Brief description
The Museum has a growing collection representing the diversity of cultural communities in Queensland. This collection includes musical instruments, flags, national costumes and dolls. A significant subset includes a large collection of shop stock from Kwong Sang & Co, Chinese merchants based in Toowoomba.Full description
The Museum has a growing collection representing the diversity of cultural communities in Queensland. This collection includes musical instruments, flags, national costumes and dolls. Significant subsets include - A large collection of shop stock from Kwong Sang & Co, Chinese merchants and importers who were based in Toowoomba from the 1880s. The Kwong Sang collection includes a calendar, jewellery, a shop window and many Chinese cultural objects, which relate to a significant era for Chinese-Australian relations. Also included are ceremonial flags from the Tully Suomi Seura (Finnish Society), Australia's second oldest Finnish Society and banknotes and coins from around the world.Spatial Coverage And Location
text: Indonesia
text: China
text: Finland
text: Toowoomba
Subjects
19th Century |
20th century |
Banknotes |
Kwong Sang |
Kwong Sang and Co |
Retailing |
coins |
migration |
musical instruments |
numismatics |
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Identifiers
- Local : QM00021