Within living memory: The transfer of Mary Featherston's Children’s Museum Archive

Nik McGrath

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A teacher speaks to a group of children crouching in a circle around a small wooden chest.
A group of Children participating in an educational program in the Children’s Museum, 1987. / Source: Museums Victoria / Photo: Frank Coffa

Introduction

The Mary Featherston’s Children’s Museum archive (1982–97) provides a broad picture of Melbourne’s first Children’s Museum: a groundbreaking space dedicated to interactive information-based exhibitions that was located within the Museum of Victoria, then in Swanston Street, from 1985 to 1997.

DOI

https://doi.org/10.24199/ZFBO7073

Citation

McGrath, N. (2025). Within living memory: The transfer of Mary Featherston's Children’s Museum Archive. PRISM, 1, 13–20. https://doi.org/10.24199/ZFBO7073

Gallery

A yellow and red poster for a Children’s Museum exhibition which reads ‘You’re It!’ in large blue and black type. A coloured sketch of an early Children’s Museum concept and depicts children playing at various activities. A poster which reads ‘Your Skeleton’ and depicts the bones in a human body.

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