Isolation Jigsaws
A lot’s happened in the last few months and jigsaws seem to be the activity of the moment. According to social media, everybody’s doing them. So, the Geoffrey Kaye Museum thought it was time to get on board the jigsaw bandwagon. We searched the collection for...
Covid-19 and the museum
There’s a lot going on right now. You’re probably getting a lot of emails cancelling events you’ve been looking forward to for ages or outlining organisations’ responses to the Covid-19 pandemic. This is another one. The museum is part of the Australian and New...
Australian Women Doctors and the Scottish Women’s Hospitals
On Saturday, 21 September, 2019, the museum curator gave a presentation in Hobart to a meeting of COMA (Collection of Medical Artefacts). The presentation looked at the way women doctors from Australia became involved with the Scottish Women’s Hospitals for...