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Preserving Vera’s gift: Work begins on the Endeavour River Series of...
VSJA Volunteer, Isobel Skoczek admires one of Vera’s paintings. At the end of last year, the Vera Scarth Johnson Association approached me for advice about collection preservation and updating their...
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Winging to Windorah and Charleville chats
Ewen and I are coming to the end of our MDO odyssey – while the jokes are getting worse, the welcomes we receive and the sights we are seeing make it all worth it. We departed Eromanga after a quick...
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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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Winton one year on
The early hours of Saturday July 18th will mark the first anniversary of the fire which claimed the Waltzing Matilda Centre in Winton. It has been a long hard road for the volunteers of the Winton...
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The conservation of a fire damaged print
Fire damaged print of ‘Menin Gate before midnight’ before conservation treatment. This blog will outline the conservation treatment I carried out on a print that was damaged in the fire last June at...
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Langenbaker House Conservation Clean
Before the serious heat of summer struck, MDO Josh Tarrant and I travelled to Ilfracombe to undertake a conservation clean of the objects and interior of Langenbaker House. I have previously blogged...
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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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Camouflaged Socks
Museum Development Officer Ewen McPhee and Queensland Museum Conservator Sue Valis recently made an interesting discovery when working on the First World War bound socks held in the Zara Clark Museum...
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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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A Golden Opportunity for Gold Coast Community Museums
Recently, members of the Gold Coast Heritage Voice network were treated to a behind the Scenes tour of both the John Oxley Library, and the Southbank campus of the Queensland Museum. Heritage Voice...
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Flood relief effort wins award
The MDO program recently received a Gallery and Museum Achievement Award (gamaa), presented by Museum and Gallery Services Queensland, for their flood relief work. The award was given in the category...
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Gayndah Flood Recovery Phase Two
In February 2013 communities in the Bundaberg, Burnett and Frazer Coast region were inundated by flood waters in the wake of ex tropical cyclone Oswald. In an initial disaster response, Queensland...
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Clothes Tell Stories: An online costume workbook
Do you have a question about clothing and costumes in your collection? Should they be hung, rolled or laid flat? How should they be displayed in exhibitions? And how can we best use them to tell...
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Reinvigorating FNQ’s museum workers and volunteers
Museum workers and volunteers from a range of FNQ museums have been involved in three different workshops over the past six weeks. Workshops offer participants an opportunity to acquire new skills so...
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Luscious Locks a thing of the past
To all my museum colleagues, Why has this little girl lost her luscious locks? Bronwyn
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