Tag: National Wool Museum
Presence of place … at Geelong’s wool museum
By NOEL MURPHY
ROADWORK signs, fluoro jackets and safety helmets make for an unusual entry to a showcase of early Geelong but, then, the idea...
Is Don, is good, for exhibition celebrating Bradman
By NOEL MURPHY
THE time-honoured thwack of red leather on willow has resounded across Geelong sporting arenas forever.
Grand names of cricket have similarly resounded across...
Super-size prehistoric predator crocs in Geelong
By NOEL MURPHY
WHOA! What a croc!
Meet Sarcosuchus imperator, the prehistoric king of crocodiles.
At 11 metres long, 9000kg and with jaws like an industrial-sized lacerating...
In Brief
$4.6b call
Geelong is part of a push for a $4.6 billion funding injection into regional roads and public transport.
Regional Cities Victoria, of which Geelong...
Exotic, extinct and endangered species in stitches
By NOEL MURPHY
FAUX fur takes a new turn in a wildlife hide exhibition being prepared at Geelong’s National Wool Museum.
Artist Ruth Marshall has replicated...
Silence golden in new wool museum film festival
By NOEL MURPHY
SILENT movies, in their day, were stunning new technology; arresting moving pictures, films that had audiences jumping from their seats as locomotives...
Old Ned, gold, ghosts, The Don and Chinese footballers mark museum’s new direction
By NOEL MURPHY
THE SEARCH for Geelong’s missing link -- a defining aspect to its history -- is turning up some diverse and curious stories...
Ghost of a chance for spooky meeting
By NOEL MURPHY
GHOSTS and ghouls, gore and the gruesome - welcome to the seedy side of Geelong few realise lurks behind its sandstone facades...
Our forgotten mines, Chinese footballers rediscovered
By NOEL MURPHY
GOLD fever in the 19th Century led to the sinking of mines in leafy Newtown right beside present-day Geelong College.
But the Mercer...
Out & about at the beach
It was a stinker on Monday, but Voice photographer Ivan Kemp went to Ocean Grove main beach early, as did many others, before it...
