Published 29 July 2024, updated 30 August 2024
Attention entrants, families, teachers, and lovers of literature!
Join us as we celebrate this year's entrants and announce the 2024 winners of the History's Mysteries Young Writers Competition at the Bunbury Museum and Heritage Centre.
Date: Thursday 29 August 2024
Time: 6pm to 8pm
This is a free event - please RSVP for catering purposes.
About the Competition:
Bringing history to the forefront, the History's Mysteries Young Writers Competition challenges students to imagine the history behind a selection of significant museum artefacts and tell it in a short story.
This year’s artefacts relate to Bunbury’s history as a whaling port in the nineteenth century. This fascinating industry was important to the early economic development of the town. Its history is surprising, with crews being uncharacteristically ethnically diverse for the time, and women traveling aboard, which was unheard of on working vessels. Most of the ships wrecked in Koombana Bay were whalers whose timber skeletons still lie beneath the waves and sand.
Established in 2022, the competition is for local authors in Year 5 to Year 12.
This competition was also the winner of an Interpretation, Learning & Audience Engagement award at the 2023 Australian Museums and Galleries National Conference.
About the Museum:
The Bunbury Museum and Heritage Centre is located at 1 Arthur Street, Bunbury.
Opening hours: 10am to 4pm, Tuesday to Sunday (closed Mondays).
For more information, please contact us at museum@bunbury.wa.gov.au or 9792 7284.
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