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ExhibitionsAt the Australian National University we care for thousands of documents of all kinds - maps, diaries, company and trade union records, journals, photographs, sound recordings and more. While the University Archives serves as the corporate memory of the ANU, documenting the achievements of its staff and students, the Noel Butlin Archives Centre documents the working lives of many Australians by preserving the records of Australian companies and trade unions. When in Canberra, discover these memories and stories for yourself by visiting unique exhibitions at the Noel Butlin Archives Centre and other locations around the city. Exhibitions are free and are open on weekdays from 9 am to 5 pm. For information on location, please see Location and Facilities. Current exhibitionWith kind thoughts and best wishes…Season’s greetings at Christmas
Some past exhibitions
The Challenge of Progress: ANU in 195129 August 2001 – 5 October 2001 The launch of this exhibition marked the creation of the ANU Archives Program,
which brought together the University Archives and the Noel Butlin Archives
Centre under the leadership of Dr Sigrid McCausland, University Archivist. Rarely
seen items from the University Archives focused on the ANU community fifty years
ago. The first part of the exhibition’s title comes from an address given by
the then ANU Vice-Chancellor, Professor Sir Douglas Copland, on 28 January 1951.
Wine! An Australian Social History18 April 2001 - 23 July 2001 A variety of items from two Noel Butlin Archives Centre collections, Lindeman
(Holdings) Ltd and Burns Philp & Co Ltd, were used in this exhibition at
the National Archives of Australia. Historical photographs, wine labels and
advertisements helped to explore the nature and evolution of the wine industry
in Australia. For more information, please see http://www.naa.gov.au/exhibitions/wine/wine.html. The Rural Entrepreneurs4 October 2000 This exhibition accompanied the launch of Simon Ville’s book The rural entrepreneurs:
A history of the stock and station agent industry in Australia and New Zealand
(Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press, 2000). The book drew heavily
on the pastoral collections held at the Noel Butlin Archives Centre. Unique
items presented in the exhibition illustrated the history of the stock and station
industry as presented in the book. Australians at Play: Picnics, Sports and Olympic Fever8 August 2000- 27 October 2000
This exhibition was prepared as part of the ANU Library's Two Millionth Book
Celebrations, and was launched by the speaker of the ACT Legislative Assembly,
Greg Cornwell. It sought to explore the roles of sport, leisure and spectatorship
in Australian life, particularly as they relate to work. The exhibition drew
on the Centre's extensive collections of company and trade union records. Through
the items on display, viewers were invited to join company and trade union members
in a picnic pillow fight, a race between married and single ladies, a cricket
match with the CSR Chief Chemist going out to bat, and many other thrilling
sporting occasions. Sub-themes included cycling in Australia, leisure activities
on a pastoral station and, of course, the 1956 Melbourne Olympics. In the South Seas: Landscapes and Faces26 June 2000 – 28 July 2000
This exhibition was prepared to coincide with the Millennial Conference of
the Pacific History Association, which was held in June 2000. It contained rarely
displayed photographs from the records of Burns Philp & Co Ltd held at the
Noel Butlin Archives Centre. The exhibition’s main focus was to explore the
ancient lyrical motif of the "Happy Isles", as seen by a European
traveller of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. The
selection of items took the viewers "on a poetic journey through the literary
allusions and photographic images of the Pacific islands". That Voluminous Squatter: WE Abbott, Wingen24 June 1999 – 4 August 1999 This exhibition accompanied the launch of John Merritt’s book That voluminous squatter (Bungendore, NSW: Turalla Press, 1999) - a biography of William Abbott, prominent NSW pastoralist and an avid member of the Pastoralists Union of NSW. During the turbulent 1890s Abbot led employers' resistance to the Amalgamated Shearers Union, and later served the Pastoralists Union as its President for more than 15 years. The exhibition documented the heated conflict between shearers and their employers, using items from the NBAC collections of the NSW Farmers Association (successor of the Pastoralists Union) and the Australian Workers Union (successor of the Amalgamated Shearers Union).
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