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Insights into the Tarella Collection with Curator Linsi Braith
Situated in Wentworth Falls, Tarella Cottage was originally built in 1890 as a holiday cottage, and now serves as a museum and research centre for the Blue Mountains Historical Society. We interviewed curator Linsi Braith to find out more about the museum and its collection.
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Sips & Sounds
Driving down the Great Western Highway from Penrith over the river to Emu Plains, you could be forgiven for thinking...
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Toy Story: before Woody and Buzz
Meet Hanna Kim Hong, one of our roving reporters. Mother of a young family and legal advocate with the Arts...
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Meaning and significance
Recently Penrith Regional Gallery & The Lewers Bequest completed the significance assessment of their collection, following the receipt of a...
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Museums matter
Here at Museums & Galleries of NSW, we have just completed Guess Who’s Going to the Museum?, our third major...
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The new Orange Regional Museum will transform the region
Currently the planned Orange Regional Museum is a construction site: the construction company has demolished the existing visitor centre; the...
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Sydney’s sandstone real estate
In real estate-loving Sydney, an open house normally means would-be tenants and hopeful homebuyers on the hunt for that elusive...
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Remember the milk bar?
There’s a great exhibition touring nationally which explores the origins of the humble milk bar and it offers much more...
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Love architecture? Love people?
The good folk at Sydney Living Museums are in the throes of organising one of the best out-and-about events in...
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Construction approaches the finish line
The keys to Murwillumbah’s new beginning are in Judy Kean’s hands. In a ceremony in early May, the Director of...
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Phryne Fisher’s fabulous fashions
“A woman should dress first and foremost for her own pleasure” says the elegant sleuth Miss Phryne Fisher, and we...
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Every renovator’s heritage dream
We all know Australia has an insatiable appetite for renovation and everything ‘home building’. While this has reached fervour pitch...
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Artists’ studios: open doors
Europe may well have the immersive chaos of Francis Bacon’s studio in Dublin, the catalogued remains of the Giacometti...
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Sydney’s museums alive online
If you already have a fondness for Sydney Living Museum’s properties you’ll be pleased to know they are now providing...
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Bellingen’s very own Paradise
If you’ve been following The Paradise on ABC TV, then you’ll be familiar with the story of Denise and the handsome...
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Modern Objective
If you are into all things Modernist, you must get along to Object Gallery! What many would see as...
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Pioneering expectations
Pioneering expectations For many years, friends and colleagues have recommended a visit to the Pioneer Women’s Hut, so it was with...
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The Land of Lewers
Way out west and wondering where to take the kids on the weekend? Take them to the Land of Lewers! Poised...
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Eat Your History
With the explosion of Master Chef type reality television making each of us stare into our mashed potatoes and...
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