BGM_The Old Treasury: Vaults, Ghosts & Gold

Built on gold and surrounded by secrets, Naarm - Melbourne’s Old Treasury Building is more than just a museum - it’s a Time Machine. In this episode of Down the Yarra, we dig into the building’s glittering beginnings, the underground vaults that once stored the colony’s wealth, and the ghosts that still seem to linger within its walls. We explore the building’s many lives - government seat, public achieve, and truth - telling space - then just head outside into the leafy Treasury Gardens, to a site of a haunting mystery that still continues to divide historians to this very day. Trigger Warning; This episode contains references to violent crime and a historical murder. Listeners discretion is advised. Podcast Recommendation; For a deeper dive into the 1872 “Treasury Gardens Tragedy” involving Charles Marks & Edward Feeney, go and check out Forgotten Australia’s brilliant multi - part investigation. Teaser: next stop - Fitzroy Gardens. Miniature villager, mythological cottages, and stories hiding just beneath the soil.