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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,...

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From 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...

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The 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...

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Monthly 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’

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Monthly 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...

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Monthly 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...

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SPECIAL 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...

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Monthly 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...

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Monthly 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...

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Rye & 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...

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Monthly 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...

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NHS 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...

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Annual General Meeting, Friday October 2nd, 2015

8.00pm at The Museum Speaker: Mr. Carl Cowie, CEO Mornington Peninsula Shire

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Monthly 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...

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New Page

Check out the latest addition to our website: The Mechanics’ Institute Look under the ‘Museum’ menu or go direct HERE

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Summer at The Sorrento Museum

Opening hours for January will be Tuesdays, Thursdays, Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays 1.30 til 4.30pm See you there!

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Monthly 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...

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Point 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

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Monthly 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...

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February 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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