ACT School Museums

Author: Maryna Goodwin

Abstract

SCHOOL ADDRESS PHONE CURATOR ARTICLES HELD ACCESS Laurie Copping He

SCHOOL ADDRESS PHONE CURATOR ARTICLES HELD ACCESS
Laurie Copping Heritage Centre,
Hall School Museum
Opened 29 January 1911.
New school commenced 1960/61
Victoria Street
Hall ACT 2618
School,
(02) 62055666
Curator,
(02) 62302670
Mrs Mandy Perry Oldest continuously functioning schoolhouse. All admission registers. Original punishment book. Original desk and form. Miniature gramophone taken on house visits. Ph. Mrs Mandy Perry for visits or school bookings. Open Heritage Week.
St. Johnís Schoolhouse Museum
Opened 1845, closed 1907
Constitution Avenue
Reid ACT 2601
(02) 62496839 Diana Body Schoolroom and residence. 4th book of lessons (from ex-student). Maggie Andersonís book ñ 1904, earliest photo of school, photo of James Abernethy with children. Roster secretary
GPO Box 219
Canberra ACT 2601
Tuggeranong Schoolhouse
June 1880 to 1939
6 Chase Place
Chisholm ACT 2905
(02) 62923941
1410522921
Julie Kennett
Matthew Swarbrick
Schoolroom and living quarters, 1930 addition. Desk, inkwells, slate and pencil, floor plans and photographs, tools and letters (from students re- ring-barked trees, from Parks and Gardens re-pollen.) Environment ACT Heritage Unit
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Tharwa Primary School
1989 to the present

Post Office
Tharwa ACT 2620
(02) 62057244 Carmel McInerny
(Inventory)
Functioning school, cupboard full plus extra memorabilia. Original register. Tharwa School Heritage Collection, 1995 Grant Oral History, photographs, school reporting, observation book, half-yearly exam. Ph. Principal
Mary Hutchinson