Hall Museum 2025 News Archive

August 2025

Mark Butz - Annual Address - The Hall Heritage Centre's annual address will be presented this year by Mark Butz. The address will be at the Centre on Thursday 28th August at 11...

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. A local heritage location is identified each year to host the event and this year it was the Tuggeranong Homestead in Richardson...
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...