Drugs: a social history
What:
Drugs: a social history
Where:
Melbourne Museum, Nicholson Street, Carlton Gardens
When:
Friday May 9 – Sun Sept 21
How much:
Free with museum entry
Win:
We have a double pass to Drugs: a social history to give away. For your chance to win email win@threehousand.com.au with subject ‘those round-table sessions taught me everything I know’
We’ve come a long way since prescribing heroin to pregnant women. And Queen Victoria isn’t around to smoke a joint with her tea. Nor is Baudelaire chewing cannabis with Flaubert. But pre-pubescent kids are still getting the “it’s okay to try it once” pep-talks from their folks. Spanning a history longer than a Turkish hookah pipe, there’s more to learn than knowing your parents took every hallucinogenic trip available in their heyday.
Melbourne Museum’s newest exhibition is as fun but more informative than those round-table bong sessions during school hours. Legal and illegal drugs, sly-grog and safe injecting; this exhibition won’t be full of school tours but will teach you everything you need to know. There will be no taste testers.
* This ThreeThousand writer, for the sake of her parents’ sanity, never took part in round-table bong sessions. In fact, she doesn’t even know what a bong is… *pulls at collar*
Ambience: Indoor
Difficulty: Won't hurt a bit
Keywords: Melbourne Museum
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