2016 John Oxley Library Community Heritage Award The Cairns Historical Society has won the prestigious John Oxley Library Community History Award for 2016. The award recognises excellence and innovation in the preservation, recording and sharing of...
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Rebranding Long term associates of the Cairns Historical Society and the Cairns Museum will have noticed by now that we have new logos, changed colours and a different look and feel to our visual presence, including right here on the website. You are no...
You're invited to the Society's April Lecture Series. The Cairns Historical Society will be hosting it's quarterly lecture series on Sunday 17th April from 2-4 pm in the Cairns City Library Meeting Room, in Abbott St. Entry is free and non-members are welcome to attend. The...
Posted by: Museum Manager Suzanne Gibson It is a great job being a museum curator, especially in a small museum like the Cairns Museum. We live in a really interesting place environmentally, culturally and historically so there is no shortage of interesting...
Posted by: Museum Manager, Suzanne Gibson There are plenty of challenges in developing new exhibitions for the Cairns Museum. It’s an amazing and wonderful task and we are all lucky to have the opportunity. But it is a project that also carries a sense of...
