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Our Visit to Play School
Today we visited Happy Birthday Play School: Celebrating 50 Years at the South Australian Maritime Museum. The exhibit was a fun and interactive space, with plenty to read, play with and watch. Happy Birthday Play School celebrates Play School’s 50th birthday and shows how the show has evolved over the years. Touchscreens throughout the space […]
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An Online Collection of Stylish Fruit Crate Labels, 1920s-1950s
If you’re a fan of early-mid 20th-century design then this is the day for you! Florida Memories, a site run by the State Library of Florida, has released a library of more than 600 crate labels from fresh produce industries from the 1920s to 1950s. This is an amazing archive with a variety of design […]
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South Aussie stories: The SA Beef Riot
Today is the anniversary of the South Australian Beef Riot, 1931. At a time when many South Australians were out of work and relying on government rations, more than 1000 unemployed men and their families assembled to protest the replacement of beef with mutton on their ration tickets. The protest began in Port Adelaide and […]
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Digital Barn’s September Gallery Crawl
Once a month Adam and I ditch work and check out all the new exhibitions in the North Terrace museum precinct. This month we hit up the Art Gallery of South Australia, the South Australian Museum, the State Library of South Australia and the Royal South Australian Society of Arts. Here are our highlights for […]
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The Start of South Australia’s Proud History
This week is an auspicious week for Adelaide’s queer community. Many people know that September 15th was the date of Adelaide’s first gay pride march, but did you know that was the culmination of an entire week of gay pride events held around the country? What was Gay Pride Week? Gay Pride Week 1973 was […]
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Digital Barn’s August Gallery Crawl
Once a month Adam and I ditch work and check out all the new exhibitions in the North Terrace museum precinct. This month we hit up the Art Gallery of South Australia, the South Australian Museum, the State Library of South Australia and the Migration Museum. Here are our highlights for August, along with exhibition […]
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Embroiderers’ Guild of South Australia
Thanks to funding from the History Trust of South Australia we’ve just started working on a new site for the Embroiderers’ Guild of South Australia Museum. We love working with community museums and we’ve got great things planned. For a small museum they have a surprisingly large collection of over 2000 items, and a spectacular […]
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Yes, your small business definitely still needs a website
One question we get asked often, more than I’d care to admit, is why would my small business need a website? Well it’s 2018 and we’ve been building websites for nearly a decade now, so it’s time to nip this one in the bud. Of course there are many reasons, but the sound byte version […]
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Happy Birthday Hobbitses
Today is the birthday of the most famous of hobbits, Bilbo and Frodo Baggins. The first book of Lord of the Rings starts with Bilbo’s “eleventy-first” (111th) birthday, which also happens to be Frodo’s 33rd birthday.
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Get ready for Ask A Curator day!
Ask a Curator Day is an annual event held on Twitter, dedicated to giving the public direct access to the expertise of curators and other experts from GLAM organisations all over the world. Taking the form of a worldwide Q&A session, this is the public’s chance to find out everything they’ve always wanted to know, […]
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