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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.

  • 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

    Beautiful Minutiae

    Australia’s Greatest Still Life Artist

    Brainfog

    Locust Jones Documents the 24hr News Cycle

    Hop, Step, Jump!

    Lindsay’s Schoolboy Athletics Trophies from Maitland

    Like Many Girls Her Age

    Minnie Hall’s Autograph Album

    Christmas Charmed

    Pudding, the Ultimate Fortune Teller

    Guadalquivir, Guadalquivir, Guadalquivir

    Practice Makes Perfect Handwriting

    Beeswax and Bullocks

    The Delicate Craft of Wax Modelling

    Nuts On Show

    Exhibiting the Excellence of the Bathurst Experiment Farm

    Predator Falling Prey

    The Tasmanian Tiger Found Near Dubbo

    Ringing Through Ruin

    Bill Cormie Safeguards His Flock

    What Would Molly Think?

    A Colourful Take on Maitlands’ Historical Figure

    Once Out of View

    The Historic Chinese Community at Wagga Revealed

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

    Making Washing Day A Pleasure

    A Laundry Mangle from Morpeth

    A Tall Tale or True?

    Captain John Hunter’s First Fleet Cabin Chair

    mahogany dining chair with simple design

    Seeing it Through

    Warren Somerville, Collector Extraordinaire

    The Best Business Sites in Town

    A Subdivision Auction Poster from Germanton

    Innovation and Controversy

    The Complicated Legacy of the HMAS Onslow

    Cozzie Chronology

    Caves Beach Lifesavers March Past in Style

    The Gift of Song

    The Babaneek Ladies' Choir

    Roll Up, Roll Up!

    Rotating Entertainments at Broken Hill

    antique roller skates, they look like four-wheeled, metal contraptions with leather ankle straps

    Hidden at the Back of the Fridge

    Reproduction Kelvinator Advertising Poster

    Out of the Woods

    Hayes’ Cedar Desk by Morpeth Craftsman J.G. White

    Sweet-noted and Faultless in Tune

    The Rosler Family's Renardi Piano

    Mottoes Maketh The Man

    The Dudley Public School Patch

    Fatty Finn Goes Fishing

    An Australian Icon Comes to Iluka

    Braced For the Perfect Smile

    Orthodontic Braces From the Ancient Egyptians to the 1900s

    ‘Needled Spires Point the True North…’

    Michael Fitzjames, View of Maitland from the Riverbank (With Apologies to Jan Vermeer and View of Delft), 2006

    By Word of Mouth

    Building Trust in Early Dentistry

    Keeping the Fizz In

    Community Spirit at West Wallsend’s Clyde Inn

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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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