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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.

  • A Most Important Accessory

    An Escape Map Scarf From WWII

    Shapes and Colours

    Through the lens of John Coburn

    The Dress with Two Lives

    1840s Ladies and Dressmakers in the Hunter Region

    The Cows Are Gone

    Frank Watters’ Tribute to Murton’s Dairy

    Elemental Tension

    Timothy Maguire, Panorama (Fire and Flood) 2018

    Ashes of War

    Trench Art From the Western Front to Armidale

    Simple and Solid

    Headlie's Handy Tree Fork Bench

    She’ll Be Right, Mate

    Promoting Cockle Creek Smelter

    The Boundary Rider Who Founded BHP

    Charles Rasp's Gamble

    Runaway Success

    John Williamson's Iconic Aussie Hit

    The Scarlet Cloak

    A Resurrected Remnant of the Macarthur’s Colonial Clip

    back of damaged red cloak

    Short-Lived Brews

    The Downfall of the Glen Innes Brewery

    keg brand gillies

    The Men in Blue

    Albert Wallbank’s Police Jacket

    Pretty But Practical

    Ann Chellew’s Day Dress

    Postal Perspectives

    Rockley’s Post Office, Hub of the Community

    Postmarked Wollumben

    The Story Behind the Stamp

    metal post mark stamp

    Cozzie Chronology

    Caves Beach Lifesavers March Past in Style

    Black Gold and White Satin

    Col Hardy’s Performance Outfit

    Detail shot of the belt of a country performer's outfit; belt buckle is metal and rectangular with a floral design

    Tolling on Time

    The Bell That Shaped Each Day at Bathurst Experiment Farm

    Free to Keep Time

    A Former Convict’s Long Case Clock

    Life in the Shadow of the Hydrogen Bomb

    The Immediate Effects of a Nuclear Event

    A Chilling Tale

    1947 Kelvinator Refrigerator Model 209

    Picturing Tracker Tommy

    Aboriginal Police Work at Broken Hill

    Pigskin Protection

    The Leg Armour of British and Commonwealth Soldiers

    Pitch Perfect

    The Barnes Family Sips Success

    A Brand New Law

    Making the Mark of Ownership

    Personal Effects

    WWI Portrait and Notebook of Lake Macquarie’s Leslie Clouten

    Blue Skies and Dusty Ground

    Anna Culliton’s Real Deal Rodeo

    The Heart of the Kitchen

    A Cast Iron Stove by Morpeth’s Duncan Sim

    Milling a Round

    Keeping Wee Waa at Work

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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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