‘Birthplace of the nation’ to close as cash-strapped NSW council can’t afford heritage-listed museum
by Andrew Messenger from World news | The Guardian on (#6CZGY)
Exclusive: Sir Henry Parkes memorial school of arts - home of the 1889 Tenterfield oration - to close in a fortnight
The first museum included on the National Trust register will close its doors at the end of the month, leaving its century-old artefacts of federation locked behind glass until further notice.
The Sir Henry Parkes memorial school of arts is the site of the five-time premier's famous Tenterfield oration in 1889, regarded as the first direct appeal to the public for an Australian nation-state to unite the colonies.
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