Sunday – 6 October 2024, 1 – 4pm Garden Day at La Trobe’s Cottage. Spring Opening of the charming garden, with an emphasis on the heritage plants that La Trobe favoured. Tours of the garden scheduled for 1.15, 2.15 and 3.15pm; in addition to tours of the house throughout the afternoon (last house tour 3.30pm). […]
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La Trobe Society History Month Lecture
Tuesday – 15 October 2024, 5.30 – 7.30pm John Auchterlonie Creelman: a ship’s surgeon and colonial doctor, 1848 to 1889, by Lorraine Finlay. An Edinburgh University graduate who arrived in Melbourne in January 1848, Creelman led an eventful career in regional towns as a doctor, a coroner and public vaccinator and was a medical witness […]
Open Day at La Trobe’s Cottage
Sunday – October 2024 to April 2025, 1.00 – 3.30pm Spend your afternoon in the beautiful Domain, with a guided tour of the home of our first governor Charles Joseph La Trobe and his family. You will be able to see their elegant yet simple prefabricated house from Melbourne’s early days, surrounded by plants from […]