My Internship Adventures

Fifty-four years ago, a 10-year-old opened a box containing 20 books in the Time Life History collection. It costs $200, which was half of her father’s monthly salary. But he had bought it for her because it was the first time he had bought her a birthday present.

“Memory is what makes us. We need to create a place where people are allowed to cry. We need to unlock the empathy.” — Prof John Carty, during his sharing with Masters of Curatorial and Museum Studies students in the Indigenous section of the South Australia Museum.

In this digital flipbook, we invite you to unlock the secrets and stories hidden within 10 selected treasures. Each object serves as a portal to a bygone era, where history, culture, and human ingenuity converge. But these are not your typical museum exhibits. They are gateways to lesser-known facts, compelling anecdotes, and intriguing mysteries that breathe life into the ancient past.

Back to Main I started reading when I was seven, thanks to my father, who was an avid reader. When I was 13, I devoured the unabridged Gone With The Wind from page to page and every romantic paperbackwritten by Barbara Cartland and Denise Robins. I loved Agatha Christie’s who-dun-its, especially the inimitable Hercule Poirot.…