Next date: Monday, 05 October 2026 | 10:00 AM to 06:00 PM
You Have a New Memory is a State Library Victoria exhibition that explores how and why people remember, through the lens of the Library's enduring collections. A meditation on the idea of memory, the exhibition invites curiosity about how memories are made, preserved and shared. Through a cinematic slideshow alongside objects on display, encounter extraordinary and little-known memories hand-picked from the State Library's collection, spanning more than 4.5 million items – from deeply personal diaries and sacred cultural artefacts to stories we may never fully know. Across 170 years of collecting and stewardship, the exhibition elevates the ordinary and the exceptional alike to show that our collective memory is built as much from everyday life as it is from historic events. Moving between the intimate and the collective, You Have a New Memory invites you to reflect on your own memories – and leave with new ones.
State Library Victoria, 328 Swanston Street, Melbourne, 3000, View Map
328 Swanston Street , Melbourne 3000
A family sitting around a dining table eating a meal together
Inside You Have a New Memory exhibition
People sitting around a screen watching a film
Credit: Angela Lynkushka (Born 1947) Women and children discuss health and child development issues
A box of original Melbourne zoo keys
Credit: Airspy (Firm)(active 1920s–1960s) Clouds Bass Strait, Winter 1945 glass plate negative. H91.
A person watching a video iPad
Maggie Diaz (1925–2016) Higgins family 1964 black-and-white negative H2015.32/57. Image used with t
Old magazine recipe cut outs in a journal
Herald Feature Service (active 1840–1990) Large crowd of shoppers on footpath in front of Manton’s
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