The bicorn hat has historical value. It was owned by Matthew Flinders, one of the greatest navigators and cartographers in Australian history, and later by the Flinders family.

Read Pasquale Dogao’s Prisoner of War Identity Card from the Cowra camp, 1943.

Discover the portrait miniature of Eber Bunker c.1810 founder of the NSW Colonial whaling and livestock industries and builder of Collingwood House at Liverpool.

Discover the brass button from the work clothes of a convict assigned to the Australian Agricultural Company at Newcastle in the 1830s.

Discover the long sleeved woollen convict jacket made of ‘Parramatta cloth’, c.1830s-1840s.

Discover the Convict Cap dated 1852, the year convict transportation ended on the east coast of Australia.

The watercolour has historical value as a rare portrait and an object related to probably the most important figures from the early colonial period who brought civil administration, arts and architecture and a humanising and egalitarian influence that transformed New South Wales from a gaol to a Colony.

Discover the diaries of Federico Bonisoli documenting his internment during World War II. The diaries Include Internment diaries (in Italian dated 1940-1944, letters in English received from his niece Maria Bonisoli and nephew Attilio Bonisoli between 1940-1943, a photograph of Federico Bonisoli, c.1939. and a letter in Italian to Felice Bonisoli from Rev. Professor M.F. Toal, an ex-internee of Loveday Camp dated 13 September 1956.

Discover the medal presented as a mark of esteem to Charles De Boos, Gold Fields Warden, from Chinese Miners in the Braidwood district in 1881.

The letter from Frenchman Francis Barrallier to Governor King in 1802 during an expedition seeking a route across the Great Dividing Range is historically significant as a rare document describing and interpreting a French view of the pre-1788 Sydney Aboriginal people’s environment and culture.