School Days: Education in Victoria

Melbourne's Old Treasury Building will transport the public back in time to the classrooms of the late 1800s to today in a new exhibition opening in March.

The School Days: Education in Victoria exhibition will feature classroom stories, school photographs, old text books, and memorabilia straight from the vaults of the state archives of Public Record Office Victoria.

Through a range of nostalgic displays be reminded of the days when milk was delivered to every child and being caned was all part of a normal child's education, and see how Victorian education has changed since 1872 when Victoria became the first state to establish a public school system based on the principles of free, secular and compulsory education.