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The business name, National Centre for Photography, was registered with ASIC in March 2018. [1] After the purchase in April 2018 of its premises for $1.3 million by the Ballarat International Foto Biennale and already functioning for its 2019 season 24 August – 20 October, [2] [3] the National Centre for Photography hosted the group exhibition Capital in the chambers of 1860s Union Bank on ...
Sovereign Hill is an open-air museum in Golden Point, a suburb of Ballarat, Victoria, Australia. Sovereign Hill depicts Ballarat's first ten years after the discovery of gold there in 1851 and has become a nationally acclaimed tourist attraction. [1] It is one of Victoria's most popular attractions and Ballarat's most famous. [2]
In his seminal Flag of Stars, Frank Cayley published two sketches he discovered on a visit to the soon-to-be headquarters of the Ballarat Historical Society in 1963, which may be the original plans for the Eureka Flag. One is a two-dimensional drawing of a flag bearing the words "blue" and "white" to denote the colour scheme.
Ballarat Heritage Services, also known as BHS Publishing, is an Australian publisher in Ballarat, Victoria. It was founded in 1998 by Clare Gervasoni, Dorothy Wickham and Wayne Phillipson, to promote Victorian local and family history in historical gold mining towns of the Victorian gold rush .
The National Register is a federal register for buildings, structures, and sites of historic significance. This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts in Columbus. There are 360 properties and districts listed on the National Register in Franklin County , including 3 National Historic Landmarks .
Buninyong / ˈ b ʌ n ɪ n j ɒ ŋ / is a town 11 km from Ballarat in Victoria, Australia. [2] The town is on the Midland Highway, south of Ballarat on the road to Geelong.. Buninyong was proclaimed a town on 27 June 1851 on the same day as Winchelsea, Portarlington, Longwood, Avenel, Cavendish, Euroa and Gisborne. [3]
[3]: 41 The Ballarat Tramway Preservation Society was also formed in 1971 to start, and run, an authentic tramway. [3]: 44 In 1978 the society was incorporated, as the Ballarat Tourist Tramway. [4]: 14 It was renamed the Ballarat Vintage Tramway in 1981. [4]: 14 In 1995 they changed the name to the Ballarat Tram Museum Inc. [3]: 51
After descendants found Doudiet's sketchbook in an attic in 1996, it was put up for sale by auction at Christie's. Money was raised by the Ballarat Fine Art Gallery, whose successful bid of AU$ 220,000 (equivalent to $420,000 in 2022) allowed them to add the sketchbook to its historical collection connected to Ballarat and the Eureka Stockade.