The Australian Heritage Festival is Australia’s largest annual community-driven heritage festival run in Victoria by the National Trust of Australia (Victoria), the state’s premier heritage advocacy organisation. This year’s festival is supported by the Heritage Council Victoria, celebrating the 50th Anniversary of state government heritage legislation and the creation of the Victorian Heritage Register.

Heritage Victoria’s Connections to Bendigo: A Floor Talk
Saturdays at 11am

Join Leigh McKinnon, the Museum’s Research Officer, every Saturday of the Festival at 11 AM as he delves into the Golden Dragon Museum’s temporary exhibition, Victoria’s Goldfields: Chinese Curiosities from Heritage Victoria.

Bookings not required. Museum admission applies.

Victoria’s Goldfields: Chinese Curiosities from Heritage Victoria is a collaborative exhibition between Golden Dragon Museum and Heritage Victoria. It presents small vignettes of the Chinese presence across Victoria from the mid-1800s into the 20th century and showcases the significant collection of artefacts held by Heritage Victoria that relate to and show evidence of the Chinese diaspora across the state. While Bendigo’s history was not the focus when curating this exhibition, there are many interesting connections between Heritage Victoria’s collection on display and Bendigo’s Chinese history which will be explored during this floor talk.

For more details, please refer to the Australian Heritage Festival Program: https://www.nationaltrust.org.au/…/heritage-victorias…/

Golden Dragon Museum and Heritage Victoria: A Collaboration
Wednesdays at 3pm

Join Megan Hall, the Museum’s Collections Manager and Co-Curator of Victoria’s Goldfields: Chinese Curiosities from Heritage Victoria, every Wednesday of the Festival at 3 PM as she explores and highlights the collaboration between Heritage Victoria and Golden Dragon Museum to bring you the Museum’s first temporary exhibition in over a decade.

Bookings not required. Museum admission apply.

Victoria’s Goldfields: Chinese Curiosities from Heritage Victoria is a collaborative exhibition between Golden Dragon Museum and Heritage Victoria. It presents small vignettes of the Chinese presence across Victoria from the mid-1800s into the 20th century and showcases the significant collection of artefacts held by Heritage Victoria that relate to and show evidence of the Chinese diaspora across the state.

For more details, please refer to the Australian Heritage Festival Program: https://www.nationaltrust.org.au/…/golden-dragon…/

Victoria’s Goldfields: Chinese Curiosities from Heritage Victoria is a collaborative exhibition between Golden Dragon Museum and Heritage Victoria. It presents small vignettes of the Chinese presence across Victoria from the mid-1800s into the 20th century and showcases the significant collection of artefacts held by Heritage Victoria that relate to and show evidence of the Chinese diaspora across the state.

With objects that are frequently small in size, but significant in their stories, Victoria’s Goldfields shows items that help to locate Chinese communities throughout Victorian history and shine a light on stories and times that have been all too often lost to history. The exhibition also speaks to the archaeological method of investigation, analysis, and identification used by heritage archaeologists as they search for relics from the past and strive to reveal their hidden and sometimes elusive stories.

More Associated Activities

More Associated Activities will be listed here throughout the exhibition’s run.