State Library Victoria
Domed reading room and Australiana archive inside a nineteenth-century public library complex.
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About this audio guide
This guide to State Library Victoria centers on Redmond Barry, the judge whose statue stands on the forecourt, who founded the library in 1854 and personally picked its earliest books. It turns to a very different afternoon in 1880, when Barry sentenced the bushranger Ned Kelly to hang and Kelly answered him back in the dock. Walk past the statue into the reading rooms Barry filled with thousands of volumes.
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