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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.

  • Once Out of View

    The Historic Chinese Community at Wagga Revealed

    collection of circular coins with square cut-outs in the centre

    Pure Water Drinkers

    Temperance in a Mining Town

    An Unbeatable Design

    Tom Humphreys and the 1960 Junior Champions

    The Ploughman’s Prize

    Cultivating Good Farming Practice

    detail of a ploughman using a single furrow plough drawn by two oxen

    Moulding with Clay

    Three Generations of Fieldsend Pottery at East Maitland

    A Friend in Need

    Odd Fellows Offer Support

    She’ll Be Right, Mate

    Promoting Cockle Creek Smelter

    Hurled to Eternity

    Tragedy in the Dudley Colliery

    Winding Sheet

    Unwrapping the Self with Lucas Grogan

    Thrown Off a High Horse

    The 1863 Geelong and Western Districts Hunt Club Cup

    No Dough Needed

    Bread tokens from the West Wallsend Co-op

    Braced For the Perfect Smile

    Orthodontic Braces From the Ancient Egyptians to the 1900s

    The Circus of Tomorrow

    How Chinese Acrobats Changed the Australian Circus

    Brainfog

    Locust Jones Documents the 24hr News Cycle

    One Brick To Another

    The Two Sides of Les Darcy’s Gold Brick Pendant

    Making Straw Work

    A Hat From Grass

    Return to the Sauce

    Mrs Maunder Tastes Sweet Success

    Daily Drudgery Gone?

    The Promise Behind the Maytag Washing Machine

    Guns to Roses

    Li Hongbo’s Paper Sculptures

    Close up of bright blue room with multi-coloured paper artworks. They are made like paper lanterns, taking the shape of fans despite being made from the shapes of guns

    An Instrument of Change

    The Surveying Equipment of James C. Wilson

    Blasts from the Past

    The Use of Dynamite in the 19th Century

    Fashioning Violence

    Last Riot 2, Tondo #12, 2005

    Bowling Over Their Critics

    Mereah Austen, Women’s Cricket, and ‘The Rockley Game’

    ‘The Handsomest Structure of its Kind’

    Modelling Bathurst Station

    Pencilled In

    Dance Card for the 1899 Independent Order of Oddfellows Annual Ball

    A Canny Risk

    The Legacy of Good Fortune

    By Laws and Motions

    Minuting Maitland’s Early Council Meetings

    Stars and Stunts

    The Nanjing Acrobats Come to Town

    Earning His Stripes

    Senior Constable Albert Wallbank

    Two black and yellowed fabric patches shaped like the tops of arrows

    A Different Perspective

    Peter Pinson, Selective View of Maitland from the River Bank, 2006

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acknowledgement statement

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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