Hall Museum 2024 News Archive

March 2024

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...
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. The Board of National Education was founded in 1848 and tasked with establishing...
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...

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 exhibition was launched by Dr Roslyn Russell with a fine speech, detailing Lyall's...
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...
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. This year's event took place on Saturday 20th April at the old Yarralumla Woolshed, just down the road from the Governor General's residence....

Major History of Canberra volumes available - James McDonald has been working on his five-volume history of Canberra for the past decade. Volume I. From Antiquity to Invasion and Volume II. Colonization (1824-61) have been published and are available at the centre for viewing and/or purchase....
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. Authored by Cameron Archer, the book centres around Cavan Station, in the country where Cameron grew up. Cameron...

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. Members came from all over the state to 'show off' their vehicles...

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. The Hall booklet has been...

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. The booklets have been funded by the ACT Government, and produced by the National Trust...
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. The address at 11.30 am will be followed by a Q&A session, and then a light lunch. All...
Annual Address - Duncan Marshall - Chair of the ACT Heritage Council Duncan Marshall gave the Centre's 2024 Annual Address on Thursday 15th August. In introducing him Allen Mawer observed that the Ministerial 'Statement of Expectations' presented to the incoming Council in 2023...
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. This auspicious place was the setting...
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. A good selection...

Maren moves on - Volunteers gathered on Sunday 15 September to thank Maren Innes for her wonderful service to the Centre. Initially volunteering as a University of Canberra student, the Centre was subsequently able to find the funds to make her our part- time...