Thursday, October 30, 2008

Catalogue of Vanished Objects

Every little town has it's local museum, but unfortunately Bendigo, with all it's celebrated gold history, has no museum. Now.
It's not generally realised that Bendigo at one time had a museum of international repute, attracting 20,000 visitors a year in the 1880's.
The museum was at the Bendigo School of Mines, which was founded by the Sandhurst Mechanics Institute in 1872.
It had an incredible geological collection, as well as flora, fauna, and many artefacts of local aboriginal tribes, gold miners, and all sorts of miscellany.
It's exact contents have been a mystery - until now. A microfiche has been discovered of a handwritten catalogue of exhibits, running to hundreds of pages.
Below is an excerpt detailing aboriginal implements found on local properties.
I'll post updates as the catalogue is examined.Now the search is on for the original!



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