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Making the Headlines Every Week – 100 Years Ago!
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Emmott House Verandah – Declared Open
A crowd of around 50 people gathered at the Museum from the opening of the new verandah of the Emmott House, the home of the Moruya Museum. Our Eurobodalla Mayor Mathew Hatcher spoke to the heritage value of the Emmott House, and the importance of community organisations working together to achieve outcomes. He congratulated the…
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Emmott House – MDHS & Rotary Work Together
Built in 1875, the heritage-listed Emmott House has certainly withstood the test of time and is now home to the Moruya Museum. Since its acquisition by the Moruya and District Historical Society (MDHS) in 1976, substantial restoration work has been undertaken, but some aspects are ongoing. Recent challenges emerged with the deterioration of the front…
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Photographic Prints – Alchemy with Eggs
Part 2 of a series on photographic preservation from our Collection Team, for Part 1 see Cased Photographs. In Part 2 we look at 19th Century photographic prints, that is images created from a camera negative. Among photographic prints there are two broad categories: The drawback with Daguerreotypes, Ambrotypes and Tintypes is that these were…
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In Praise of the Humble Home Movie – Preserving Personal Memories
From our Conservation Team Home movies present a personal expression on the events of life, not a corporate vision. They present stories without the purposeful narrative that taints feature films and documentaries. Almost without exception every home movie is unique. A single tangible record of an unrepeatable moment of everyday life that would otherwise dim…
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Cased Photographs – Reflections on a Process
From our Collection Team In the early days of photography from the 1840’s, having a portrait taken was a very special and expensive event. The resultant photographs were a unique object created in camera. To protect and show these portraits off to best advantage the photograph was presented in a beautiful small leather-bound case and…
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The Emmott House – Heritage-Listed Home of the Museum
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Preservation of the 1887 Moruya Town Map
Or Love in the Time of COVID! The 1887 map of Moruya showing the names of who owned which property, arrived unannounced one morning on the doorstep of the Moruya Museum with no details, not even any hint as to who had left it there. Objects without provenance are usually not welcomed but this object…
