Curator’s tours: Extraordinary stories and treasures of the library

Discover more on level 4 at State Library, home to our rare and remarkable heritage collections.

In the Philip Bacon Heritage Gallery you will learn more about the exhibition Extraordinary stories featuring a rotating selection of stories about ordinary Queenslanders whose lives were anything but. These are stories worth collecting, stories worth hearing and stories worth telling, drawn from the Library’s collections to tell us more about Queensland and the lives lived here.

Also on level 4 you will find the Talbot Family Treasures Wall featuring a changing selection of items from State Library’s heritage collections. The John Oxley Library has collected, preserved and shared Queensland’s collective memory since 1934 and the Talbot Family Treasures Wall is where you can view items of state significance. Each item on display here reveals a remarkable story, and together they help deepen our understanding of Queensland’s diverse lifestyle, landscape, culture and community.

Free curator’s tours of these spaces are held monthly. Join one of a specialist curators to discover the unknown stories and hidden gems of State Library’s collections.

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Meet: at the entrance to the Heritage Gallery suite on Level 4, State Library of Queensland

Image caption: Women in national costume on the dance floor at the 2015 Paniyiri festival, Musgrave Park, West End, 24 May 2015 (0006-0036). Image number: 29879-0006-0036. Photographed by Peter Fischmann. John Oxley Library, State Library of Queensland; 24 May 2015

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