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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.

  • Tinkering and Assembling

    The Art of Robert Klippel

    Fire and Frost

    Keeping the Fire Cart Burning

    Made in the Bush

    A Bullock Whip Used by Berry’s Bert Jorgenson

    Detail shot of a leather whip

    Under the Bonnet

    Martha Ann Cotterell’s Treasured Keepsake

    The Scarlet Cloak

    A Resurrected Remnant of the Macarthur’s Colonial Clip

    back of damaged red cloak

    Fanciful Fossicking

    Sapphires and Black Panthers in the Glen Innes Highlands

    Beeswax and Bullocks

    The Delicate Craft of Wax Modelling

    Prestigious Dining

    The Rococo Style of William Edwards

    Ornate silver soup tureen embellished with petal shapes, scrolls, and floral fittings, photographed on an angle

    A Trunk Tale

    The Krautz Family of Jindera

    Nuts On Show

    Exhibiting the Excellence of the Bathurst Experiment Farm

    A Tragic Paper Trail

    WWI Documents Delivered to Private Clouten’s Parents

    A Tweed River Life

    European Settlement in the Sub-tropics

    Smoky Rides Again

    Dawson’s Comic Adventure

    Moving Parts

    The Lives of Rockley Mill

    Apologies to Vermeer and Thanks to Cezanne

    Judith Ryrie, Afternoon by the river – Maitland, 2006

    Pitch Perfect

    The Barnes Family Sips Success

    Discoverer of Rare Mineral Murdered

    The Story Behind the Naming of Raspite

    gray/black rock with yellow gemstones poking out in various places

    Christmas at War

    The Australian YMCA in WWI

    Fit to Meet the Queen 

    Barry Purdon’s Royal Train Cap

    NSWR fireman hat header

    An Alchemical Ornament

    How Silver is Refined

    Silver goblet etched with a placid illustration of a refinery

    Orange’s Bold Bid

    Competing to be the Capital

    blue booklet bounded with a single string, it has gold lettering and leaf design which reads 'CANOBOLAS / THE IDEAL SITE FOR THE FEDERAL CAPITAL'

    Patience and Skill

    A Schoolgirl’s Needlework Sampler from Berry

    The Russian Pedlar

    Albert Coppleson’s Dedication to Wee Waa

    Never Knocked Out

    Mementoes of Darcy v McGoorty

    The Art of Admiration

    Honouring Morpeth’s Popular Postmaster

    Not Just A Desk Job

    Never A Dull Moment For Constable Wallbank

    Small But Perfect For The Job

    The Huon Post Office

    Wheels Keep Turning

    The Changing Face of the Bathurst 1000

    Hearing History

    Old-Fashioned Hearing Aids

    Blasts from the Past

    The Use of Dynamite in the 19th Century

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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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