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AlburyCity Social History Collection

Our Albury LibraryMuseum collection of 30,000+ items is now better preserved and more accessible online, thanks to recent refurbishments and a dedicated digitisation hub.

Discover the AlburyCity Museum & Social History Collection

The AlburyCity Social History Collection, meticulously cared for by the Albury LibraryMuseum, is a treasure trove of over 30,000 items that vividly tell the stories of Albury and its surrounding region. Our dedicated team is committed to the preservation and stewardship of these invaluable pieces of our shared heritage.

A Refurbished Home for our Heritage and Dedicated Digitisation Hub

We are thrilled to announce the recent refurbishment and re-working of the AlburyCity Museum Collection Storage Facility. This significant project has enabled us to make better use of our current footprint, ensuring ongoing best practice in museum collection management and facilitating exciting collection development opportunities. The refurbishment incorporates improved and expanded storage solutions, a dedicated collection quarantine space, and a re-worked collection workshop space. We are immensely grateful for the partial funding provided by a Create NSW Grant, which made this vital enhancement possible.

Complementing this, we have established a dedicated digitisation hub. This hub is a key initiative of the AlburyCity/Greater Hume Museum Advisor Program, focusing on enhancing collection management and digitisation capabilities across regional museums. This vital resource will lead to the addition of over 400 objects to the Collections & Stories website and contribute to a regional collections database hosted by Greater Hume Shire. This investment ensures the long-term care, accessibility, and expanded reach of the AlburyCity Social History Collection for generations to come.

Proudly funded by the NSW Government in association with AlburyCity Council

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Bonegilla Migration

For over 40 years, AlburyCity has been collecting objects owned by former residents of the migrant reception centre; things that people brought from their homeland that gave them comfort, photographs, domestic appliances, children's toys, books and clothing. AlburyCity also actively collects written memories from those who passed through Bonegilla.

McPherson Studios

Albury's McPherson's Studios specialised in weddings, portraiture, child studies and commercial photography. Established by Duncan McPherson (1884-1952) in the 1930s, the studios operated in Anzac House, 611 Dean Street, Albury.

National Growth Centre

The Albury-Wodonga National Growth Centre project was a big, bold and brave decentralisation initiative that focused the nation's attention on Albury-Wodonga like never before. In many ways the Growth Centre was Albury-Wodonga's 'moment of fame'. It was marketed nationally, and while it flourished it attracted extensive metropolitan media scrutiny.
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ACKNOWLEDGMENT

AlburyCity acknowledges the Wiradjuri people as the traditional custodians of the land in which we live and work and we pay our respects to Elders past, present and future for they hold the memories, culture, tradition and hopes of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people that contribute to our community.