Hall Museum 2018 News Archive

December 2018

A Christmas visitor - Distinguished Canberra historian Lyall Gillespie left his extraordinary museum.hall.act.au/article/gillespie...
Katrina's farewell - After nearly ten months we have said 'goodbye' to Katrina Marshall. At a big gathering of volunteers on 13th December...
‘Stories in Dirt’ - Consultant geoarchaeologists Philip Hughes and Marjorie Sullivan, who had just begun their field-work in the Aboriginal Sites Zone on Halls Creek kindly gave some precious time to a briefing for a number of very interested museum volunteers...
'Dutch Hall' - Some sixty years ago Dick Buitendam was a ten year old fresh off a ship from the Netherlands where his family had been living in Amsterdam...

Remembrance Day service - Hall - A large crowd of Hall and district people gathered at the Rochford Memorial Grove for the annual Remembrance Day service on Sunday The 6...
Andrew Leigh opens Armistice and After - Andrew Leigh MP, Member for Fenner was guest of honour for the official opening of the Centre's latest exhibition - Armistice and After...
Previewing the Armistice display - Lt Colonel Michael Pearson was a visitor to the Centre on Thursday. Michael has been invited to give an Armistice address at Gold Creek school, and discovered that he could gather information about the local enlistees from our Armistice and After exhibition - and the larger ANZAC exhibition that it is part of - When Hall answered the call...

Big boost for Gillespie Collection - The Director-General of the National Library, Marie-Louise Ayers, has just announced that the Centre has been awarded a Community Heritage Grant for 2018, to carry out a 'significance assessment' of the Gillespie Collection...
New location recommended for bike track - The ACT Heritage Council has determined that the proposal to construct a 'mountain bike track' along Hall's Creek would entail unacceptable risks to Aboriginal cultural heritage...
Encouragement Award - presentation - President Nick Reddan and Secretary Gina Tooke of the Heraldry and Genealogy Society of Canberra (HAGSOC) visited the Centre to present us with the Cynthia Foley Encouragement Award for 2018...
Val Wiseman - Plaque unveiling - On Thursday 4th October a large crowd gathered in the Peace Garden for the unveiling of a plaque in memory of our departed friend and colleague Val Wiseman...
'Armistice and After' - an Exhibition - The Centre will mark Remembrance Day 11th November 2018 with the opening of a new exhibition – 'Armistice and After'...

Visiting Southwells on the heritage trail - On Saturday 29 September we had a special visit from a trio of Southwells who are descendants of Samson Southwell and his wife Elizabeth (Veness)...
Family History Unit gets a boost! - The Centre is now (officially) the proud winner of the Cynthia Foley Encouragement Award. The Award was announced and presented at the Conference Dinner at the NSW ACT Association of Family History Societies in Bateman's Bay on 15th September...
Val Wiseman’s Memorial Garden - On Thursday 20th September Greening Australia staff and several volunteers from the Centre managed to plant about 200 native ground covers and small and medium shrubs to create what will become a perfect memorial to Val Wiseman...
ACT Heritage Grants announced - The Centre is again an ACT Heritage grant recipient - two grants in fact! Our two grant applications were 'Stories in dirt' - a geomorphological study of a section of Halls Creek - and for a project to add an augmented reality dimension to some of the Hall village heritage interpretive signs...
Stone artefacts get royal treatment - A number of our volunteers were treated to a preview of the new National Capital Exhibition at Regatta Point by curator Roslyn Hull and colleague Amanda Swadling...
Isla Patterson Exhibition launch - Hall's Kyeema Gallery is hosting an exhibition of watercolour paintings - 'Hall and Beyond' - by Isla Patterson, well known Canberra artist...

Fine gift for our library - The Centre is now the proud owner of 'Three Henry Currans. A family history'. Good friend of the Centre and scholar James McDonald dropped in to donate a copy of his substantial and authoritative study of the Currran family...
William Morris descendant calls in - On Thursday 9 August, Norm Butt from the NSW Central coast visited the Museum, with a special interest in the Morris bootmaking display which can be found in the 'Tale of Two Villages' exhibition...
Isla Patterson pays a visit - Isla Patterson has been painting Canberra buildings and localities since she came to the ACT in 1979 - including many paintings of places in and around Hall...
Heritage Automotive Restorers visit - Yesterday the Museum hosted a visit by about 40 members of the Southern Tablelands Heritage Automotive Restorers Club...
Annual meeting - wisdom and cake - At our annual meeting on 2nd August Dr Alison Wain from the University of Canberra supplied the wisdom, and all the usual trusty cooks supplied the cake! Alison, who is course convenor of the Heritage, Museums and Conservation program at UC, gave a very thoughtful presentation of the special characteristics of 'community' museums - the critical one being direct connection to the people and places of the locality...

HAGSOC pays a visit - HAGSOC abbreviates the full name of the Heraldry and Genealogical Society of Canberra - the home of family history, and more...
Thanks, but not 'good-bye'...... - The visit of representatives from the Heraldry and Genealogical Society of Canberra seemed the ideal time for us to give Katrina Marshall a proper 'thankyou' for all the good work she has done...
Loan to National Capital Authority - Today we officially signed off on the loan of Aboriginal stone artefacts to the National Capital Authority (NCA) for incorporation into their refurbished National Capital Exhibition at Regatta Point...

Purdue (Indiana) students visit - A group of twenty five students from Purdue University visited the Centre on 18 June. They were health / medical students on a three week study tour of Australia to learn about Aboriginal health...
'Cricketer's Arms' was home - Heather Duthie remembers as a five year old finding coins beneath the old verandah when the Cricketer's Arms was demolished in 1938...
ANU Intern signing off - When ANU Masters student (Museums and Collections Program) Katrina Marshall chose to undertake her Internship with us, none of us knew quite where this might lead...

'Two Villages' launched - Labor Member for Yerrabi, Michael Pettersson, launched 'A tale of two villages' at the Centre yesterday...
Memorable Tenth Anniversary Concert - Well over three hundred patrons enjoyed an afternoon of fine band music under a sunny sky at the re-scheduled 'Twilight' concert...
Student invasion - The Centre was delighted to again host a large (thirty four) group of student from the University of Canberra for their Filed Work day...

'The little spinster' - The old Hall school became a film set on 12th January. Annie, the film director, has given us this information about the project...