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Collection Strengths

THE ARTS

Advertising
Architecture
Art
Contemporary art
Crafts
Decorative arts
Design
Drawings and prints
Furniture
Glass
Illuminated manuscripts
Industrial design
Jewellery
Leatherwork
Metalwork
Painting
Paper
Photographs
Portraits
Pottery and ceramics
Sculptures
Textiles, Spinning, Weaving
Woodwork

INDIGENOUS CULTURES

Aboriginal art
Aboriginal artefacts
Aboriginal culture
Anthropology
Asian cultures
Pacific cultures
Torres Strait cultures

NATURAL SCIENCES AND THE ENVIRONMENT

Biology
Earth Sciences
Environmental or conservation
Gardens
Invertebrates
Mineralogy
Natural Sciences
Palaeontology
Plants
Seashells
Vertebrates
Geology

HISTORY AND SOCIETY

Archaeology or Antiquities
Archives
Armed Forces
Bushrangers
Business (Banking, commerce, corporations)
Childhood
Numismatics (Coins, Currency and Notes)
Domestic Items
Education and Schools
Emergency Services (police, ambulance)
Ethno-Specific (ethnic groups)
Exploration
Genealogy
Historic Buildings
Historic People
Human Rights
Images
Law (courts and courthouses)
Local Government
Local History
Maritime and Naval History
Medals and Badges
Migration
Militaria
Organisations and associations (eg scout groups)
Peace
Philately (stamp collecting)
Politics
Prisons or Convicts
Professionals and Trades
Religion
Rural Life
Social History
Weapons, Arms and Armor
Women

LEISURE AND ENTERTAINMENT

Dance
Dolls
Ephemera
Film, sound and video
Literature
Models
Music
Performing arts
Popular culture
Sports
Theatre
Toys and games
Waxworks

SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY & INDUSTRY

Agriculture (farming, rural sciences)
Animal Husbandry
Astronomy
Aviation
Bicycles
Building Technology
Chemistry
Clock
Clothing, Fashion and Costume
Communications
Electronics or Computing
Engineering
Food Science
Forestry
Horse Drawn Transport
Horticulture
Hunting, Fishing, Trapping
Industry
Instrumentation
Lighting
Manufacturing
Marine Technology
Mass Media (radio, TV, newspapers)
Mathematics
Medicines and Health
Mines and Mining
Motor Vehicles
Physics
Photography
Postal Services
Printing
Railways or Tramways
Science and Technology
Ships and Shipping
Space
Steam Machinery
Surveying
Telecommunications
Tools
Veterinary Science


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