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AUSTRALIA
Pioneer
Women’s Memorial House Museum
“Miegunyah”
31-35 Jordan Terrace
Bowen Hills
QLD 4006
Ph: +61 7 3252 2979
Website:
cwpp.slq.qld.gov.au/miegunyah/about.html
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“Miegunyah”,
typical example of an elegant home of the Victorian
era, serves as a memorial to Queensland’s pioneer
women, is located in a Brisbane suburb. |
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The
Queensland Women’s Historical Association (QWHA) owns and maintains
“Miegunyah”, as a memorial to the pioneer women of Queensland.
The QWHA was founded in 1950 and is dedicated to the collection
and preservation of Queensland history.
Purchased
by the QWHA in 1967, the house was built in 1886 by William Perry
and is richly decorated with cast iron lace balustrades, filigree
columns and friezes. It was restored and furnished in the style
of the period 1880-1900 and aims to present aspects of late 19C
life.
The surrounding landscaped cottage garden or Tranquility Garden
is dedicated to the memory of Miss Gyneth Campbell, a hard working
member of the association.The QWHA also operates a monthly lecture
series on various topics in Queensland history.
AUSTRALIA
The
History of Australian Working Women Project
Australian Workers Heritage Centre
Barcaldine
PO Box 12324
Brisbane
QLD 4002
Ph: +61 7 3224 4838
Fax: +61 7 3224 5280
Email: awc@tpg.com.au
Website:
www.alp.org.au/workers/index.html
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Entrance
to the exhibition shows a suffragette and a waitress
from the WWII period. |
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The
Australian Workers Heritage Centre, in Queensland’s Central
West, opened in 1991. In 1997 the Centre embarked upon a national
project to pay tribute to the working women of this nation which
will be opened in stages. Stage 1 of Women in Australia’s Working
History Project opened on 20 July 2002. The exhibition “A Lot
on Her Hands”, the experience of Australia’s working women
is housed in former school buildings (Exhibition Block A) at the
Heritage Centre. Curated by Helen Gregory and Brian Crozier of the
Queensland Museum, it shares the stories of a host of well known
and lesser-known women, both past and contemporary heroines.
AUSTRALIA
Meroogal:
The Women’s History Place
Cnr West & Worrigee Street
35 West Street
Nowra
NSW 2541
Ph: +61 2 4421 8150
Fax: +61 2 4421 2747
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Elegant
drawing room at Meroogal. It was used for formal and
special occasions by the Thorburn family. |
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Described
as the “most intact late 19th century house known in NSW”
when it was acquired for the nation in 1985 by the Historic Houses
Trust, it is located on the south coast.
It was built in 1885 for Jessie Catherine Thorburn and her children,
and was passed down through 4 generations of women in the same family
– through Catherine’s unmarried daughters to their Macgregor
nieces, the daughters of their married sister and finally to the
Macgregors’ niece June Wallace.
AUSTRALIA
Pioneer
Women’s Hut
Glenroy Heritage Reserve
PO Box 192
Tumbarumba
NSW 2653
Ph: +61 2 6948 2635
Website
(National Quilt Register): www.amol.org.au/nqr
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The
museum building was erected by local farmers, made
out of recycled parts of prison huts from nearby Mannus
prison farm. |
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This
is a national domestic history museum, which aims to preserve working
class rural women’s heritage from first settlement until the
present time. It displays collections of articles representing everyday
lives of ordinary families, with emphasis on the contribution of
women as well as recording domestic life and accounts of women’s
lives and preserving their letters, diaries and photographs. Its
themed displays feature superb collections of crocheted doileys
and beaded milk jug covers, quilts, pegs and peg bags, aprons and
other domestic items.
It
was started by a group of seven local women, including Honorary
Director Wendy Hucker, and opened in December 1985. It continues
to be run entirely by volunteers and is located on the Glenroy Reserve,
a 30-hectare park beside the Mannus Creek, 8 km from Tumbarumba
in the foothills of the Snowy Mountains.
The museum was responsible for coordinating the online National
Quilt Register, officially launched in 2001, which documents quilts
made or used in Australia prior to about 1965.
Founded in 1993 by Mrs Molly Clark of Old Andado, this museum is
dedicated to preserving the place of women in history and their
special contribution to Australia’s heritage. Currently based
at the centrally located Old Courthouse, the organisation is actively
lobbying for a new purpose built building within the Alice Springs.
Its two main permanent exhibitions are Ordinary Women Extraordinary
Lives: Women First in their Field and Women at the Heart: Pioneering
Women of Central Australia along with displays of domestic items
connected with traditional women’s work as well as traditional
craftwork.
It also has an extensive archive of HerStories and photographs as
well as a reference library of books relating to Australian women’s
history. Its website, Australia’s first virtual women’s
museum, was launched in 2001.
AUSTRALIA
Mary MacKillop – Australia’s first saint
Mary MacKillop Place Museum
7 Mount Street
North Sydney
NSW
Ph: +61 2 8912 4878
Email: mackillop@sosj.org.au
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