Curate Your Own Adventure
Reviewing Museums & Heritage Places
Category: Sydney
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I decided to have a bit of fun today and visit the new exhibition Dogs and Cats All at Sea in the National Maritime Museum. The small exhibition displays a collection of photographs taken by Samuel Hood. Each will leave you saying “nawwwww”. Just so we’re clear, I will pretty much love anything to do with dogs. This…
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The suburb of Annandale in Sydney’s Inner West is filled with beautiful heritage buildings and stories of Australia’s convict and colonial past. An efficient way to see as much as possible is to walk down Johnston Street. I started my walk from Rozelle Bay Light Rail Station, however, the street can be directly accessed from…
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Today I had a moment to quickly visit the Museum of Contemporary Art (MCA) and their new Primavera exhibition. I am trying to visit more art galleries this year. This is primarily because I would like to expand my knowledge of how their exhibitions are designed. As I only had thirty minutes, I decided to…
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Over the past few days I have been spending quite a bit of time in the Powerhouse Museum (or Museum of Applied Arts & Sciences). Some of this time has been spent wandering around their relatively new exhibition titled Icons. The basic aim of this exhibition is to showcase some of the treasures held in…
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I thought it was time to delve a little deeper into the Australian Dress Register (ADR). To summarize what I have said in previous blog posts, I started working with the register on behalf of the Queensland Police Museum. In total, I helped publish six police uniforms to the site. Links to these can be…
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I am very excited to share with you another guest post from the wonderful Imogen! Hello again! The lovely Bec has invited me to write another guest post here on Curate Your Own Adventure. I’ve found blogging about my museum and heritage experiences a great opportunity to contemplate what I’ve seen and discuss my thoughts…
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Enjoy reading! Hi, my name is Ziggy Potts and, as a fellow Museum and Heritage Studies student, Rebecca has kindly allowed me to review the new Egyptian Mummies exhibition currently on at the Powerhouse Museum. Whilst this is, in no ways does this review address all aspects, it reflects some of the things that made…
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The Sydney Observatory is currently running tours to complement the new exhibition at the Powerhouse Museum, Egyptian Mummies: Exploring Ancient Lives. The tour runs for approximately one hour and takes place in the observatory’s planetarium. This review is going to be short purely because the tour was short and I want that to be the…
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Now that I’m no longer studying, I don’t feel guilty leaving the house. I have seen more of Sydney in the past two weeks than I have during my 18 months of study. To kickstart my weekend I visited Old Government House in Parramatta. Before even entering the house I was surprised to see it…
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I briefly mentioned this in a previous post but now that it’s 100% confirmed and I have a nice little piece of paper to prove it, I can officially say that I’ve mastered my masters. I started this blog in mid-2015 with the intention of continuing it throughout my study. According to my first blog post:…
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