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The Melbourne Cup: 150 years of history
Isa Menzies, National Museum of Australia
Behind the Scenes – Landmarks series, 10 November 2010
The first Tuesday in November this year sees the running of the 150th Melbourne Cup. Curator Isa Menzies gives an insight into the race that stops the nation: from the glitz and glamour to the seamy underside of horseracing in Australia.
Behind the Scenes – Landmarks series
- Landmarks: behind the scenes with conservatorsAinslie Greiner, Carmela Mollica, Nicki Smith and Daniel Oakman
- The Melbourne Cup: 150 years of historyIsa Menzies, National Museum of Australia
- The Chinese in BendigoAnne-Marie Conde, National Museum of Australia
- Parliament for the peopleJennifer Wilson, National Museum of Australia
- Matthew Flinders in the Recherche ArchipelagoPip McNaught, National Museum of Australia
- The Sunshine harvesterLeah Bartsch, National Museum of Australia
- Creating a colony: the European settlement of Tasmania 1803–1853Anthea Gunn, National Museum of Australia
- Robe is not famous for robesJennifer Wilson, National Museum of Australia
- The ‘spirit of inquiry’ in Port MacquarieRoslyn Russell, National Museum of Australia
- Heavens above!Vince Ford, Hermann Wehner and Dr Kirsten Wehner
- ‘Never enough grass’ and Bowen DownsDr George Main, National Museum of Australia
- Introduction to the Creating a Country galleryDr Kirsten Wehner, National Museum of Australia
