Hall Museum 2022 News Archive

January 2022

Cricket goes to Cook - Together with the Canberra and District Historical Society, we are now partnering with Family History ACT to present 'Fooling around in flannels' at the the Cook Community Hub. The exhibition is now open for viewing in the hallway outside the...
Gift from the National Portrait Gallery - The Centre has been blessed with the gift of eight splendid new display cases from the National Portrait Gallery. Surplus to their requirement, the cases are a remarkable addition to our exhibition furniture. Four of them will replace the...

Brass on the Grass 2022! - The Hall School Museum and Heritage Centre, in conjunction with Canberra Brass Inc, presents 'Brass on the Grass', their 14th Annual Concert, at 4pm Sunday 27th March in the grounds of the Hall Primary School, Victoria Street, Hall. The Centre...
We welcome AMaGA - Museum and gallery practitioners from a range of Canberra's major cultural institutions paid us a visit on 23 February. They were all members of the Australian Museums and Galleries Association, the national association and peak advocacy...

ANU student visit - We were very pleased to welcome a group of postgraduate students from the ANU on Tuesday 8th March. Course leader Dr Anna Edmundson had chosen the Centre for the first of a series of visits, looking at small, medium and large institutions and...
Brass of the Grass 14 - Our 14th annual Brass on the Grass concert spread its wings this year, including the Queanbeyan Junior Brass, the male a cappella choir Canberra Chordsmen. Despite a threatening morning, the weather held fine - though no-one got sun burnt!...

'The Brooklands Story' launched - Our latest exhibition - 'The Brooklands Story' - was launched today under a sunny sky by the Chair of the Act Heritage Council, Dr Ken Heffernan. The exhibition features three generations of the branch of the Southwell family that began with...
Heritage Festival - Kids Week - As part of this year's ACT Heritage Festival program of events organisations were encouraged to develop and host activities especially designed for young people. This year's theme was CURIOSITY and we decided to participate by offering a Curio...
North Lyneham Heritage Walk - The Lyneham Community Association hosted a heritage walk on Sunday 24th around North Lyneham as part of the 2022 Heritage Festival. Much of the area covered was once owned by 'Big Pete' Shumack who in the 1860s, aged in his early twenties, began...

Canberra Tracks sign arrives - In January 2021 the Morris tanning pit was relocated from the original Dellwood Homestead site to our campus. The pit has been displayed in Palmer Street since that time. We were successful with an ACT Heritage Grant to develop and install a...

Entrance foyer gets a lift! - No, not that sort of lift! A $3,000 grant from the Commonwealth Department of Culture, Heritage and Arts, administered by the Australian Museums and Galleries Association, has enabled us to undertake a project of renewal for our entrance foyer...
It's Official! - On 6th June the Centre received formal acknowledgement from the ACT Heritage Council that one of our prized artefacts, the Shumack - Stone Hut School Sampler, had been registered as an item of significance and added to the ACT Heritage Register....

Womens International Club visit - It was a pleasure to host a visit from the Womens International Club Canberra on 26th August. The Yass Valley History & Culinary Delights Circle of the Club, convened by Rhondda Nicholas, the Circle Leader enjoyed a fine 'double-header' -...

Eric Martin AM gives annual address - Eric Martin, a veteran of both professional heritage architecture and community heritage in the Canberra region, gave the 2022 Hall Heritage Centre address on 27 October to a large and very engaged audience. Eric also formally proclaimed that...

Conservation Clinic – happy visitors - Our pioneering 'conservation clinic' was a successful venture, with plenty of happy visitors. Dire warnings of severe storms may have dampened appetite for being out and about at that time, but those who ventured out to the Hall Heritage...