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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…
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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…
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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…
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Greenmount Homestead has Significance Trifecta
House, grounds and collection…when it comes to Significance, Greenmount Homestead has it all. How many other places are there in Australia that can lay claim to this? I’m currently doing some work at the heritage-listed Greenmount Homestead at Walkerston near Mackay. This is an incredibly significant site not only…
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Top TWO Tips for Recording Oral History Interviews
I’ve been delivering oral history workshops for a number of years around Central Queensland. The workshop takes about half a day and participants learn the ins and outs of the interview process plus what to do before and after. But at the end of the training there are two key…
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Mackay Museums are Winners!
Congratulations to the five community museums in the Mackay region who received the 2012 Gallery & Museum Achievement Award in the category ‘Organisations: Volunteer Run’ for their joint exhibition Sugar Strike: The Impact of the 1911 Sugar Strike on the Mackay Region. In 2011 five museums in the Mackay region…
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Every Museum has Words…
Every museum has words. In text panels, in labels, in handouts, in multimedia presentations… Recently museum workers came together for the 2012 CQ Museums Network Day to learn all about words in their museums.
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Total solar eclipse and contemporary collecting…
Sales of eclipse viewing shades and glasses have skyrocketed in FNQ over the last week or so. And, for about half an hour this morning, those without them would have been cursing themselves for not being able to witness the spectacle of a total solar eclipse. But viewing glasses are…
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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 Museum & Community Collections 