Volunteers and visitors, helping to fill the garden in Museum Park to mark the occasion.
“All of these additional trees actually relate back to the Indigenous Exhibition in the museum and will actually be able to provide the native plants and tools when there are live exhibitions taking place.” – Cr. Nuatali Nelmes, Newcastle Lord Mayor.
Since 2011, the museum’s welcomed almost 1.5-million people to more than 70 exhibitions, and won 20 state and national awards.
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City of Newcastle
It’s been almost four decades since members The Castanet Club first graced the stage at the back of the Clarendon Hotel with their irreverent mix of comedy, theatre, music and dance.
Now, for the first time since 1991, the iconic Newcastle ensemble are getting the band back together for a very different gig – as the stars of a new exhibition at Newcastle Museum.
Castanet Club: an exhibition you can dance to (if you were allowed) will transport audiences back to the 1980s through a kaleidoscope of band posters, photographs, scripts, records, VHS and cassette tapes.
Newcastle Museum Director Julie Baird said Newcastle is known as an incubator for the arts, theatre, music and comedy.