How will future generations know what the coronavirus (COVID-19) crisis meant for Cairns? The Cairns Museum is hoping to answer that question by drawing on the community to help collate, document and share their experiences in real time. Suzanne Gibson,...
Anyone with an interest in old bottles is in for a rare treat this Saturday, March 14, when Cairns Museum hosts an afternoon with antique bottle collector Brad Brown. The first 10 to book a ticket are invited to bring along a bottle for appraisal and guide...
Cairns Museum is hosting an intriguing exhibition on the influential generation of post war Chinese-Australians who grew up in Tropical North Queensland – but be quick, this exhibit will close late March. Museum manager Suzanne Gibson explains the background...
STEAM With A Theme is a new educational program for little kids and their ‘significant adult’, which begins at Cairns Museum from next Monday. The brainchild of New York-trained teacher and local mother Sari Lorner, STEAM with a Theme is a program devised in...
Young Chinese in Cairns post WWII had to navigate between two vastly different worlds – on one side their traditional, exceptionally hard working and strict families and on the other, the liberal, sometimes intolerant but exciting modern Australia. An...
