Vic: Melbourne City to collect Games memorabilia

AAP General News (Australia)
04-02-2006
Vic: Melbourne City to collect Games memorabilia

MELBOURNE, April 2 AAP - The City of Melbourne plans to amass a collection of Commonwealth
Games memorabilia that Lord Mayor John So says will keep alive the memory of the 2006
Games for all Victorians.

Items collected will be handed to the council's arts and heritage collection.

A complete Commonwealth Games volunteer's uniform from 2006 has now been included in
the collection, Mr So said.

The council hopes to add photographs, tickets, programs, replica medals and athletes' uniforms.

"The Commonwealth Games have been a remarkable success and the memories for all those
who attended sports and cultural events or watched the action from afar will last a lifetime,"

Mr So said in a statement today.

"We are collecting Games-related items to keep those memories alive and to show to
future generations what a truly wonderful event it was."

The collection already features items from the 1956 Olympic Games including an Olympic
torch, invitations, programs, books and tickets and a wooden model of a coxed four rowing
team presented by the victorious Italians from 1956, Mr So said.

"Our memorabilia from both the 1956 Olympics and the 2006 Commonwealth Games would
clearly show how sport, society and the city itself have changed in the past five decades."

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