Collections

Alexander Mackintosh Archive : 
architectural plans and specifications, 1901-1924: Alfred H. Hale and Norman D. Hale, architects : architectural plans and specifications, 1905-1921 / Alfred H. Hale & Norman D. Hale [architectural drawings]
12pm & 2pm, 13 May
Talk

The Alexander Mackintosh Archive

Join Mel Flyte, Collections Discovery Assistant at Museums of History NSW, for a special viewing of the Alexander Mackintosh Archive

Tuesday 13 May 12pm–1pm
c.1923 coloured sketch of alternative cantilever Sydney Harbour Bridge

State Archives Collection

Making history every day

Translation of Luke
Online talk

First Nations Community Access to Archives: Bridging Now to Next

The First Nations Community Access to Archives team at Museums of History NSW will be discussing how improving access to archival material can support the revitalisation and reclamation of First Nations languages and cultures

Friday 30 May 10.30am–11.30am
Tapis linoleum : saisons 1893-94 / John Barry, Ostlere & Co. Ltd., fabricants a Kirkcaldy (Ecosse) [trade catalogue]
Featured display

Repurposed: Creative reuse in the library collection

Our current library display explores the unique and sometimes surprising ways in which items from the library collection have been repurposed

Tuesday 11 March
Woodgraining tools, rollers, stamps, combs

Caroline Simpson Collection

Home and garden design, history and life

Women police in NSW: a history of firsts

A collection of photographs at the Justice & Police Museum document the hard-won firsts, beginning in 1915, that led to women attaining equal status within the NSW Police Force

Government Printing Office 1 - 07748 - Mental Hospital Parramatta: patients' bedrooms
Online talk

Mental Health Patient Records

This webinar will explore the surviving patient records created by government mental health facilities that are held within the State Archives Collection

Friday 27 June 10.30am–11.30am
Latest News

Love in the Library – Members Hour at the Caroline Simpson Library

In February, to celebrate Valentine’s Day, Collections Discovery Assistant Mel Flyte shared with our members expressions of love discovered in the Caroline Simpson Library

Acquisition of the John and Phyllis Murphy wallpaper collection

Murphy Wallpaper Collection

The recent donation to the Caroline Simpson Library of thousands of wallpapers in the John and Phyllis Murphy Collection means that Museums of History NSW now has the largest holding of historical wallpapers in Australia