Illawarra Museum Wollongong in Wollongong, New South Wales | Landmark & historical place

Illawarra Museum Wollongong

Locality: Wollongong, New South Wales

Phone: +61 2 4228 7770

Address: 11 Market Street 2500 Wollongong, NSW, Australia

Website: http://www.illawarramuseum.com

Likes: 2187

Add/Update information

Reviews

Tags

• Landmark & historical place
• Landmark
• Community museum

25.01.2022 Discover more about the Illawarra's history this weekend at the Illawarra Museum Wollongong :-) Find out more info at www.illawarramuseum.com

24.01.2022 Watch more local history videos at Yesterday Stories

23.01.2022 Here is a short video on the restoration process carried out by David Stein & Co on our Eugene von Guerard, Cabbage Tree Forest American Creek, New South Wales.... The Eugene von Guerard Cabbage Tree Forrest was painted in oil paint on canvas in 1860 and with age comes change. Like everything, paintings need ongoing maintenance and care. Linen canvas becomes more fragile, the paint layers become brittle and the varnish surface coating becomes discoloured and yellowed. Conservators treat artworks with the aim of preventing the possibility of irreversible deterioration whilst maintaining the artists original intentions with conservation principles of reversibility. Von Guerard is known for his realistic landscapes, where everything in the painting is highly detailed and is in focus. The artist achieves this by using very fine brushes and building-up resin rich glaze layers. Cleaning the old resin varnish off paintings has to be undertaken carefully so as not to remove any of the artists original fine glaze details. Once the old varnish is removed and old repairs reworked, the painting is given an application of a reversible, non-yellowing, conservation grade resin varnish. This re-saturates the paint film and restores the painting to how the artist had originally intended it to be. David Stein June 2020 To see the full conservation report go to http://wollongongartgallery.com/exhibit/Pages/Art-Care.aspx

23.01.2022 Write an original research paper on a local topic and you could win $5000 in prize money as part of the Wollongong City Libraries 2020 Local History Prize! Please read our terms and conditions for full competition details and requirements; and submit your entry form before 31 July 2020. More information at: https://www.wollongong.nsw.gov.au//exp/local-history-prize

23.01.2022 These newly-opened drinking holes are like nothing the city has seen in almost 100 years. Illawarra Mercury

20.01.2022 Launching our new Wollongong, New South Wales BLUE MILE GUIDED TOUR. Blue Mile History Tour: Telling the stories of Wollongong’s Foreshore, the 2.5hr walking gu...ided tour includes stories of the region’s first peoples, its early settlers and convicts, the start of industry in this region and how people from all over the world have made this area the important and thriving city and region it is now. 1st Public Tour: Friday 23/10/20 at 930am. Public bookings can be made through our website: www.insideindustry.org.au Group bookings can be made directly by contacting us. See more

19.01.2022 Our tours may be suspended for time being but we are most certainly 'still here' and want to keep connected with you all. Here is a #throwback short video with ...some historic footage from the Steelworks - we look forward to you joining us and our tours again in the furture #wearewollongong Inside Industry - Proudly Connecting Community & Industry See more

19.01.2022 Presentation by Wendy & Terry Nunan - Illawarra Historical Society Meeting - 6:30pm Thursday 6th February - Wollongong City Library - All Welcome "Fate and Fact - Stranger Than Fiction: A twisted tale of chance encounters, arranged marriages and considerable deception, across 100 years through England, New Zealand and Australia linking the lives of several totally disparate families." Drawn from the tales told by their recent publication "West Dapto Catholic Cemetery - The Early Families", the presentation details the known lives (and unknown pasts) of some of those buried in West Dapto Cemetery and their spouses, including Jay Joseph Vining.

17.01.2022 Come along to the Illawarra Museum Wollongong annual general meeting 6.30pm Thursday 5th March at the Wollongong City Library and hear guest speaker Fiona Reynolds talk about the National Trust :-)

17.01.2022 Women relaxing in Wollongong's Rest Park near the CWA Restrooms in the mid 1960's. The park opened in 1935 before being destroyed to make way for the Gateway shopping centre development in the mid 1980's (Illawarra Historical Society collection)

15.01.2022 Lunchtime traffic along the Princes Highway at Wonoona looking south west in the early 1980's (Illawarra Museum Wollongong)

14.01.2022 #FlashbackFriday It's the end of an era for the travel and aviation industry, with Qantas retiring the iconic Boeing 747 aircraft after close to 50 years. One o...f the first Qantas jumbos carried the name 'City of Wollongong', and WIN News Editor at the time, John Martin, was at the Boeing factory in Seattle when it was rolled out, and onboard its delivery flight in 1975. #WINNews6pm

14.01.2022 Corrimal Chamber TV interview with David Bottin the founder of Lost Wollongong. Find out why Dave started the Lost Wollongong Facebook Group who has now over 32...,000 followers. Look back at some amazing photos of Wollongong and surrounds from Yesteryear. #corrimal #boultee #lostwollongong #corrimalchamberofcommerce #corrimalchambertv #wollongong #illawarra #heritage #lost #memories #tourism #pressplay #corrimalitsjustagreatplacetobe See more

14.01.2022 Join the Illawarra Museum Wollongong tour :-)

13.01.2022 Who remembers when Grace Bros opened? :-) Follow Yesterday Stories for more local history videos!

13.01.2022 Great video from the years before mechanisation :-)

13.01.2022 Sometimes life has a way of making things come full circle. In this WWII story, Geoff says the best thing about war was when it was all over. #LestWeForget #AnzacDay #LostWollongong #yourpastisyourpresent #yesterdaystories #shellharbourcitycouncil #museumsandgalleries #WarillaRSL

11.01.2022 The way we were - Southline drive-in in Fairy Meadow in the late 60s @lostwollongong (Wollongong City Libraries) Head to our website to read more about the ...beloved drive-in in issue 9, and to meet the man behind @lostwollongong in our new ‘meet a neighbour’ section! . . #meettheneighbour #spreadtheword #lostwollongong #issue9 #joininonthefun #linkinbio #fairymeadow #driveins #presocialdistancing #late60’s #goodolddays #staysafe #illawarra #coalcoast #coalcoastmag See more

09.01.2022 A Rutty's bus on the Mount Keira service in the early 1900's (Wollongong City Libraries)

06.01.2022 Kemira Colliery miners pose for a group photo on the last production shift for the 134 year-old colliery on the 9th September 1991 (Illawarra Mercury)

06.01.2022 #throwbackThursday Port Kembla and Tom Thumb lagoon looking towards Wollongong in the 1940's. (Photo courtesy of Wollongong City Libraries) Our Public Port Tour...s are fun and educational as we explore the fascinating and ever changing Inner Harbour, Outer Harbour and surrounds inc Port Kembla Heritage Park and Hill 60. Post the current health crisis - join us in exploring your very own backyard #wearewollongong See more

06.01.2022 Try Waters First - Waters was a Crown Street institution from the 1890's until the late 1980's when it moved to Stewart Street before finally closing its doors for good in the early 2000's. Discover more about our history at the Illawarra Museum Wollongong this weekend 12pm-3pm.

06.01.2022 Evelthon Imisides was among the early Greek Cypriots when he arrived in Australia in 1928. In the following years he opened fish and chip shops in Wollongong and Port Kembla, the first one was on the corner of Crown and Keira Street. This photo is of his business ‘Bob’s Fish & Oyster Supply' at Primbee. Evelthon Imisides was featured in the Migration Heritage Project’s 2017 ‘The Food Business’ Exhibition. Learn more about Evelthon Imisides, who many post World War 2 Greek migrants remember as Uncle Bob, by following the link below to the MHP website. (Photograph used with permission from a private collection Migration Heritage Project). #migrantheritage #migranthistory #wollongonghistory #wollongong #localhistory #greek #greekcypriot

06.01.2022 Follow Yesterday Stories for more local history videos

05.01.2022 Join Aunty Lorraine Brown and her sister Narelle Thomas for some fantastic Indigenous local history and dreamtime story-telling about how Mt Keira got its name. ABC Illawarra

05.01.2022 Who even knew gypsies were a thing in Wollongong? Just a quick recollection here but of course there's more to it than this, we would love to do a follow up sto...ry, sounds like the Gypsy Queen funeral was huge and she must have been dearly loved for that. Again thanks to #WollongongCentral #GPT #Yourpastisyourpresent #lostWollongong #YesterdayStories See more

04.01.2022 Hostel Life - Stories of Assisted Migration & Housing 29 February 2020 9:30am The Fraternity Club :-) A reminder about the Migration Heritage Project holding a presentation and talk "Hostel Life: Stories of Assisted Migration & Housing" where we take a look back at post-WW2 migration and migrant hostels in Wollongong using photographs from MHP databases, personal collections as well as local and national archives. This presentation, prepared by the MHP committee, celebrates... the start of 70-year anniversaries of migrant hostels that were erected in Wollongong from 1949. Please join us on Saturday, 29 February 2020 at the Fraternity Club at 9.30am. Admission is Free but bookings are essential for catering purposes. Bookings: Online via the Eventbrite link below By email: [email protected] Or call the MHP Secretary on 0438 832 094 Visit the MHP website: www.mhpillawarra.com.au for more information about the migrant hostel anniversaries and presentation. RSVP: 27 February 2020 #migrantheritage #heritage #history #migranthistory #wollongong

04.01.2022 The Dalfram Dispute 1938: Pig Iron Bob Watch this very important piece of the Illawarra's World War II history for free online today. We have been so touched by the events unfolding with the Ruby Princess in Port Kembla. The way the Illawarra has responded to helping those in need is steeped in history. We are letting everyone watch the film The Dalfram Dispute 1938 for free to better understand a significant history that took place on the Port of Port Kembla in 1938 so we know where that stems from. Proud to be based and living in the Illawarra. #RubyPrincess #PigIronBob #portKembla Just follow the code https://vimeo.com/r/2DQ6/MHRJWmdERm

03.01.2022 Personal stories should also be conserved, even if it was just about hanging around on a Saturday night...Thanks to #WollongongCentral for letting us record the social history of the Mall. #Yourpastisyourpresent #YesterdayStories #lostWollongong

02.01.2022 Beneath Black Skies - A History of Coal Mining in the Illawarra, by Why Documentaries The Illawarra once held a reputation for the dustiest and gassiest coal m...ines in Australia.The south coast miners were regarded by some as the most militant miners in the industry, as they were at the forefront of campaigns such as the fight against dust and the 35 hr week. How did Australia’s first mineral export shape the men and women who lived the mining life beneath black skies? This remarkable history is told through the miners, their wives, unions, historians, and mining official’s perspectives. Narrated by Australian actor David Field, with a striking musical score and dramatic re-enactments of the late 19th and early 20th century, this film is a community treasure of Australian significance. Watch the full documentary today at www.vimeo.com/ondemand/beneathblackskies2/32459521 See more

02.01.2022 Now watch for free one of the most highly praised documentaries to be produced in the Illawarra - 'Beneath Black Skies' - the history of our region's mining industry and its people :-)

01.01.2022 There were a number of local soft drink brands in the Illawarra over the years - Ryan & Moore, Sharpe's, Brough Bros, Wheeldon & Marks, Shelley's, Trib's, Crystal, Betta, and of course Parkinson's. :-) Does anyone remember Collins' drinks? Jacqui Price's family ran this business in Wollongong for a number of years. The lesser-known local soda pop brand ran out of Corrimal on a home delivery model from 1960 to around 1972.