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Tasmanian History Groups TASMANIA ISLAND OF TREASURES PUBLISHING © 2012 Sue Atkinson ISBN: 978-0-9874468-1-7 All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or otherwise without the permission of the author. Published by 40°South Pty Ltd Printed in China by Everbest Printing Co. Ltd Author’s note: All information is accurate at the time of writing. Because many of the organisations are operated by volunteers opening times may change. It is recommended that visitors check with organisations when planning to visit. The author’s website carries information about all of the museums and is updated regularly. CONTENTS CENTRAL TASMANIA / NORTHERN TASMANIA NORTh-eaST TASMANIA THE MIDLANDS Australasian Golf Museum, Bothwell 10 Bass and Flinders Centre, George Town 24 Old Umbrella Shop – National Trust of Avoca Museum and Information Centre 56 Australia (Tasmania), Launceston 37 Bothwell Historical Society 11 Beaconsfield Mine and Heritage Centre 25 Bowman History Room, Whitemark, Flinders Pearn’s Steam World, Westbury 38 Island 57 Bothwell Literary Society 11 Clarendon – National Trust of Australia (Tasmania), Nile 26 Port Sorell History Group 39 Derby Schoolhouse Museum 58 Brighton Heritage Association Inc., Pontville 12 Entally Estate Historic Site, Hadspen 27 Queen Victoria Museum and Art Gallery Dorset Museum, Scottsdale 59 (QVMAG), Launceston 40 Chauncy Vale house: Day Dawn, Bagdad 13 Evandale History Society Inc. 28 East Coast Veterans’ Information and Richardson’s Harley-Davidson Museum, Support Centre and Museum, St Helens 60 Colebrook History Room 14 Franklin House – National Trust of Australia Prospect 48 (Tasmania), Launceston 29 Furneaux Museum – Furneaux Historical Hamilton Heritage Centre 15 Tasmanian Horse Drawn Vehicle Foundation, Association, Emita, Flinders Island 61 George Town Watch House 30 Heritage Highway Museum and Visitor Clarence Point 49 Ringarooma Community Cultural Heritage Information Centre, Campbell Town 16 Launceston Historical Society Inc. 31 Tucker Tennis Museum, Newstead 50 Association 62 Oatlands Colonial Collection – Callington Launceston Tramway Museum Inc. 32 The Vintage Tractor Shed, Westbury 51 Rossarden and Storys Creek Museum 63 Mill Visitor Centre 17 Longford RSL Museum 33 Westbury and Districts Historical Society 52 St Helens History Room 64 Oatlands District Historical Society 18 Low Head Pilot Station Museum 34 West Tamar Historical Society Inc., St Marys Cranks & Tinkerers 65 Tasmanian Wool Centre, Ross 19 National Automobile Museum of Tasmania, Westbury 53 St Patricks Head and Esk Valley Historical Waddamana Power Station Museum 20 Launceston 35 Society Inc., St Marys 66 The Woodsdale Museum 22 The Norfolk Plains Heritage Centre and Lake Scottsdale RSL Museum 67 Masonic Lodge, Longford 36 CONTENTS NORTh-wesT COAST SOUTh-eaST COAST SOUTHERN TASMANIA Axeman’s Hall of Fame, Latrobe 70 Latrobe Court House Museum 86 Bicheno Motorcycle Museum 102 Australian Army Museum Tasmania, Bass Strait Maritime Centre, Devonport 71 Hobart 108 Penguin History Group Inc. 87 East Coast Heritage Museum, Swansea 103 Burnie Regional Museum 72 Bellerive Historical Society Inc. Tasmania 110 The Redwater Creek Steam & Heritage The Glamorgan Spring Bay Historical Society Circular Head Heritage Centre, Smithton 74 Society, Sheffield 88 Inc., Swansea 104 Bligh Museum of Pacific Exploration, Adventure Bay, Bruny Island 111 Deloraine & District Folk Museum 75 Sherwood Hall, Latrobe 89 Maria Island National Park – Darlington 105 Bruny Island Historical Society, Alonnah 112 Devonport RSL Sub-Branch – Jack Mason Stanley Discovery Museum and Genealogy Spring Bay Maritime and Discovery Centre, Memorial Museum 76 Centre 90 Triabunna 106 Cascades Female Factory Historic Site, South Hobart 113 Don River Railway, Don 77 Tiagarra – Tasmanian Aboriginal Cultural Centre and Museum, Devonport 92 Elizabeth Town Collectables Museum 78 Channel Heritage Centre, Margate 114 Ulverstone History Museum 94 Forth Valley History Group, Forth 79 Coal River Valley Historical Society Inc., Richmond 116 Waratah Museum 96 Highfield Historic Site, Stanley 80 The Copping Museum 117 Wilmot Museum 97 Home Hill, Devonport 81 Cygnet Living History Museum 118 Wonders of Wynyard Exhibition Centre 98 House of Anvers Chocolate Factory, Esperance Discovery Centre, Dover 119 Latrobe 82 Wynyard Historical Society 99 Federation Chocolate Factory and Heritage Joe Lyons Cottage, Stanley 83 Yarns Artwork in Silk – Great Western Tiers Museum, Taranna 120 Visitors Centre, Deloraine 100 Kentish Museum, Sheffield 84 Franklin History Group Inc. 121 King Island Museum, Currie 85 Friends’ School History and Archives Collection, North Hobart 122 Friends of Ida Bay Historical Society Inc. 123 CONTENTS WEST COAST Geeveston Archives and History Society New Norfolk Historical Information Premaydena (TPHS) 161 Eric Thomas Galley Museum, Inc. 124 Centre 143 Queenstown 182 The Tasmanian Archive and Heritage Office Grote Reber Museum, Cambridge 125 Ouse History Room (TAHO), Hobart 162 Rosebery Band Hall Heritage Centre, Rosebery 183 Hobart Town (1804) First Settlers’ Penitentiary Chapel Historic Site, Tasmanian Cricket Museum and Library, Association Inc., Glenorchy 126 Hobart 145 Bellerive 165 Trial Harbour History Room 184 The Huon Valley Apple and Heritage The Port Arthur Historic Site, 146 The Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery West Coast Heritage Centre, Zeehan 185 Museum, Grove 127 (TMAG), Hobart 166 RAAF Association (TAS Division) Inc., The Hutchins Archives and Heritage Hobart, 152 The Tasmanian Fire Museum, Hobart and Collection, Sandy Bay 129 Glenorchy 172 Richmond Gaol, 153 The John Elliott Classics Museum, UTAS, Tasmanian Parliamentary Museum and Runnymede – National Trust of Australia Sandy Bay 130 Special Collections, Hobart 173 (Tasmania), New Town 154 Josephite Mission and History Centre, Tasmanian Scout Heritage Centre, New Town 132 The Sandy Bay Historical Society Inc. 156 Kingston 174 Markree House Museum and Garden, Sorell School Pioneer Village 157 The Tasmanian Transport Museum, Battery Point 133 The Southern Beaches Historical Society, Glenorchy 175 Maritime Museum of Tasmania, Hobart 134 Dodges Ferry 158 The Theatre Royal, Hobart 177 MONA (Museum of Old and New Art), St Michael’s Collegiate School, Hobart 159 Upper Huon History Group Inc., Berriedale 136 St Virgil’s College Centenary History Centre, Glen Huon 178 Moorings Museum, Bellerive 140 Austins Ferry 160 Warships and Marine Corps Museum, Narryna, Hobart 141 Tasman Peninsula Historical Society, Franklin 179 PREFACE This book arose from my work as a museum to 2012 to spend four to six days with each consultant: visiting, advising and training group, at no cost to the participants, volunteers throughout Tasmania to set up providing whatever assistance was most and run community museums and history useful to them. This included cataloguing groups. I decided it was time to highlight all resources, managing collections to accepted the wonderful collections held around the museum standards, providing professional island and to acknowledge the hard work of documentation, designing education those striving to maintain our heritage. In programs, providing interpretation, particular I wish to recognise the volunteers producing three-year strategic plans, Although on a global scale Tasmania is a who have given so freely of their time in so podcasting history programs and working relatively large island it has a sense of many organisations. with the museum community in seeking ideas compactness; drive for haIf an hour and the to engage the wider community. The texts and most of the images were largely landscape will be very different, so too the provided by each organisation. The My appreciation I would also like to extend built heritage. We are fortunate that the state organisations featured range from the to Warren Boyles and Kent Whitmore of has escaped the worst of the inappropriate smallest history room run by one volunteer to 40°South, and graphic designers Beverly development we frequently see and for that the largest museums. Waldie and Kellie Strachan reason the sense of connection to the past is for their unfailing patience and meticulous more immediate than that of most of I wish to thank Professor Pam Sharpe of the attention to detail in the production of this Australia. We have half of Australia’s heritage University of Tasmania School of Classics and book. Thank you as well to librarian and buildings here and many historical artefacts History and Dr Natasha Cica for their belief author Barbara Hamilton-Arnold for sharing remain where they should be – in this state. in my aim to network all of the history groups her skills as an indexer. and museums in Tasmania. We are fortunate too that, perhaps Lastly I wish to express my heartfelt thanks just in time, historians both amateur and I also wish to acknowledge the support of the to all the volunteers willing to take on board professional have realised the significance Tasmanian Community Fund, without which new skills and for working co-operatively for the of our links to the past and began the three-year project of supporting all future of this vital part of our cultural heritage. preserving, cataloguing and displaying the volunteers in history groups and in the vast and fascinating array of objects that museum sector would not have been have survived. possible. The project enabled me from 2009 Sue Atkinson Scan this code to access regular updates and events happening at the museums and history groups
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