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                    Exhibition archive

                    In the Melbourne Town Hall, City Gallery presents a free, annual program of exhibitions that draw on the City of Melbourne’s extensive art and heritage collection.

                    Devised by specialist curators, each show explores aspects of the city’s cultural, historical and artistic life.

                    • Bluestone Lounge Room

                      This exhibition charted the often ubiquitous and yet invisible design of public space through the efforts of the City of Melbourne's urban design and industrial design teams.

                    • Community Treasures: 100 years of the Royal Historial Society

                      A selection of the Royal Historical Society of Victoria's most interesting items, including photographs, artworks, rare books, archives, ephemera and objects, was displayed in the City Gallery during 2009.

                    • In Response to Place

                      Indigenous artist and curator Ricky Maynard documented inner-city Melbourne in this exhibition, In Response to Place.

                    • Making a Show of It

                      Making a Show of It retrieved An Aboriginal Moomba and Corroboree from being mere footnotes to the history of Melbourne's performing arts and examined Indigenous entertainers and entrepreneurs in 1950s Melbourne.

                    • Moomba

                      What's in a name? This exhibition took the festival's name as its departure point, for its meaning and how the festival came to be named Moomba have kept the wheels of urban mythology spinning for decades in this town.

                    • Post No Bills

                      The City of Melbourne's Art and Heritage Collection of posters includes some unlikely survivors of the ravages of time.

                    • Record and Analysis

                      Rubble and steel abound in this reworking of the City of Melbourne's archive of practical photography.

                    • Up

                      What height Melbourne?

                    • Urban Arboreal

                      Urban Arboreal was an exhibition about the place and shape of nature in the urban environment.

                    • Walk, Talk and Chalk

                      Presenting stories of 'grey ghosts', 'pinkies' and 'meter cheaters', this exhibition explored the history and culture of parking enforcement in the city.
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