Category: MDO
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Museum workers and volunteers from a range of FNQ museums have been involved in three different workshops over the past six weeks. Workshops offer participants…
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The Cardwell and District Historical Society recently hosted Ewen McPhee and Dr Jo Wills for two days to prepare the museum for opening. The Museum…
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Tambo township turns 150 this year and to celebrate the community is co-curating an exhibition of significant objects at the Grassland Art Gallery. This is…
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Following the floods in Bundaberg from ex Tropical Cyclone Oswald, Queensland Museum Development Officer for southern inland Queenland, Lydia Egunnike, also received a call for…
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Queensland Museum, Museum Development Officers Lydia Egunnike (Toowoomba) and Helen Pithie (Ipswich) recently answered a call for help from the Gayndah Museum. The following summary…
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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,…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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Congratulations to the five community museums in the Mackay region who received the 2012 Gallery & Museum Achievement Award in the category ‘Organisations: Volunteer Run’…
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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…
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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,…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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Could some of the thongs collected during the annual Chili Beach Clean Up be considered significant and included in contemporary collections and stories about tourism, environmental…
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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…
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What goes around comes around, as they say… And Cairns Museum has been delighted by the recent request to loan its collection of hats made by…
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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…
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