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The art of making tea: Mulgrave Settlers Museum’s New Tea Cosy Competition
Mulgrave Shire Historical Society and the Mulgrave Settlers Museum are holding a Tea Cosy Competition this year to celebrate and promote the art of making tea cosies. The Museum is calling for locals,...
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Just around the corner… Yarrabah
How many people do you know who have never visited their local museum or gallery? Quite often we are unaware of the treasures hidden inside buildings that are just around the corner. Or perhaps we have...
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Defending the Pacific – North Queensland and the First World War
First troops leaving Townsville in August 1914. State Library of Queensland, Negative No: 25536 MDOs from North Queensland, Ewen McPhee, and Far North Queensland, Dr Jo Wills, have curated Defending...
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Heritage North – bringing local museum communities together
Ewen McPhee demonstrates display techniques at the Heritage North workshop in Gordonvale. Photo: Robyn Smith, Cairns Museum. Heritage North is an association of museums and historical societies from...
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North West Queensland’s First World War collections
In this first year of the First World War centenary commemorations, it’s hard for the MDOs not to notice World War One collections as they work with Queensland’s regional museums and communities. As we...
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Conserving Mareeba’s “Portraits of the North”
Helen Kindt and David Foster with the first box of rehoused glass negatives from the “Portraits of the North” project. Last week, volunteers at Mareeba Historical Society worked with Queensland Museum...
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Anticipating Anzac: upcoming exhibition on the Atherton Tablelands
Are you Anzac-ready? Or busy working on an Anzac-related project? As museums and historical societies across the state continue preparations for a suite of Anzac projects for the 100th anniversary of...
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Follow up from Cyclone Nathan, FNQ
Preparation for Cyclone Nathan at James Cook Museum, Cooktown, March 2015.Image: Jacqui Collins-Herrmann, Manager, James Cook Museum. After two weeks of watching and waiting as Cyclone Nathan carved an...
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Edmund Jarvis and his amazing cane beetle displays
Beetle Borers of Cane, June 1924. Meringa Station. It’s not often I get called to look at natural history or entomological collections. And, when I was contacted by staff at Meringa Research Station...
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“Evolution: Torres Strait Masks”- MDOs working with Gab Titui
Apart from the disaster recovery work in Winton, the MDOs have been working on numerous other projects. One of these, “Evolution: Torres Strait Masks”, has been with staff from Gab Titui Cultural...
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What lies beneath… three objects that have helped us view the reef
The Marine Wonders of the Great Barrier Reef, Tourism Poster, Percy Trompf, 1933. National Library of Australia. People’s desire to see beneath the surface of the sea has inspired a myriad of...
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Adaptation and collaboration: creating the gallery for “Cooktown’s War”
Cooktown’s War: final exhibition in one of the nun’s cells at James Cook Museum, Cooktown. Photo: Ewen McPhee. Like many museums across Queensland, James Cook Museum received funding from the Anzac...
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Exploring the value of First World War projects at the SLQ Heritage Leaders...
At the recent Q ANZAC 100 Heritage Leaders Workshop held at the State Library in Brisbane, I was asked to participate in a forum about community involvement in First World War Projects with three other...
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In aid of Belgians… the Kingsborough autograph cloth
Earlier this year I was contacted by a woman who was wondering whether a cloth that had belonged to her husband’s grandmother held any interest to the collecting organisations in far north Queensland....
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恭喜發財 – Gong Xi Fa Cai! CADCAI creates a fresh display to celebrate Chinese...
Volunteers have developed panels to promote the Lit Sung Goong temple collection for the 2017 Cairns Chinese New Year Festival. Design: Nettie O’Connell. As many museum followers know, Cairns is home...
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Proserpine Museum: open for business
Proserpine Museum. Image, Proserpine Museum website. Today, volunteers at Proserpine Museum opened the doors for business for the first time since Cyclone Debbie. With many local businesses still...
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Early science communicators: Edmund Jarvis and Mulgrave Settlers Museum’s new...
Mulgrave Settler Museum’s new exhibition: “Beetles, Grubs and other Bugs” Yesterday, Mulgrave Settlers Museum in Gordonvale opened a new exhibition called ‘Beetles, Grubs and other Bugs’. Developed to...
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FNQ hosts travelling exhibition Railways 1914-1918
Railways 1914-1918 is the latest travelling exhibition from The Workshops Rail Museum, Queensland Museum Network. It explores the role of railways at home and on the front and the pivotal role of rail...
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Welcome to the new Cairns Museum
Cairns Museum – renewed and resplendent For those of you haven’t heard, Cairns Museum and has reopened. And it is FABULOUS! I’m not going to pepper this post with a hundred pictures (why not visit or...
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Snapshots from FNQ
We might only be in March, but 2018 has already been busy up here in the Far North. Apart from attending a new exhibition opening in the temporary gallery at Cairns Museum, helping groups submit grant...
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