Caroline Simpson Collection
Home and garden design, history and life
Thanks to the support and involvement of our regional communities, audiences, peers and partners, our work and remit stretch across the state.
Our governing legislation, the Museums of History NSW Act 2022, charges us with responsibility for increasing statewide access to our collections, museums and historic sites, and to the stories that shape the social, cultural and political histories and identity of NSW.
This page highlights some of the many activities, resources and projects developed with, for or about our regional and remote audiences.
With the establishment of Museums of History NSW on 31 December 2022, a Regional Coordination Framework was prepared to ensure that audiences in regional NSW have access to MHNSW’s rich and diverse collections, sites and resources onsite, online and on tour. These include the vast and globally significant State Archives Collection of over 14 million items, which MHNSW holds in trust for the people of NSW. This framework details how we ensure that regional and rural audiences are key in the planning and delivery of our statutory and strategic objectives.
A network of Regional Archives Centres provides access to state archives of regional significance and to copies of key state archives
Our Collections Care and Digital teams have been hard at work making make a suite of vocational videos for volunteers and staff working in museums across the state
We are looking to partner with groups or societies with an interest in history and in making the State Archives Collection more accessible
We are thrilled to announce our partnership with Museums & Galleries of NSW to support its Storyplace Roadshow project
Museums of History NSW is on the road again, sharing our stories with the people of regional NSW
Our interactive virtual excursions connect your class live with a museum educator and focus on specific curriculum content, concepts and skills. We currently offer virtual excursions for Stages 1 to 4
Join Mathew Stephens, research librarian at the Caroline Simpson Library, as he uses the library’s specialist collection to explore the contexts of a selection of historic family photographs.
This webinar will focus on the Oyster Lease Cultures files, which tell the stories of the people who held these leases between 1920 and 1978
This webinar will explore records of the Equity Division of the Supreme Court, how to find them, and what they can tell you.
Home and garden design, history and life
Making history every day
Place-based collections at our historic houses and museums
Meet the team at Australia’s longest-running and most influential architectural practice
The remarkable talents of Aboriginal trackers who worked for NSW Police in the 20th century are featured in a display at the Justice & Police Museum
The Hunter Region is the traditional home of the Wonnarua people. The first European settlers arrived in the 1820s, mainly squatters who claimed large areas of land on which to graze sheep