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William Waterhouse and the Stone Hatchet
More wonderful stories emerging from our re-housing of the HMS Sirius objects through the Commonwealth Your Community Heritage Program. This is a very interesting one!One of the more curious objects in...
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All of the work of the last five months is coming to a head this week and next as the HMS Sirius collection is moved into the Protestant Chapel. This “HMS Sirius Collection – Re-housing Project” has...
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The Move - Day 2
The move of the HMS Sirius collection continues. We had a great day yesterday as the anchor stock and cabinets were delivered to the museum and the replica hull had the bowsprit attached. Our...
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The HMS Sirius Collection is Moved!
It has been a big few weeks at the museum. On Thursday 8th November the amazing team of Phillip Smith, Franklin Randall, Caine Henderson, Winton Stephens, Brent Jones, Pumpkin and Brett Berganin took...
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A Very Speical Loan
Next year the Norfolk Island Museum celebrates its 25th Anniversary. During the last few months we have been thinking about a range of things that we can do to celebrate this achievement, including...
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"Heart of a Beast" book signing
A few weeks ago we had the pleasure of meeting Brisbane author Josephine De Moor when she came to the island and signed copies of her new book “Heart of a Beast” which is set on Norfolk Island during...
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H.M.S. Sirius Museum Officially Open
Lisle Snell MLA Chief Misinter and His Honour The Administrator Neil PopeWith the joint cutting of a cake by His Honour the Administrator Neil Pope and Lisle Snell Chief Minister, Norfolk’s newest...
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For Whom the Bell Tolls...
It has been wonderful to have our expert cemetery tour guide Mary Cooper back with us, if even for a short time. Mary developed our “For Whom the Bell Tolls…” cemetery tour and over the past few years...
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'Bounty' Food Pounder
At the end of last year we reported that to celebrate the Museums 25th birthday this year we had secured the loan of a penu, or food pounder, from the Museum of Tropical Queensland and it is currently...
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Picture This!
The Theme of History Week for 2014 is ‘Picture This’. The Week is on in 3 weeks time, running from September 7 to 14. The History Council of NSW explains the theme as follows: “Driving humanity;...
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The Wreck of the Khandeish on Pitcairn Island
Back in March this year we met with visitor Barry Guttridge (pictured) visiting with his Cameron Park Probus Group. Barry most kindly provided us with a copy of a letter written by his great, great,...
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Kitty Christian and Frederick Howard
I had one of those ‘goosebump’ moments a few weeks ago on taking a phone call from Roslyn Howard in Sydney. Roslyn asked if we would be interested in receiving copies of a number of letters sent to her...
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What is the story of this object?
One of the delights of working at the Norfolk Island Museum is that we get to immerse ourselves in Norfolk’s never-ending stories that range from the time of Polynesian settlement, through two penal...
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Historic Shipwrecks and their Material
On the Commonwealth Department of Environment’s website there is an amazing database that our Norfolk Island Museum will be contributing to. It is the Australian National Shipwreck Data Base (ANSDB)...
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Pitcairn Tapa
In 2011 Meralda Warren visited Norfolk Island and our museum was delighted to present an exhibition of her handmade and painted tapa. The Museum Trust purchased one of her works titled “The Keepers of...
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Lieutenant Colonel James T. Morisset
It was wonderful to meet Jan Lowe at the Museum this week visiting from Sydney for a relaxing week on Norfolk. However Jan’s visit has provided not only the opportunity to have a relaxing time, but as...
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Letters from Pitcairn Islander Girls
A few months ago we wrote about a donation to the Museum of six letters from Frederick (Fred) and Roslyn Howard. The letters were written in 1856 and ’57 to Fred’s great Grandfather also named...
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Archaeologists on Norfolk Island!
Five archaeologists visited Norfolk Island recently working on land and sea based surveys – it even began to look like Time Team moved in! From Febraury we reported: Dr Brad Duncan, Dr Martin Gibbs and...
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Archaeology on Land and Water
This post concludes an account of two weeks in February when we had visiting land and water based archaeologists undertaking survey and training work on the island: We’ve just come to the end of a...
View ArticleCelebrating our 1788 Beginnings
Foundation Day this year was a fabulous celebration of the beginnings of our Island’s first British Settlement on the 6th March 1788. The day is important to celebrate as Norfolk Island’s significance...
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