The Ballarat Historical Society was formed in 1933 as a not-for-profit organisation. Its aims are to preserve and store items of local historical importance and to encourage and facilitate research into the history of Ballarat.
Since 1981 the Society’s collection has been cared for and housed in the Ballarat Gold Museum, now the Australian Centre for Gold Rush Collections, where it forms an important part of the Centre’s overall collection. The collection can now be searched on-line by going to the Sovereign Hill website.
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The Capture The Vision photography Project sets out to reclaim hitherto uncollected images of Ballarat, particularly the years from 1940 until now, and to institute a program…
