Museum - Illawarra Museum Wollongong in Wollongong, New South Wales

Launching our new Wollongong, New South Wales BLUE MILE GUIDED TOUR. Blue Mile History Tour: Telling the stories of Wollongong’s Foreshore, the 2.5hr walking gu...ided tour includes stories of the region’s first peoples, its early settlers and convicts, the start of industry in this region and how people from all over the world have made this area the important and thriving city and region it is now. 1st Public Tour: Friday 23/10/20 at 930am. Public bookings can be made through our website: www.insideindustry.org.au Group bookings can be made directly by contacting us. See more

Here is a short video on the restoration process carried out by David Stein & Co on our Eugene von Guerard, Cabbage Tree Forest American Creek, New South Wales.... The Eugene von Guerard Cabbage Tree Forrest was painted in oil paint on canvas in 1860 and with age comes change. Like everything, paintings need ongoing maintenance and care. Linen canvas becomes more fragile, the paint layers become brittle and the varnish surface coating becomes discoloured and yellowed. Conservators treat artworks with the aim of preventing the possibility of irreversible deterioration whilst maintaining the artists original intentions with conservation principles of reversibility. Von Guerard is known for his realistic landscapes, where everything in the painting is highly detailed and is in focus. The artist achieves this by using very fine brushes and building-up resin rich glaze layers. Cleaning the old resin varnish off paintings has to be undertaken carefully so as not to remove any of the artists original fine glaze details. Once the old varnish is removed and old repairs reworked, the painting is given an application of a reversible, non-yellowing, conservation grade resin varnish. This re-saturates the paint film and restores the painting to how the artist had originally intended it to be. David Stein June 2020 To see the full conservation report go to http://wollongongartgallery.com/exhibit/Pages/Art-Care.aspx

Corrimal Chamber TV interview with David Bottin the founder of Lost Wollongong. Find out why Dave started the Lost Wollongong Facebook Group who has now over 32...,000 followers. Look back at some amazing photos of Wollongong and surrounds from Yesteryear. #corrimal #boultee #lostwollongong #corrimalchamberofcommerce #corrimalchambertv #wollongong #illawarra #heritage #lost #memories #tourism #pressplay #corrimalitsjustagreatplacetobe See more

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Beneath Black Skies - A History of Coal Mining in the Illawarra, by Why Documentaries The Illawarra once held a reputation for the dustiest and gassiest coal m...ines in Australia.The south coast miners were regarded by some as the most militant miners in the industry, as they were at the forefront of campaigns such as the fight against dust and the 35 hr week. How did Australia’s first mineral export shape the men and women who lived the mining life beneath black skies? This remarkable history is told through the miners, their wives, unions, historians, and mining official’s perspectives. Narrated by Australian actor David Field, with a striking musical score and dramatic re-enactments of the late 19th and early 20th century, this film is a community treasure of Australian significance. Watch the full documentary today at www.vimeo.com/ondemand/beneathblackskies2/32459521 See more

#FlashbackFriday It's the end of an era for the travel and aviation industry, with Qantas retiring the iconic Boeing 747 aircraft after close to 50 years. One o...f the first Qantas jumbos carried the name 'City of Wollongong', and WIN News Editor at the time, John Martin, was at the Boeing factory in Seattle when it was rolled out, and onboard its delivery flight in 1975. #WINNews6pm