If you have any research queries or wish to discuss donation to the Museum's collection or library please contact our Curator, Dr Sophie Couchman.
Appointments can be made to meet with Dr Couchman when she is in the Museum on Thursdays and Fridays. Phone: (03) 9662 2888 or by email on curator@chinesemuseum.com.au.
The Museum holds an extensive collection of Chinese clothing and textiles, photographs, documents and artefacts that reflect the social fabric and activities of the Chinese community in Australia from the 1850s to the present day.
The Museum undertook a significance assessment of its Collection and is currently doing a thorough audit of it.
At the end of 2005, much of the Museum's photographic collection along with images from other public and private collections was made available online through the Chinese-Australian Historical Images in Australia (CHIA) archive - http://www.chia.chinesemuseum.com.au.
| Object of the Month - February 2012 |
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| Object: Hand-woven ‘lucky’ wallet
This simple wallet dates to the mid-1950’s China belonged to Nora Dillon who worked Church Missionary Society in China during the Japanese occupation. It is a marker of the cultural exchange that occurred as part of Australian missionary work in China in the early to mid-twentieth century. The character for ‘double happiness’ (generally associated with weddings) is on the front and back and it has a fine inner blue cotton lining.
Donated By: Eileen Dillon-Smith (2011.05) |
Access to the Museum's Research Library is available to Museum Members by appointment with the Curator. The Research Library catalogue can be found on LibraryThing (http://www.librarything.com/catalog/MCAH). New to the Research Library!
Donated by ICOMOS Australia, ‘Dragon Tails’ special issue of Historic Environment, vol.23, no.3, 2011. Edited by Damien Williams and Keir Reeves.
Articles include:
• Damien Williams and Keir Reeves, ‘Introduction: Made in China: Chinese-Australian heritage places, objects and stories’
• Valerie Lovejoy, ‘Scratching the surface: Remembering Chinese lives in nineteenth century Bendigo’
• Alister Bowen, ‘Some social, historical and characteristic aspects of Australia’s colonial period Chinese fish curing sites’
• Chris McConville and Keir Reeves, ‘Chinese places: Ethnography and landscape’
• Damien Williams, ‘Perspectives on Chinese-Australian heritage: An interview with Mark Wang’
• Barry McGowan and Christine Wright, ‘Braidwood’s enduring Chinese heritage’
• Gordon Grimwade ‘Field note: No more tucker’
Copies available for sale via the ICOMOS Australia website $25.30 (non-members) $15.40 (members) plus postage (includes GST) (http://australia.icomos.org/publications/historic-environment)
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