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Cobar Museum
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COOSH excursion to museum
As part of their school holidays activities, the kids and their supervisors at COOSH (Cobar Out of School Hours) service paid a visit to the Cobar Museum last Thursday. The kids took part in a scavenger hunt finding pictures of people and objects both inside the museum and also in […]
2022
Council shows off awards
Cobar Shire Council general manager Peter Vlatko, mayor Peter Abbott and projects manager Carly Hunter with museum refurbishment architect Ashley Dunn (from Dunn and Hillam Architects) were proud to show off their National Trust (NSW) Heritage Awards they recently won for the museum upgrade project. Dunn and Hillam’s work on […]
2021
Restoring to former glory
While work has been going on “behind the scenes” at the museum for a some months now, the recent erection of scaffolding on the exterior of the great Cobar Heritage Centre building has made it clearly obvious that the restoration work is well and truly underway. As part of its […]
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Local News
Council’s been working on grand plans for our museum
There’s been a lot of planning, discussions and hard work by Cobar Shire Council staff to ensure that the Great Cobar Heritage Centre gets the best makeover it can. The grand plans to upgrade the historic museum building were discussed at a Community Consultation Meeting last week. Council’s general manager […]
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Celebrating a piece of Cobar history
The Cobar community kicked up its heels last Thursday night to mark the occasion of the 50th anniversary of Cobar’s museum. “If this old building could talk, what a tale she’d tell!” deputy mayor Peter Abbott said of the Great Cobar Heritage Centre in his opening address. Cr Abbott and […]