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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.

  • Who’ll Take a Glove?

    Boxing at Broken Hill's Trades Hall Stadium

    A Piece of a Promise

    The Lead-light at St James’ Church at Morpeth

    Out of the Ashes

    Clyde Engineering Co. Rebuilds

    Made Within

    Crafting Children’s Toys at Morisset Hospital

    All the Buzz

    Debuting the Flying Fruit Fly Circus

    Bountiful Baskets

    A Relic of Historic Commercial Fishing at Iluka

    Clicking Shears

    Wolseley’s Woolly Invention

    Still Stainless

    Caring for Patients at Narrabri District Hospital

    Wicker and Gladioli

    Valuing Craft at Morisset Hospital

    Not Just A Desk Job

    Never A Dull Moment For Constable Wallbank

    On Tap at Morpeth

    Tooths Draught Beer Dispenser

    Idle Hands Busy

    Work, Escape and Free Matchsticks at Maitland Gaol

    Sew Like Mother

    Learning to Sew in West Wallsend

    A Measure of Good Health

    Morpeth Baby Health Centre’s Seat Scales

    Watching the Game

    Comments on Motherhood with Michael Cook

    Barayal Bila (River Song)

    Weaving Together Stories on Birpai Country

    In This Dress Margaret Wed

    Typical Edwardian Style

    detailed, lacey wedding dress with floral patterning and decorative elements

    Father Figures

    Constable Wallbank’s Ink Stand

    Colonial Medicine at Carcoar

    A Chest of Cures

    Short-Lived Livery

    One of Holden’s two ‘Big Banger’ 1984 VK Commodores

    By Laws and Motions

    Minuting Maitland’s Early Council Meetings

    A Necessary Invention

    Detecting Gas at Teralba Colliery

    Sweet Survival

    Handmade Furniture of the Great Depression

    All Strapped Up

    Protecting Pit Ponies in the Hunter Collieries

    Fighting Fear

    Improvised Weapons at Maitland Gaol

    Sign of Respect

    Dr Pierce’s Memorial Plaque from Maitland’s Fountain

    Prickly to Pristine

    How Dairying Arrived at Woody Head

    Shaped by the Bush

    The Australian Quart Pot

    Step Inside the Rose Marie

    Orange's Greek Cafe Culture

    ‘The Handsomest Structure of its Kind’

    Modelling Bathurst Station

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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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