Anne Chapple's Blog (26)

COORDINATOR HERITAGE SERVICES: Closes October 1 

An exciting and challenging opportunity has arisen for an enthusiastic and self-motivated person to join the Geraldton Regional Library as Coordinator of Heritage Services.

The successful applicant should be a highly skilled individual who has the vision to continue to implement strategies which will ensure the Heritage Services Department plays a key role in…

Lotterywest : Conservation of Cultural Heritage Grants: Closes : November 2, 2012

The Lotterywest Conservation of Cultural Heritage Grants are now open for applications.

This grant focuses on conservation work on places or objects of significant heritage value.

For more information, guidelines and application forms, please visit:…

Education Officer WA Museum

Western Australian Museum – Perth has an opening for an Education Officer for .6 FTE (3 days a week).

This position will be initially for 6 months, commencing early-mid October.

Please send a resume and a brief introduction email to –

lisa.watson@museum.wa.gov.au 

For more information, please call Lisa Watson on 9427…

The following Western Australian institutions have been shortlisted for the Museums Australia Museums and Galleries National Awards.  Winners will be announced at the Awards Night at the Museums Australia National Conference on September 25 in Adelaide.

Public Program

Old Court House Law Museum

Wanneroo Regional Museum

Western Australian Museum- Geraldton

Exhibition- Permanent

City of…

Congratulations to our members, the Art Gallery of WA and Adrian Fini for winning the Woodside Better Business Award at the ABaF awards last week.

Also having their nominations recognised by the ABaF judges as demonstrating best practice:

• Art Gallery of WA and Adrian Fini
• Western Australian Museum and Woodside Energy & Society for Underwater Technology

Congratulations!!!

Library Archivist: Curtin University Library: Closes September 24

This role involves developing and maintaining the John Curtin Prime Ministerial Library archive and the library’s special archival collections, providing research and reference services for researchers, and supporting public programs to promote the collections.

For more information please visit…

Assistant History Librarian: Closing September 10

The City of Perth is seeking the services of an Assistant History Librarian to join the History Centre team.  We are looking for an enthusiastic and capable person to assist the History Librarian in the management, development and promotion of the History Centre.

Salary range $62,635 to $66,449 per annum

Suitably qualified people are encouraged to apply.

Applications close 5pm Monday 10…

The RSL Living History project is happy to announce that the first two decades (1920s and 1930s) of their official publication, the Listening Post, are now available for searching and downloading on the official website…

Congratulations to the following Western Australian museums, galleries and keeping places for being shortlisted for the 2012: Museums Australia Multimedia and Publication Design Awards

Book

Fremantle Arts Centre

Calendar and Information Brochure

Subiaco Museum

Corporate

Fremantle Arts Centre

Exhibition Catalogue (small)

Subiaco…

Equipment responsible to bringing together scattered Western Australian communities for many decades and helping to mould the social fabric and unique Australian culture is now being offered to regional community museums as a reminder of an almost forgotten phase in their local history.

In the early decades of the last century, scattered rural communities relied on the regular visits of the traveling picture show man with his heavy and bulky equipment to…

Wireless Hill Telecommunications Museum is currently undergoing a large de-accessioning program, and is looking for expressions of interest from appropriate museum collections who may be interested in acquiring this piece of telecommunications history. Originally located at Wanneroo in the 1950's for radio station 6WN, the transmitter was then in operation at 6DL in Dalwallinu in the 1960's until it was put out of service due to advances in technology. It…

Today is the start of Museum Week in Western Australia.

Thank you to all who registered their events and everyone is invited to check out the great list of events both country and metro on the Museum Week 2012 tag.

And, thank you to all of our tireless museum workers.  Without you and the wonderful work you do, we would have lost our history and our identity.

Interesting to read Simon Crean's media release re budget allocations to the Arts and heritage sector

http://www.minister.regional.gov.au/sc/releases/2012/may/sc049_2012.aspx

If you only ever attend one exhibition each year, make sure that the choice for 2012 is the WA Museum's Debt of Honour Exhibition currently showing at the WA Museum until early June.

The story told in this exhibition is fascinating and resonates on so many levels that just one visit probably is not enough.

Museums Australia (WA) hosted a curator's talk based on this exhibition on Thursday night and curators, Paul Bridges and Stephen Anstey gave all who attended…

Hello everyone

Just putting a call out there for some photos of the Perth Esplanade to accompany a great article on the Esplanade fro the next edition of "Musing".  Any photos recent or past would be very welcome!

Cheers

Anne

Just heard on the news last night that the Vic Govt was looking at axing 10% of jobs at Museum Victoria.

Why??

Because they "failed to take advantage of the Tutankhamun and the Golden Age of the Pharaohs exhibition"

What the......????

Anne

Spent the afternoon at the Immigration Museum today and didn't have enough time to see and do everything.

Very powerful exhibitions right throughout and some that were so simple yet really hit the spot.

Interesting that nearly all exhibitions provided paper and pens for people to add their comments or personal viewpoints to the subject on display.  In some cases these comments provided the most evocative thoughts.

Anne

Spent the afternoon at the Immigration Museum today and didn't have enough time to see and do everything.

Very powerful exhibitions right throughout and some that were so simple yet really hit the spot.

Interesting that nearly all exhibitions provided paper and pens for people to add their comments or personal viewpoints to the subject on display.  In some cases these comments provided the most evocative thoughts.

Anne

This great new idea was launched at the opening on=f the MA VIC state conference yesterday (Thursday 29 March)

http://victoriancollections.net.au/

This allows all museums in Victoria to catalogue their collections online, and has the added advantage of promoting your museum and knowing where objects are if you are looking to borrow objects for an exhibition.

What do you think,…