Hall Museum 2025 News Archive

June 2025

The first ten years of the Gillespie Collection - The Yass Valley History Centre hosts presentations from local museums, heritage centres and like-minded individuals focussing on local heritage...

Lyall Gillespie - book launch - This year's ACT Heritage Festival event was a very convivial community get-together to launch two Lyall Gillespie books...
National Trust (ACT) Open Day - The National Trust (ACT) Open Day is an annual event which is held during the ACT Heritage Festival...
UNEARTHED - ACT Heritage Festival 2025 - The theme of this year's ACT Heritage Festival is UNEARTHED. We have three displays linked to this theme: * a very moving story of a WWl veteran with Hall Village connections...

Melba Men's Shed visit - Friday 28th February saw another community group visit the Hall Heritage Centre for morning tea, heritage talk and tour of the campus...

National Trust walk around the village - More than 30 participants meandered around the village this morning, Sunday 23rd February, following a trail that is listed in the Hall self-guided heritage tour booklet - one of a series produced for the ACT government by the National Trust ACT and launched in July 2024...
James McDonald's Volume III of the history of Canberra is published - James McDonald has been working on his five-volume history of Canberra for the past decade. Volume I...
Reminiscing in the 1911 bush school - Last Thursday, 16th February, we had a visit from a former Hall school pupil. Alma Haycox lived in Hall with her family in the 1940s and 50s and attended Hall Public School...