Caroline Simpson Collection
Home and garden design, history and life
Three collections, millions of items, unlimited stories
Museums of History NSW is the new home of three of the state’s most significant and fascinating collections. Dive in and explore.
Home and garden design, history and life
Making history every day
Place-based collections at our historic houses and museums
The amazing quality and variety of the photographs taken by the Public Works Department is a testament to the photographers. This webinar will explore these images in depth
The Married Women (Lecturers and Teachers) Act of 1932 restricted employment of married women in the Department of Public Instruction. We hold 693 declarations for exemption by married women teachers for the years 1932–35
Work has begun on documenting this valuable collection to ensure each design is preserved against the effects of time for future generations to enjoy
We were delighted to attend a ceremony to mark the re-opening of the University of New England (UNE) and Regional Archives
Over the past week, our Collection Digitisation Team has been facilitating an in-situ photoshoot at Rose Seidler House
Upon completion in 1923, The Astor in Sydney's Macquarie Stree twas the largest reinforced concrete building in Australia, the tallest residential block, and this country’s first company title residences
Inspired by a watercolour of the ruins of the temple of Vishnu, refugee curator in residence Jagath Dheerasekara writes about Devinuvara as a site of pilgrimage, colonisation and uprising
Watch pockets hung on the head cloth of a four-post bedstead and originally served in place of bedside tables, which were uncommon in the 19th century
A remarkable donation of over 3000 wallpaper samples by John and Phyllis Murphy adds to our existing collection to form Australia’s largest repository of historic wallpapers
Significant publications and reports on the Sydney Opera House project, including the rules for the design competition, plans, drawings and photographs at various stages of the construction
The Bubonic Plague hit Sydney in January 1900. Spreading from the waterfront, the rats carried the plague throughout the city. Within eight months 303 cases were reported and 103 people were dead
The collection of glass-plate negatives held in the State Archives and Justice & Police Museum are endlessly fascinating and revealing
MHNSW is undertaking the first comprehensive conservation works to the fence surrounding the 1870s resting place of William Charles Wentworth
Supervising conservator Dominique Moussou talks through her work and some of the projects underway in the MHNSW conservation lab
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