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The Royal Australian Historical Society, formerly Australian Historical Society, is a voluntary organisation founded in Sydney, Australia in 1901 [1] [2] with Andrew Houison as founding president. [3] Its goals are to encourage the study of and interest in Australian history. It has a membership throughout Australia and many of its activities ...
In 1901 when the Royal Australian Historical Society was founded it had neither the funds nor the ambition to own a home of its own. Instead the Society met in a number of different venues and was eventually provided with rooms in the Department of Education building in Bridge Street. In 1941, forty years after its foundation, the Society ...
website, operated by the Shoalhaven Historical Society NSW Rail Museum: Thirlmere: Macarthur: Railway: Includes locomotives and passenger and freight rolling stock Old Courthouse Museum: Batemans Bay: South Coast: Local history: website, operated by the Clyde River and Batemans Bay Historical Society Old Dubbo Gaol: Dubbo: Orana: Prison: 19th ...
This list of museums in Victoria, Australia contains museums which are defined for this context as institutions (including nonprofit organizations, government entities, and private businesses) that collect and care for objects of cultural, artistic, scientific, or historical interest and make their collections or related exhibits available for public viewing.
Australian Computer Museum Society; Australian Forest History Society; ... Royal Australian Historical Society; S. Society of Australian Genealogists
The Australian Army Artillery Museum was an artillery museum located in North Fort, on the northern head of the entrance to Sydney Harbour, in Sydney, Australia. It was formerly called the "National Artillery Museum", and had a large collection of the heritage and history of the Royal Australian Artillery .
The initial conservation programme was endorsed and circulated to various interested conservation bodies for comment. The Royal Australian Historical Society was requested to undertake an historical research programme on the property. An archaeologist was contracted to be present during any excavation works associated with the repairs programme ...
With the close of the colonial period at Federation, a number of state-based historical societies began to be formed: [7] 1901 in New South Wales, the Australian Historical Society; [7] in 1909, the Historical Society of Victoria; [7] in 1913, the Historical Society of Queensland; [7] 1926, the Western Australian Historical Society; [7] in 1926 ...