Queensland Museum & Community Collections

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  • 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…

  • Irvinebank in situ: making the most of “sense of place”

    How many museums located in historic buildings count the building as their most significant item? And how many make the most of the stories associated with fabric and use through interpretation and strategic collecting?  Loudoun House Museum does. It’s located in Irvinebank, a small town near Herberton in the Atherton…

  • Innovative Idea for Tiny Space

    Volunteers at Capricorn Coast Historical Society had a blank canvas to work with when they returned to their former home after more than a year of no access.  The Society had to move its entire collection while the new Yeppoon Town Hall was being built next door.  Not content to just…

  • 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…

  • Jo’s Diary: Embroidered Cloth a Menmuny Treasure

    During a recent training workshop at Menmuny Museum, QM curator Trish Barnard and I found one of their treasured items – an embroidered cloth. The embroidered cloth depicts stories from Yarrabah families and residents. Each piece has been hand stitched and combined to create a kind of ‘memory cloth’ or quilt (though…

  • 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…

  • Mt Morgan Murri

    Check out our latest case study on Bronwyn’s work with the Mt Morgan Museum volunteers to produce Mt Morgan Murri: Indigenous stories of the Mt Morgan region.