Curate Your Own Adventure
Reviewing Museums & Heritage Places
Category: Sydney
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The second stop on our adventure was Hawkesbury Regional Museum. I finally witnessed the flabbit – a local myth first “sighted” in 1985. There is plenty of flabbit merchandise available for purchase. There were three highlights that I will focus on. Firstly, and without bias at all, was the exhibition curated by Imogen herself! I…
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Now that I’ve finished my Masters (yay!!!!) I am free to explore more of Sydney and its wonderful museums and heritage sites. Today was a particularly fantastic day exploring Rouse Hill House & Farm and Hawkesbury Regional Museum with my amazing friend Imogen. Make sure you check out her guest post on Manly Museum &…
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Sweet Addiction is the inaugural exhibition of the new Calyx venue in the Royal Botanic Gardens. For a small fee, you can step inside one of the most beautifully curated exhibition spaces to learn the history and art of chocolate. It is a truly aesthetically pleasing and informative space that once you enter, you’ll find…
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It is time for another fantastic guest post! As always, happy reading. Hello! I’m Rachelle, a Museum & Heritage Studies student and long-time floral enthusiast. When I learned that the State Library of New South Wales was combining two of my favourite things and mounting the exhibition ‘Planting Dreams’, I was immediately enthused. I came…
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Last night was an amazing opportunity to experience a museum not only outside normal hours, but, from a whole different perspective. I have visited the Australian Museum prior to the Jurassic Lounge event and can confidently say that people dressed up as zombies and Eleven from Stranger Things don’t normally walk the halls. I will…
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Although I have been working on Cockatoo Island for just over a year now, I’ve never truly taken the time to walk through the Shipyard Stories exhibition. The exhibition is set in a beautiful sandstone structure that was originally the superintendent’s house from 1839 to 1859. Its various rooms have been recently transformed into gallery…
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Today marked the last day of my twenty-day internship at the Trainor/Owen Archives within the Australian and New Zealand College of Radiologists. I am so grateful I had the opportunity to intern with another medical collection! This post is basically going to summarize what I did over the past twenty days/ten weeks. To start, I…
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I am so excited to share with you the first guest blog post on Curate Your Own Adventure. Happy reading! Hello! My name is Imogen, and I was lucky enough to be asked by my good friend Bec to write a guest post here on Curate Your Own Adventure. I have just graduated from the…
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Yesterday was such a wonderful learning experience and I would firstly like to thank Jo Henwood for organizing the professional development program. The main aim of the day was to hear from a range of professionals on, as the name suggests, teaching touchy topics. Here is the list of where we went and what we…
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Now that I have finally settled in and recovered from jetlag I thought it was an ideal time to write a quick update post. This semester I am delving back into some medical archives! I am interning two days a week at the Trainor/Owen Archives within the College of Radiologists. I have already handled some…
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