Berry Museum in Berry, New South Wales | Landmark & historical place

Berry Museum

Locality: Berry, New South Wales

Phone: +61 2 4464 3097

Address: 135 Queen Street 2535 Berry, NSW, Australia

Website: http://berryhistory.org.au

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25.01.2022 PLEASE NOTE Berry Museum will be closed until further notice. We apologise for any inconvenience and hope to see you when we resume our normal opening times.

25.01.2022 What do you suppose this is?

22.01.2022 Alexander Berry was the founder of the Coolangatta Estate. The estate stretched from Gerringong all the way down to the Shoalhaven River.

22.01.2022 The Schooner Coolangatta which was built here in the Shoalhaven. This print is on display at Berry Museum. Do you know the story of the Coolangatta? Which came first - Coolangatta in the Shoalhaven, or Coolangatta on the Gold Coast? You'll find the answer in the Berry Museum.

21.01.2022 During school term, Museum times will be Saturdays from 11am to 2pm and Sundays from 11am to 3pm. Here's a little information about going to school in Victorian times. _____________________________________________________... In Victorian schools, very young children first learned to write their letters in sand trays using their fingers or a stick. When they were about seven, they progressed to writing on slates like the one pictured here. The board was made from a piece of quarry slate set in a wooden frame. A slate pencil (not chalk) was used to form the letters.The advantage of slates over paper was that they could be wiped clean and used again and again. Children had to bring a dampened cloth or sponge to school so that they could clean the slate and start again but often they would use their own spit and the cuff of their sleeve! This process is the origin of the phrase 'to wipe the slate clean', which we still use to mean to make a new start, or to forget the things that have gone before. _____________________________________________________ Have you visited Berry Museum's Hands-On Room? We have two slates there that you can try out for yourself.

18.01.2022 New books available at the Museum. We have four new books available for purchase at the Museum: Grave Misconceptions A Munificent Bequest Family, Farms and Faith... Up in the Hills See more

17.01.2022 A gazunda, or chamber pot. These were very popular back in the days when "going to the bathroom" in the middle of the night meant rugging up and going down the back to the outhouse. There might be redback spiders or it could possibly be in the pouring rain. So, to avoid these perils, many people had chamber pots which were discreetly stored under the bed. Nowadays most of us enjoy the comfort of an indoor toilet and so a gazunda is no longer needed. Why was it called a gazunda? Because it "goes under" the bed.

17.01.2022 Now that the school holidays are here, the Museum will be open every day except New Years Day from 11:00am to 2:00pm Monday to Saturday, and 11:00am to 3:00pm on Sundays.

14.01.2022 Shackleton - Escape from Antarctica It’s one of the greatest survival stories of all time, and now, over 100 years later, a new panel display on tour from the Australian National Maritime Museum invites visitors to walk in the footsteps of famous Antarctic explorer Sir Ernest Shackleton and discover for themselves his epic voyage of survival. The display is currently at Berry Museum and will run for the entire school holidays.

12.01.2022 The school holidays are on, and the Museum is open every day. 11am til 2pm on Mondays to Saturdays 11am til 3pm on Sundays. Come in and visit.

06.01.2022 Now the school holidays are over, we hope you had a great summer holiday, and we wish all students a great 2019 at school. During school term, our Museum is open on Saturdays and public holidays from 11am to 2pm, and on Sundays from 11am to 3pm. We hope to see you soon.

05.01.2022 Come and see our Berry Spinners and Weavers exhibit. You will see beautiful examples of these crafts, and you can have a chat with some of Berry Spinners and Weavers members who are on site - during our usual opening hours - to demonstrate their skills.

04.01.2022 We have a new exhibition on display at Berry Museum until the 18th January 2020. Submerged: stories of Australia’s shipwrecks Australia has over 11,000 shipwrecks - that’s roughly one wreck for every three kilometres of coastline.