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Photographs from the Museums Australia WA Archives

Can you help us identify the who/what/where/when in these photographs?

We have discovered these while going through our archives yet know little about some of them...If you can help us solve a mystery please leave a comment...You can do this by:

-Clicking on the orange 'Photos' tab

-Click on the 'All Albums' link

-Then click on the album 'Photographs from the Museums Australia WA Archives'

-Select the photograph that you wish to comment on, type what you want in the… Continue

Added by Jenna Lynch on October 29, 2009 at 12:04pm — No Comments

Museums Australia WA now on YouTube!

Hi all

Museums Australia WA now has a home on YouTube. Our YouTube channel is 'museumswa1'. See the latest uploads below....



'Museums and Gallery Brochure Project' presentation @ 2009 FACET Regional Tourism Conference, by Jane King.

PART ONE





'Museums and Gallery Brochure Project' presentation @ 2009 FACET Regional Tourism Conference, by Jane King.

PART… Continue

Added by Jenna Lynch on October 29, 2009 at 11:30am — No Comments

Resources - community archives and digitisation

Hi all



Here are a few links to handy and easy-to-understand 'how to' guides for starting archives/dealing with small archives and digitisation...If you haven't seen them already...!



Preserving Australia's Documentary Heritage (National Library of Australia)



Creating and Keeping Your Digital Treasures: A User… Continue

Added by Jenna Lynch on October 22, 2009 at 4:49pm — No Comments

Notes from the FACET Regional Tourism Conference Mt Magnet

I have spent the last two days at the FACET conference talking about regional tourism opportunities, partnerships, value adding, sharing stories, interpretation & significance.



Have been motivated and encouraged by lots of stories and speakers. In particular I was impressed by Patrick Maher, the Irish Geologist/geotourism advocate and his examples of the ways that Ireland has embraced this sub-set of the tourism market and integrated this with their mining industry to leverage… Continue

Added by Jane King on October 20, 2009 at 6:00pm — No Comments

How to keep inspired after the conference is over

Drowning in the post-conference miasma of un-packing, filing, paying bills and other such necessities, into my in-box pops an article entitled "Don't let conference inspiration vanish when you return to work."



How serendipitous! The universe does seem to provide when you are looking for a pick-me-up!



Kelly Dyer, editor of the weekly Source for Communicators, gives some helpful tips on how to keep up the energy levels post-conference:



1. Talk to strangers (at the… Continue

Added by Jane King on October 14, 2009 at 11:00am — No Comments

Museums Australia WA is enjoying reading the feedback on the State Conference

We are back in the office having unpacked cars and sorted out our backlog of emails, and are now happily viewing the images posted by members and reading the confernce feedback.

Feel free to add to the discussion thread started on this.

Would love to hear ideas for next year!! as well of course of suggestion for the National Conference in 2011.

Added by Admin@MuseumsWA on October 13, 2009 at 12:54pm — No Comments

Conference Registrations have now closed - but there are still some workshop vacancies

Well we have been overwhelmed with our conference registrations this year! So we have had to close of the registrations, so sorry if you have missed out.

There are still a few spaces left for some of the workshops, so check with the office if you would like to attend.

Only four more sleeps!

Jane and the crew

Added by Jane King on October 3, 2009 at 4:48pm — No Comments

Prop Fest!



We are very pleased to be partnered with Propel Youth Arts WA in promoting Prop Fest 09!

Prop Fest is a new initiative by Propel Youth Arts WA – a skills development series designed to inspire and empower young people to engage in visual storytelling through creating a short film. Over four days, video production workshops will be held for budding filmmakers in Perth to develop their digital media and film making skills with award-winning… Continue

Added by Admin@MuseumsWA on October 2, 2009 at 11:00am — No Comments

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