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Drop-in and view the original 1854 Eureka Flag and the hand sewn Eureka Community Flag before participating in our sewing and puppet making workshop. Take home a miner, soldier or seamstress that you sew and decorate yourself. Parents can leave their children under the supervision of our professional educators or stay and join in the creative activities with their kids.

In 2014 Ballarat community members created a replica Eureka Flag that was raised to mark the 160th anniversary of the 1854 Eureka Stockade. This community flag is featured in this exhibition alongside the tools and materials used to create it and photographs that tell its story.

'People Watching' is an exhibition of large-scale photographs by Clement Hong Yui Chan that capture scenes of everyday life in his home city of Hong Kong.

Join Robyn Annear for an enlightening talk about the tragic phenomenon of women's clothing catching fire in the mid-1800s. You can attend Talking History in person at the Eureka Centre (no booking required) or stream live from home via Facebook.

To mark NAIDOC Week, the Eureka Centre presents ‘Facing Up’, a powerful creative collaboration between Indigenous and non-Indigenous performers.

To mark NAIDOC Week, the Eureka Centre presents ‘Facing Up’, a powerful creative collaboration between Indigenous and non-Indigenous performers. Followed by Q&A.

Dr Ian Clark goes on ‘A Ramble through the place names of the Ballarat district’ 

Escape the winter cold these school holidays with The Art of Storytelling at the Eureka Centre Ballarat.

Dr David Waldron explores the surviving historical traces of the practices of cunning men and women (folk healers) in colonial Australia.