The extraordinary story behind Les Misérables is revealed in the world-first exhibition Victor Hugo: Les Misérables – From Page to Stage, which opens at the State Library of Victoria today.

Join Andrew Robb AO, Minister for Trade and Investment, as he argues the case for keeping markets open to trade and investment, and staying the course of market-led reforms.

The original 1862 manuscript of Les Misérables, a French national treasure, is leaving Europe for the first time to be exhibited exclusively at the State Library of Victoria, Minister for the Arts Heidi Victoria announced today.

ROME: Piranesi’s vision, the largest Australian exhibition of work from one of Europe’s best known and respected printmakers, Giovanni Battista Piranesi, opens at the State Library of Victoria on 22 February 2014.

Tickets are now on sale for Victor Hugo: Les Misérables – From Page to Stage, a world-first exhibition and the biggest to ever be staged at the State Library of Victoria.

The State Library of Victoria congratulates the recipients of the 2014 AGL Shaw Summer Research Fellowships: Gabriel Maddock, Rula Paterson and Dan Tout.

The State Library of Victoria last night announced a new collaboration with the Grattan Institute to create The Policy Pitch, a series of free public seminars that examine key policy issues facing Australia today.

The Centre for Youth Literature at the State Library of Victoria today announced the winners of the 2013 Inky Awards – Australia’s only national teen choice literary prize.

Cory Doctorow, award winning author, activist, futurist, and top Internet influencer will deliver a series of lectures and master classes at the State Library of Victoria from 22-25 November.

International human-rights lawyer Geoffrey Robertson QC weighs up the release of information in the public’s interest versus the fate of international whistleblowers Julian Assange, Chelsea Manning and Edward Snowden in the inaugural Big Ideas under the dome series.