Museums & Galleries of NSW
We are delighted to continue our successful partnership with Museums & Galleries of NSW through our support of Storyplace and their volunteer placement and mentorship programs, and with representation on the Standards Review Program for small museums being run in the Northern Rivers of NSW along with other initiatives.
As part of this partnership we will bring you the inaugural Volunteer Symposium for NSW Regional and Community-run Museums on 28 and 29 July 2025.
The event will be held at The Mint in Macquarie Street, Sydney – details are to follow!
For more information, contact regional@mhnsw.au
Storyplace Roadshow 2023–24
In June 2023, we began a partnership with Museums & Galleries of NSW to support its Storyplace Roadshow project.
Storyplace Roadshow is a touring program that focuses on working with regional museum staff, volunteers and collections to develop object-centred stories and associated educational resources for regional museums. We are supporting the roadshow by creating instructional videos and running a series of face-to-face workshops on a range of professional development topics, including collection storage, significance assessment and object-based learning.
Video resources
Our Learning, Collections Care and Curatorial teams worked in collaboration with our Museums & Galleries of NSW partners to develop a series of short videos that are now available to download or stream. Designed for small to medium-sized local and regional museums, the videos explore practical and technical aspects of collection storage, assessing collection significance and using objects to engage students with history. We hope you enjoy them!
Teaching history in museums ...
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Storage on a shoestring!
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Significance matters
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Delivering on-the-ground workshops in regional centres for Storyplace
Our Collections Care team visited Tamworth in September 2023 to deliver a workshop on collection housing and storage to representatives from the Australian Country Music Hall of Fame, Barraba Historical Society, Callala Cottage, Tamworth Power Station Museum, Tamworth Regional Astronomy and Science Centre, Tamworth Regional Film and Sound Archive and Tamworth Regional Gallery.
Representatives from our Learning team travelled to Albury and Alstonville (March 2024), Port Macquarie (July 2024) and Wagga Wagga (August 2024) to facilitate workshops on learning in museums, with a focus on attracting school groups and developing engaging learning experiences. A workshop on assessing the significance of collections was delivered by a member of our Curatorial team in Bathurst (May 2024) and Maitland (September 2024). More workshops are planned for later in the year.
MHNSW is delighted to be sharing our collections and expertise with museums and audiences around NSW. We embrace the opportunity to collaborate with Museums & Galleries NSW to support regional museums in caring for collections of enormous significance that tell the stories of their places and people to audiences of all ages and backgrounds through Storyplace.
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