Moruya Historical Society Museum Events and Displays and Genealogy

EVENTS

We invite the community to join in our program of special events.

Event 2017 Date

General Meeting. At the Museum February Saturday 11th 2pm

General Meeting. At the Museum. March Saturday 11th 2pm

SAGE Southeast Harvest Festival. The Historical Society will have a stall at this event. At the Moruya Showground. April Saturday 1st 9am to 3pm

General Meeting. At the Museum. April Saturday 8th 2pm

General Meeting. CANCELLED At the Museum. May Saturday 13th 2pm

River of Art Exhibition. Everything Home Made.
A celebration of creativity and innovation. The exhibition will showcase objects such as clothing, toys, farm tools and exquisite lace and embroidery. Also featured, and available for purchase, will be relishes, jams and chutneys cooked using recipes from our collection of old handwritten cookbooks.

Official opening 2pm Saturday May 20th. Opening hours during the Festial - Saturday 20th, 11 am-4 pm; Sunday 21st, 11am-4 pm; Wednesday 24th, 11am-1 pm; Friday 26th, 11am-1 pm; Saturday 27th 11am-4 pm.
Entry is by Gold Coin Donation.
Exhibition will continue during normal Museum opening hours until July 29th.
May Saturday 20th to Saturday 27th

Fund Raising Garage Sale. At 31 South Head Road.
Furniture, jewellery, clothes, old tools, children's toys and plants. All contributions welcome.
June Saturday 10th and Sunday 11th

General Meeting. Note changed date At the Museum. June Saturday 17th 2pm

Ancestry in the Library, a workshop presented by the Genealogy Group. Bookings are made through the Eurobodalla Shire libraries.
At Narooma Library 4476 1164 Tuesday 20th June from 3pm to 4pm.
At Batemans Bay Library 4472 5850 Thursday 22nd June from 2pm to 3pm.
June Tuesday 20th June Thursday 22nd June

General Meeting. At the Museum. July Saturday 8th 2pm

Annual General Meeting. At the Museum. August Saturday 12th 2pm

Plants, Cakes and Preserves Sales Day. At the Museum. October Saturday 28th 9am to2pm

Remembrance Day Program
Moruya RSL Last Post 11am (9 Page St Moruya);
Morning Tea Moruya RSL Hall 11.15am to 11.45am;
Moruya Museum Remembrance Room 12 noon;
Drive to Moruya Racetrack/Aerodrome for inspection of WW2 bunkers at 1pm. Tour finishes 2pm.
Afterwards participants are invited to attend Moruya Cemetery for a recognition ceremony for the men who died on the Durreenbee.
November Saturday 11th 11am to 2pm

General Meeting.
Meetings are now held 4 times a year in February, May, August and November, however due to a clash with Rememberance Day Activities the November meeting has been rescheduled to November 25. Change of venue - at the Mechanics Institute. November Saturday 25th 1pm

History Week Talk after the General Meeting
Order and Disorder: Madness in Penal New South Wales. Talk by James Dunk.
Madness was with the Europeans who colonised New South Wales from the start: sailors, convicts, soldiers, and free men and women.
This talk explores the strange ways the Colony dealt with madness: locking up convicts in an open gaol, because they were ill, and confining free colonists in a place where freedom was definitive. It charts the development of lunatic asylums and lunacy law within a climate of suspicion of illness, and the political sensitivity of madness in both convict and free populations. Change of Venue - at the Mechanics Institute, Page Street. November Saturday 25th 2pm

MDHS Christmas Party
At the Museum . December Saturday 9th 12noon

Event 2017	Date
General Meeting. At the Museum	February Saturday 11th 2pm
General Meeting. At the Museum.	March Saturday 11th 2pm
SAGE Southeast Harvest Festival. The Historical Society will have a stall at this event. At the Moruya Showground.	April Saturday 1st 9am to 3pm
General Meeting. At the Museum.	April Saturday 8th 2pm
General Meeting. CANCELLED At the Museum.	May Saturday 13th 2pm
River of Art Exhibition. Everything Home Made. A celebration of creativity and innovation. The exhibition will showcase objects such as clothing, toys, farm tools and exquisite lace and embroidery. Also featured, and available for purchase, will be relishes, jams and chutneys cooked using recipes from our collection of old handwritten cookbooks. Official opening 2pm Saturday May 20th. Opening hours during the Festial - Saturday 20th, 11 am-4 pm; Sunday 21st, 11am-4 pm; Wednesday 24th, 11am-1 pm; Friday 26th, 11am-1 pm; Saturday 27th 11am-4 pm. Entry is by Gold Coin Donation. Exhibition will continue during normal Museum opening hours until July 29th.	May Saturday 20th to Saturday 27th
Fund Raising Garage Sale. At 31 South Head Road. Furniture, jewellery, clothes, old tools, children's toys and plants. All contributions welcome.	June Saturday 10th and Sunday 11th
General Meeting. Note changed date At the Museum.	June Saturday 17th 2pm
Ancestry in the Library, a workshop presented by the Genealogy Group. Bookings are made through the Eurobodalla Shire libraries. At Narooma Library 4476 1164 Tuesday 20th June from 3pm to 4pm. At Batemans Bay Library 4472 5850 Thursday 22nd June from 2pm to 3pm.	June Tuesday 20th June Thursday 22nd June
General Meeting. At the Museum.	July Saturday 8th 2pm
Annual General Meeting. At the Museum.	August Saturday 12th 2pm
Plants, Cakes and Preserves Sales Day. At the Museum.	October Saturday 28th 9am to2pm
Remembrance Day Program Moruya RSL Last Post 11am (9 Page St Moruya); Morning Tea Moruya RSL Hall 11.15am to 11.45am; Moruya Museum Remembrance Room 12 noon; Drive to Moruya Racetrack/Aerodrome for inspection of WW2 bunkers at 1pm. Tour finishes 2pm. Afterwards participants are invited to attend Moruya Cemetery for a recognition ceremony for the men who died on the Durreenbee.	November Saturday 11th 11am to 2pm
General Meeting. Meetings are now held 4 times a year in February, May, August and November, however due to a clash with Rememberance Day Activities the November meeting has been rescheduled to November 25. Change of venue - at the Mechanics Institute.	November Saturday 25th 1pm
History Week Talk after the General Meeting Order and Disorder: Madness in Penal New South Wales. Talk by James Dunk. Madness was with the Europeans who colonised New South Wales from the start: sailors, convicts, soldiers, and free men and women. This talk explores the strange ways the Colony dealt with madness: locking up convicts in an open gaol, because they were ill, and confining free colonists in a place where freedom was definitive. It charts the development of lunatic asylums and lunacy law within a climate of suspicion of illness, and the political sensitivity of madness in both convict and free populations. Change of Venue - at the Mechanics Institute, Page Street.	November Saturday 25th 2pm
MDHS Christmas Party At the Museum .	December Saturday 9th 12noon