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.
Volunteer Symposium, 28 & 29 July 2025
The Mint, 10 Macquarie Street, Sydney NSW 2000
Museums of History NSW is excited to be partnering with Museums & Galleries of NSW to bring you the inaugural Volunteer Symposium for NSW Regional and Community-run Museums in July 2025. We will publish more information closer to the event, but for now please mark the dates in your calendar!
For further information, contact regional@mhnsw.au
A network of Regional Archives Centres provides access to state archives of regional significance and to copies of key state archives
We are delighted to be continuing our successful partnership with Museums & Galleries of 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
Museums of History NSW has been on the road again, sharing our stories with the people of regional NSW
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)
This webinar will provide an overview of our assisted immigrant indexes and the digitised passenger lists
Thank you to everyone who joined us for our recent Collections on Tour program on Wages paid to orphans, 1849-1851
The Archives for Everyone project has seen us partner with 14 groups who have nominated Small Debts registers from Courts of petty sessions throughout NSW
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
Home and garden design, history and life
Making history every day
Place-based collections at our historic houses and museums
Several of the postcards featured in our current library display depict Machattie Park in Bathurst. Postcard collector Vera Bell lived in Bathurst between 1905 and 1908 while her father, John, acted as the police superintendent
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