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Fittingly, this Wednesday is International Museum Day. Since 1977 ICOM, the International Council of Museums, has hosted this special Museum Day as a way to raise awareness of Museum’s as an important cultural repository and important tool for international cooperation and development of peace amongst all people. Last year, over 158 countries took part with different events from sharing online content to hosting events in the Museum space. This year, our team are busy plannin

The winners of the Museum’s annual art competition were due to be announced back in January, however, the pandemic had other ideas and the ceremony had to be postponed until these recent school holidays. On the back of what has been a very busy school holidays for the Museum team, the winners were announced at a ceremony held last Thursday 21st April 2022. The theme of the 2021 competition was 'Resilience', and it seems the topic remains all too relevant as we look at the pro

I never thought a year on from the ’disastrous’ floods of 2021 that I’d be sitting down to write a blog about the ‘even more disastrous‘ floods of 2022! It was like 2021 was a dry run for what happened in 2022 (pardon the terrible pun)! In 2021, we faced something we hadn’t before and had to work out how to respond. This time we knew what to do, but we didn’t expect it to drag on as long as it did. Being the heritage partner of Fire and Rescue NSW, the Museum understands the

Welcome to the latest instalment of the Museum’s blog series! This weekly snapshot from the Museum is a great way for us to keep our loyal supporters up to date with what is going on behind the scenes and promote some of our latest additions to the visitor experience or collection. At the same time, we’ve found that these blogs serve as an introduction to many new faces as they are drawn into our website by a specific topic and begin to explore what else we have to offer. For

Happy New Year and welcome to this, my first CEO blog of 2022! I feel like I’m becoming a broken record when I say this, but the year did not get off to the start we expected (as it didn’t last year either)! With COVID-19 cases rising, the Museum faced the same difficulties as most of the state including staff shortages and a decline in visitation as more people elected to stay home or were in isolation. Due to the situation we elected to postpone the awards ceremony for the

It has been quite a while since I sat down to write my last CEO blog and that is because our team has expanded yet again! With the addition of new staff and the creation of new roles our team have found even more stories for us to share and that has meant that you don’t have to see or hear from me alone anymore! To find my last blog I had to go all the way back to October and in that piece, I talked about the Museum re-opening after the long lockdown. Rather than focus on the

The last year of 2021 has, like the previous year, thrown up many challenges for the Museum’s Board, Staff and Volunteers to navigate through. In reflection, I find it uncanny how the 2020-2021 Financial Year started by coming out of lockdown and closed by entering into another lockdown due to the new Delta Covid strain evolving. This amongst other challenges tested the resilience and imagination of our Chief Executive Officer (CEO) and her very capable team of staff and volu

The work that we get done at the Museum wouldn’t be possible without each and every one of our team members. You may be familiar with some of our front-of-house team members, one of whom we will be getting to know a bit better this week. Monika, the Museum’s Senior Retail Assistant, is a warm, friendly face who’s always up for a chat. She’s across all things retail and runs a tight ship at the Museum’s shop. You may have also seen her husband Colin who often runs the fire eng

I am very excited to be able to say that the Museum is now open! What a year it has been! After such a tumultuous 2020 we never expected to face a more challenging 2021. This year the lockdown lasted much longer than the previous year and we were forced to stand down all of our staff either completely or partially (including myself and the senior management team). When the Museum closed its doors in June 2021, we were experiencing a high having come off our busiest year for v

It is #AskACuratorDay tomorrow (Wednesday 15 September 2021) and to celebrate we are hosting a week-long curatorial takeover! Did you know that our CEO started her museum career as a Curator? Perhaps this is why she has endorsed this weeklong promotion of our curatorial team, but it might also be because Curators are the backbone of a museum. What is a curator? A curator is defined as a keeper or custodian of a museum or other collection. It is Curators who oversee the conser