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Melbourne digital time capsule: unearthing rare city secrets during the COVID pandemic
Most of Melbourne was off-limits in 2020. With many iconic venues and locations in the city 'on pause' during a global pandemic, we set out to capture them for a project we call the Melbourne Digital Time Capsule.
This 'snapshot in time' revealed Melbourne in a new light: from deserted stages and empty hotel rooms to hidden rooftops and new laneway street art. As the city takes steps towards re-opening, the images will be preserved in the City Collection archive to help future generations understand what life was like in Melbourne during the time of COVID-19.
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Melbourne Digital Time Capsule
All imagery by Ray of Melbourne, unless otherwise stated.
The UooUoo holding pen in North Melbourne The hidden balcony and clocktower at Melbourne Town Hall Manchester Unity Building art deco boardroom and secret rooftop Blender Lane Studios The MCG library The airstream hotel on a rooftop CitiPower Substation J GPO Building The Johnston Collection Melbourne Central Shot Tower Rooftop Honey The Hotel Windsor Flinders Street Station lights from abovemelbourne.vic.gov.au
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This New Digital Time Capsule Immortalises Melbourne Locations in Lockdown
Go behind the scenes at more than 20 landmarks and usually off-limits spaces, including an ominous city power station, a Gothic-inspired art deco building, a rooftop beekeeping operation, and more.
We're currently living through (what we can only hope is) a once-in-a-generation thing. And today the City of Melbourne has unveiled a new project that will help preserve this strange period in the city's history - the Melbourne Digital Time Capsule.
The snapshot of our locked-down city includes images and footage that will soon be added to the City Collection for future generations to access online.
More than 20 Melbourne landmarks - plus rarely seen but culturally and historically significant locations that are usually off limits - have been immortalised in the digital time capsule. Go behind the scenes at the towering Hotel Windsor, the ominous Citipower Substation J, the art deco, Gothic-inspired Manchester Unity Building, city stalwart Spring Street Grocer, and urban beekeeping project Rooftop Honey.
You'll also get an inside look at the brightly coloured Royal Children's Hospital's Me and UooUoo public art trail.
"This is about showing Melburnians that the things they love are still here and there's always more to discover in our city," City of Melbourne CEO Justin Hanney said in a statement.
"From new street art in our laneways, to iconic buildings like the MCG and the State Library Victoria, Melbourne is Australia's cultural capital and we'll come back even stronger."
Highlights
Find highlights of the Melbourne Digital Time Capsule here before they're added to the City Collection in the coming months.
Source: This New Digital Time Capsule Immortalises Melbourne Locations in Lockdown
Published on 20 October 2020
by TOMAS TELEGRAMMA | broadsheet.com.au
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