Monthly Meeting Nov 7th 2014
8:00 pm at the Sorrento Museum Joint meeting with Nepean Conservation Group Speaker: Dale Kelly, Shire Heritage Planner Topic: ‘Recollections of a wandering heritage architect/advisor’ Note: Dinner,...
View ArticleFrom Sorrento to Mudgee
by Peter Munro It is an oppressively hot Friday in March as I stood beside the grave of Trooper William Croome in the Mudgee Cemetery. Beside me stood William’s great niece Helen Shearman. As we read...
View ArticleThe Quarantine Station
A Public Treasure We want to ensure that you are kept up to date with what is happening with the discussions re the future of The Quarantine Station. Following a briefing from the State Government...
View ArticleMonthly Meeting Feb 6th 2015
8:00 pm at the Sorrento Museum Speaker: Mark Ryan, Southern Ocean Exploration Topic: ‘Project Long Shot – the search for the First Shot fired in WW 1 from Pt. Nepean’
View ArticleMonthly Meeting Mar 6th 2015
8:00 pm at the Sorrento Museum Speaker: Frank Hindley, Chair, NHS Heritage and Planning Group Topic: ‘Heritage and Planning issues in the Southern Nepean Peninsula’ Join us for dinner at Buckley’s...
View ArticleMonthly Meeting Apr 10th 2015
Note later date due to Easter 8:00 pm at the Sorrento Museum Speaker: Graham Patterson – Author of ‘Coastal Guide to Nature & History Port Phillip’ and ‘Guide to Western Port Bay, Phillip Island...
View ArticleSPECIAL ANZAC DISPLAY
1915 – 2015 WE REMEMBER Visit the NHS tribute to local Sorrento and Portsea WW 1 servicemen and women at the museum. See the new large panel funded by an ANZAC Centenary Grant and the special ‘dead...
View ArticleMonthly Meeting May 1st 2015
8:00 pm at the Sorrento Museum Speaker: Bob McKenzie – Researcher on the ship SEA and our mysterious bird figurehead. Topic: Bob will be talking about his recent research trip to New Brunswick, Canada...
View ArticleMonthly Meeting June 5th 2015
8:00 pm at The Museum Speaker: Murray Adams – Mornpen Shire’s Digitisation Officer Topic: Using the Internet for Research & Solving the Riddle of the NHS’s very old Military Tunic and its...
View ArticleRye & Nepean Historical Societies Mid-Year Lunch
Friday July 3rd at 11:30 Nepean and Rye Historical Societies’ members and friends are invited to a luncheon at the Rye Hotel, 2415 Pt Nepean Rd., Rye on July 3rd 2015 at 11.30 for 12. The charge is $47...
View ArticleMonthly Meeting August 7th 2015
8:00 pm at The Museum Speaker: Tess De Araugo, Author Topic: The novel – Boonoorong on the Mornington Peninsula NOTE: We will be having dinner prior to the meeting at 6.15 PM at Via Sorrento, 77 Ocean...
View ArticleNHS 50th Anniversary
Saturday, September 5th 2015, at The Museum Nepean Historical Society – The Sorrento Museum celebrated 50 years of commitment to local heritage. The year of 1965 was a year of significant events in...
View ArticleAnnual General Meeting, Friday October 2nd, 2015
8.00pm at The Museum Speaker: Mr. Carl Cowie, CEO Mornington Peninsula Shire
View ArticleMonthly Meeting, November 6th 2015
8:00 pm at The Museum Diprotodon Speakers: David Pickering, Museums Australia and David Thomas, Local Explorer Topic: ‘Our local Diprotodon discovered at The Back Beach’. NOTE: We will be having dinner...
View ArticleNew Page
Check out the latest addition to our website: The Mechanics’ Institute Look under the ‘Museum’ menu or go direct HERE
View ArticleSummer at The Sorrento Museum
Opening hours for January will be Tuesdays, Thursdays, Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays 1.30 til 4.30pm See you there!
View ArticleMonthly Meeting, February 5th 2016
8:00 pm at The Museum Speaker: Lambis Englezos Topic: ‘Finding the missing soldiers from Fromelles’. On the 19th July 1916 the 5th Australian Division was involved in a terrible battle near the French...
View ArticlePoint Nepean National Park Master Plan
Point Nepean National Park Master Plan Community update and discussion paper January 2016 Click on pic to read . . . and the response from The NHS. . . . READ IT HERE
View ArticleMonthly Meeting May 1st 2015
8:00 pm at the Sorrento Museum Speaker: Bob McKenzie – Researcher on the ship SEA and our mysterious bird figurehead. Topic: Bob will be talking about his recent research trip to New Brunswick, Canada...
View ArticleFebruary 5th at The Sorrento Museum
If you can’t make it to hear Lambis Englezos speak on “The Missing Soldiers of Fromelles” you can watch it LIVE here:
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