Armidale Folk Museum todayIn 2016 I wrote a short series of posts telling the story of the Armidale Museum established in 1933 as the first municipally operated museum in NSW and then the Armidale Folk Museum in 1958, one of the early Australian folk museums. The posts are:
The story of the Armidale museum sits at the intersection, the overlap, of a number of different threads in Australian and New England history.
- 3 March 2016 History Revisited - Armidale's museum fight
- 9 March 2016 History Revisited - Armidale museum fight finally won, if for the moment
- 16 March 2016 History Revisited - darkening clouds over Armidale's Museum
- 23 March 2016 History Revisited - a new Museum is born
One is the museum movement, a global movement where museums were seen as as fulfilling scientific as well as historical and educational purposes. The later rise in interest in folk museums was a particular manifestation of this movement, one that focused on the life of ordinary people.
The movement had particular Australian manifestations where it over-lapped, interconnected with rise of interest in Australian history in the decades leading up to Federation. Within those Australian manifestations, New England has its own place and traditions.
Looking back over my posts in this area, I find that they are more fragmentary than I had realised, requiring consolidation and amplification. However, pending that, the following posts may give you you a feel for some of the history:
- 30 March 2016 History Revisited - local activism and the spread of the museum movement
- 6 April 2016 History Revisited - Eric Dunlop never wearied of teaching
- 6 April 2016 History Revisited - a collection of wisdom
- 4 March 2015 History revisited - the telling of New England's history
- 5 March 2015 History revisited - reflecting back on our history
- 11 March 2015 History revisited - building the institutions that would preserve and promote New England's history
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