Names
Edith Cowan University Museum of Childhood Collection
ECU Museum of Childhood Collection
IDs
WAM 16
http://www.museum.wa.gov.au/research/collections/social-history/history-introduction
Descriptions
The ECU Museum of Childhood Collection is a nationally significant collection of 24,000 items reflective of Western Australian childhood in all its diversity. It contains the toys and games of Western Australian children's play, child rearing and schooling items, costume, books and items reflective of home life. The collection, dating from the Seventeenth Century to 2009 is representative of children's lives in different periods, environments, socio-economic circumstances and culturally diverse backgrounds.
This nationally significant collection of 24,000 items is reflective of Western Australian childhood in all its diversity. It was donated to the WA Museum in 2009 by Edith Cowan University. It contains the toys and games of Western Australian children's play, child rearing and schooling items, costume, books and items reflective of home life. The collection is representative of children's lives in different periods, environments, socio-economic circumstances and culturally diverse backgrounds. It contains several collections that are immensely significant in their own right, most particularly the Riley Family Collection. This near complete collection of 150 toys belonged to the six children (b.1887-97) of Perth's first Anglican Archbishop, the Rev C O Riley. It is one of the most complete holdings of a single family collection of toys in Australia and is of national significance. The ECU Museum of Childhood Collection is also noted for its diverse range of improvised items: toys, clothes, school equipment and other childhood items home-made due to economic hardship, isolation, wartime austerity and emergency or for pleasure.
Some material may be subject to copyright.
Available by appointment - http://www.museum.wa.gov.au/about/contact-us
Subjects
Archbishop Charles Owen Riley; ECU Museum of Childhood; Emma Purkis; Mary McKenzie
Books; Childhood; Children; Depression; Education; Games; Improvisation; Infants; Making do; Riley Family Collection; Schooling; The ECU Museum of Childhood Collection; Toys; Western Australian childhood; World War One; World war Two
Books; Clothing; Toys
Children; Costume; Education; Families; Games; Play (Recreation); Toys; World wars
Children's clothing; Children's effects; Children's literature; Domestic life; Education
Coverage Spatial
International; Western Australia
Coverage Temporal
1600
2009
Related Collections
Dates
2012-05-30 23:42
2011-03-25 14:37