Curate Your Own Adventure
Reviewing Museums & Heritage Places
Category: Sydney
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Today I ran my first ever museum event. It was a medical history seminar titled: Collecting, Curating, & Conserving. We had an excellent turn out of thirty professionals from all over New South Wales and even Victoria! It was a genuinely lovely morning that involved being surrounded by incredibly passionate people in the field of…
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This weekend was spent guiding two lovely friends from Brisbane around Sydney. The absolute highlight of the visit was taking them to see the new blockbuster exhibition at the Powerhouse Museum, Sherlock. It was very busy when we visited and overall it took us about an hour and a half to get through the entire…
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It’s been quite a while since I’ve posted a new entry. This is mostly because I’ve spent the vast majority of my time working. Rather than keep silent because of this, I thought why not post about what exactly I do. I’ll start by saying each week is completely different. Although this might sound exhausting…
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Enjoy reading the following post by Imogen! Thanks yet again to Bec for sharing her blog space with me. This, even more so than my previous posts, will be entirely biased as I am a huge fan of John Olsen’s work, and was very eager and excited to visit his new retrospective at the Art…
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Happy International Women’s Day! To celebrate, here is a review of “A Fit Place for Women” currently on show at New South Wales Parliament House on Macquarie Street. I visited this exhibition quite some time ago. My memory of what was on display is a little hazy so thankfully I have pictures to help me…
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WARNING: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander viewers are warned that the content on this page may contain images and references to deceased persons. I am very excited to share with you a blog post from the wonderful Katharine Cousins! Enjoy reading about this incredibly powerful exhibition. Hello I’m Katharine, a Museum Studies graduate and genealogy…
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I love tours of neighbourhoods that focus on the history and heritage of the area. I was browsing through What’s On Sydney when I came across heritage walking tours of Chippendale – a suburb very close to Sydney’s CBD. Whilst living in Newtown, I often walked through the suburb on my way to work. Seeing…
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The following blog post will contain two perspectives. I am going to start the post reflecting on the Snugglepot and Cuddlepie anniversary display and the talk at the State Library of New South Wales. Imogen will then write her thoughts on the talk. Me: To celebrate the centenary of May Gibbs Gum-Nut babies, the State…
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From the 18th of April until the 21st of May, the Harry Daly Museum will be participating in the Australian Heritage Festival! Although a couple of months away, I am already getting everything prepared. This will be the first in a series of blog posts leading up to the event. I hope to share with…
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Located a short drive from Sydney is the UNESCO World Heritage Listed Greater Blue Mountains Area. With so much to do, you could easily spend a few days traveling to the different towns and seeing the beautiful scenery from multiple perspectives. In saying this, however, the mountains are also a perfect day trip. I was…
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