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October 08 October NewsThe Heritage Centre is now open each Saturday morning from 9:30am to 11:30 am after the winter break.
Members are working to refresh displays and add new and different exhibits for visitors, and work continues on the Mainstream Through Murchison DVD/display panels project.
Our next monthly meeting will be held on Tuesday 20th of October at 7:30pm at the Heritage Centre when we will feature 'Show and Tell'. This is an activity where members bring an item of historical interest and share its story, or a new item given to the society is featured with discussion about the related history.
All welcome.
July 22 JULY NEWS
With winter in full swing the number of visitors to our town decreases and the number of our members travelling to warmer climes increases, so we have closed our regular opening time on each Saturday morning but are open on request. At the end of June we completed our very successful Heritagecare Project. Murchison & District Historical Society has been involved in the Community Stewardship Project since November last year. The aim of the project was to catalogue our reference library and historical photographs and we made marvellous progress that we could not have achieved without this outside help.
The Heritagecare Project Officer was able to enlist three volunteers all of whom have computer skills and one is a qualified librarian. They all displayed a focussed approach to their tasks and committed 2 days a week to the work over the last 6 months. Our Heritage Centre became a hive of activity with increased member involvement to support the volunteers in various ways such as having photographs ready with catalogue details for them to work on, computer support (we purchased a second computer, upgraded our Maxus system to enable networking) and making sure tea and lunch breaks were enjoyed. In the process members were able to learn more about our collection and the details of history previous unknown to them.
The Heritagecare Project Officer was very supportive, undertaking all the advertising & recruitment, assisted us with the process of interviews, orientation, including OH&S standards, setting up of the Management Plan and Project Agreement and ensured none of the formalities were at all onerous.
The whole process has been enjoyable and very rewarding, stimulated a ground swell of activity at our Heritage Centre and we have achieved what we set out to do. Based on our experience we would recommend any Historical Society consider involvement with an Heritagecare Project.
Our hard working volunteer team
June 08 WORKSHOPSMuseums Australia (Victoria) are currently providing a Training Program for custodians of Community Collections in various parts of Victoria.
Our members have already attended three of the Workshops held in Shepparton and have found them of great benefit.
Topics covered at these sessions have been Museum Standards, Significance Assessment, Digitising Collections, and Interpretation & Exhibitions.
The material covered has direct application to our own situation at the Heritage Centre in Murchison. Networking between participants is of course always useful.
It is pleasing to see good attendance numbers when Museums Australia are providing such valuable training. Bringing the training to Regional Centres is a great help as the workers involved with Community Collections are usually Volunteers. April 25 Work In ProgressOur current project is the compiling of a DVD telling the story of the Goulburn River and the changes that have occured to the section running through Murchison district over the years since the arrival of white settlers. The project should be completed by October and it will be exciting to launch the finished product. March 19 Executive Elected at Annual General MeetingThe Annual General Meeting held on 17th of March was well attended and it was good to welcome several visitors. The DVD compiled and shown by Anne Finlay was very well done and showcased some rarely seen photographs of places, events and people who have shaped Murchison's history.
The election of office bearers took place and Warwick Finlay was elected as our President, Shirley Cloggie has accepted the position of Vice President on the retirement of Helen Newton from this position due to family committments. Kay Ball continues as Secretary, Jeff Huddle as Treasurer and our Committee members are Don and Gloria Polkinghorne and John Ball.
Warwick detailed an active and eventful year in his Annual Report to members and particularly thanked members and volunteers who are busy doing a variety of activities. Lots of support comes from our volunteers and members, in particular Anne Finlay, & George Cloggie who have worked hard in recent months to enable the volunteers to have appropriate technical support.
We look forward to another productive year ahead with a dedicated and hard working Executive taking the lead.
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