Simone Rosenbauer

Small Museum

ONLINE SHOW

May 8 – July 31, 2025

Narrow hallway with wood floors and door at the end, hung with many framed pictures on both sides of the passage.

Land of the Beardies-House of History, Glen Innes NSW

Colro photo of an oddly shaped red four wheel cycle hanging from the ceiling in a white room.

Land of the Beardies—House of History, Glen Innes NSW

Exterior of a small regional dinosaur museum

Australian Age of Dinosaurs, Winton QLD

Color photo of a dinosaur diorama with a T-Rex.

Australian Age of Dinosaurs, Winton QLD

Color photo of a dinosaur museum employee in a sun hat with pocket protector.

Australian Age of Dinosaurs, Winton QLD

Exterior of small regional "House of bottles" museum

House of Bottles, Kinglake VIC

Color photo of man and woman posing outside

House of Bottles, Kinglake VIC

Color photo of the interior of a glass and bottle museum

House of Bottles, Kinglake VIC

The Carnaby Collection of Beetles and Butterflies, Boyup Brook WA

Man standing outside in old airfield with vintage airplane

The Australian National Aviation Museum, Moorabbin VIC

Interior of an airplane hanger with vintage planes

The Australian National Aviation Museum, Moorabbin VIC

The Australian Golf Museum, Bothwell TAS

Interior showing plastic charis at a small country ansd western musuem

Australian Country Music Hall of Fame, Tamworth NSW

Color photo of cowboy boots and a striped shirt with a green wooden guitar case that is made to resemble a fish.

Australian Country Music Hall of Fame, Tamworth NSW

Exterior of a small folk museum called The Man from Snowy River

The Man from Snowy River Museum, Corryong VIC

The Man from Snowy River Museum, Corryong VIC

Employee of a maritime museum posing for his portrait with display outside

Gladstone Maritime Museum, Gladstone QLD

Color photo showing a museum display with an old fashioned captain wheel from a sailing ship

Gladstone Maritime Museum, Gladstone QLD

Color photo of old fashioend store fronts with signs for Dow's Pharmacy Museum

Dow's Pharmacy Museum, Chiltern VIC

Color photo of various objects in a storage shed with light coming through a high window, a taxidermied elephant foot is in the center.

Uralla Historical Society, Uralla NSW

Apple & Hertiage Museum, Huon Valley, Tsmania

Employee of an apple museum standing in a field with red hat and shirt

Apple & Heritage Museum, Huon Valley TAS

Apple & Heritage Museum, Huon Valley TAS

Color photo of rotting apples in a display listing apple types

Apple & Heritage Museum, Huon Valley TAS

Exterior of a small regional museum with a rocket ship next to it

Woomera Heritage Museum, Woomera SA

Museum miniature diorama of a rocket ship launch site.

Woomera Heritage Museum, Woomera SA

Woman standing outside next to display of missiles

Woomera Heritage Museum, Woomera SA

Color photo a taxidermied armadillo, curled up snout to tail

The Man from Snowy River Museum, Corryong VIC

Interior of an antique bank vault with large amounts of Australian currency on display

Banking and Currency Museum, Kadina SA

Close up color photo of a collection of neckties

Banking and Currency Museum, Kadina SA

Color photo of a framed painting of a logging truck on an easel, in front of blue curtains.

National Road Transport Hall of Fame, Alice Springs NT

Color photo of surf boards in a museum display

Surf World Museum, Torquay VIC

Tamworth Historical Society, Tamworth NSW

Color photo portrait of a white haired woman in a white dress sitting on an old fashioned bed springs

Marlene Ford, Tamworth Historical Society, Tamworth NSW

Framed collection of color photographs of individual objects of interest, each on a white background

Cabinet of Curiosities
25 framed archival pigments prints
Each 6 × 6 in

Press Release

SMALL MUSEUM

Simone Rosenbauer's Small Museum series documents 41 small indepently run museums and their caretakers, throughout rural Australia. The four year project explores unique collections and archives from all across Australia, highlighting what the objects and histories that local communities have sought to preserve. The resulting collection of images is a kind of portrait of Australia's cultural memory. By documenting these museums and the objects they hold, as well as the museum caretakers, Rosenbauer examines the way that ideas and memories are preserved by curated collections—a tradition that she herself enters into herself with this series of photographs, which are a collection and a form of conservation in their own right.

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