Registered? Then make your profile

We have only one and a half weeks until lots of people are going to visit the website and explore your profile pages.

Unless you want them to see this:

Then we'd seriously recommend you start uploading all the evocative, enticing and beautiful images you have of your place, collections and people.

Uploading images and text to your profile page is easy. We've made a 5 minute video about it. If you have some images on hand, then it probably won't take more than 15 minutes in total.

And we are here to help.

Meanwhile . . . 

How good can you look?

This good. Jenny Summerville from Manning Valley Rock Hounds Lapidary Club Gem and Mineral Museum (phew, that's a mouthful) persevered with the content management system to upload ten images of staff at work. 

Luckily, their work is really interesting! If we showed photos of me working it would be ten pictures of a guy at a computer.

Below you can see curator, Janette Sutton collecting Triassic leaf fossils.

And did I say enticing and beautiful? Have you been to Lake Macquarie City Art Gallery? It's in the best location in the world - a gallery right next to sparkling waters and a rolling, grassy park. 

In these two screenshots you can see Lake Mac's slideshow shift from the bird's eye view to absolute detail:

The second image shows how integral school programs were to LMCAG's 2010-2011 project in partnership with the Aboriginal Reference Group, creating a significant possum skin cloak with the local Aboriginal community.

And last but by no means least, we head to the Tweed River Art Gallery showcasing the planned Margaret Olley Art Centre, now in construction.

You have until the end of August. By then we will have a website crammed with your stories, activities and experiences.

Do it today.

Look out, aeroplane about!

The newly acquired F-111 in the restored WWII Bellman Hangar with wings and tail fitted. 

Image courtesy of Dr Richard Gates, Evans Head Living Museum.

On 5 August, the F-111 fighter bomber above traveled along the Pacific Highway from Ipswich, Queensland, on two super-wide trucks. It headed to the Evans Head Memorial Aerodrome–an exciting acquisition for them and one that arrived under police escort in the dead of night!

The F-111 will be reassembled by specialists at its new home at the heritage-listed aerodrome and opened to the public on Sunday 25th August. 

The fighter jets, known as ‘swing-wing’ bombers can fly up to two and a half times the speed of sound and were retired from the RAAF in December last year. Australia saw 37 years of service from the planes and for many they’re a modern-day icon. Always popular at air shows for their spectacular speed and sound display, this is your chance to get up-close and personal with one.

If you are traveling up north, why not stop in and have a look at what was once Australia’s fastest and most ferocious fighter?

We're building a website: Tell us a story!

With well over 100 museums, galleries and Aboriginal cultural centres now registered on the website, M&G NSW is looking forward to telling your story in multiple ways.

Events and Exhibitions

Maybe you saw our long growing list of exhibitions and events when curiosity got the better of you and you clicked around the website. If you didn't, I'd suggest you log back on. It's impressive and it's hardly even begun. 

If you didn't see your museum or gallery events in the list then get in touch with us. We want an image, a date, a description and a link to your email or website. Then you can be part of our showcase of dynamic programming.

Articles

This week you would have noticed the story about the F-111 rushing through the night to the Evans Head Memorial Aerodrome. The new website is going to be chock full of stories like this presented in magazine style articles, with photos and videos.

Which means . . .

We want to hear from you. Did you open your doors as part of a community event? Tell us how it went. Got a new exhibition? Get in contact with us and we'll interview the artist, curator or visitors. We want to hear stories about your collections, people and communities. 

So get in touch. 

Meanwhile, who's on the website?

Golden Memories Millthorpe Museum already have a sophisticated web presence but took time to upload some very nice photos starting with this exterior.

Check out the MCA Australia. Nine glorious photos including images from their National Centre for Learning. Their images aren't only about art: they're about people creating, engaging and having a great time. 

Then again, when art is sharp, hot and gorgeous you can't get better than the slideshow MOP put together. I wish i'd seen this exhibition by Samuel Galileo Quinteros and Carl Cheleski.

MOP watched the five minute "how to" video and got straight into it. 

So what are you waiting for? 

Simply email us, register, watch the video and download or Website Guide. In ten minutes you'll have a brand spanking new profile page.