In the Business | Interactions With History

On museology, engagement and digital culture

The year that was

2016 has been a big year for the History Trust of South Australia. We changed our name for one! We welcomed Greg Mackie as our new Chief Executive, had a...

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Going Back: How the Migration Museum Began

Today migration museums are dotted all over the world – from Buenos Aires to Bremerhaven, New York to Norway. Rewind just thirty years and this particular breed of museum was...

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Visiting Museums

or : Catherine makes everyone look at her holiday photos When you’ve worked in museums for a few years you start to look at the displays differently. What sort of...

Reaching new audiences with Pokémon Go

Whether good or bad, Pokémon are back in the spotlight. I’d be surprised if you haven’t heard of Pokémon Go by now (I’d make a joke about living in a cave,...

Passengers in History – A Data Story

Three weeks ago the South Australian Maritime Museum launched their newest online project. Passengers in History is a family history research website containing over 328,000 passenger records along with numerous ship, voyage,...

Tips for creating engaging museum interactives

This post comes on the tail end of designing and developing two touch screen interactives for History SA; one promoting the South Australian Maritime Museum’s new Living in Port app and one for the Migration Museum’s new Freedom exhibit. Since I’ve been living in the world of touchscreens I thought...

Let’s Talk About Hacking…

Museum professionals are always searching for new ideas and ways to push the boundaries of their work and be innovative. It is then the job of the savvy professional to work out how to balance the tensions between traditional museum practice and exploring new ways of connecting with audiences. I...

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Motor Museum Memories

My brainwave for the opening of the Holden Pavilion of Australian Motoring was fine – as long as nothing went wrong. I had been Director of the National Motor Museum for just eighteen months and was about to benefit from a decade of lobbying by my predecessor, John Cashen, for...

Snapshot

This picture was taken by Frank Hurley in 1935 as part of the preparations for the 1936 centenary events.

About History Trust of South Australia

The History Trust of South Australia researches, preserves and presents the history of South Australia. We manage three museums, the State History Collection and a statewide community history program.

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Passengers in History

The South Australian Maritime Museum has launched a new online immigration archive.

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