The Melbourne Athenaeum Library will be closed on Saturday April 25 for the ANZAC Day public holiday.

The library will be open regular hours on Friday April 24 and Monday April 27.

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Wednesday 29 July 2026
Melbourne Rare Book Week: Big Show Offs: The clowning achievements of George Coppin and Barry Humphries
Speaker Simon Plant, who delivered the Gary Morgan Oration in the library in March, will speak about George Coppin and Barry Humphries, who graced the stage a century apart, bringing...read more
Thursday 30 July 2026
Melbourne Rare Book Week: Graphic Novels and the Real World
The comic book form is used as a narrative medium by creators to tackle social, historical and personal histories: protesting about the Vietnam War in Mirranda Burton’s Underground; Napoleon Bonaparte’s...read more

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