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Australian Children's Folklore Collection
The Australian Children's Folklore Collection (ACFC), housed in the Museum of Victoria, is Australia's only public archive of children's folklore.
It contains games, rhymes, jokes, riddles, superstitions and other kinds of child lore from the 1940s to the present. The collection includes photographs, audio and video tapes, documents, drawings, play artefacts and over 10,000 card files.
It contains specialist collections of children's lore, including the Dorothy Howard Collection and children's Museum Collection.
The ACFC is used for research purposes by scholars from a variety of disciplines and by writers, journalists and others interested in childhood and folklore.
It is a 'living' archive - it continues to grow and is open to the public. The Australian Children's Folklore Collection is an archive, it does not have a display space.
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- Australian Conservation Foundation Archives
- Australian Film Institute Research Collection
- Australian Red Cross, Victoria, Archives
- BirdLife Australia
- Blessed Sacrament Congregation & St Francis Church Heritage Centre
- Centre for Contemporary Photography (CCP)
- Chinese Museum
- Museo Italiano and Co.As.It. Italian Historical Society
- Collingwood Historical Society
- Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Ophthalmologists / Royal Victorian Eye and Ear Hospital Museum
- Department of Transport Library
- Fire Services Museum of Victoria
- Goold Catholic Museum
- Grainger Museum University of Melbourne
- Legion of Mary: Melbourne Senatus
- Mary MacKillop Heritage Centre
- Melbourne Museum
- Museums Victoria
- National Archives of Australia - Victorian Office
- National Trust of Australia (Victoria)
- Old Melbourne Gaol, National Trust of Australia (Victoria)
- Old Treasury Building
- Parliament of Victoria
- Print Council of Australia
- Public Record Office Victoria
- RMIT Design Archives
- RMIT University Art Collection
- RMIT University School of Art
- Royal Australasian College of Surgeons
- Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Obstetricians & Gynaecologists
- Royal Children's Hospital Archives
- Royal Historical Society of Victoria
- Royal Melbourne Hospital Archives
- Russian Ethnic Representative Council of Vic. Inc
- St Vincent's Hospital Melbourne, Archives and Heritage Centre
- State Library of Victoria
- The Royal Society of Victoria (Inc)
- The Salvation Army - Australia Southern Territory Archives and Museum
- The Victorian Mental Health Library
- The Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research Archives
- Tracy Maund Historical Collection
- Trinity College Cultural Collections
- Ukrainian Arts & Craft Museum
- University of Melbourne - Louise Hanson-Dyer Music Library Rare Collections
- University of Melbourne Archives
- University of Melbourne Herbarium
- University of Melbourne Map Collection: Rare and Historical Maps
- University of Melbourne Rare Books - Brownless Medical Library
- University of Melbourne Rare Books - Earth Sciences Library
- University of Melbourne Rare Books - East Asian
- University of Melbourne Rare Books - Legal Resource Centre
- University of Melbourne Rare Books and Special Collections, Baillieu Library
- University of Melbourne, School of Engineering: Historical Collection
- University of Melbourne, Architecture & Planning Library Rare Materials Collection
- University of Melbourne, Australian Science and Technology Heritage Centre
- University of Melbourne, Bionic Ear Archive
- University of Melbourne, Classics and Archaeology Collection
- University of Melbourne, Classics and Archaeology Library
- University of Melbourne, Earth Sciences, F.A. Singleton Collection
- University of Melbourne, Electrical Engineering Education Museum
- University of Melbourne, Faculty of Music Musical Instruments Collection: Rare and Historic Examples
- University of Melbourne, Harry Brookes Allen Museum of Anatmony & Pathology
- University of Melbourne, Ian Potter Museum of Art
- University of Melbourne, Malcolm Fraser Collection
- University of Melbourne, Print Collection, Baillieu Library
- University of Melbourne, Property and Campus Services Photographic Collection
- University of Melbourne, Surveying and Geomatic Engineering Collection
- University of Melbourne, The School of Physics Museum
- University of Melbourne, Tiegs Zoology Museum
- University of Melbourne, Veterinary Anatomy Collection
- Villa Alba Museum
- Wesley Mission Melbourne Archives
- Women's Liberation and Lesbian Feminist Archives