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Commissariat Store exhibitions

Curator Janice Hess and her assistant Robyn Stephensen set up displays on the middle floor of the Store. They decide on a topic and look for museum items and useful photographs from the Society’s huge collection of nearly 62,000 photographs and digital images. They research the history of the topic and items including their provenance. Jan and Robyn can take months researching and organising their displays. The most recent one is WOMEN'S EXHIBITION.

Women’s exhibition

Read about the  exhibitions at the RHSQ’s Commissariat Store

GROUND FLOOR PERMANENT EXHIBITION

The whole of the ground floor is devoted to a model of the Moreton Bay Penal Settlement on the Brisbane River. Using copies of building plans, our modeller has constructed each building in a 1:72 scale. Depicted on the ground floor these models have been placed as indicated in George Browne’s 1839 map of the settlement and relative to the Brisbane River.

This exhibition shows the Georgian-influenced building design and gives a clear indication of the size of the settlement. Each building and its outbuildings are clearly labelled. This exhibition will be of particular interest to students looking at spatial relationships, the architectural history of this era and the history of convict Brisbane.

Permanent ground floor exhibition of the Moreton Bay Penal Settlement