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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.

  • The Yellow Brick Road

    Suzanne Archer, Levee Hunter 2006

    The Incorruptible Cashier

    Keeping Accurate Accounts at Millthorpe

    metal antique cash register on wooden base

    A Toast to Business Success!

    Evan Jones’ Testimonial Tankard

    silver mug etched with a boat labelled 'S.S Northumbra'

    Sewn at Sea

    A Dress and Jacket by Berry’s Ann Boyd

    Elemental Tension

    Timothy Maguire, Panorama (Fire and Flood) 2018

    Echoes of Care

    The Enduring Legacy of Glen Innes Hospital

    A Humble Remnant

    An Ironing Table from Morpeth’s Duckenfield House

    ‘Ye Old Bastards’

    The Senior Boat Crew of Caves Beach

    Serenity, Now

    Painting Mindfulness

    Slow to Turn

    Switching to Electricity at West Wallsend

    antique lightbulb attached to metal light fitting

    The Jangling Envelope

    Recompense for Dirty and Dangerous Work

    Under the Bonnet

    Martha Ann Cotterell’s Treasured Keepsake

    Sealing the Deal

    Marking Narrabri's Evolution from Settlement to Shire

    Pretty But Practical

    Ann Chellew’s Day Dress

    A Necessary Invention

    Detecting Gas at Teralba Colliery

    The Painters in The Painting

    Euan Macleod, Maitland - John and Leo, 2006

    Fast Fixtures

    Finishing the 1840s Buildings at Maitland Gaol

    The Ploughman’s Prize

    Cultivating Good Farming Practice

    detail of a ploughman using a single furrow plough drawn by two oxen

    Over Troubled Water

    Plans for Building and Repairing Maitland’s Long Bridge

    In His Likeness

    Unveiling the Headlie Taylor Statue

    Fanning the Retail Flames

    Broken Hill's Novel Advertising Campaign

    hand fan with twelve circular, black and white portraits of babies surrouded by floral designs, it has text which reads 'BROKEN HILL'S BONNIE BABIES'

    At One With The Universe

    A Cosmic Egg

    Wired for Power

    Evidence of a 1930s Ministerial Privilege?

    An ‘Afghan’ Cameleer’s Life and Times

    Shamroze Khan's Colourful Story

    detail of gold detailing on collar

    Mask Up

    Preparing to Face Covid-19

    Handsome Gifts

    A Woods’ Ivory Dinner Set from Singleton

    The Bowerbird

    Kerrie Lester’s Early Artmaking

    Keeping the Fizz In

    Community Spirit at West Wallsend’s Clyde Inn

    Twice Removed

    The Lacemakers of Calais and Maitland

    Symbols of Service

    Morpeth’s Harry Cradick’s World War I medals

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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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