Shopping – something we all have to do, which some of us like while others do it under sufferance. Shopping, especially food shopping, is perhaps the most prescient illustration of society and it’s one our Museum is about to showcase. But before the exhibition the museum has organised another in its Mornings @ the Museum events that will get the community involved in our City’s history.
A number of questions will be asked at Mornings @ the Museum and the answers will make the forthcoming exhibition even better. Before the construction of Westfield’s Shopping Town, where did you go shopping? Did you go to a corner store where the shopkeeper knew your name? Perhaps you remember Quality Stores in Mascot which is now home to ‘Best and Less’.
The Museum is asking locals to come and share memories and memorabilia over morning tea. Information collected may be used in an upcoming exhibition on the history of shopping in the City of Botany Bay. Mornings @ the Museum is scheduled for 10am Thursday 17th November 2011 at the George Hanna Memorial Museum, Mascot Library in Hatfield Street.
Bookings are essential, which you can do by calling 9366 3888. The Mornings @ the Museum series has been very successful not only putting locals in touch with our City’s history but providing more information and memorabilia to make our history exhibitions better.
The picture below shows shopping as it used to be – when, in my kids’ opinion, we were all in the dark ages.
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