Twenty seven items from The Land of the Beardies Museum in Glen Innes are featured in the Museums and Galleries NSW Storyplace site https://storyplace.org.au/.
The stories share new insights into objects professionally photographed from various angles.
The site explains “Storyplace publishes stories about the history and culture of NSW.”
Its stories are inspired by the objects, records and artworks cared for by museums, galleries and Aboriginal cultural centres, located throughout regional NSW.
Storyplace stories are told by various authors and from different points of view.
Stories about regional landscapes, localities, towns, villages, and communities, along with the animals, peoples, and ideas, that have shaped or influenced them, can all be found at Storyplace.
Storyplace is the result of co-operative partnerships established between regional museums, galleries and cultural centres, with Museums and Galleries of New South Wales (M&G NSW), since 2018.
Behind the scenes of Storyplace are many paid and volunteer staff who work together to document (understand), conserve (care for) and digitise (take photos, scan, record or film) regional collections.
But Storyplace wouldn’t exist without other resources. Storyplace has been proudly funded by the NSW Government in association with M&G NSW.
Storyplace makes accessible to everyone the stories that are important to regional NSW, and which are represented by the collections cared for by its museums, galleries and cultural centres.
There are over 500 museums, galleries and cultural centres in regional NSW. These organisations are spread across an area almost five times the size of England, which can make visiting them difficult.
There is nothing like seeing the ‘real thing’, but Storyplace will allow you to view many of the objects, records, community memorabilia, photographs, oral histories and artworks, located in regional NSW online – from anywhere and at any time.
So, whether you’re a curious community member, a student at school or university, an educator or researcher, or a visitor to somewhere in NSW, Storyplace will have something that inspires you.
Storyplace stories are authored by dedicated storytellers, contracted to work with M&G NSW and regional museums, galleries and cultural centres.
Some of our local stories featured on Storyplace include:
Dentists Edward Amesbury and his daughter Loo Loo Amesbury, The Irish Mail ‘ a toy from healthy little bodies’, women’s fashions, wind up ostrich-drawn child’s toy cart, pharmacist John Tregurtha’s career, Percy Young – pioneering business owner at Kwong Sings, and woodblock printing in Glen Innes.
