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Liverpool Regional Museum

Name: Liverpool Regional Museum
Address: Cnr Congressional Drive and Hume Highway, Liverpool, NSW, 2170, AU
Telephone: +61287117126
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Liverpool Regional Museum preserves and promotes Liverpool's cultural heritage, history and stories
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27/05/2026

Yesterday, Liverpool City Council held its annual National Sorry Day event, to commemorate the Stolen Generations, at Liverpool Regional Museum. It provided an opportunity for our community to acknowledge the profound impact of the Stolen Generations and to honour the strength, resilience and ongoing journey of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples.

Today marks the beginning of National Reconciliation Week until 3 June. The week marks two important historical dates, the anniversary of the 1967 referendum and the 1992 Mabo decision. The theme for National Reconciliation Week 2026 is All In, a call for all Australians to commit wholeheartedly to reconciliation every single day.

The Liverpool Local Government Area encompasses the land of various First Nations groups.

Liverpool Regional Museum stands on the traditional lands of the people of the Tharawal Nation and we acknowledge the land was also accessed by the Cabrogal clan of the Dharug Nation.

The Collingwood precinct, located behind the museum, was a significant meeting place for First Nations people. It was also an elevated vantage point enabling Country to be observed and monitored. This land continues to hold great cultural and spiritual significance.

25/05/2026

Early photos of the Government Asylum for the Infirm and Destitute, circa early 1900s.

This building had been used as a hospital since roughly 1825 (exact date unknown), changing hands from the government to the Benevolent Society of NSW, back to the government in 1862.

The Government Asylum for the Infirm and Destitute (1862-1913), provided a refuge for men who were ill or down on their luck. By 1871, Liverpool Asylum had developed a reputation as the most professionally managed institution in the colony of New South Wales.

Despite this, residents of Liverpool were becoming less tolerant of the presence of the Asylum in their town, due to the increased number of consumptive and cancer patients.

These photographs show different views of the Asylum, taken from Bigge Park.

Photograph 1: c.1900
Photograph 2: c.1906
Photograph 3: 1910

21/05/2026

For National Volunteer Week we wanted to spotlight the Busby/Liverpool Hospital Auxiliaries. They loaned the museum some of their handmade objects for display in our current exhibition 'Handle with Care, looking after Liverpool'.

The Liverpool Auxiliaries were founded in 1957, the Busby Auxiliaries in 1984, they merged in 2016. The Auxiliary Shop, operating from Liverpool Hospital, sells books, generously made handcrafted goods and gifts donated by the community. The shop is run and managed by volunteers, with all proceeds invested in local healthcare.

From 2007-2025, the auxiliaries have raised over 1 million dollars for Liverpool Hospital. These vital funds have been able to purchase lifechanging and lifesaving equipment and is a testament to the dedicated volunteers of the Busby/Liverpool Hospital Auxiliaries. The second image shows the Sir Norman Nock Rose Bowl, awarded to the Busby/Liverpool Hospital Auxiliaries in 2024, for the most funds raised per member by a metropolitan hospital auxiliary.

The United Hospital Auxiliaries of NSW Inc. have been fundraising, providing support and championing public hospitals and health centres since 1933. They operate through 161 local member branches within the twelve regions of NSW and fundraise through donations, gift shops, cafes, raffles and more. The funds purchase medical equipment, additional training for nursing/medical staff, accommodation and necessary items used for general health care needs.

Image 1 and 2: Michael Waite
Image 3 supplied by the Busby/Liverpool Hospital Auxiliaries, showing their shop at Liverpool Hospital

19/05/2026

Visit Liverpool Regional Museum to discover the evolution of care in Liverpool - from grassroots organisations and tent hospitals to robotics and contributions to global research.

Our current exhibition 'Handle with Care, looking after Liverpool' highlights some of Liverpool's original caregivers, what they practiced and where they worked. This exhibition will take you right up to the future of care, happening in Western Sydney right now.

Image credit: Michael Waite

Thank you to our partners, South Western Sydney Local Health District, Liverpool Hospital, Ingham Institute for Applied Medical Research, Prince Henry Nursing and Medical Museum , UOW: University of Wollongong, Australia, Western Sydney University and UNSW Museum of Human Disease

18/05/2026

Today is International Museum Day!

Celebrated annually on 18 May, International Museum Day raises awareness about the important role that museum's play and stresses that museums are an important means of cultural exchange, enrichment of cultures and development of mutual understanding, cooperation and peace among peoples.

The theme for this year is “Museums Uniting a Divided World”. The theme highlights the potential of museums to act as bridges across cultural, social, and geopolitical divides, fostering dialogue, understanding, inclusion and peace within and between communities worldwide.

We also want to thank you, the community, for all the help and support you give us.

Images 1-3: Ben Williams, Fluential Studio.

14/05/2026

We have a Voluntary Aid Detachment Uniform with Veil from c. 1939-1945 on display in our current exhibition 'Handle with Care, Looking after Liverpool'.

The VAD nurses were established in the First World War by the Red Cross and the Order of St John. Initially they served only in Australia, supporting military nursing staff in such roles as orderlies, fundraisers and the nursing of soldiers injured in the war.

By the Second World War, the group's numbers and duties were expanded to include their involvement overseas as ambulance drivers, hospital ship nurses and in the blood banks. Although not fully qualified nurses, these women played an important role in keeping the hospitals running and rehabilitating soldiers.

Care has always come in many forms and while we only highlight some in this exhibition, we hope that it inspires you to think about the different types of care present in your life.

Uniform on display courtesy of the Liverpool Hospital Collection, South Western Sydney Local Health District.
Photograph courtesy of Shire of Toodyay showing eight Voluntary Aid Detachment nurses associated with Toodyay, 1944.

Image 1: Michael Waite.

12/05/2026

Thank you to Liverpool Hospital for the help, and support of this exhibition!

Visit us to discover Liverpool Hospital's history and the photographs and objects we have on loan from their extensive collection!

11/05/2026

Tomorrow is International Nurses Day, a day that's celebrated every year on May 12, the anniversary of Florence Nightingale’s birthday - the visionary and founder of modern nursing.

We wanted to highlight an important local nurse and midwife from the past, Nurse Agnes Healy (1897-1989).

Agnes Isobel Healy was born in Chippendale, Sydney. At the age of three her family moved to Hoxton Park, later moving to Liverpool during her adolescence.

In 1930 Agnes graduated as a nurse training at St Margaret's Hospital, Sydney becoming a district nurse working with Doctor Pirie and Doctor Lovejoy based in Liverpool. Later she began her notable career as a midwife travelling by car to locations including Ingleburn, Macquarie Fields, Hoxton Park, Hammondville and Warwick Farm. She attended births and made follow-up house calls in the weeks after each delivery.

Agnes established Collingwood Private Hospital, a private maternity hospital, at 10 Christie Street. Accommodating up to five mothers and their newborn babies the hospital provided a safe, caring and economical place for mothers to give birth in Liverpool. She relocated the hospital to 31 Charles Street in 1946–47 before selling it in the early 1950s. Agnes continued to work as a nurse in England and rural New South Wales, finishing her career at Carinya Private Hospital in Concord, Sydney.

Over her thirty-year career in nursing and midwifery healthcare Nurse Agnes Healy earned the affection and respect of many local women by instilling confidence and strength in them during childbirth and the early days of motherhood.

A big thank you to all the nurses past and present for all the hard work and care.

IMAGE: Agnes Isobel Healy as a young girl c1907, Liverpool City Council Heritage Collection.

10/05/2026

Did you know that Australia is a world leader in maritime archaeology? But what is it, what are they looking for and how do they search for it?

Find out more about the interesting world of maritime archaeology from special guest Kieran Hosty. Kieran was involved for the search of Captain Cook's Endeavour, the excavation of HMS Pandora and much more.

Join us to hear his stories!
📆 Saturday 16 May
⏰ 11am-12:30pm

Free bookings: https://events.humanitix.com/out-of-the-depths-and-into-museums-wrecks-relics-and-the-occasional-bit-of-drama-kieran-hosty-hosty-heritage-and-archaeology

National Archaeology Week

07/05/2026

This First Aid Box, currently on display in 'Handle with Care, Looking after Liverpool', was used at Petersham Police Station.

Common during the early WWII era the boxes contained essential items such as bandages, cotton gauze, iodine, tannic acid, burn jelly, antiseptics and safety pins.

The boxes were a standard feature of vehicles and police stations, or were attached to police call boxes, to enable injuries to be handled before medical help arrived.

Included were two books: 'New South Wales National Emergency Services: First Aid to the Injured' and the St John Ambulance Association textbook 'First Aid to the Injured' (39th edition, 1939).

Come in and visit to see this object, as well as many others, in person. What's the old saying? An exhibition a day keeps the doctor away?

Image 1: Michael Waite

Address

Cnr Congressional Drive And Hume Highway
Liverpool, NSW
2170

Opening Hours

Tuesday	10am - 4pm
Wednesday	10am - 4pm
Thursday	10am - 4pm
Friday	10am - 4pm
Saturday	10am - 4pm

Telephone

+61287117126

Website

https://mylibrary.liverpool.nsw.gov.au/My-Library/liverpool-regional-museum

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