Unlocking Past Lives
How many of us have old family photographs filled with people and objects of the past? Some of the detail of these photographs can seem mysterious if not impenetrable to viewers in the 21st century.
Join Matthew Stephens, research librarian at the Caroline Simpson Library, as he uses the library’s specialist collection including rare books and journals, trade catalogues, wallpaper samples, historic textiles, and family archives to explore the contexts of a selection of historic family photographs.
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Collections Series
The MHNSW Collection Series explores the many stories of home, garden, history and life celebrated in these expansive and diverse collections
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
Creating Imagined Interiors
Join industry experts at the Caroline Simpson Library as they discuss different approaches to creating interiors for house museums and film and television productions
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Phyllis Shillito and her colour curriculum 1945–1979
This event focused on the colour curriculum of pioneering Sydney-based colour designer and educator Phyllis Shillito (1895–1980) of the 1940s to the 1970s