Queensland Museum & Community Collections

Author: Ewen McPhee

  • Bundaberg Railway Historical Society and ex cyclone Oswald

    Queensland Museum, Museum Development Officers recently assisted the Railway Museum in Bundaberg after ex cyclone Oswald caused widespread damage.  The Museum, run by the Bundaberg Railway Historical Society, was badly damaged with over a metre of water in the bulidings.  The Museum also suffered external damage with water tanks being washed away and…

  • Disaster Recovery

    As well as seeking advice from your local Museum Development Officer, you can also find useful information from the following organisation’s websites.  Please check this blog regularly as we are updating a few areas that will be useful to you if you need assistance with your collections. Australian Institute for the…

  • Australian Dress Register

    The Australian Dress Register is a collaborative, online project about dress. It includes men’s, women’s and children’s clothing ranging from the special occasion to the everyday. Museums and private collectors are encouraged to research their garments and share the stories and photographs while the information is still available and within…

  • beautiful cases

    Timber display cabinets that once housed Queensland Museum’s collections in Brisbane have been unearthing themselves in museums throughout the State.  Mary Kathleen Park in Cloncurry and James Cook Museum in Cooktown have both been visited recently by Cairns based MDO, Jo Wills, and Townsville based Ewen McPhee where they came…

  • Queensland Migration Heritage Hub

    The Queensland Migration Heritage Hub is a website that brings together migration heritage resources including research material, images, listings of heritage sites, archival information and records, a wide variety of useful links, and migration stories of Queenslanders.  Have a look at the website here to start your research.

  • Cloncurry Afghan Cameleers

    The north-east corner of the old Cloncurry Cemetery is the resting place for many cameleers who lived and worked in Queensland during the late 19th and early 20th Century.  Although there are many graves, only the headstones of Cloncurry Ghantown’s mulla (priest) Syid O Mar (1915), and aboriginal woman, Nellie Edwards…

  • Gold Coast Museums

    Many community museums and local history groups operate on the Gold Coast and in the surrounding area. Through their collections they offer a variety of insights into Gold Coast life from early settlement to current times. Visit this website here to view a list and information about each organisation,  which has been…

  • Townsville Museum goes global.

    Great to see Townsville Museum and Historical Society embrace the ABC Open Now and Then series (see March 23 blog entry).  The Harvey Talks History video shows what can be done to bring the collections and stories  to a world wide audience.  Have a look here at the video on the ABC website and…

  • Underground Hospital Museum – Mt Isa

    Jo Wills and I recently visited the Underground Hospital in Mt Isa. The underground section of the hospital was built after Darwin was bombed by the Japanese in February 1942.  There was a belief that Mt Isa could also be bombed and that precautions needed to be taken to secure the…