The theme for this year’s Gala is “The Garden of Time” and coincides with the Met’s spring exhibition Sleeping Beauties: Reawakening Fashion.
To mark the occasion, we’ve taken a wander through the garden of time to reveal some of the ‘Sleeping Beauties’ in the Queensland Museum Collection. Continue reading Fragile Fashion: Queensland Museum’s Sleeping Beauties and the Met Gala
Do you believe in fate? A preordained destiny? In 1900, a Mt Morgan woman believed enough to pay for a palm reading. The well-worn but carefully kept document hints at just how valued the six pieces of paper were. Continue reading Palms and predictions | A Palm Reading from the Collection
In 1900, not only was palm reading illegal, you could pay to have your palm read by post.
The Queensland Museum collection holds one such illicit fortune from 1901. While the recipient remains a mystery, the writer gives us a glimpse into the world of fortune telling in Queensland at the start of a new century. Continue reading Palmistry by post | A Palm Reading from the Collection
On World Mental Health Day, we’re looking at some objects from Queensland Museum’s collection to consider how craft can be a medium for managing mental and emotional wellbeing. Continue reading Made at the margins: how a bookcase, a bag and two baskets went from Asylum to Museum
Sometimes, seemingly random interactions can take us by surprise.
This was the case when we recently discovered a striking coincidence in relation to the compass believed to be from Mephisto donated by Tom Lamin in May 2023. Continue reading Synchronicity in motion: The mechanical engineer and Mephisto’s missing compass
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