It’s Queanbeyan History Week 2015!

September 9, 2015History and Heritage Newsqbnmuseum

The Theme for History Week in 2015 is War Nationalism and Identity in line with the Centenary of ANZAC.

History and Heritage Meeting 5.30 QCC Library Thursday 10th September. Guest Speaker Boni Maywald: Peace Knits Pop Up.

Printing Museum Open Day – Saturday 12th September from 2pm.

Launch of Stories From A Country Town- Queanbeyan 1914-1918 Saturday 12th September 12 noon

+ Queanbeyan Museum Open Day Saturday 12th September 11-4 See a WW1 Recruitment Tent, our Red Cross and WW1 exhibits, entertainment eats and drinks.

The full program can be downloaded here: HistoryWeekSept2015

Its a Long Way to Tipperary!

April 16, 2015Collection, History and Heritage Newsqbnmuseum

Its a Long Way to Tipperary! This souvenir scarf belonged to Queanbeyan soldier Trooper H Cantle of the 12th Light Horse Regiment AIF. Enlisted 7th August 1915. Discharged 21st October 1919. He also served in the Second World War. Drop along to our Museum Open Day this Saturday 11-4 to see the original scarf in our WW1 exhibition, locals in authentic WW1 uniforms, hear a wonderful concert The Riderless Horse – Australian Songs from WW1 and see The ANZAC Reels a compilation of footage from The NFSA collection, there will be food and drink. Check out the rest of the Museum displays while you are there!

History and Landscape – An Artist’s Perspective

April 9, 2015History and Heritage NewsDutch family history, Margaret Hadfield, Queanbeyanqbnmuseum

Have just been at the launch of the Queanbeyan Heritage Festival 2015. The theme this year is Conflict and Compassion, with lots of fabulous events in Queanbeyan. Our speaker tonight was Margaret Hadfield with a very moving talk about her journey as an artist, through her Dutch family history connections with the Australians who were killed in WW2 in the skies above and buried on the island where her family lived. She was given a painting of a warship which was done by her own father. This sparked an interest in the connection between art and the people involved in war. She is able to connect with her art the descendents and family of those who were involved and to produce beautiful and emotional artistic remembrances of the events and people involved..