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  • Explore old and new stories from all over NSW, Australia.

    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.

  • Making a Scene

    Cooke & Collingridge’s Bird’s Eye View of Bathurst

    Road Trip

    Going Off the Beaten Track with the Withers

    Stars and Stunts

    The Nanjing Acrobats Come to Town

    Fashioning Violence

    Last Riot 2, Tondo #12, 2005

    The Russian Pedlar

    Albert Coppleson’s Dedication to Wee Waa

    Picturing Tracker Tommy

    Aboriginal Police Work at Broken Hill

    Movement on the Mountain

    Motor Racing at Bathurst’s Panorama Circuit

    aged souvenir programme with illustrative cover of two motorcyclists named 'THE AUSTRALIAN 150TH CELEBRATIONS T T AT MT. PANORAMA BATHRUST NSW ON EASTER SUNDAY APRIL 16TH 1938'

    Wild Horses

    Change and its Influence with Michael Cook

    Step Inside the Rose Marie

    Orange's Greek Cafe Culture

    Maitland’s Golden Age

    Alexander McKenzie, Cloud Cover Over Maitland, 2006

    A Right to Mine

    Earning a Living in the Great Depression

    Moving Parts

    The Lives of Rockley Mill

    Celebrating the Key To Power

    The Tamworth Power Station Museum's Story

    Weighing the Riches

    A Golden Family History

    Kathleen’s Sterling Bequest

    Tamworth's Australian Silverware Collection

    ornate ink well with lid removed revealing a gold interior with a small circular opening

    Idle Hands Busy

    Work, Escape and Free Matchsticks at Maitland Gaol

    ‘The Unfortunate Man, Alexander Dick…’

    A Pair of Silver Spoons

    Prickly to Pristine

    How Dairying Arrived at Woody Head

    Surrendered Symbolism

    A Japanese Sword and Dagger for Prime Minister Chifley

    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

    3wAyXchange

    Circus Arts Steal the Commonwealth Spotlight

    Silent Workers

    Remembering Pit Ponies by Name

    rusted metal name plates reading Billy, Steve, Tiger, Barney, Ted, and Trapper

    The Gift of a Gallery

    John Salvana's Artistic Dream

    A Promising Young Life

    Morpeth’s Framed Portrait of Private Norman Peacock

    Carved Chronicles

    Unveiling the Legacy of Woodblock Printing in Glen Innes

    A Moral Prescription

    Twelve Steps to Temperance

    The Bowerbird

    Kerrie Lester’s Early Artmaking

    Gone Fishin’

    Parsons’ Escape From the Musical Limelight

    olive-green carrying case in the shape of a simple fish with a googly eye

    Moustachioed Crockery

    Protecting Stiff Upper Lips Since the 1860s

    Patience and Skill

    A Schoolgirl’s Needlework Sampler from Berry

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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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