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Carnamah Museum Collection of National Significance
We're delighted to reveal that we have been awarded a Community Heritage Grant for a significance assessment of our museum collection. One of the great things about this grant is that it means our...
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Online Index of 80,153 Early WA Motor Vehicle Registrations
The Royal Automobile Club (R.A.C.) of Western Australia historically published an annual Year Book & Road Guide. Some of the early editions included lists of every registered motor vehicle in...
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Virtual Museum: Schools
Today there are primary schools in Coorow, Eneabba and Three Springs and a district high school at Carnamah. However, this hasn't always been the case - another eleven schools previously existed within...
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Australian Heritage Festival in Carnamah on 30 April 2017
We invite you to attend Carnamah's first-ever contribution to the Australian Heritage Festival! From 10am to 2-30pm on Sunday 30 April 2017 there are a series of things to do and see in...
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Inside History: WA's Daring 20th Century Bushranger
We're delighted to report the story of our local bushranger Frank Thomas has been featured across five pages in the final hardcopy edition of Inside History magazine (Autumn 2017). The magazine is...
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Carnamah-Perenjori meets Andy Warhol
Pop Art artist Andy Warhol once said 'Art is anything you can get away with.'Items in our Virtual Museum recently received some Pop Art treatment by the Room One students at Perenjori Primary School....
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Carnamah an 'Inspiring Example' in Participatory Heritage
Back in 2015 we had a chat over Skype with Courtney Ruge, a postgraduate student at Monash University. We've just discovered that some of our insights have contributed to the chapter Custodianship and...
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Livestock Brands of Western Australia
A number of volunteers assisting the Carnamah Historical Society & Museum and the North Midlands Project recently concluded the huge task of transcribing and indexing lists of registered livestock...
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You're Invited to Carnamah: 15-19 September 2017
North Midlands Project artist-in-residence Di Taylor has created a series of artworks based on the stories and life of our local bushranger Frank Thomas. This striking exhibition will open for the...
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Updated: Index of Early WA Motor Vehicle Registrations
We're delighted to share that our hugely popular Index of Early Western Australian Motor Vehicle Registrations has been substantially expanded with the addition of a further four years of...
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10863 Bushranger presented by Act-Belong-Commit now at Fremantle Prison
The exhibition 10863 Bushranger presented by Act-Belong-Commit is at the historic Fremantle Prison until 2 January 2017. The exhibition consists of a series of artworks produced by WA visual artist Di...
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Now online - 10863 Bushranger presented by Act-Belong-Commit
In 2017 the North Midlands Project and The Bank Gallery Space in Carnamah hosted Di Taylor as their inaugural artist-in-residence. One of the outcomes of Di's residency was a series of artworks...
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150th Anniversary of the Macpherson Family in Carnamah
The Church at Alvie in Inverness, Scotland in 2014This story begins in Alvie, a parish in Inverness in the Highlands of Scotland. In January 1845 Duncan Macpherson married Mary Wilson - and these...
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Local farmer's photographs shaped the world's view of Australia
Ernest Lund Mitchell worked as a photographer in New South Wales and Queensland before settling in Perth. He became one of Western Australia's leading photographers, rising to the position of...
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War Service Land Settlement in Eneabba
36 veterans from the Second World War, who came from all walks of life, moved with their families onto allocated War Service Land Settlement farms in Eneabba between 1959 and 1961.The farms averaged...
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Celebrating 150 Years of Carnamah's Macpherson Homestead
The family of Duncan and Mary Macpherson shifted to Carnamah in 1868. The family of ten initially squeezed into a three room cottage near the Yarra Yarra Lakes before building a much larger homestead...
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Waddy Forest or Waddi Forest?
Every so often we receive an email or comment from someone perplexed as to how we've spelled Waddi Forest incorrectly - not once but hundreds if not thousands of times! Goodness, how did that...
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Less Hysterical Objectives for the Future of History
The Carnamah Historical Society was formed in 1983 and was incorporated in 1992 when the Carnamah Museum was established. Like many other community organisations around Western Australia, we recently...
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Biographical Dictionary now a registered publication!
Our Biographical Dictionary of Coorow, Carnamah and Three Springs is now an officially registered online publication! It has been allocated International Standard Serial Number (ISSN) 2652-4287 by the...
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2019 Christmas Wishes
Our best wishes to one and all for a Merry Christmas a Happy New Year! Pictured here, with the addition of the tree, is an early 1930s snap of Stan Hidden's The Corner Store at 2 Macpherson Street in...
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Influenza Pandemic of 100 Years Ago
The H1N1 influenza virus pandemic, often referred to as the Spanish Flu, spread across the world in 1918 and 1919. It is believed to have infected about 500 million people, which was at the time about...
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Child Engagement in Museums: DIY Colour-in Pages
The first instalment in a series of guest blog posts by Shiona Herbert of Ignite Your AudienceA small table with pencils, textas and colour-in pages will always attract the eye of young visitors in a...
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Child Engagement in Museums: School Holiday Trails
The second instalment in a series of guest blog posts by Shiona Herbert of Ignite Your AudienceSchool holidays are scheduled four times a year in Australia – that's four prime opportunities to...
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Child Engagement in Museums: Pop Art
The third instalment in a series of guest blog posts by Shiona Herbert of Ignite Your AudienceMuseums and heritage sites offer an abundance of artistic stimulation. You can provide a simple clipboard...
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Our Most Popular Online Content in 2022
With 2022 done and dusted, we've dived into our online statistics for the year. We were delighted to have welcomed 48,655 people to our website 63,718 times! If you're counted in that number, thanks...
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