Domestic life
The coolest room in the house
What practical techniques can we learn from historical building design to minimise heat and energy consumption in our homes today?
Milk - The White River of Life, 1946
Milk and its health and nutritional benefits, demonstrated through a domestic science class on milk and milk-based products and their use in cooking
Cook & Curator
Translating tastes: the Rose Seidler recipe collection
Recently translated from the original German, recipes kept by Rose Seidler provide valuable insight into her culinary heritage and Austrian identity
My Handy Kitchen, c.1950-55
In this film a woman discusses and demonstrates the features of her up-to-date kitchen
(Re)making a home
An evocative collection of household items belonging to the last tenants of Susannah Place
Eat, pray, decorate
Advice manuals – the self-help books of the 19th century – provide a rich source of information about domestic and social life in the era
Songs of home
The Odyssey of an Early Australian Piano
Imagine for a moment if all the old pianos lying around Australia could speak. One can only guess at the stories they would tell
A house in the making
After 162 years of being continuously occupied, 62 Gloucester Street was opened to the public for the first time in 2006