Rouse Hill Estate
![Owner bound volume of assorted songs, in the collection of Rouse Hill House & Farm, 1850-1864. [music]](https://images.slm.com.au/fotoweb/embed/2023/10/615fb53b45ca4bfb8d979b01993be8c3.jpg)
‘Home! Sweet Home!’
It may come as a surprise that the expression ‘home, sweet home’ originates from a song title
'Australian Flowers'
Given that much of the music played in Australia in the 19th century had been imported, one might ask what constituted an ‘Australian’ piece of music?
1960s psychedelia at Rouse Hill House
In a short experimental period of music making, the talented young John Terry combined radical musical ideas with abstract imagery and the soundscape of Rouse Hill House
A Gothic Angel
In the drawing room at Rouse Hill your eye is instantly drawn to a small painting on the far wall; a figure of an angel in a shining gilt frame, acquired in the 1870s.
Conservation
A herculean task: clearing the woolshed
The first stage of a major conservation project at Rouse Hill Estate involved removing thousands of objects accumulated over 150 years of the property’s occupation
A paper jukebox: exploring our sheet music collections
Musicologist Dr Graeme Skinner reflects on the historical and cultural significance of the sheet music collections from three historic properties belonging to Museums of History NSW
Conservation
A strong and simple structure: conserving the woolshed
The second phase of a major conservation project on the woolshed at Rouse Hill Estate has seen the rustic 160-year-old structure strengthened and stabilised
A wayward prince
Investigating a possible imposter seen in a striking photo at Rouse Hill House, Dr Scott Hill uncovered a story of scandal
