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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.

  • Racing to Help

    Behind Ron Ekert’s Musical Flag Pennant

    Plowing Through a Plague

    Fortescue's Rabbit Poisoning Machine

    Postal Perspectives

    Rockley’s Post Office, Hub of the Community

    The Sleeper Cutter’s Mark

    Paul Vonthien's Marking Hammer

    Drysdale’s German Shopkeeper

    A Childhood Portrait of Gustav Wagner Taken at Albury

    Between Land and Sea

    A Scholarly Scotsman in the Land of Opportunity

    Still Alive

    Leaving a Legacy in Bathurst

    Burning Ambition

    The Heart of Headlie Taylor’s Workshop

    Short-Lived Brews

    The Downfall of the Glen Innes Brewery

    keg brand gillies

    Kwong Sing & Co

    Tools and Trade From Across the Sea

    Life in the Shadow of the Hydrogen Bomb

    The Immediate Effects of a Nuclear Event

    Cut and Paste

    The Drawings of a Moonbi Student

    My Dear Old Frank

    The Bray Children's Letters

    handwritten letter on simple paper

    A Decade in Black

    Sarah Dominick's Mourning Cap

    Miltie’s Mark

    Stenciling Crates at Mudge’s Cordial Factory, Milton

    Trophy Textile

    Making History at National Textiles, Rutherford

    Bowling Over Their Critics

    Mereah Austen, Women’s Cricket, and ‘The Rockley Game’

    Crown Bugalaa

    How Bloody Royal

    Made Within

    Crafting Children’s Toys at Morisset Hospital

    Power and Perfume

    Henry Steiner’s Grand Silverware

    Over Troubled Water

    Plans for Building and Repairing Maitland’s Long Bridge

    Air of Authority

    The Crown Overlooking Maitland’s Diverse Inmates

    metal grill embedded in brick wall, it has a crown design

    Ground-breaking Australian Design

    Henry Steiner's Stunning Silver Tree

    Submarine Town

    From Scrap Metal to Monument

    Forging a Legacy

    The Emerald Hill Blacksmith Workshop

    interior of a blacksmith workshop made of wood with dirt floors and corrugated roof, bellows are visible to the left

    Still Standing

    Maitland Promotes its Colonial Heritage

    Talkies Come to Town

    The Diary of a Projectionist

    On the Drawing Board

    Bunning and Madden Plan Rutherford’s Mall

    Architectural drawing, coloured with greens and oranges, depicting a cross-section of the building.

    Packham’s Triumph

    The Propagation of Australia's Most Popular Pear

    small curved knife with wooden hilt, it has a bird logo engraved into the metal

    Edge of the Garden

    The Photography of Shan Turner-Carroll

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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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