History Club - Diadem Wins a Special Curator's Award at the Museum of Fire
In association with the National Trust’s month-long Australian Heritage Festival, the Museum of Fire at Penrith recently launched an exhibition on the history and heritage of the Museum (and its building).
Diadem's Entry
One aspect of that exhibition was a competition run by the Museum for high school students called ‘Our Heritage By the Voices of the Future’. Students were encouraged to voice their concerns about how the future generations need to look after heritage in 300 words or less in a variety of texts. Former student, Belinda McMartin, the CEO of the Museum of Fire, came and spoke to the History Club earlier in the year about her role and about this upcoming exhibition.
We had several History Club members submit entries, however, Year 8 student, Diadem A received a special ‘Curator’s Award’ for her poem titled ‘Don’t Worry, There’s Still Time’. This is now part of the exhibition on display and will be added to the Museum’s permanent digital collection. There is also the opportunity for people to vote in the ‘People’s Choice Award’ for Diadem - please click on this website to vote for Diadem https://www.museumoffire.net/history-comp-shortlist.
Well done to Diadem and all those who entered!
More information can be found at https://www.museumoffire.net/single-post/local-penrith-student-wins-museum-of-fire-history-award
Fran Musico Rullo - HSIE Teacher
