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22.01.2022 The TMA had our first Open Day at the Bobs Farm Hall on the old Marsh Road and we've gotta say a huge thanks to the many people who braved the rainy Sunday conditions. We've put some photos of the day on our website blog for you all to have a look at. If you missed this opening - would you support us doing this again? Let us know in the comments below or on our Blog. https://www.tomareemuseum.org.au/post/our-opening-open-day

22.01.2022 The TMA have had their first Bunnings Sausage Sizzle today (Sunday) and raised some much needed money to go toward building a Museum/Interpretive Centre for the area. Our next one is in February, (we'll let you know when its on.) As many people said to us today, 'its so good to have a sausage sizzle again.'... Of course we couldn't have done it without the help of the wonderful guys n gals from Rotary and Bunnings of Taylors Beach.

21.01.2022 Planning for the Museum Pop Up over the past several months went into action last weekend. It was truly `all hands on deck' as many enthusiastic members of the TMA were on hand to set up the Pop Up ready for our first visitors for the following Monday.

21.01.2022 As a follow up to a previous post about TMA member Warwick Mathieson finding a long sought after cemetery at Gan Gan. Local historian Denise Gaudion has supplied some cuttings of a couple of revealing and entertaining columns from the archives of the Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners's Advocate from 1953. Below is a photo of one of the articles and to make life easier we've typed up the article for clearer reading. -----------------------------------------------------------...Continue reading

21.01.2022 Here is the second article about Gan Gan army camp with reference to the cemetery in the `Scrub', from the Newcastle Morning Herald and Miner's Advocate Newspaper, this time from February 1951. Many thanks to our friend, Tanilba Bay historian Denise Gaudion who passed on these wonderful articles from the archives of the National Library of Australia. Below are the photos of the articles and we've transcribed them for clearer reading. -----------------------------------------...Continue reading

21.01.2022 Head along to Broughtons at the Bay from today and see Tomaree Museum's free exhibition.

16.01.2022 CALLING ALL ARTISTS!!! AGL with the Tomaree Museum Association will be staging the Port Stephens Art Competition over the holiday period, with an exhibition at Broughtons at the Bay - Balcony level at d'Albora Marina in Nelson Bay from the 23rd of January 2021. The Competition will reflect the heritage and sustainability themes of the Tomaree Museum Project and the artwork will help define the identity of the Port Stephens community. ... Any artists wishing to enter this event can view the entry conditions at https://www.tomareemuseum.org.au/tma-agl-art-prize or email [email protected]

14.01.2022 This Sunday at the Bobs Farm Hall home of the Tomaree Museum Association we're showing off our first `baby steps' toward a permanent Museum and Cultural Centre. We hope to see you there - Sunday the 30th of May from 12pm to 3pm.

14.01.2022 The Tomaree Museum Association wish to warmly thank the Cattleyard Brewing Company for their generous donation toward the Museum Pop-Up Opening. https://www.facebook.com/CattleyardBrewingCo

13.01.2022 NOTHING BEATS A WEEKEND SAUSAGE SIZZLE! This Sunday the TMA will be holding another fund raising sausage sizzle in the Bunnings carpark at Taylors Beach. Support the building of a Museum and Cultural Centre by buying a mouth watering, tasty Sausage Sanga & cold drink at Bunnings, Taylors Beach this Sunday the 16th of May from 9am to 4pm.

12.01.2022 TMA member Warwick Mathieson may have found an old cemetery near the old Gan Gan Army Camp over the Christmas break. During WW2, Warwicks father served for a time at Port Stephens and told six year old Warwick about a cemetery in the bush with many Gymea Lilies about it. Over the years, Warwick has looked about for this cemetary without success. Until now. While looking at an old Defence survey map on display at the TMA Pop Up Museum at d'Albora Marina, he took note of a cem...etery marked in the area his father had described. This week, he set off to the location marked on the map and found under the dense scrub and Gymea Lilies, an area marked by large rocks placed on top of each other in corner formations. If you know of the old cemetery the TMA would love to hear from you. #portstephens #ganganarmycamp

10.01.2022 For the nautical among you (hello Stinker). Click below to visit our website Blog where pages from "Welbank's Nautical Almanac and Coasters Guide 1878" are available to read.

09.01.2022 Our first Tomaree Museum Pop-Up Museum has wound up! From comments to members and in our guest book its clear there is significant interest in building a permanent Museum and interpretive Centre for the area. All of the comments were encouraging and the constructive criticisms are appreciated and inform us on where we can improve. Here's a small selection of some of those comments;... "Great display, lots of potential. Hope a permanent home is found soon." "Very interesting. Video speakers too low. Hope you find a good site soon. More info on local slides dates, names." "Terrific! Great cross-section of historic memorabilia and artifacts." "Fabulous! I learned so much about this beautiful place. Love the idea of creating a permanent space/museum." "Oyster fishing area lack signage for each object eg pulleys etc. How does a pulley work? Explain for children." "Amazing display of Port Stephens history. I was very interested in the photo display of the Gould’s Petrel. Also of interest were all the artefacts and old photos." "Fascinating history of shipwrecks but the most interesting things were related to the sites around Port Stephens. It was lovely to read the remarkable history of the area and look forward to being able to see more at a permanent exhibition." "Great display very informative. Most pleasant hosts and old enough to be part of museum."

09.01.2022 Tomaree goes to the Terrace! The TMA will be holding an information stall at the KING STREET HERITAGE FESTIVAL this Saturday the 15th of May at RAYMOND TERRACE. CLICK BELOW TO FIND OUT MORE...... https://www.tomareemuseum.org.au//tomaree-goes-to-the-terr See more

09.01.2022 This is a short video of rare footage from 1942/43 of amphibious training exercises at Shoal Bay and the base at Fly Point where Neil Carroll Park, the Community Arts Centre, the Fly Point Native Gardens and Niogka Reserve is today. During WW2, Port Stephens was home to 2,000 Australian and over 20,000 US troops at HMAS Assault, a Joint overseas operational training school (Joots).... In early 1942, British Malaya and Singapore had fallen and US Forces had retreated from the Philippines. The path was clear for Japan to invade Australia. The areas local population at the time was around 450 and access to the area was available by sea or sandy tracks. There was no piped water, electricity or telephone. The building of the base bought all of those things to the southern part of Port Stephens. There was even discussion at the time, due to the immense secrecy involved with the base, to relocate the entire local population, but that idea was deemed ethically wrong and politically unpopular. #portstephens #Museum #WW2 #Worldwar2 #Tomaree #History #local #HMASAssault #ShoalBay #Flypoint #training #amphibious #NelsonBay #RAN #USMarines #HMASWestralia #GenMacArthur #JohnCurtin #GanGanArmyCamp #AustralianArmy #RAAF

07.01.2022 Signed up! Turns out, investing in the past is an investment in our future. Tomaree Museum

07.01.2022 Thanks so much to our great State Member Kate Washington for her support of the Museum Pop-Up. It was great to see her and thank her in person for her support of the project.

07.01.2022 BECOME A MEMBER! Are you interested in joining others to build a museum & cultural centre for Port Stephens? It's only only $10 a year for membership - click below to join. https://www.tomareemuseum.org.au/tma-membership

06.01.2022 The Tomaree POP-UP Museum A Port Stephens Council Vibrant Spaces Event From Dec 21, 2020 to ... Jan 8, 2021 The Tomaree Museum Project is about developing a world class, publicly owned historical Museum, environmental and cultural centre for Port Stephens. The pop up display is an opportunity to sample some of the remarkable and vibrant History of Port Stephens, it’s people and events. On display will be audio visual histories, story panels, historic artefacts, maps and from the National Maritime museum, information about shipwrecks around the coast. Located at the balcony level of Broughtons at the Bay at d’Albora Marinas on the Nelson Bay foreshore and open 10am to 4pm every day except Christmas Day, December 21 to January 8 in the new year.

06.01.2022 Marine Rescue Port Stephens, the Port Stephens Historical Society and the Tomaree Museum Association today held a memoriam to the seven airman killed in a Catalina Flying Boat training exercise at Jimmy's Beach in 1943. Further information about the Catalina's in Port Stephens during the WW2 and the memorial at the Inner Lighthouse at Nelson Head is available on the TMA website blog via the link below. https://www.tomareemuseum.org.au/post/catalina-memorial... Photos of the event taken by Henke Tobbe are available to view by clicking the link below. https://www.flickr.com//72157719305991965/with/51199946070/

04.01.2022 As part of the Pop-Up Museum at D'Albora Marina in December/January the TMA, here's a video of the fun day we had collecting and moving the items to its temporary home at Bobs Farm. These artefacts donated by the pioneering families of the area made up the collection of the original museum in Nelson Bay back in the late 60's and early 70's in Donald Street. The founding members of the Port Stephens Historical Society including Tony and Ann Trienen, Bernie Butler, Joy and Arthur Renforth, Thelma and Harold Smith, Norman Beaton, Peace Clayton, Atholene and Dan Carroll and Owen Fleming must be warmly thanked for their tireless efforts to preserve as much of our local history as they did, fifty years ago.#Tomaree #Museum #local #history #collection #NelsonBay #PortStephens

01.01.2022 Monty Bull talks to Doug Cross from the Tomaree Museum Association about some more historic axes and how they were made & used in part one of a two part episode. #Tomaree #museum #PortStephens #axe #axes