Today was a great day to get out of the rain and get over to the MDC E store! Where volunteers, MDC and PHM alike were able to experience the newly developed social history talk led by Peter and Alan.
We learned about Quong Tart tea rooms, his life and legacy in more detail, as well as some of the wonderful objects in the MDC’s collection that related to the gold rush:
A personal highlight for me was seeing this wonderful and rather large gold-rushing table in the flesh, William Tom and Edward Hargraves used this very cradle to wash as many as sixteen grains of gold in a single day!
After this talk, we were able to enjoy time to explore some of the incredible (and rather large!) objects in the E store, discovering more about them. For example, did you know in this Detroit Electric car there are two levers, so that the driver can turn around, and drive the car backwards? I didn’t!
With printing machines from the early 1900s, glass mosaics of Greek goddesses nine metres tall, steam machines, trains, rovers and models, the MDC was an amazing way to appreciate MAAS‘s collection. I had so much fun, and won’t be forgetting my visit anytime soon!
Say cheese!
