Monash University Archives, Melbourne

Monash University Archives, Melbourne

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Monash University was established by an Act of the Victorian Parliament in 1958 and took its first students at Clayton Campus in 1961. The University Archives was established in 1978 following passage of the Victorian Public Records Act. In the 1990s Monash merged with:

• Chisholm Institute of Technology
• Gippsland Institute of Advanced Education, and
• Pharmacy College of Victoria
  giving it a further four campuses. Historical records from those campuses are also held in the Archives.

The University Archives are in-house and geared to documenting administrative processes and the teaching and research functions of the University. The Archives also accepts private papers from senior staff when appropriate.

Administrative records from offices of the Vice Chancellor, Deans, and academic Heads of Departments; and agenda and minutes of University boards and committees.
Records of Monash Association of Students; Managers of Alexander and George Jenkins theatres and Robert Blackwood Hall; and private papers of individual academics.
Administrative correspondence, board and committee papers relating to:

• Chisholm Institute of Technology and its predecessors, 1922-1990
• State College of Victoria (Frankston), 1959-1977
• Gippsland Institute of Advanced Education, 1970-1990 and
• Pharmacy College of Victoria, 1960-1993.

Archives webpages include details of:

• collections of personal papers held
• digitised university publications, and
• databases of historical images and past graduates.
  More detailed series descriptions are available on request.

Open Monday to Friday 8.30am-4pm by appointment.
Closed between Christmas and New Year.

Restrictions on access to personal and confidential records.

A location map with parking and bus routes is included on the website at www.monash.edu

Reference enquiries and requests to visit can be emailed to archives@monash.edu

Copies may be provided contingent on condition and format of original records and on volume requested.

Revised 11 April 2018

• Arts and Culture (Thematic area)
• Éducation (Thematic area)
• Law and Justice (Thematic area)
• Medicine and Health (Thematic area)
• Science and Technology (Thematic area)
• Social Organisations and Activities (Thematic area)