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The Australian Cultural Library

We are open by appointment Wednesday & Thursday, 12 noon-5pm. Collection, and the Ron Edwards A.M. collection. The Australian Cultural Library Inc.
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The Australian Cultural Library is a 100% volunteer-run, independent reference-only library that aims to gather, preserve and promote as much of Australia's culture as possible. The Library collects items created by people who were born in Australia, migrated to Australia or were directly connected to Australian culture. The collection encompasses music, film, visual arts, performing arts, literat

ure, zines, history and more. It currently holds over 100,000 items including books, sheet music, music recordings, DVDs, film, posters, t-shirts and paintings; from the well-known to the rare and obscure. Special collections include the Queensland Arts Council archive, QPIX film collection (believed to be largest collection of QLD film-making in the world), the Bernie Snep Collection (largest collection of Toowoomba live recordings), the Dulcie Mason collection (73 hand sewn ball gowns from the 1950s to 2000), the Judith Rodriguez A.M. & Thomas Shapcott A.O. The Library promotes Australian art, fosters scholarship into the arts, and runs programs to support the arts and artists. It hosts events with music performances, poetry readings, visual art, film screenings and more. These events often highlight items from the library's holdings as well as new creations by contemporary Australian artists. Likewise, ACL's programs draw upon library's collection as a resource for scholarship and for the creation of new works. is not government- or corporate-funded. It relies on donations and volunteers to contribute, collect, house and manage its resources. Donations of items to the collection or towards running costs are welcome, as are volunteers for a wide range of roles. It is open via appointment Wednesday and Thursday, 12 noon to 5pm. The Australian Cultural Library is 100% volunteer run and 100% donation based.

31/08/2026

With the onset of another El Niño, it's great timing for The Australian Cultural Library to have installed 4 water tanks 💧🌿🌺 Big kudos to Steve for keeping on top of it all (and for shovelling yet another truck load of crusher dust 🫣) and to Ron for his hands-on expertise and for donating a water pump.

The tanks should fill up quickly from the large surface area of the hall roof, and help keep the lawn, roses, citrus and other plants at their best through drier seasons. It's just in time for spring blossoms, so hopefully there's a good summer harvest this year.

As well as thanks to Ron & Steve for their volunteer efforts and the pump, thanks to our local Bendigo Bank at Rosewood for a grant of $5,500 to buy the tanks, base materials and various bibs & bobs to connect them up 🙏 We've planned this installation for ages, and the grant was the boost we needed to get it done sooner.

📷 by Steve Towson as the project has progressed.

05/08/2026

Loads of amazing donations to the Australian Cultural Library. Thanks to Justin Bishop, Kimbeaux Dawson, Penny Davies, the Rosewood Light house Goodwill op shop, and Sean from Swashbuckling Hobo records.

28/06/2026

A lovely start to the day. The Australian Cultural Library being awarded 6 prizes including the Champion Rose at this weekend's Rosewood Show. Many thanks to all the army of volunteers at the Rosewood Show and the Australian Cultural Library for their efforts to create a sense of community.

19/05/2026

Huge thanks to all the wonderful volunteer workers for the Australian Cultural Library's last weekend. Eugene and the Egg, Rory McKenna, Penny Davies and Roger Ilott, Pat Menz, Kimbeaux Dawson, Frank Lee Frivolous Carol Shore, Ron Towson, Vanessa Glenn and Morley Grainger. Plus all those who turned up to support. Another very inspiring event.

18/05/2026

Many thanks to Shirley And Bevan Dance who took the Australian Cultural Library contributions to last weekend's Qld Rose Show. The library was very fortunate to win three 1st Prizes and a 2nd prize. In a very sweet addition one of the 1st prizes was from the "Green Rose" donated at the previous Library event by the family of Margaret Jacobson whom aN ACL garden was named after.

14/05/2026

Massive thanks to Frank Lee Frivolous and Carol Shore for their amazing hard work today, making curtains for the performers area at the Australian Cultural Library and cleaning preparations for this Saturday's exciting event.

05/05/2026

Massive thanks to Frank Lee Frivolous and Ashleigh Williams for their amazing work at the Australian Cultural Library setting up for the next exhibition and music event on the 16th May. Here's a few photos of the prep for the up coming Morley Grainger part of the event.

24/04/2026

The Australian Cultural Library was asked if we would like to be part of tomorrow's ANZAC day commemoration, receiving a publication of the history of people of the region who served during World War 2. This honour will be received by Ron Towson who served in the Airforce at Amberley and is the current armed forces history curator.

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66 John Street
Rosewood, QLD
4340

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+61438737917

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