Hall Museum 2024 News Archive

September 2024

Maren moves on - Volunteers gathered on Sunday 15 September to thank Maren Innes for her wonderful service to the Centre...

Wee Jasper School celebrates 125 years - The Wee Jasper School 125th Anniversary attracted a very good crowd and considerable interest in our display which comprised six storyboards, well presented on a metal framework, with hay bales and wattle branches to highlight...
HHC receives Heritage Grant - Honorary Curator Alastair Crombie and Gillespie Collection Curator Ken Heffernan have just paid a visit to the Serbian Orthodox Church, Forrest, a Canberra treasure for its brilliant wall and ceiling murals...
Annual Address - Duncan Marshall - Chair of the ACT Heritage Council Duncan Marshall gave the Centre's 2024 Annual Address on Thursday 15th August...
Chair ACT Heritage to give Annual Address - Recently appointed Chair of the ACT Heritage Council, Duncan Marshall AM, will deliver the Hall Heritage Centre's annual address on Thursday 15th August...
Hall Heritage tour booklet launched - Minister Rebecca Vassarotti visited the Centre on 25 July to launch the latest in a series of Heritage Tour booklets - this one a Heritage Tour of Hall...

Minister Vassarotti to launch Hall heritage booklet - Heritage Minister Rebecca Vassarotti with visit the Hall Heritage Centre on Thursday 25th July to launch a Hall self-guided heritage tour booklet - one of a series produced for the ACT government by the National Trust...

Car club visit - Despite the low temperatures and frost underfoot, members of the Standard & Triumph Car Club visited the centre on Saturday morning for a tour of the galleries and a working lunch...

Cameron Archer - Book launch at Yass - 'Resilience at the foot of the Brindabellas' is the title of the book launched at St Clements Anglican Church, Yass on Sunday 26 May...
Major History of Canberra volumes available - James McDonald has been working on his five-volume history of Canberra for the past decade. Volume I...

National Trust Open Day at Yarralumla Woolshed - The National Trust Open Day event has become a much anticipated part of the annual ACT Heritage Festival...
Visit by Suzanne Orr, Yerrabi MLA - Local representative, MLA Suzanne Orr, has recently been appointed Labour Spokesperson for Heritage. To help her get across the interests and issues involved she spent two hours at the Heritage Centre meeting volunteers and being briefed about the Centre's work...
Gillespie Exhibition launch - On Sunday 14 April large crowd attended the official naming of the Gillespie building and the launch of the Exhibition - 'The journey of Lyall Gillespie'...

The latest addition to the centre's collection - Over the past two weeks, following on from some excellent publicity, we have had especially large numbers of interested visitors coming to visit our 'Selected Southwell Stories' exhibition, keeping the Sunday volunteers on their toes answering questions, offering further research opportunities and clarifying who was who on the Southwell family tree! On Monday 18th March members of the Southwell family hosted an afternoon tea and final showing of the Southwell stories...
Celebrating 175 years of schooling at Bowning - Bowning village community was out in force on Saturday 9th March to celebrate a very special event. Their village school has been operating for the past 175 years...
Celebrating Canberra Day - one hundred and eleven years after the foundation stones were laid - Most Canberrans know that we have a public holiday every year on the second Monday in March. Many probably have some idea that we come together on that day to celebrate the existence of the Nation's capital which grew slowly out of the rolling hills of the Limestone Plains...