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Residency Museum, The
| Addresses | Brook Street
York
WA
6302 | | Email Enquiries : | yorkresidencymuseum@westnet.com.au | | Telephone Enquiries : | 08-9641 1751 |
Convicts, ceramics and Chinese market gardeners are just a few of the fascinating subjects revealed at the Residency Museum, York's treasure-house of history.
This 1856 heritage building was originally part of a Convict Hiring Depot, then the official residence of York's early magistrates. As you tread the lovingly polished floorboards it's easy to imagine it as the home of one of the pillars of early York society. Locally made jarrah wood furniture intermingles with oil paintings, samplers and photographs from the mid to late nineteenth century. See if you can find the chair made entirely without screws or nails.
The characterful faces of three ex-convicts greet you in an unusual photographic portrait hanging above displays of Aboriginal artefacts- poignant reminders that settlement did not please everyone.
Definitely not just another 'dusty old place', the Residency shows aspects of civic and religious life in the emerging town with leisure time, school days and health as selected themes in addition to displays of personal possessions, ceramics and silverware.
Everyday life in an agricultural community was hard and often still is. Find out what tools you would have used if you were a blacksmith or bootmaker a hundred years ago, or ponder on the living conditions of the Chinese market gardeners that many people still remember today.
The original kitchen illustrates nineteenth century home life in a rural area.
Paintings on box lids to bent-wire egg crates demonstrate the ingenuity and creativity of early settlers. Can you be as creative with the hands-on activities in our discovery boxes? There's a special collection of real artefacts available for handling and things for families to do together.
A visit to the Residency Museum gives you the perfect opportunity to relax unwind and get a glimpse into the lives of the people who created York - people as unique as you.
| Accreditation | Museums Australia. | | Activity | Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander, Sightseeing. | | Entity Facility | Access Without Assistance for the Disabled, Car park, Coach Parking, First aid equipment, Guide, Public Toilet, Shop. |
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