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Thank you to our donors
We thank all our donors who contributed to the 2024 Annual Appeal: Engaging with History. With your generous support, MHNSW raised over $210,000, which will help to fund accessible learning programs, transportation subsidies for low socio-economic schools and free virtual learning events to help schoolchildren across NSW engage with history
23 Jul 2024
Memorable learning experiences at Elizabeth Farm
At Museums of History NSW, we strive to create memorable and meaningful experiences for school students – bringing history to life in the places where it happened
16 Jul 2024
Curatorial: The Hyde Park Barracks Photographic Archive Internship
Gain valuable curatorial and research experience through cataloguing the archive of photographs (print & digital), slides, and negatives that document the history of the Hyde Park Barracks
12 Jul 2024
Significance matters
As part of an ongoing partnership with Museums & Galleries of NSW, our Curatorial and Digital teams have been hard at work making a suite of vocational videos that explore the importance of assessing and communicating the significance of museum collections
26 Jun 2024
Jenolan Caves in the State Archives Collection
We are donning our speleological hard hats and highlighting digitised material relating to Jenolan Caves held in the State Archives Collection
5 Jun 2024
The Syrens of Sydney: a bespoke donor experience
On a perfect autumn afternoon in late May, donors were immersed in the musical world of the Wentworths and their contemporaries at the 'Syrens of Sydney' concert held at Vaucluse House
30 May 2024
Sorry Day
On 26 May each year Australia acknowledges Sorry Day. The first Sorry Day was held in 1998 to mark the one-year anniversary of the tabling of the Bringing them Home report in the Australian Parliament
24 May 2024
National Volunteer Week 2024
This National Volunteer Week we extend an enormous, heartfelt thank you to our exceptional team of volunteers
20 May 2024
Volunteers document Liverpool State Hospital records
It's National Volunteer Week and we're highlighting the important work our volunteers do in helping to make the Collection more accessible. Our Collections Volunteers have successfully listed over 57,000 patient admission cards from Liverpool Hospital covering 1884 to 1959
17 May 2024