Cnr London Circuit and City Square, Canberra City
Open today from 10am to 4pm
Curious about the similarities and differences between ACT Government cultural, community and archival collections?
Our panel members - curators, archivist and librarians who work with these collections - will share how they collectively and separately tell the story of Canberra through government records, photographs, artworks, personal ephemera and objects.
A part of ACT Heritage Festival 2024. Presented in collaboration between CMAG, ArchivesACT and ACT Heritage Library.
Image: A young Dawn Waterhouse (née Calthorpe) at 24 Mugga Way, Red Hill, Calthorpes House Collection, ACT Historic Places
In the 1860s, two Chilean men started working for the Cunningham family at Lanyon Homestead. Who were they and why did they travel to Canberra?
Join Senior Curator Virginia Rigney to uncover the wartime love story behind Roland Wakelin’s serene depiction of the Canberra Methodist Church in Reid.
Discover the life of Captain Alured Tasker Faunce, Canberra’s first police magistrate