's bohemians and its Athenaeum
by Margaret Bowman, 2014.
Published in volume 16 of Journal of Australian Colonial History.
George Isaac Porter: across two worlds
by Anne Marsden and M Langdon, 2014.
Published in volume 85, number 1 of Victorian Historical Journal.
Portrait of the artist as a young settler: George Alexander Gilbert
by Margaret Bowman, 2013.
Published in volume 12, number 3 of Latrobeana, Journal of the CJ La Trobe Society.
Gentlemen Versus Players: public squabbling over the membership of the foundation committee of the Melbourne Mechanics' Institution
by Anne Marsden, 2013.
Published in number 92 of The La Trobe Journal.
From Abbey to Athenaeum: John Henry Curtis, 1829-1909
by Margaret Bowman, 2011.
Published in volume 82, number 2 of Victorian Historical Journal.
Memories from the Bio Box
by H Aspinall, 2010.
Published as part of "Projecting at The Athenaeum, Two Projectionists reminisce about showing movies at Melbourne's historic Athenaeum Theatre" in issue 67, edition 3 of Cinema Record, Cinema and Theatre Historical Society Inc.
Middle-Class, Masculine Management: The Melbourne Athenaeum and its secretary 1909-1949
by Margaret Bowman, 2010.
Published in volume 81, number 1 of Victorian Historical Journal.
Memories from the Bio Box
by Alan Winn, 2010.
Published as part of "Projecting at The Athenaeum, Two Projectionists reminisce about showing movies at Melbourne's historic Athenaeum Theatre" in issue 67, edition 3 of Cinema Record, Cinema and Theatre Historical Society Inc.
Brief Encounters
by Brian McFarlane, 1994.
Published in Spring/Summer issue of British Cinema in Australia.

Newsletter Articles

Let us not forget where our present library system began
by Pam Baragwanath, 2015.
Published in number 37 of Useful Knowledge: The Newsletter of the Mechanics Institute of Victoria Inc.
The Flicks - Film in the Mechanics', 2014
by Margaret Bowman, 2014.
Published in number 34 of Useful Knowledge: The Newsletter of the Mechanics Institute of Victoria Inc.
The LP Record Library at the Melbourne Athenaeum Library
by Carol Andrews, 2010.
Published in number 24 of Useful Knowledge: The Newsletter of the Mechanics Institute of Victoria Inc.
First Lady
by Margaret Bowman, 2010
Published in number 24 of Useful Knowledge: The Newsletter of the Mechanics Institute of Victoria Inc.

Digitised Documents

Melbourne Mechanics' Institution: 1840-1871
Annual Reports
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Melbourne Athenaeum: 1872-1940
Annual Reports
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Melbourne Mechanics' Institution: 1839-1871
Minutes of the General Committee of Management
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Melbourne Athenaeum: 1872-1940
Minutes of the General Committee of Management
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