If you are one to regularly find yourself defending your shop-o-holism as “retail therapy” here is a new way to intellectualise and justify your favourite pursuit. Shopping is a crucial part of a Melburnian’s way of life.
We are sponsors of the exhibition ”til you drop: Shopping – a Melbourne history’. The showcase opened on Friday the 11th December and runs until October 2010 at the State Library of Victoria‘s Keith Murdoch Gallery (304-328 Swanston Street, Melbourne). Open from 10am to 5pm and late night until 9pm on Thursday nights, the exhibition takes a look at the way shops and the way we shop have changed since Melbourne’s early settlement to today and the integral part shopping has played in moulding our society and history. Recall iconic retail destinations that are still thriving today like the Paris end of Collins street, our historic arcades and the Georges on Collins building or indeed the evolution of Melbourne’s GPO itself.
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