Thursday 15 January 2009

Archive visit - my notes

the archive is open for visits on Wednesdays. E;mail to arrange a time.

- How the building is occupied

- Communities housed within

- heritage and tourism

- Working art school and museum

- How spaces are used differently today

- How skool develops and grows organically

- Mac iconic building sells the skool

- Mac core building is fluid and changing with conservation it is being stripped back to its original authentic state.

- 1890 Ingram st. Mclellan - 1000 students most part-time

- 1897 east building and foyer built

- 1899 complete

- 1909 open for business

- seperate classes for women and men.

- notable number of female students

- 1966 A listed building

- archive provides loads of historical data of skool

- prospectus, posters, photographs, books, drawings, paintings, moulds, newspaper, microfilm etc...

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