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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 One Cop Town

    Constable Albert Wallbank, the NES Warden

    Modelling the Martha

    Commemorating William Reid and Locating Coal on Awabakal Country

    An Instrument of Change

    The Surveying Equipment of James C. Wilson

    Sketching a Bloody Coastline

    Evacuating Troops from Gallipoli

    The Uiver Incident

    The Landing of a Civic Friendship

    sepia photograph of figures gathered outside a propeller plane labelled ROYAL DUTCH AIR LINES

    Forged in Faith

    A Legacy of Morpeth’s Close Family

    Badges of Honour

    Belonging to the Union

    collection of eight multi-coloured, circular badges

    At Home on the Hunter

    Max Watters' View Over Glenbawn Road

    Anonymous Australiana

    The Art and Craft of Pokerwork

    Four wooden napkin rings with gumnuts and black bands burned into them

    Locked Away

    Morriset Hospital’s Historic Keys

    A Good and Gracious King

    Newsreels After The Death Of George VI

    A Great Social Benefit

    A Fundraising Concert in Support of the Dudley School of Arts

    Skipping on Stars

    The Fruit Flies Honour Con Colleano

    Fit to Meet the Queen 

    Barry Purdon’s Royal Train Cap

    NSWR fireman hat header

    Innovation and Controversy

    The Complicated Legacy of the HMAS Onslow

    Carving for the Screw

    Twelve Trinkets Made of Bone

    Shapes and Colours

    Through the lens of John Coburn

    Art Teacher Nurtured Local Talent

    May the Mentor

    Deadly Force

    How Maitland Gaol Guards Honed Their Gun Skills

    The Transfer of Knowledge

    One Book, Three Orchardists

    Prepared to Care

    Nancy Wallbank’s First Aid Kit

    Kwong Sing & Co

    Tools and Trade From Across the Sea

    A Life of Service

    Nurse Irene Stoddart’s War Medals

    Pretty But Practical

    Ann Chellew’s Day Dress

    An Embarrassment of Riches

    Opal Buyers Jostle in the Winner’s Circle

    Musical Memories

    Kate Campbell-Pope’s Grass Guitar

    Pitch Perfect

    The Barnes Family Sips Success

    Hurled to Eternity

    Tragedy in the Dudley Colliery

    Keeping Time

    The Old Morpeth Courthouse Clock

    Father Figures

    Constable Wallbank’s Ink Stand

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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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