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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.

  • Unlocking Adulthood

    A Night of Celebration in Iluka

    Tools of His Trade

    Machinist Leslie Upton of the South Coastal Railway

    Power Within Reason

    The 'Reason' Electricity Meter

    Spade to Spud

    Agricultural Experimentation at Glen Innes

    Fanciful Fossicking

    Sapphires and Black Panthers in the Glen Innes Highlands

    Sealing the Deal

    Marking Narrabri's Evolution from Settlement to Shire

    William’s Pitiful Plight

    A Boy Servant’s Indenture to Mudie of Maitland

    Tainted Tints

    An Everywoman’s 1950s Cosmetic Set from Minmi

    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

    Shocking Times

    The Mr Safety Pin Campaign

    Makeshift Extravagance

    The Gold Standard for Making-Do at Armidale

    Standing on the Beach

    Caves Beach Surf Club Photographed in 1959

    Broad Shoulders

    Lieutenant Jonathan Warner at Lake Macquarie

    Credit Crunch?

    W.J.A. Bryce’s Closing Gift

    Christmas Charmed

    Pudding, the Ultimate Fortune Teller

    One for the Road

    A Young Boy’s Mechanical Passion

    Loss of Innocence on the Picnic Train

    Remembering New Year's Day 1915

    ticket stubs

    Bullocks Resting

    Pastoral Art and the Australian Colonial Identity

    In the Soup

    An Old-Time Silver Tureen

    Simple soup tureen made of silver

    A Fancy Frame

    Elsie Campbell’s Ornamental Leather Work

    In Honour of Jack

    Canowindra's Rising Star

    Past Ties

    Unpicking the Story of Maud’s Childhood Apron

    Still Alive

    Leaving a Legacy in Bathurst

    Take Two Emu Eggs

    A Tete-à-Tete Tea Service

    Wicker and Gladioli

    Valuing Craft at Morisset Hospital

    Playing Your Cards Right

    Maintaining the Victorian Social Network

    Advertise Here

    Talkie Slide Times

    The City of Levees

    Joe Frost, View of Maitland, 2006

    Ground Zero

    Worst Case Scenario in Greater Newcastle

    The Bejewelled Box

    Making Music at Saumarez Homestead

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The Storyplace newsletter has updates on new stories and other news about museums, galleries and cultural centres, and the people, who support Storyplace.

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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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