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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.

  • Shaped by the Bush

    The Australian Quart Pot

    Old Time, Good Time

    Mastering the Masonic Ball

    Colonial Medicine at Carcoar

    A Chest of Cures

    Sketching a Bloody Coastline

    Evacuating Troops from Gallipoli

    Battling the Breakers

    Champion Surf Boatmen from Caves Beach

    Slow to Turn

    Switching to Electricity at West Wallsend

    antique lightbulb attached to metal light fitting

    Blackmans Point Yarn

    Aunty Rhonda's Story

    Safety in Numbers

    Measuring Explosive Methane in the Teralba Colliery

    Cottoning On

    Namoi Pastoralists Celebrate a New Crop

    Seeing it Through

    Warren Somerville, Collector Extraordinaire

    Table Heirlooms

    The Wilson Family’s Napkin Rings

    Crockery Craze

    Doris Hall’s Bone China Souvenirs of Milton

    Maitland’s Golden Age

    Alexander McKenzie, Cloud Cover Over Maitland, 2006

    Links to the Land

    Using Gunter's Chain to Survey Rockley

    Tripping Through Time

    Joan Ross, I give you a mountain, 2018

    Still from a psychedlic video where two colonial men, recoloured to appear pink and magenta, sit in front of a tall mountain with a security camera peering at them from above

    An Important Event in the Circles of Jindera

    Capturing the Wedding of Gus Wagner and Tilly Schmidt in 1907

    Art in Confinement

    Creativity and Morisset’s Maximum-Security Ward

    The Club with No Beer

    The Bowlo’s Long Road to Legitimacy

    Prize Possession

    In Celebration of Les Darcy’s Brilliant Victory

    A Useful Heirloom

    An Old English Food Warming Dish In Berry

    Cinema By the Sea

    Frank Clancy and the Iluka Picture Theatre

    Runaway Success

    John Williamson's Iconic Aussie Hit

    Out of the Handbag

    The Private Life of Lizzie Chifley

    crocodile leather handbag beside two letters, hairpins, a lipstick, and business cards

    Cultivating Careers

    Creating a New Generation of Farmers

    That’s for Spirits

    An English Bottle Made for a Morpeth Merchant

    One for the Road

    A Young Boy’s Mechanical Passion

    What’s in a Comb?

    Henty’s Inspired Inventors

    Doctored for Dancing

    Bathurst’s Busiest Businessman, Jack Stanley

    A Sisterhood of Song

    Scrapbooks of the Babaneek Women’s Choir

    Assortes yellowed pages with handwritten cursive and postcards with illustrations of flowers.

    Broad Shoulders

    Lieutenant Jonathan Warner at Lake Macquarie

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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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