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RECENT ACHIEVEMENTS BY CROZIER SCHUTT ASSOCIATES

Crozier Schutt Associates have recently completed a comprehensive review of the Museum of Nursing History at the Royal Brisbane and Women's Hospital. The report has been accepted by the Hospital Executive and recommends the establishment of a Royal Brisbane and Women's Hospital Museum comprising the Museum of Nursing History, as well as two museums operated by the University of Queensland - the Pathology Museum and the Marks Hirschfeld Medical Museum. As well as the two staff already proposed by the University for their museums, the report recommends the appointment of three staff for the RBWH Museum.

Other projects completed by Crozier Schutt Associates since June 2008 include:

exhibitions, Croydon Heritage Centre
exhibitions, South Burnett Energy Centre, Nanango
exhibitions, Queensland State Archives
exhibitions, MacArthur Museum Brisbane (by Faye Schutt as curator)
brief and development plan for the Mercy Heritage Centre's development of its exhibitions, funded at over $1m over the next three years
development of content for the South Burnett Energy Centre, Nanango
development of content for the Croydon Heritage Centre
significance statements for the Brisbane Grammar School Archives, and 26 regional museums in South East Queensland and New South Wales (up to August 2011)

Projects currently in hand:

Marks Family Online: an online directory to collections relating to the Marks family (project funded by the Queensland University of Technology)
Marks family archive: preparation of Marks family papers for donation to the State Library of Queensland
Significance statements: continuing projects in South East Queensland
Curating a major collection of cricketing items

The Lady Lamington Nurses Home, Royal Brisbane and Women's Hospital - home of the Museum of Nursing History

SOME OF BRIAN AND FAYE'S EXHIBITION PROJECTS

The courage of ordinary men: three stories of the Victoria Cross, Queensland Museum, 2008

A general view of the exhibition, which is about three VC winners - Paddy Bugden, Harold Beatham and Blair Wark. The exhibition is about VC winners as ordinary men, and stresses the experience of the war tthrough a soundscape and film, and by placing the audience in the middle of the exhibition - as participants - rather than on the outside as spectators.

Queensland icons, Queensland Museum, 2006

An exhibition of objects and ideas which Queenslanders thought were distinctive of the state

Sharing their legacy, Queensland Museum touring exhibition, 2006

Sharing their legacy was not only an exhibition - it was also a training program for small museums in borrowing, documenting and displaying objects from their communities

MacArthur Museum, stage 3, 2006

The MacArthur Museum is about the experience of World War 2 in Brisbane. Its exhibitions were put together in three stages. This picture is of the war brides section, showing a replica of Jean Hughes's wedding dress of 1944.

A lot on her hands: Australian working women, Australian Workers Heritage Centre, Barcaldine, 2002

A lot on her hands looks at the history of Australian working women through the stories of a number of specific individuals.

Family collections, Queensland Museum, 1999

Family collections was based on items with a story, borrowed from families.

This is "The smallest shoe in the world", extracted from a soldier after being used as shrapnel by the Germans at the end of World War 1.

Women of the West, Queensland Museum 1994

The exhibition dealt with the experience of women in remote places in Queensland from the earliest days of settlement. This photo shows a kitchen garden. Again, the audience is placed in the middle of the exhibition so experiences it all around them, not only through vision, but also through sound.