Performing Arts Collection
The Performing Arts Collection at the Arts Centre, Melbourne is the foremost and largest specialist performing arts collection in Australia, with over 450,000 items relating to the history of circus, dance, music, opera and theatre in Australia and of Australian performers overseas.
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