Capital history in the news

Heritage grants program │ The ACT Heritage Grants Program is an annual grants program providing $355,000 to identify and carry out projects that promote and conserve our local heritage. Applications close on Friday 3 May 2019. 

Telling Australia's story - and why it's important │The Joint Standing Committee on the National Capital and External Territories’ report on its inquiry into Canberra’s national institutions. The inquiry examined their strategic value, their engagement with the Australian people, and their governance and resourcing challenges. 

Director of Museum of Australian Democracy slams MPs' report │ Director of the Museum of Australian Democracy in Old Parliament House, Daryl Karp’s response to the Telling Australia's story - and why it's important report, which found the Museum could improve its focus on developing visitors’ understanding of Australia’s democratic history and inspiring faith in our democracy. 

Australian War Memorial sculpture reflects on Indigenous service│ A new sculptural pavilion commemorating the military service and experiences of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples opened at the Australian War Memorial. 

We're all as Canberran as each other, says curator Virginia Rigney │Profile of Virginia Rigney, senior arts curator at Canberra Museum and Gallery, which includes some interesting points about the importance of Canberra’s mid-century modern heritage and how to engage more mobile populations with heritage.

 The century-old medicine chest that never made it to the Antarctic │The National Museum of Australia unveiled a pristine century-old medicine chest, containing a trove of tabloids and treatments from the early 1900s, which was set to supply Douglas Mawson’s famous Australasian Antarctic Expedition in 1911.

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Acknowledgement: The image above is A footprint of memory by George Rose, ca. 1930-ca. 1950. See acknowledgement page for details.