Brian Crozier and Faye Schutt

Brian Crozier has over 22 years experience in museum management and curation, with particular skills in exhibition development, collection management and museum planning. As senior curator of social history at the Queensland Museum for 17 years he was responsible for many major exhibitions, including Women of the west, Sharing their legacy and The courage of ordinary men, and for a number of major advances in the management of the social history collections at the Museum, including the development and marketing of the Queensland Museum Accessioning Resource Kit for small museums. Brian taught museum studies for the University of Queensland for five years and has had a long relationship with small museums through Museums Australia in Queensland and the History Trust of South Australia. He holds the degrees of MA (Melbourne) and PhD (Cambridge).

Faye Schutt trained as a teacher at the University of Melbourne, and taught in schools for a number of years, including heading the English departments of two Victorian secondary schools, before returning to complete her Honours degree with First Class honours. She then taught German history, 1871-1945, at the University of Melbourne. She also undertook research in aspects of German history. She has broad museum experience from working at the Queensland Museum where she managed the Museum’s visitor services, as well as curating several exhibitions, producing education kits, managing talks programs and giving public talks in her own right, speaking on radio, and editing publications. She curated the bulk of the exhibitions in the award-winning MacArthur Museum Brisbane. Her publications include the history of Rathdowne Street school in Melbourne and The indispensable goat, a history of the role of goats in Queensland outback history, and a number of scholarly and popular articles including a chapter in The Queensland House, A Roof Over our Heads. Faye is a member of the management committee of the Museum of Nursing History at the Royal Brisbane and Women’s Hospital and a Director of the Brisbane Living Heritage Network.