THE Creswick Museum has received a prestigious Archival Survival Award for a volunteer-run museum in the Victorian Museum Awards from Museums Australia.
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Creswick Museum curator Margaret Fullwood said the award would be very good for Creswick.
‘‘It is good to be to be recognised this way,’’ she said.
Ms Fullwood said the Spirit of China In Creswick exhibition was well supported by the local community and the attendance was higher than other previous exhibitions at the museum.
‘‘This exhibition must have gelled with the local people, mainly I think because it commented on our local history,’’ she said.
Ms Fullwood was also short-listed for a volunteer ward for a historical society museum.
The SCC exhibition opened in March this year and highlighted the contributions made by the Chinese in the Creswick area from about 1854 onwards.
The exhibition featured a mixture of artefacts, storyboards and artworks from both the collection of the Creswick Museum and other museums and private sources around Victoria.
The Melbourne Museum loaned a fragile hand-woven field coat dating back to the 1860s, which had never before been on public display.
Volunteers created scrolls to present historical information and collaborated with Creswick Men’s Shed on the production of the wooden sections of the scrolls.
Creswick museum closed for a short period of time after the SCC exhibition to have heating installed.
The current exhibition is titled Behind the Kitbag.
CM will highlight the role of women during World War I from Creswick and district, and feature the mothers, wives, sweethearts and the nurses as well as celebrating 100 years of Red Cross in the area.
‘‘Many local woman were involved in sewing, knitting and baking for the boys overseas,’’ Ms Fullwood said.
The Australian Red Cross is lending the Museum some items including a nurse’s uniform.
Recently the museum was donated memorabilia belonging to Mrs R. Barrell who nearly completed 50 years service before she died in 2013.
Lady Peacock, the first woman to sit in the Victorian Parliament was the first president of Creswick Red Cross.