Mornings @ The Museum

Come join us for our first Mornings at the Museum. Every second month we will be presenting talks and discussions on the local area’s history.

This February we will be presenting a guided tour of the museum’s current exhibition, Audaciousville: The Story of Dacey Garden Suburb. As Australia’s first public housing scheme, the suburb has a fascinating and unique history. In this talk you’ll learn all about the suburb, including stories that didn’t make it into the exhibition.

When: 10am Thursday February 10th  2011

Where: George Hanna Memorial Museum, Mascot Library

Bookings Essential. Call 9366 3888 to book

Help build Kiddyville

This January come and unleash your child’s suburban imaginations at George Hanna Memorial Museum. To coincide with the museum’s current exhibition on the history of Daceyville, the museum is giving children from the ages 7-13 the chance to build their dream house out of hundreds of cardboard boxes and craft materials.

Wednesday January 19th 2010 - 10am –12noon @ George Hanna Memorial Museum, Mascot Library

Cost : $5 per child. Bookings and payment must be made in person at Eastgardens Library.

Bookings essential as places are limited.

Audaciousville: the story of Dacey Garden Suburb

As you may already know, Daceyville's rich past is the theme of our 2010 History Week celebrations. This month sees the opening of a comprehensive exhibition about the suburb at the George Hanna Memorial Museum.

In the exhibition you will travel to all corners of the suburb's past, from the dust bowl it once was, to its pioneering role in Sydney's use of town planning. You will see the lives of families who have called it home and learned how the suburb was nearly destroyed in the 1970s.

In keeping with History Week's theme "Faces in the Street" you will also learn about the men who the suburb's streets are named after. The story of the Colenso family, of whom Colenso Crescent is called after, is one very local story. To learn more, pop down the George Hanna memorial Museum, 2 Hatfield Street, Mascot. Exhibition runs from 7th September 2010 - 26th February 2011.

Download a copy of the Audaciousville exhibition booklet

Daceyville residents, past and present, we need your help

To celebrate History Week in September, 2010 and to ensure that the George Hanna Memorial Museum presents an exhibition that will bring out the history of Daceyville, we need a little help from Daceville residents - past and present.

If you've lived in the suburb, have any stories, photographs or objects connected to the neighbourhood, please contact the Museum's curator, Samantha Sinnayah on 9366 3802 or email: museum@botanybay.nsw.gov.au

While much formal documentaion exists on Daceyville, we're asking anyone connected with Daceyville to help the museum exhibit a more personalsied view of life in the suburb.


Image courtesy of State Records NSW