The Post Office Gallery interprets the Bendigo’s rich and dynamic history. It hosts a changing annual exhibition program of collections, artefacts and material that explores the history of the region.
The Gallery is housed in the grand former Post Office building, in the heart of town on Pall Mall.
We are open every day (except Christmas Day) 9am-5pm.
The Sandhurst Public Offices on Pall Mall were built during the city’s prosperous gold era and officially opened on 30 September 1887. This grand Renaissance Revival-style building operated as the city’s post office for over a century, until Australia Post moved into their new city facility at the corner of Williamson and Hargreaves streets in 1996.
The former Post Office building is also home to Bendigo’s tourist information centre.
Bendigo is known for its heritage and culture. The city’s attractions include the Capital Theatre, the Golden Dragon Museum, the Central Deborah Mine and Bendigo Tramway’s Talking Trams.
Pall Mall, Bendigo
Tel: +61 3 5434 6088
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The 1960s is remembered as a dynamic decade; a time of great social and political change. This exhibition features the insights and memorabilia of a selection of local people who grew up, lived and worked in Bendigo during that decade.
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Clay is a rich resource readily exploited for its artistic, practical and commercial potential. It is malleable, messy, resilient and alchemical with ceramic objects possessing an alluring potency distinct to their natural beginnings.
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The first Easter Fair was held in Bendigo (then Sandhurst) in 1871; two days of fun and frolic in charity’s cause. Now a significant tourist attraction, the event is highly anticipated by locals and visitors to the city and in 2020 will run for the 150th time.
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In literature, a vignette is a short scene that captures an important and defining detail about a character or element of a story. Vignettes are mostly descriptive; they are not complete plots or narratives. Vignettes are small parts of a larger work, and can only exist as pieces of a whole story.
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The first British royal visit to Bendigo was in December 1867, when Queen Victoria’s fourth child, Prince Alfred, Duke of Edinburgh, toured the Golden City. The celebrations marking HRH’s visit were soon marred by tragedy however, when three young boys died in a fire that took hold of a processional float laden with fireworks.
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The business of death – that is, the protocols for managing human death, as well as its associated rituals and practices – has been a part of civic life in Bendigo since the city’s earliest days.
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Bankrolling Bendigo: building a city traces the financial systems and structures that grew quickly and necessarily out of the gold-struck town and ultimately enabled the founding of a permanent city.
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Once touted as ‘The Golden City’ and ‘Gateway to the North’, Bendigo has long been a popular destination for visitors in pursuit of business and recreation.
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In a place where drinking beer was once seen as safer than drinking water, pubs were prolific as centres for social and commercial life in Bendigo. From the sly grog tents of the goldfields, to home style ‘taverns’ and the flourishing brewing industry, Taverns to Temperance: pubs of Bendigo illuminates the history of pubs and drinking culture in Bendigo.
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Vantage point: aerial views of Bendigo surveys early aviation in Bendigo, presenting a bird’s eye view of Bendigo in the first half of the 20th century.
Read MoreComposing Objects probes the innate creative desire to arrange three-dimensional objects.
Read moreAnimals feature prominently in the myriad social history stories of Bendigo and surrounds.
Read moreCollecting has a deep-rooted cultural history stemming from the 'cabinet of curiosities' which was common from the 16th century to today.
Read moreWestern theatrical traditions came to Bendigo with fortune seekers in the 1850s.
Read moreOpulence: luxury in early Bendigo homes provides a snapshot of the eclectic and lavish aesthetic of the Victorian era.
Read moreThe First World War is said to be the single most defining event in modern history.
Read moreWith the discovery of gold in Sandhurst came a flood of hopeful diggers seeking to make their fortunes.
Read moreFrom chaotic beginnings to the formation of professional practice, the introduction of regulations against quackery and the establishment of long s
Read moreBendigo Art Gallery, established in 1887, has played, and continues to play an important role in the local Bendigo community.
Read moreMapping great change: the landscape of central Victoria explored significant historical and cultural changes occurring upon and within the
Read moreChildhood for some is sun-soaked and sugar-coated and for others, full of awkward moments and obstacles; nonetheless, it is a time considerably sha
Read moreCelebrating 150 years: rail in Bendigo and the Bendigo Brass Band explored the long and proud history of the rail industry in Bendigo and
Read moreHidden Worlds offered a peek into recent archaeological excavations undertaken in Bendigo with a focus on the 2009 dig at 10–16 Forest Str
Read morePride of Place celebrated the City of Greater Bendigo’s impressive early growth – the commitment of our towns to become self-sustaining co
Read moreBeginning in Bendigo celebrated the achievements of the city’s innovators, from the Myer department store to the infamous showground favou
Read moreThe first exhibition launched at Post Office Gallery, Naming Bendigo examined the first 55 years of Bendigo’s settlement, through the nome
Read moreThe City of Greater Bendigo acknowledges the Dja Dja Wurrung and Taungurung Peoples as the traditional custodians of the lands across Bendigo.
We acknowledge and pay respect to their Elders past present and emerging.
