Oceania

Mont de Lancey Museum

Madagascar to Melbourne (from 1 May to 30 May 2011)
Openings, exhibitions.

An exhibition focused on the journey of families from Madagascar to Melbourne. The focal exhibit is a Lamba presented to the Reverend Thomas Lord by the Queen of Madagascar upon his departure to Australia in 1888.

Contact: Miss Lara Cubbins
Telephone: +61 4 17589943
E-mail: laramontdelancey@hotmail.com
Address: Wellington Rd, 3139 Wandin, Australia
Website: www.montdelancey.org.au

Lanyon Homestead

International Museum Day: Lanyon Open House (Saturday 21 May 2011, 10am-4pm)
Focus talks. Free entry. Bookings for groups: 6235 5677.

Come, celebrate International Museum Day and discover Lanyon’s rich history. In addition to general tours of the Homestead, throughout the day our knowledgeable Volunteers and Guides will offer talks on the hour between 11am-2pm, highlighting the collection and the site’s history through specific themes.

Contact: Sophie Chessell (Education and Community Programs Manager)
Telephone: +61 4 23828873
Fax: +61 2 62072177
E-mail: sophie.chessell@act.gov.au
Address: Tharwa Drive, Tharwa ACT, 2620 Canberra, Australia
Website: http://www.museumsandgalleries.act.gov.au

Calthorpes' House

International Museum Day: Calthorpes' Open House (Saturday 21 May 2011, 1pm-4pm)
Focus talks. Free entry. For group bookings: +61 6235 5677.

Come, celebrate International Museum Day and consider life at Calthorpes’ from a number of perspectives. In addition to tours of the House, our passionate Volunteers and Guides will offer short talks exploring different themes revealed through the history of Calthorpes’ House. Afternoon tea will be available during the programme.

Contact: Sophie Chessell (Education and Community Programs Manager)
Telephone: +61 4 23828873
Fax: +61 2 62072177
E-mail: sophie.chessell@act.gov.au
Address: 24 Mugga Way, Red Hill ACT, 2603 Canberra, Australia
Website: http://www.museumsandgalleries.act.gov.au

Mugga-Mugga

International Museum Day: Mugga-Mugga Open House (Saturday 21 May 2011, 1.30-4.30pm)
Focus Talks. Free entry. For group bookings: 6235 5677

Come, celebrate International Museum Day and delve into the fascinating world of the Curley family at Mugga-Mugga. In addition to general tours of the Cottage, our knowledgeable Volunteers and Guides will offer short talks exploring the site’s history through specific themes. Afternoon tea will be available in the Education Centre.

Contact: Sophie Chessell (Education and Community Programs Manager)
Telephone: +61 4 23828873
Fax: +61 2 62072177
E-mail: sophie.chessell@act.gov.au
Address: 129 Narrabundah Lane, Symonston ACT, 2609 Canberra, Australia
Website: http://www.museumsandgalleries.act.gov.au

Hillsmeade primary school

Tell Your Family Story Day (5/18/2011)
Free-entry, Visit, Performance, Educational programme

As a concluding activity to the term's research about Historical Immigration Patterns to Australia, the students will be:
1. displaying their families' relics in a family suitcase or a suitcase of their own making
2. listening to the stories of child/adult family members from varying cultural backgrounds
3. learning about and sharing in the celebration of varying tales, music and culinary traditions.

Contact: Carmel Spruhan
Phone: 97046313
Fax:  97047010
Email: spruhan.carmel.t@edumail.vic.gov.au
Address: the promenade, Narre-warren south – 3805, Melbourne, Australia

Museum of Sydney

Concession entry for everyone (9.30am - 5pm)
Visit.

The site of First Government House is on the National Heritage List. At the Museum of Sydney you will meet our city’s first people, inspect models of the First Fleet ships and peer at the archaeological remains of first Government House and the intriguing objects uncovered by a number of digs on the site. Fast forward through 200 years and you will learn about the distinctiveness of this great city, its harbour, transport, people and particular personality via a changing exhibitions program.

Phone: 61 2 9251 5988
Email: sarao@hht.net.au
Address: Cnr Bridge & Phillip St – 2000 Sydney, Australia
Website: http://www.hht.net.au/museums/mos

Justice & Police Museum

Concession entry for everyone (10am - 5pm)
Visit.

Step into the dark side of Sydney’s past with a visit to a historic police and court building (1856 –1886) that once imposed authority on Sydney’s unruly waterfront. Explore the building’s atmospheric interior – spiked gates, Court Room and the corridor of cells. In the 1890s police Charge Room you can stand before the Duty Sergeant’s desk and imagine yourself being fingerprinted. Encounter a spine-chilling collection of criminal weapons and a mug-shot gallery of offenders that stare defiantly back at you from the walls.

Phone: 61 2 9252 1144
Email: sarao@hht.net.au    
Address: Cnr Phillip & Albert St – 2000 Circular Quay, Australia
Website: http://www.hht.net.au/museums/justice_and_police_museum

Susannah Place Museum

Concession entry for everyone (2pm-6pm)
Visit.

Located in the heart of The Rocks, Susannah Place is a rare surviving example of a simple working-class terrace. Built in 1844, by Irish immigrants and continuously occupied until 1990 this typically English terrace was home to over 100 different families. The museum tells the stories of the often overlooked lives of working class people and the neighbourhood in which they lived, played, worked and struggled.

Phone: 61 2 9241 1893
Email: sarao@hht.net.au
Address: 58-64 Gloucester St– 2000 the Rocks, Australia
Website: http://www.hht.net.au/museums/susannah_place_museum

Hyde Park Barracks

Concession entry for everyone (9.30am-5pm)
Visit.

A World Heritage Australian Convict Site.
The Hyde Park Barracks was built in 1819 to house, clothe and feed convict men and boys. This impressive brick building and walled compound, located at the head of Sydney’s historic Macquarie Street, was designed by convict architect Francis Greenway. After 1848 the main dormitory held newly arrived female immigrants while a handful of government agencies made use of surrounding buildings. In 1862, separate wards for destitute women were added upstairs and the Barracks became known as the Hyde Park Asylum. Sydney celebrated the 50th anniversary of Queen Victoria’s reign in 1887 with the construction of major public buildings and monuments. The Hyde Park Barracks became a hub of government departments and renamed Chancery Square. Until the late 1970s, thousands of public servants, legal workers and litigants occupied dingy office spaces, courtrooms and corridors, scattered throughout the increasingly crowded complex. Today the Hyde Park Barracks is a museum about itself.

Phone: 61 2 8239 2311
Email: sarao@hht.net.au
Address: Queens Square, Macquarie St – 2000 Sydney, Australia
Website: http://www.hht.net.au/museums/hyde_park_barracks_museum

Rouse Hill House & Farm

Concession entry for everyone (9.30am-4.30pm)
Visit.

Founded in 1813 and crammed with 20,000 objects spanning its long life, Rouse Hill House & Farm expresses the hopes and dreams of six generations of family life in rural New South Wales from early colonization to the late 1900s.  
An extraordinary amount of colonial history converged upon or passed hard by this place, with Rouse Hill House -itself one of the oldest continually occupied homes in Australia- overlooking the Hawkesbury road of 1794, the Windsor turnpike road which replaced it, and the Vinegar Hill battlefield of 1804.   
Take a tour to experience the old house with its time-warped rooms, the ancient garden, handsome stables, and the tottering outbuildings, old machinery and rusting vehicles that strew the wider farmstead. Or come and enjoy one of Rouse Hill’s farm-based or other family-friendly programs.

Phone: 61 2 9627 6777
Email: sarao@hht.net.au
Address: Guntawong Rd (Via Rouse Rd) – 2155 Rouse Hill, Australia
Website: http://www.hht.net.au/museums/rouse_hill_house_and_farm

Museum & Gallery Services Queensland

Peer Talk 2011 (18 May 2011, 1pm-6pm)
Visit, Workshop

M&GSQ’s Peer Talk returns for International Museum Day, 18 May 2011. In this, the 150th anniversary of the Sisters of Mercy Brisbane Congregation, Peer Talk 2011 will feature a Review of Stages 1 and 2 of the Mercy Heritage Centre.
• View the exhibitions
• Listen to the curatorial, design and institutional perspective on their development
• Hear from three professional reviewers on their visit experience
• Express your viewpoint in the panel and audience discussion
• Network over afternoon tea
• Celebrate the launch of International Museum Day with breathtaking verandah views as the sun sets.
Cost: $30, $25 concession. Visit www.magsq.com.au for further information. Bookings are essential, phone +61 7 3215 0844.

Contact: Ann Baillie (Manager Training and Professional Development)
Phone: +61 7 3215 0820
Email: informatioin@magsq.com.au
Address: Mercy Heritage Centre, All Hallows’ Convent, 547 Ann Street – 4006 Brisbane, Australia
Website: http://www.magsq.com.au/01_cms/details.asp?ID=781

Museum and Arts Gallery of the Northern Territories

Indigenous Art Curatorial talk and Tour (12.30pm - 1.30pm Curatorial Talk 1.30pm - 2.30pm Gallery Tour)
Educational programme

Lunchtime Curatorial Talk
Memory, Museums and Milingimbi
by Dr Lousie Hamby, Research Fellow, ANU.
12.30 – 1.30pm, Wednesday 18 May 2011
Museum collections are an important part of not only remembering but maintaining culture. Discover how historic objects from Milingimbi are becoming part of an active engagement with Aboriginal people and museums in Australia and overseas.

Curatorial tour of the Indigenous Art Gallery
By  Dr Christiane Keller, Senior Curator Aboriginal Art and Material Culture
13.30 – 14.30, Wednesday 18 May 2011
Explore the permanent collection with Dr Christiane Keller, Senior Curator of Aboriginal Art and Material Culture at MAGNT.

Contact: Ms. Natalie Jenkins
Phone: 61 8 8999 8163
Email: natalie.jenkins@nt.gov.au
Address: PO Box 4646 – 800 Darwin, Australia
Website: www.magnt.nt.gov.au

Whanganui Regional Museum

Memory and Music (5 performances during month of May)
Performance.

In collaboration with International Museum Day’s focus on memory and New Zealand Music Month the Whanganui Regional Museum extends an invitation to honour the power of music to bring the past into the present in a series of concerts.
- OUR SOUNDS
Join us to experience the sounds of our heritage instruments in the Atrium of the Museum.
- SOUNDS ON OUR SHORES
We present an evening to celebrate the rich musical traditions that have arrived on our shores. From bagpipes to bamboo flutes, Chinese opera to Irish reels, Kapa haka to Pacifica performances we will explore the music, memories and meanings that lie at the heart of our diverse musical culture.
- LETTERS HOME
Wartime tunes symbolise the power of music to express our sorrows and remind us to hope.  From comically defiant songs to haunting ballads our repertoire of music will be interspersed with readings of letters sent home by those who served overseas maintaining fragile contact with loved ones. These Letters are now treasures in our archival collection. 

Contact: Louise Follett (External Relations Coordinator)
Phone: 6 349 1110
Fax: 6 347 6512
Email: info@museum.queenspark.org.nz
Address: Watt Street – 4540 Whanganui, New Zealand
Website: www.wanganui-museum.org.nz