Displays
|
|
Queensland VotesQueensland Votes showcases a fascinating collection of Queensland election memorabilia including posters, political cartoons, websites, t-shirts, badges, life sized Lawrence Springboard cardboard cut out and more from 1920s to current, in a visual story of our state’s political campaigning history: the players; the parties; and their bids for Vote 1. |
|
|
Songs from the heartSongs from the heart is a display of sheet music from the State Library of Queensland’s collection, dating from the early 20th century until the late 1950s. Countless songs have been written about love and romance, but these were chosen for their beautiful covers, each a fine example of an era in music publishing and design. |
 |
Truth to Tell: cartoons of A.J. HingstonThe political events of more than a century ago assume a fresh relevance in a new exhibition at the State Library. Truth to Tell: political cartoons of AJ Hingston features original pen and ink cartoons satirising the leaders, events and issues of Queensland politics at the turn of the twentieth century. Originally published in the weekly Truth newspaper, Arthur Hingston’s cartoons cast a satirical eye on the politics of the time.
|
|
|
New TreasuresNew Treasures displays a tantalising sample of recent material collected by the State Library, demonstrating that objects such as sheet music or travel posters also have a rich and revealing past. As New Treasures highlights, everything - from car manuals to silver medallions - contributes to our story. |
|
|
Meriba Gidhal: Torres Strait Island Treasures of the Margaret Lawrie CollectionThis exhibition takes one on a visual journey to Queensland’s most northern islands in the Torres Strait. The selected watercolours, drawings, photographs and books from the diverse Margaret Lawrie Collection illustrate traditional Islander stories and children’s games. |
|
|
Mapping the Great South Land: from Terra Incognita to New HollandTo celebrate 150 years of Queensland and the 75th year of the John Oxley Library, this display features rare maps from the State Library of Queensland collection. Beginning in 1572, these chart Australia’s coast and include maps by Tasman, Cook and Flinders. |
 |
Making Do: Pioneering gentry in North QueenslandThis display on nineteenth century pioneering life includes fascinating diaries, photographic albums, letters and books from the State Library's John Oxley Library collection. It reveals how people such as the Archers of Gracemere and the Rawsons of The Nyth and The Hollow made do when they exchanged their privileged lives in Britain to seek fortune and adventure in Queensland. Their accounts tell of both the novelty and the hardship of settling in a new country. Some stayed while others returned to the 'Motherland' or moved to other far-flung corners of the British Empire. |
|
|
Just gorgeous sheet musicThe State Library of Queensland holds one of Australia’s most extensive collections of sheet music. Over 100,000 items encompass the Georgian to modern eras of classical and popular music for voice and piano. The Just gorgeous sheet music display offers a broad introduction to the sheet music collection, and highlights some of its treasures from the Georgian (1714 – 1830), Victorian (1837 – 1901) and Edwardian (1901 - 1910) periods with beautifully illustrated covers. The display explores the history of music publishing and cover design, and also features some theatre programmes of the era. |
|
|
Birds of AustraliaRare early illustrations, historical documents, artworks and exquisite bird skins are brought together in this exhibition which captures our fascination with Australian bird life, from the 19th century through to today. Treasures in the exhibition include volumes from John Gould's Birds of Australia (1840-1948), paintings and photographs of many Queensland native birds, a 19th century glass bird dome case, bird and egg specimens, and contemporary artists' books. |
|
|
Drawn to the word: writers and artistsThe History and Art of the Book Collection, part of the State Library's Australian Library of Art, showcases and preserves ‘rare and fine books that reflect the art, craft, history and impact of the printed book’. This display demonstrates the development of books as tools of communication and objects of beauty. Many of these books represent fruitful collaborations between artists and writers. |
|
|
Unbound: artists' books from the collectionThe State Library of Queensland holds approximately 800 artists' books in the Australian Library of Art, thirty of which have been selected for this, the Treasures Wall's opening exhibition. |
|
|
Illuminated: books, albums and addressesThe State Library holds only a few books that are strictly speaking illuminated — hand painted in rich colours and using burnished metals — three books illustrated by Gordon Dalrymple Nichol being the premier examples. However there is also a fine collection of books representing the renaissance of this craft in England during Queen Victoria’s reign, and during the same period a number of illuminated addresses were produced in Queensland and given to significant people in recognition of their services. |
More information
If you have an enquiry contact us in the following ways:
For general enquiries:
- Ask at your local Queensland public library
- Other libraries [new window]
Last updated: 19th March 2012
Creatively engaging people with information, knowledge and community
