Caroline Simpson Collection
Home and garden design, history and life
Thanks to the support and involvement of our regional communities, audiences, peers and partners, our work and remit stretch across the state.
Our governing legislation, the Museums of History NSW Act 2022, charges us with responsibility for increasing statewide access to our collections, museums and historic sites, and to the stories that shape the social, cultural and political histories and identity of NSW.
This page highlights some of the many activities, resources and projects developed with, for or about our regional and remote audiences.
With the establishment of Museums of History NSW on 31 December 2022, a Regional Coordination Framework was prepared to ensure that audiences in regional NSW have access to MHNSW’s rich and diverse collections, sites and resources onsite, online and on tour. These include the vast and globally significant State Archives Collection of over 14 million items, which MHNSW holds in trust for the people of NSW. This framework details how we ensure that regional and rural audiences are key in the planning and delivery of our statutory and strategic objectives.
A network of Regional Archives Centres provides access to state archives of regional significance and to copies of key state archives
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
Our Collections Care and Digital teams have been hard at work making make a suite of vocational videos for volunteers and staff working in museums across the state
We are thrilled to announce our partnership with Museums & Galleries of NSW to support its Storyplace Roadshow project
Museums of History NSW is on the road again, sharing our stories with the people of regional NSW
Our interactive virtual excursions connect your class live with a museum educator and focus on specific curriculum content, concepts and skills. We currently offer virtual excursions for Stages 1 to 4
This webinar will explore records of the Equity Division of the Supreme Court, how to find them, and what they can tell you
This webinar will show you how to use the State Archives collection to trace your ancestors through the NSW prison system, uncovering their crimes and incarcerations
Explore with us some of the 6,000 unique and beautiful glass negatives taken to illustrate articles in the Agricultural Gazette of NSW - now digitally available on our website as a unique slice of rural life
This webinar will explore the records of the Liverpool Asylum for the Infirm and Destitute (1862-1933) and was later known as the Liverpool State Hospital and Home (1933-1961)
Home and garden design, history and life
Making history every day
Place-based collections at our historic houses and museums
When Duall was born in the mid-1790s conflict over resources and competing land use practices in districts surrounding Sydney was giving rise to tensions between the original inhabitants of the land and the newcomers
A dispute over potatoes farmed by convict-settler Antonio Roderigo was one of many hostile events between colonists and Wiradyuri people that led to the Bathurst War of 1824
While the railway had arrived at Penrith in 1862 the Blue Mountains, once again, seemed like an impassable obstacle
A visit to the Lower, Mid and Upper Blue Mountains