The Clock Tower, or Council Tower, is the most imposing and impressive of Sighisoara’s towers and the one though which the majority of visitors enter and leave the Citadel area. Continue reading “The Clock Tower And Its Museums”
St John’s Schoolhouse – Canberra’s First School
This is the Canberra region’s first school and school master’s residence. It was built in 1845 (70 years before Canberra was named) by Robert Campbell of Duntroon estate, to provide an elementary education for children from his estate and surrounding farms. Continue reading “St John’s Schoolhouse – Canberra’s First School”
Ascension Island Heritage Society Museum & Gallery
The Museum and Gallery, incorporating Fort Hayes, is located at Fort Hayes and is divided in four sections:
The Main Museum
The Carriage House
Fort Hayes Magazine
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University of Sydney – Nicholson Museum
What a great and unexpected treasure that I more or less stumbled upon here.
The Nicholson Antiquity Museum in the University of Sydney has the largest collection of antiquities in the Southern Hemisphere (don’t get over excited, it’s still a small museum viewable in detail in an hour). While having no world famous pieces it has quite a range of things tastily displayed and labelled and, as such, is well worth a visit. Continue reading “University of Sydney – Nicholson Museum”
Macleay Museum – University of Sydney
The first thing I must say about this small but wonderful natural history museum is that it on the top floor of the Macleay Building on Science Road and you must enter the building at the end furthest away from the University of Sydney’s Great Hall (where you will see a sign for the museum) and not the other end as I did, only to have to clamber back down three flights of stairs and up them again at the correct end of the building. Continue reading “Macleay Museum – University of Sydney”
War Memorial – Sculpture Garden
The Sculpture Garden found around the Australian War Memorial was established in January 1999 with the aim of offering a place for quiet contemplation of the sacrifice of the many Australians who have died in war. It does this very well. Continue reading “War Memorial – Sculpture Garden”
The Hall of Valour
The Hall of Valour, symbolically positioned directly underneath the resting place of the Unknown Soldier at the Australian War Memorial, “honours the deeds of ordinary Australians under the extraordinary conditions of war.” Continue reading “The Hall of Valour”
The Forgotten War (Korean War)
The ‘Conflicts 1945 to Today’ galleries at the Australian War Memorial commemorate Australia’s post WWII war and peace-keeping operations. The galleries cover Korea, Malaya and Indonesia, Vietnam, Afghanistan and the two Gulf Wars.
In this review I would like to go into a little more detail on what is often referred to as the ‘Forgotten War” – the Korean War. Continue reading “The Forgotten War (Korean War)”
‘Conflicts 1945 to Today’ Galleries
The ‘Conflicts 1945 to Today’ galleries at the Australian War Memorial commemorate Australia’s post WWII war and peace-keeping operations. The galleries cover Korea, Malaya and Indonesia, Vietnam, Afghanistan and the two Gulf Wars. Continue reading “‘Conflicts 1945 to Today’ Galleries”
War Memorial – Colonial Conflicts Gallery
Being a lover of older style museums with packed wooden and glass display cabinets, carpets on the floor, low lights and the like, I am particularly attracted to the Colonial Conflicts Gallery of the Australian War Memorial. Continue reading “War Memorial – Colonial Conflicts Gallery”
The Rambling Wombat 