Hall Museum 2023 News Archive

March 2023

Hosting ANU students - Dr Anna Edmundson and a group of fifteen graduate student in Museum and Heritage studies visited on 9 March as part of a course on 'Exhibition design and delivery'. Student are required to selected a project from the Centre's collections which...

Bounty for the Centre - display cases arrive - The Museum of Australian Democracy (MOaD), located in the nation's old parliament house features collections that have unique historical value to Australia, having important associations with the processes of government, the building's functions...
Heritage Grants Announced - ACT Minister for Heritage Rebecca Vassarotti hosted a delightful gathering at the Mulligan's Flat information Centre Wildbark in Throsby on Tuesday 15th August to announce the 2023-2024 Heritage Grants. Earlier this year, the Centre submitted...
Wattle (Arbor) Day - A little over 100 years ago a young school teacher, Ethel Harris (later Cavanagh), decided to improve the surroundings of the school where she had taken up her first teaching appointment, having gained her teaching qualifications in Sydney in...

Brass on the Grass Concert - Bring the family along to our annual fund-raising brass band concert on the lawns of the old primary school campus in Victoria Street Hall. The Centre's heritage displays will be open from 12 noon as will food and drinks and the music begins...
Another successful brass band concert - Spring weather in the nation's capital seems to be becoming a little more difficult to predict. However, Sunday last proved to be fairly close to perfection for our 12th brass band concert event, now fondly referred to as Brass on the Grass....
An official street number at last - Most cities, towns and villages in Australia have an easily negotiated street system, with houses and commercial enterprises identified with a street number, so people looking for the buildings, or the postie (or more common now the courier)...