Royal Exhibition Building
Grand nineteenth-century exhibition hall with a soaring Renaissance-style dome, the first Australian building named a UNESCO World Heritage site.
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This guide to the Royal Exhibition Building in Melbourne opens on the ninth of May, nineteen oh one, as the first Parliament of federated Australia gathers beneath this dome, and turns to painter Tom Roberts, handed the job of capturing the scene on canvas. It follows his two and a half years chasing sittings around the world for what became known as the Big Picture. Stand beneath the same dome the crowd once filled.
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