Cultural Treasures Festival

Next week sees campus jumping again with SIGNAL, a live-art week curated across the Parkville campus during lunchtimes in some unexpected locations, courtesy of the Student Union's Creative Arts program. Keep your eyes open this week at the University of Melbourne!

UMSU – University of Melbourne Student Union – SIGNAL live-art week Signal is a curated live-art week occurring across the Parkville campus at lunchtime in unexpected locations. We’re bringing student performance and art to the wider student body in a pop-up capacity.

Kisses for Percy in the Grainger Museum!

Spending a day, out and about at the University. Come back soon.

Unlocking the mysteries of the Herbarium - featuring a range of rare and unique species, some collected at the time of European contact in Australia.

An afternoon in the System Garden.

Touring the Physics Museum and the Cooke Refractor Telescope with guide Phil Lyons.

Out and about with Louise Box for the "Cultural Rubble" tour, exploring public art and architecture on the Parkville Campus: here featuring the "Gates of Atlantis," entry to the Underworld that is our South Lawn Car Park...

© Daryl Snowdon Photography

A bold group of young scholars tore across campus led by the inimitable Professor Eastley (Bernard Caleo), with a group of gasping parents in their wake. What a great way to see the collections!

What a great weekend! Loads of visitors to the midwinter Parkville campus and unseasonably beautiful weather to take it all in, particularly on Sunday. Thanks to everyone for coming along, and in particular to Susie Shears, Jason Benjamin, Alida Apostoloudas, Roslyn Holloway, Kylie Nickels and all our tour guides, speakers and wonderful volunteers for bringing it all together. Well done.

Gearing up to welcome visitors for day two of the Festival. Come spend the day with us! Coffee all Sunday in the foyer of Wilson Hall (along with the Rare Book Fair) - collection and campus tours depart from University Hall in the Old Quad.

Professor Eastley and some young scholars interrogating the Parkville Campus today at The University of Melbourne during the Cultural Treasures Festival

Congratulations to Tony Albert, 2014 winner of the Basil Sellers Art Prize tonight at The Ian Potter Museum of Art - an amazing piece confronting Indigeneity and racism in sport. Get yourselves along to the Potter to see Tony's work, along with stunning pieces from all the finalists, this weekend during the Cultural Treasures Festival. http://www.sellersartprize.com.au