Dr Chris Cokis’ unique Presidential portrait
Dr Chris Cokis had a unique vision for his Presidential Portrait, which he describes in the summary below. His portrait was taken in 2025 after a couple of false starts due to the weather. It was unveiled in July 2025 and is now hanging in Ulimaroa. My term as...
Tell Matilda all about it…
In March 2020 none of us could have accurately foreseen what would unfold over the next few years. Looking back, the closest thing we could identify was the post-World War I influenza pandemic. And, that was over a century earlier. The 1918-19 influenza pandemic saw...
Of International Significance
In December 2022, we commissioned Dr Megan Cardamone from Circa Museum Services to undertake a whole of collection significance assessment. For quite a while we’ve thought the collection was one of international and national significance, and we wanted an independent...
History is happening now – collecting Covid-19
It’s easy to think of history as some inaccessible, distant past with little relationship to the here and now. It’s sometimes hard to reconcile the notion of ‘history’ with the world in its current state. The Covid-19 pandemic has disrupted social behaviours, forced a...