Queanbeyan Museum in Queanbeyan, New South Wales | History Museum

Queanbeyan Museum

Locality: Queanbeyan, New South Wales

Phone: +61 2 6169 6213

Address: 10 Farrer Place 2620 Queanbeyan, NSW, Australia

Website: http://queanbeyanmuseum.org.au

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24.01.2022 Great visit to the Hive exhibition, excellent and informative displays, a must for history buffs. Credit to Connee and her achievements for Queanbeyan. Open til 15 November, 274 Crawford St

24.01.2022 Thanks to our wonderful volunteers cleaning up the newly refurbished back area of the museum, well done! We hope to move some of the outdoor equipment for display and make new garden beds. The museum will look terriffic! You can get along and have a look indoors and out next saturday, 28th, by making an appointment with John McGlynn ph:62972730.

21.01.2022 Our Queanbeyan Museum is looked after by dedicated volunteers and it‘s a big job managing the collection. They’re currently scanning/cataloguing images, accessible on their website. This one is a 12 photo souvenir fold-out from sometime between 1925 and 1975 when Council Chambers were in the now Visitor Info Centre! https://queanbeyan.libero.com.au/museum/WebOpac.cls

19.01.2022 Celebrating the ancestral land in Queanbeyan - our indigenous people, pioneers and beautiful river

18.01.2022 Getting excited about the prospect of opening the Museum for visitors once again to see the wonderful exhibitions inside! The working bee is approaching 26-27 September

18.01.2022 I remember the Peoplescape in front of Parliament House in Canberra to celebrate the centenary of Federation in 2001. This is Queanbeyan's contribution, brought to light in Conee Colleen's exhibition. Don't forget the Queanbeyan Museum is open by appointment on this saturday afternoon. You can see some John Gale memorabilia, and the photos of the mighty women's Rockley team from 1901, and earlier!

17.01.2022 Happy 182nd birthday to Queanbeyan today!!! Spring has finally arrived, but the cold snap trying to hang on. We are not to be deterred at the museum. We have already had our first tour by appointment, and new member! Let us know if you are interested in having a tour. We are limited to small numbers. Our working bee is going ahead, and there is always work behind the scenes going on. Also happy 90th birthday yesterday to our friend and Museum stalwart Norma Roach

16.01.2022 Meanwhile, some of the beautiful flowers in the gardens round the museum

16.01.2022 Recently driven past Lake George, Weereewaa lookout. Some water after recent rains.

13.01.2022 Wonderful day for our working bee! Lots of dusting and sweeping inside and out, and gardening, watering, pruning and weeding done. Looks great, all in anticipation of visits. Please contact us if you want to access the collection or see the exhibits. All raring to go! Thanks to our wonderful members and volunteers

12.01.2022 Amazing walk beside Queanbeyan River, to Molonglo River, under the Railway Bridge, to Oaks Estate. Wonderful history signposted. Beautiful

11.01.2022 All rails lead to Queanbeyan from Sydney to Bungendore! Hope you are all enjoying the fabulous weather, what a mixture! But our gardens are bursting, so thankful for the rain! Hope it will be a good summer, with no bad bushfires. Don't forget to register with Johm McGlynn (PH: 62972730) for your opportunity to be welcomed by our enthusiastic volunteers this saturday afternoon at the museum.

11.01.2022 As we celebrate NAIDOC week and remember our fellow aboriginal people, you may like to take the opportunity of seeing the aboriginal display at our museum in Queanbeyan this saturday afternoon 1-4pm, Farrer Place. The Hive exhibition also features Connee Colleen's aboriginal sculptures. Last year I had the privilege to view the extensive aboriginal exhibitions at Hall Museum, as Lylle Gillespie had a large and significant collection documenting aboriginal history in the region. I have also recently had access to a book created from the Kamberra, Many nations one Country exhibition held recently in the Belconnen Arts Centre, which featured oral histories from the Queanbeyan Deadly runners, a group of indigenous runners from Queanbeyan going since 2013.

09.01.2022 Productive meeting at the Museum today. If you want to visit the museum for a tour, ring John McGlynn on 02 6297 2730 or email on [email protected] or you can email our museum at [email protected]

09.01.2022 sorry the working bee called off because of weather, so cold and wet! Will reschedule soon. Watch this space!

09.01.2022 Working bee saturday at 10am, weather should be good! So much springing weather, but looking forward to daylight saving too!

08.01.2022 The Museum exhibitions are just begging for viewing! Our history is safe.

07.01.2022 100 HISTORIES OF 100 WORLDS IN 1 OBJECT CALL FOR ACTION Posted by Katrina Dean on September 30, 2020 at 22:00 Send Message View Blog Australian archivists may be interested in the following project to decolonise museum objects/narratives.... 100 Histories of 100 Worlds in 1 Object 100 Histories of 100 Worlds in One Object How many stories can a museum object have? Our departure point is the 2010 BBC Radio 4 programme (and subsequent book) A History of the World in 100 Objects narrated by then British Museum Director Neil MacGregor. Providing a colossal platform for the British Museum, the project reinstated the idea of the museum as a ‘view from nowhere’ and everywhere at the same time. It was presented as a place to see the world; yet without any reflection on how the institution itself obtained and reframed the objects in order to create its own seemingly universal narrative. Ten years on and the world has changed. Museums are under increasing pressure to decolonise, to repatriate and to better represent. Our project turns to the formerly subaltern stories museums in ‘the West’ have left out. How can previously excluded voices be empowered to tell their own histories about these objects? This dynamic, long-term and multiple format publication project hopes to achieve more than an alternative history of the British Museum. Instead we will work towards a fusion of object stories and present legacies in museums through and with scholars, curators, and artists in and from the ‘Global South’. Our ‘new histories’ must be not just different methodologically and multilingual, but also dynamic and open for additions and narratives that others might want to add in future. Together we can show that one museum object can have 100 histories and exist in 100 worlds. Learn more. Interested in contributing? Please see our Call for Action.

06.01.2022 Helen Ferguson wrote: For history and art buffs. Please find some information on our wonderful exhibition that is well worth seeing. I am hoping that you can promote it in your circles as this is the first time Connee's art has been seen in one location as well as her newspaper clippings, photos and more.... Warm regards, Helen Queanbeyan character shines in art-meets-history show Connee-Colleen: Queanbeyan Character is a unique art-meets-history show at the Queanbeyan Hive. Originally planned for April as part of the Heritage Festival season the show has been on hold and will now be the first in line as The Hive re-opens its doors. Artist, activist, agitator, archivist: living local Queanbeyan legend Connee-Colleen is honoured with a special local art and history exhibition featuring her astounding sculpted portraits of real-life local subjects, her relentless battles to save Queanbeyan’s history, and her irrepressible community spirit. The exhibition features a comprehensive retrospective of the sculptures, drawings, sketches, plans, passion and history behind Connee-Colleen’s long multi-faceted, community-minded artistic career. This collaboration between Connee-Colleen’s family, Create Collaborate Collective, Rotary Club of Jerrabomberra and The Queanbeyan Hive celebrates how a great Queanbeyan character has fought to save Queanbeyan’s own character. It is a tribute to a life dedicated to Queanbeyan’s community and its heritage. Her methods were sometimes slightly mad, but they also often worked. She saved buildings. She badgered then-Premier Bob Carr to allow the statue of John Gale on state’s land outside the courthouse. She stood up for her town. She printed leaflets and led campaigns and rebel heritage walks. She was ejected from council meetings. Connee-Colleen’s passion for local community, characters and history, shines through the whole show. Her sculptural works use local subjects living in Queanbeyan in the 1980s, including elderly residents of George Forbes House in the 1980s and differently-abled Koomarri program participants. It all tells a tale of Queanbeyan, of heritage, and of community, through the extraordinary life and works of a go-getting, rabble-rousing, artistic eccentric and sometime politician’s bane. Connee-Colleen has fought the system to save some of Queanbeyan’s most historic buildings and stories from oblivion. Connee Colleen: Queanbeyan Character opens 25 October and closes 15 November 2020. Gallery is open to public, Wed-Sunday 10am-4pm, except Fridays 10am-9pm. Booked viewing times are given preference to walk-ins www.qbnhive.buzz The Queanbeyan Hive, 274 Crawford Street, Queanbeyan [email protected] or Helen Ferguson 0403 994446

05.01.2022 The Museum is now truly a construction site - but don't be put off by the closed footpath - there is a way to access through the garden. Another open day is planned for saturday afternoon, but is preferred to make an appointment, ring John McGlynn (62972730). The Police station work next door is continuing, as well as the nearly completed outdoor cover area, which will be extra functional for protecting our outdoor equipment and hosting tour groups. Well down to all our hardworking volunteers supervising and navigating the works.

04.01.2022 Such Beautiful spring weather! Hope everyone is enjoying being out and about. Looking forward to the forthcoming working bee at the museum 26-27 September to get ready for reopening! Just the time for spring cleaning, keeping our history safe and available

01.01.2022 Train approaching Queanbeyan, over the Railway Bridge> We are so blessed to live in such a beautiful area.