This morning we woke to a view of hot-air balloons over the city!

We took the bus into the CBD and stopped at the renowned State Library of Victoria. An absolutely fantastic building housing riveting exhibits! The Reading Room is crowned by a dome that lets in natural light.

The details are beautiful!

A current exhibit is about Misleading Information or Misinformation. This section told the story of a PR campaign by Shell oil in the 1960’s “See Australia with Shell”. The marketing used fairies and beautiful iconic Australian images. An artist recreated the scenes using ‘blak’ fairies and a true depiction of the ravages of the oil industry on the natural environment.

Of course books are the main focus in a library, and they have wonderful displays of their collection. This caught my eye, the gray faced flying fox!