Sunday – 1 October 2023, 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 – 24 October 2023, 5.30 – 7.30pm ‘Improving, Refining, and Elevating’: the Melbourne Public Library Art Treasures Exhibition 1869, by John Botham, Chair of the Friends of La Trobe’s Cottage. The talk rediscovers the old Great Hall of the Melbourne Public Library and its spectacular decoration by Edward La Trobe Bateman. The Art Treasures […]
Open Day at La Trobe’s Cottage
Sunday – October 2023 to April 2024, 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 […]