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Best in Show: Bendigo Art Prize in the modern era
Highlights from the Bendigo Art Prize 1938–1967
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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.
Opening hours
We are open every day (except Christmas Day) 9am-5pm.
The history of our building
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.
Bendigo Visitor Centre
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.
Contact us
Pall Mall, Bendigo
Tel: +61 3 5434 6088
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Modern Revolution: Bendigo and the 1960s
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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RAW: the endless potential of clay
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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Bendigo Easter Fair: amusement, charity and tradition
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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Pieces of a story: people and places of Bendigo
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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Rule Britannia, the Golden City: royal visits to Bendigo
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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Vale: mourning, remembrance and Spiritualism in Bendigo 1851 - 1901
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
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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Bendigo for business, sunshine and pleasure
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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Taverns to Temperance: pubs of Bendigo
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
Post Office Gallery
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
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Composing Objects
Post Office Gallery
Composing Objects probes the innate creative desire to arrange three-dimensional objects.
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Menagerie: animals in Bendigo history
Post Office Gallery
Animals feature prominently in the myriad social history stories of Bendigo and surrounds.
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Eclectic Treasures: Bendigo’s private collections
Post Office Gallery
Collecting has a deep-rooted cultural history stemming from the 'cabinet of curiosities' which was common from the 16th century to today.
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Theatrical traditions: stage and screen in Bendigo
Post Office Gallery
Western theatrical traditions came to Bendigo with fortune seekers in the 1850s.
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Opulence: luxury in early Bendigo homes
Post Office Gallery
Opulence: luxury in early Bendigo homes provides a snapshot of the eclectic and lavish aesthetic of the Victorian era.
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Bendigo enlists: the First World War 1914-18
Post Office Gallery
The First World War is said to be the single most defining event in modern history.
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Crime and punishment: a history of Bendigo's law and order
Post Office Gallery
With the discovery of gold in Sandhurst came a flood of hopeful diggers seeking to make their fortunes.
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A cure for all ills: medicine in Bendigo
Post Office Gallery
From chaotic beginnings to the formation of professional practice, the introduction of regulations against quackery and the establishment of long s
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Art for the People: Bendigo Art Gallery 1887 - 2013
Post Office Gallery
Bendigo Art Gallery, established in 1887, has played, and continues to play an important role in the local Bendigo community.
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Mapping great change: the landscape of central Victoria
Post Office Gallery
Mapping great change: the landscape of central Victoria explored significant historical and cultural changes occurring upon and within the
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Childhood: growing up in Bendigo
Post Office Gallery
Childhood for some is sun-soaked and sugar-coated and for others, full of awkward moments and obstacles; nonetheless, it is a time considerably sha
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Celebrating 150 years: rail in Bendigo and the Bendigo Brass Band
Post Office Gallery
Celebrating 150 years: rail in Bendigo and the Bendigo Brass Band explored the long and proud history of the rail industry in Bendigo and
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Hidden Worlds: glimpses from Bendigo's Forest Street archaeological excavation
Post Office Gallery
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Hidden Worlds: glimpses from Bendigo's Forest Street archaeological excavation
Post Office Gallery
Hidden Worlds offered a peek into recent archaeological excavations undertaken in Bendigo with a focus on the 2009 dig at 10–16 Forest Str
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Pride of Place: the first 60 years of building in Bendigo and surrounds
Post Office Gallery
Pride of Place celebrated the City of Greater Bendigo’s impressive early growth – the commitment of our towns to become self-sustaining co
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Beginning in Bendigo: from humble origins to a captured market
Post Office Gallery
Beginning in Bendigo celebrated the achievements of the city’s innovators, from the Myer department store to the infamous showground favou
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Naming Bendigo: evolution of a city's identity 1836-1891
Post Office Gallery
The first exhibition launched at Post Office Gallery, Naming Bendigo examined the first 55 years of Bendigo’s settlement, through the nome
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