Preserving and promoting Liverpool's cultural heritage, history and stories
IMAGE CREDIT: Dame Edna (1934 Humber Snipe) visits Liverpool Regional Museum
Liverpool Regional Museum was opened on 3 June 1989 as part of Australia's Bicentennial celebrations.
The museum presents and collects items reflecting environmental, heritage and social themes within south-west Sydney. Whilst preserving and promoting Liverpool's cultural heritage, history and stories through collections, exhibitions and public programs.
Visitors can experience our permanent exhibition ‘RESONANCES: objects, lives and stories of Liverpool’ accompanied with a program of diverse changing exhibitions, including public programs that engage and inspire the community.
We are available to guide visitors through our exhibitions and assist with enquiries. Visitors can also research their family history from our resident Liverpool Genealogy Society.
To make a booking for your group or school email: liverpoolregionalmuseum@liverpool.nsw.gov.au
CURRENT EXHIBITIONS
RESONANCES
Objects, lives and stories of Liverpool
PERMANENT EXHIBITION
Objects shape who we are, the people we engage with, our attachment to place, our values and ideas.
Resonances takes you on a journey to discover Liverpool’s heritage through its collection of donated objects, unifying a diversity as an eclectic assembly of artefacts and oral histories.
We can only speculate about the personal meanings and significance an object holds for an individual or family; donors provide a trace of their story as a gift for future generations.
Resonances combines the collection within six themes:
- Home
- Good times
- Hard times
- Community
- Children
- Work
Each theme explores Liverpool’s past, through people and places that shaped Liverpool’s history, culture, social and economic life.
RESONANCES
FREE EXHIBITION
Tues - Sat 10am - 4pm (excl. Public Holidays)
LIVERPOOL REGIONAL MUSEUM
Preserving and promoting Liverpool’s cultural heritage, history and stories
Image credit:
Bakery Keystone
German Internment Camp Collection
Frank Oliveri Bus Company Ticketing Machine
Frank Oliveri Collection
Teapot
Pearce and Learoyd Collection
Flour Sifter
Trimarchi Collection
Pudding Tin
Hammondville Collection
Baby Bonnet
Ashcroft Family Collection
Christening Gown
Ashcroft Family Collection
Jewellery Box
Bartlett Collection
STC Radio
Standard Telephone and Cable Collection
Liverpool Regional Museum Collection
ONE SMALL STEP
Satellite exhibition & events
Part of Giant Leap, Casula Powerhouse Arts Centre
An exploration of popular culture, in particular music and the global soundtrack that marked the first humans on the moon.
Come and watch the original NASA footage of the Apollo 11 Moon landing and listen to the music that marked the end of one era and the beginning of another. Learn about the role Australia played, through still and moving images, of the largest globalised television event of its time transmitted by the Parkes Radio Telescope New South Wales.
Sip space-coffee in a re-interpreted version of Stanley Kubrick’s ‘Hilton Space Lounge’ recreated from his iconic film 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) while watching the archival footage.
ONE SMALL STEP
FREE EXHIBITION
Tues - Sat 10am - 4pm (exc. Public Holidays)
LIVERPOOL REGIONAL MUSEUM
Image credit: Austie Helm mustering sheep near the Parkes Radio Observatory, Parkes, NSW, circa 1968, Photographer David Moore; Source: CSIRO Archives
BEYOND THE TREE
LIVERPOOL GENEALOGY SOCIETY
30 YEARS RESEARCHING I 10 YEARS IN RESIDENCE
Presented in partnership with
LIVERPOOL REGIONAL MUSEUM
Preserving and promoting Liverpool’s cultural heritage, history and stories
Established in 1989 Liverpool Genealogy Society celebrates thirty years researching family history and marks a ten year residency within Liverpool Regional Museum’s Family History Centre. During three decades the society has become a leading genealogy membership and research service in South West Sydney open to the community. To celebrate thirty years and as part of National Family History Month in August 2019, Beyond the Tree presents family history through curated stories, artefacts and objects from their members’ collections – presented as an exhibition and a series of events. What can seem at first unrelated, opens conversations of common histories ‘beyond the tree’ and encourages visitors to research their own family history.
BEYOND THE TREE
FREE EXHIBITION
Tues - Sat 10am - 4pm (exc. Public Holidays)
LIVERPOOL REGIONAL MUSEUM
CALL OUT: We want your family photos! Add photographs of significant family moments to the exhibition. Click here for more information.
Image credit: Kathleen Margaret Ellen Cross & Barbara Bullivant, Sydney, July 1952. Kathleen Smith Collection
Liverpool Regional Museum has created the following documents to download for educational purposes:
Resonances Roomnotes and Resonances School Activity Worksheet
Cnr Congressional Drive and Hume Highway, Liverpool NSW, 2170
02 8711 7126
liverpoolregionalmuseum@liverpool.nsw.gov.au (General Enquiries, School and Group Visits)
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