Hall Museum 2023 News Archive

October 2023

Another successful brass band concert - Spring weather in the nation's capital seems to be becoming a little more difficult to predict. However, Sunday last proved to be fairly close to perfection for our 12th brass band concert event, now fondly referred to as Brass on the Grass...
An official street number at last - Most cities, towns and villages in Australia have an easily negotiated street system, with houses and commercial enterprises identified with a street number, so people looking for the buildings, or the postie (or more common now the courier) looking to deliver mail and packages can locate them efficiently...
Brass on the Grass Concert - Bring the family along to our annual fund-raising brass band concert on the lawns of the old primary school campus in Victoria Street Hall...

Wattle (Arbor) Day - A little over 100 years ago a young school teacher, Ethel Harris (later Cavanagh), decided to improve the surroundings of the school where she had taken up her first teaching appointment, having gained her teaching qualifications in Sydney in 1916...
Heritage Grants Announced - ACT Minister for Heritage Rebecca Vassarotti hosted a delightful gathering at the Mulligan's Flat information Centre Wildbark in Throsby on Tuesday 15th August to announce the 2023-2024 Heritage Grants...
Bounty for the Centre - display cases arrive - The Museum of Australian Democracy (MOaD), located in the nation's old parliament house features collections that have unique historical value to Australia, having important associations with the processes of government, the building's functions and with the people who governed Australia from 1927 to 1988...

Hosting ANU students - Dr Anna Edmundson and a group of fifteen graduate student in Museum and Heritage studies visited on 9 March as part of a course on 'Exhibition design and delivery'...