National Quilt Register
The National Quilt Register is a major initiative of the Pioneer Women's Hut, a museum located at Tumbarumba at the foothills to the Snowy Mountains in southern NSW, Australia.
The museum represents ordinary rural families, especially the women, in their everyday lives. It opened in 1985 and is a free, self funded museum run by community volunteers.
The collection is shown in changing themes relating to domestic life and women's other roles as 'another pair of hands' and in earning cash income: Coping with flies, Time for fancywork, Mondays, Never Done, Caring for Clothes and many more.
It is our policy to collect domestic objects relating to rural families, especially the women and by gathering the stories put these objects in the context of their lives. We recognise the great diversity of women's lives and from the first days of settlement, the very different ethnic origins that give us our Australian identity as women. We acknowledge the major contribution of Aboriginal women, especially in understanding the environment and remind our visitors they were our first needlewomen.
Professor Donald Horne in 'The Intelligent Tourist' cites the Pioneer Women's Hut as the most innovative small museum in Australia.
Feeding the calves
BUT ….. MUSEUMS ARE MORE THAN COLLECTIONS
In adopting a national role the Pioneer Women's Hut has been involved in State and Federal advocacy on behalf of country museums - published 3 books and a leaflet about women's lives - actively encouraged women to care for their own heritage - launched a major initiative to celebrate the fact that we had been open for 10 years and to once again give ordinary women a voice, THE NATIONAL QUIILT REGISTER.
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- Email:
- enquiries@collectionsaustralia.net
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- www.collectionsaustralia.net
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