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    Through photographing and telling stories about the objects and artworks cared for by small museums, galleries and Aboriginal cultural centres, Storyplace makes history and culture available to everyone.

  • United in Song

    Cornish Settlement in the Central West

    detail of lettering on organ which reads 'Mason & Mamlin'

    Marking Time

    The Cookhouse Chimney at Maitland Gaol

    An Impact on the Scene

    Joshua Smith and the Burden of Change

    Beware Bunyip?

    Thinking About the Zygomaturus Trilobus Skull

    The River People’s Lament

    Behind Badger Bates' Lino-cut Works

    Weighing the Riches

    A Golden Family History

    A Friend in Need

    Odd Fellows Offer Support

    Locked Away

    Morriset Hospital’s Historic Keys

    Land of Mine

    Expressions of Self with John Morris

    The Fathers of Australian Country Music

    A Journey Commenced in Childhood

    A Necessary Invention

    Detecting Gas at Teralba Colliery

    Stained Salvage

    The (Short-Lived) Narrabri Town Hall

    The Bowerbird

    Kerrie Lester’s Early Artmaking

    Broken Hill’s Kind-hearted Grocer

    Trading on Compassion

    aged hardcover book

    An Instrument of Change

    The Surveying Equipment of James C. Wilson

    Thirsty Business

    Narrabri Cordial Maker, Septimus Faulkner

    Out of the Woods

    Hayes’ Cedar Desk by Morpeth Craftsman J.G. White

    Fire and Frost

    Keeping the Fire Cart Burning

    Winners and Losers

    Jockeying for a Place in History

    Tally Tokens

    Fair Payment for Miners in the Hunter Collieries

    eight circular, aged leather tags attached together by twine

    An Impossible Proposition

    Maitland’s Plan to Relocate to Higher Ground

    Fanciful Fossicking

    Sapphires and Black Panthers in the Glen Innes Highlands

    The Cows Are Gone

    Frank Watters’ Tribute to Murton’s Dairy

    Those Were the Days

    Keeping the Personal Archive of Maitland’s Magistrate

    Predator Falling Prey

    The Tasmanian Tiger Found Near Dubbo

    Symbols of Service

    Morpeth’s Harry Cradick’s World War I medals

    The Scarlet Cloak

    A Resurrected Remnant of the Macarthur’s Colonial Clip

    back of damaged red cloak

    Packham’s Triumph

    The Propagation of Australia's Most Popular Pear

    small curved knife with wooden hilt, it has a bird logo engraved into the metal

    Small But Perfect For The Job

    The Huon Post Office

    Return to the Sauce

    Mrs Maunder Tastes Sweet Success

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Museums & Galleries of NSW acknowledges the Traditional Custodians of the lands that comprise the state now known as NSW.

We pay respect to them as First Nations people with a continuing connection to land, place, waters and community

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples are advised that this site contains stories, images, voices, and video of people who have died.

Some material may contain terms that reflect common usage of the period in which it was written or recorded but may not be considered appropriate today. Such terms do not reflect the views of Museums and Galleries of NSW and are provided only to reflect historical context.

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