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View free exhibitions featuring items from the Public Record Office Victoria collection at the Victorian Archives Centre, Old Treasury Building, online and throughout regional Victoria. Click on each exhibition below for information. 

Open call for street photography

Black and white photo of school children riding toy cars to learn road safety circa 1950s.
Rehearsing the City

Rewind Forward

Illustration by Sam Wallman of dock workers reading a newspaper
2025 Creative in Residence Group Exhibition

Making Modern Melbourne

a busy melbourne street
Now showing at Old Treasury Building

Protest Melbourne

black and white photo of a protest in action
Now showing at Old Treasury Building

Yarra: Stories of Melbourne's River

map
Now showing at Old Treasury Building

First Peoples and the Gold Rush

gold diggings painting
Now showing at Old Treasury Building

Melbourne: Foundations of a City

painting of Melbourne in 1854
Now showing at Old Treasury Building

Material in the Public Record Office Victoria archival collection contains words and descriptions that reflect attitudes and government policies at different times which may be insensitive and upsetting

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples should be aware the collection and website may contain images, voices and names of deceased persons.

PROV provides advice to researchers wishing to access, publish or re-use records about Aboriginal Peoples