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Save this for your next day out at Rippon Lea Esta Save this for your next day out at Rippon Lea Estate. Or send it to someone you’d love to bring along. There’s always something new to discover at Rippon Lea. Here are 9 different ways to experience the estate over the coming months: 🐾 Dog Day Out 🏛️ Mansion Tours 🫖 High Tea in the Ballroom 🚗 Father’s Day: Classic Car Show from the Super ’70s ✏️ Nature Journaling 🌿 Garden Tours 🖌️ Chinese Brush Painting 🐦 Bird Spotting Tours 🛍️ The Trust Makers’ Market 📍Rippon Lea Estate, Elsternwick Swipe through for all the details, save the dates that catch your eye, and start planning your next visit. Which one are you adding to your calendar? Find out more and book via the link in our bio. Bird photo credits: Top left & right: Silvereye (Danny Heneberg) Bottom right: Eastern Spinebill (Timothy Day) Bottom left: Late Summer Bliss (Melanie Hampel)
Father’s Day is just around the corner! Jack’s sho Father’s Day is just around the corner! Jack’s showing off some of the great gifts available from the National Trust Shop at Tasma Terrace, across our properties and now in our new online store. From heritage-inspired gifts and books, vintage fashion to something a little different like a leather Ned Kelly drink holder, there’s plenty to choose from for the dads, grandads and father figures in your life. 🎁 Shopping online? Order in the next few days to help make sure your gift arrives in time for Father’s Day. 📍 Shopping at Tasma Terrace? We’re open Thursday to Saturday, 10am–4pm. 🏛️ Shopping at one of our properties? Check the individual property opening hours before you visit. Save this post and plan your Father’s Day shopping, or share it with your family and start deciding on a gift Dad will love.
Get up close with historic garments at Dress Detec Get up close with historic garments at Dress Detectives: Up Close with the Fashion & Dress Collection at the Old Magistrates’ Court (rarely accessible to the public)! Led by one of the National Trust’s expert education facilitators, this immersive, hands-on experience invites you to examine garments dating from the 1830s onwards. With gloves on, explore changing styles, silhouettes, materials and manufacturing techniques, and discover what clothing can reveal about women’s lives, freedoms and identities through time. 🗓️ Saturday 12 September 2026
🕙 10am–11.30am
📍 Old Magistrates’ Court, Old Melbourne Gaol
 Come and uncover the stories stitched into these remarkable garments. Share with a friend who would love this and book your place via the link in bio.
Due to popular demand, A Rich Seam – Exploring His Due to popular demand, A Rich Seam – Exploring Historical Refashioning from the NTAV Collection is back. Join fashion historian Dr Lorinda Cramer and National Trust curator Lizzie Anya-Petrivna for an up-close look at selected pieces from the NTAV collection. Through a slow approach to seeing, these fashion experts will reveal the hidden richness and knowledge found within refashioned garments. Explore sustainability, circularity and strategies of reuse, and how clothes were updated, reconstructed, refreshed and reused. 🗓️ Thursday 27 August
🕡 6.30–8pm
📍 Tasma Library, Tasma Terrace, East Melbourne
🎟️ $55 - book your ticket via the link in bio Share this with a friend who loves upcycling, sustainable fashion, sewing or material history.
Who would you take inside H Division? Once known Who would you take inside H Division? Once known by those imprisoned within its walls as “Hell Division”, this imposing cell block holds some of the most confronting stories in Pentridge Prison’s history. Discover the experiences of the prisoners and warders who passed through its corridors, from daily life behind bars to punishment, resistance and daring escape attempts. For a limited time, two adults can explore H Division for the price of one on Thursdays and Fridays. That’s two tickets for $38, including a 90-minute guided experience enhanced by immersive audio. 📍 Pentridge Prison Tours, pentridgecoburg 🎟️ Two adults for $38 🗓 Thursdays and Fridays until 18 September 🆓 National Trust Members receive free H Division daytime tours (A 1-year membership starts from $90 per individual or $120 per household (2 adults and up to 4 children or grandchildren under 18) + $40 joining fee waived if you join at any of our properties. You can also discover Pentridge after dark or combine a tour with drinks and three curated bites at olivine_wine_bar. Explore all the different ways to experience Pentridge Prison via the link in our bio. Share this with someone fascinated by true crime and Melbourne’s darker history.
This weekend is looking mostly sunny, so why not h This weekend is looking mostly sunny, so why not head outdoors and visit a tree that’s captured your heart? Maybe it has a dramatic history, a canopy that stops you in your tracks, brings people together or provides a home for other living things. It doesn’t have to be the biggest or oldest. It could simply be a significant tree that holds a special place in your heart or your community. If it’s located in Victoria and already listed on the National Trust Register of Significant Trees, take a photo and tell us why you think it should be the 2026 Victorian Tree of the Year. Nominations close Sunday 30 August 2026. Find your tree and nominate via the link in our bio. Know someone who loves trees and exploring nature? Share this with them.
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