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TELLING OUR STORIES: PARTNERSHIP TRAINING PROGRAM – ALBANY

Posted by Christine Rutz WILSON | 7 Mar 2018 | News & Events, Training

TELLING OUR STORIES: PARTNERSHIP TRAINING PROGRAM 17 – 18 May Vancouver Arts Centre Albany Presented in partnership with the City of Albany’s Vancouver Arts Centre, Supported by the Regional Arts Peak Partnership Program If you work in the arts, heritage and culture sector ART ON THE MOVE and Museums Galleries Australia WA are combining their collective and extensive skills to offer you a two day intensive professional development program. The training will explore curating, preparing, presenting and interpreting an exhibition, be it artistic or historic. Who is this for? Arts, heritage and culture sector for educators, curators, archivists, historians,...

50 Years 50 Objects: Melville City

Posted by Nina Frichot | 7 Mar 2018 | Highlights, News & Events

Wireless Hill Museum is proud to present a selection of fifty museum and community objects that showcase stories about the City of Melville since it became a city in 1968. 50 Years 50 Objects celebrates the 50th anniversary of the City of Melville, through an eclectic range of objects that have been grouped together to tell their own stories…all in some way connected to the Melville story of the past 50 years. On show at Wireless Hill Museum from 25 February to end of December 2018 Alex Marsden, the National Director of Museums Galleries Australia, launched this exhibition...

Remembering Them: Newman Launch 2017

Posted by Nina Frichot | 14 Dec 2017 | News & Events

Remembering Them: Newman Exhibition Launch December 2017 Some four years ago, well before the centenary of World War One entered general public consciousness, there was in the museum sector a concern. The concern was that local stories relating to the War might be overwhelmed by the broad sweep of commemoration and memorialisation. It was then that an initial approached were made to Lotterywest to explore ways to relate how World War One impacted on local communities. The feeling at that time was that the great feats of gallantry and sacrifice at Gallipoli, the Somme, Passchendaele, Villars Bretonneau and Amiens...

Agents of Change : Museums Galleries Australia National Conference 4 -7 June 2018

Posted by Christine Rutz WILSON | 9 Nov 2017 | News & Events

Museums Galleries Australia invites you to take part in this significant national conference. Bringing together current and future leaders and decision-makers in museums, galleries and governments from across Australia and the Asia-Pacific region, the conference will be an outstanding three-day experience for all. The MGA2018 conference will include a full program of speakers, workshops, masterclasses, social activities and extended tours, with multiple opportunities for interaction between delegates and sponsors and for showcasing products and services. We invite you to join us in June 2018 This is the leading opportunity for organisations and supporters to participate in this flagship event...

SANDSTONE MIDWEST CHAPTER AGM 15TH OCTOBER 2017

Posted by Nina Frichot | 24 Oct 2017 | News & Events

SANDSTONE MIDWEST CHAPTER AGM 15TH OCTOBER 2017 The Museums Galleries Australia WA team had so much fun on their recent road trip from Fremantle to Sandstone over the weekend, Friday 13th Oct – Sunday 15th Oct. We hired a van and the six of us bundled in, taking turns at driving the 9 hours(just over 800km drive) to our remote regional Midwest Chapter AGM in Sandstone, WA. I would like to congratulate Margie Lundy for organising the extremely successful meeting where over 17 societies turned up with a quorum of 36 people (not including the apologies from 4 who unfortunately broke down in Mt Magnet, only 155kms out of town). These included Morawa Historical Society ( with the help of their Shire have been able to paint their Old Gaol & Rio donated a windmill and permission to erect another); WAM of Geraldton ( Creative Spaces NACC travelling exhibition, Yamatji interviews are available, the cruise ships coming into Geraldton are having a positive impact on the town and museum, Royalties for Regions program review is coming); Northampton Historical Society; New Norcia Benedictine Community ( there is a written articles about New Norcia in the Chimes newsletter, WA Quilters and Embroiderers Tour is ongoing, & a New Museum Advisory Committee headed by Ian McLeod); Museums Galleries Australia WA; WAM- Remembering Them; Carnamah Historical Society ( Production of the Almanac digitisation project, visit...