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Decades of Menzies

The Robert Menzies Institute is a prime ministerial library and museum that commemorates the life and legacy of Australia’s longest-serving Prime Minister, bringing alive the spirit of a great Australian for a new generation.

 

There could be no better place to house this prestigious Institute than the Old Quad, the historic heart of the University of Melbourne’s main campus, where Sir Robert honed his philosophy of public life as a student more than a century ago. Forty-nine years after his graduation ceremony, his public life ended at the University where he served as Chancellor from 1967 to 1972. The University is home to Sir Robert Menzies’ personal book collection, notebooks, and memorabilia.

Exhibition Items

Herbert Vere Evatt, The Task of Nations (1949)

Herbert Vere Evatt, The United Nations (1948)

R.B.D. Wilson-Evans, Britain and Her Coronations (1953)

Ian William Wark, Education: How much, Quantity and Quality? (1967)

Geoffrey Blainey, The Rush that Never Ended: A History of Australian Mining (1963

Robert Menzies, "The Universities - Some Queries" (1964)

Robert Menzies, American-Australian Relations: What are They, and Why? The Annual W. Riecker Memorial Lecture Series (1968)

John Dewey, The Living Thoughts of Thomas Jefferson (1941)

John Stuart Mill, On Liberty (1932)

Previous Exhibitions

21 Jun 2024

80th Anniversary Touring Exhibit

25 Mar 2024

The Poet Among Statesmen

25 Sep 2023

Decades of Menzies

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