Today we’ve had another welcome visit to the Research Library by Michelle Maddison, curator at the Museum of the Riverina in Wagga Wagga
Michelle is at the Powerhouse doing background research for her new exhibition “Knockers”.
This exhibition features more than 250 doorknockers from the collection of former Wagga resident the late Mrs Sylvia M. Seccombe, who started acquiring them in 1933.
Her collection was so impressive that Michelle originally considered calling the exhibition “Mrs Seccombe’s marvellous knockers”. However she settled on ‘Knockers” as being somehow, well, snappier.
There is a link to the Powerhouse Museum, as Sylvia Seccombe was the daughter of Richard T. Baker, the second Curator of the Technological Museum (as it was then known) from 1895 to 1921. Michelle believes that Mrs Seccombe’s collection clearly shows the influence of her curator father in the way the objects were stored and catalogued.
“Knockers” opens at the Museum of the Riverina, Wagga Wagga on December 10.
