Bronze Stories: Geelong Unearthed is a text-based public-art project designed and funded by the City of Greater Geelong, which aims to unearth Geelong’s fascinating history in the rapidly modernising urban landscape.
Bronze Stories – Geelong Unearthed
Nine amazing stories about the Wadawurrung people, convicts, migrants, Geelong’s maritime history, the gold rush, WWI and WWII have been immortalised on bronze plaques outside historic sites in Central Geelong. While the bronze plaques contain fragments of text designed to capture your imagination, fuller histories—and photographs relevant to those histories—are available on this Geelong Arts and Culture Trails pages.
Whether you’re a resident or visitor, deepen your experience of our historic and wonderful city by the bay. The trail can be completed in under an hour, though there are plenty of cafes and specialty shops to tempt you to stop along the way.
Conceptual designer: Kaz Paton
Project coordinators: Kaz Paton, Katharine Oliver, Steve Singline
Story designer, story researcher, and writer: Maria Takolander
Trail designer: Shaye Singline
A building that sways
When the building started to sway, the sailors didn't even notice.
A homesick Swiss vigneron
Bronze Stories: Geelong Unearthed
A world-famous funambulist - Bronze Stories: Geelong Unearthed
Look! A man walking through the air, just above the water there.
Detonating a famous shipwreck
They gathered in their thousands, waiting for the sea to explode.
Lillias Strachan visits Geelong
The bride unlaced her petticoat in the pitch darkness of the slab hut.
Protest - no more convicts!
They came by horseback, carriage and foot, amassing angrily beneath the clock tower.
Remembering Dan Dan Nook
Three Wadawurrung men and three She-oak trees.
Woman Doctor, War Hero
She was fearless in the delivery room as on the battlefield.
Map of locations
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