Shrouded house: Collection care at Rouse Hill House & Farm
Mar 20, 2019
3 minutes
By Rebecca Jones, former Assistant Curator, House Museums Portfolio and now Collections Officer, Documentation, Sydney Living Museums
ouse Hill House & Farm was home to six generations of the Rouse and Terry families and preserves the evidence of over 150 years of their domestic life. When the house and its significant collection came to the Historic Houses Trust of New South Wales (now Sydney Living Museums) in 1986, we initiated the then new approach of preserving the collection unchanged and in situ.
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