Pre-visit exhibition walkthrough

Exhibition closed in April 2011

Guide your students on a journey through Tinytoreum exploring tiny Museum treasures that have inspired children’s tales and illustrations by author Jackie French and illustrator Bruce Whatley.

This exhibition walkthrough provides an overview of the:

• Physical layout and exhibition sections • Key objects • Audiovisuals and interactives • Relevant online teaching and learning resources

Exhibition entrance

The exhibition entrance at the Kings Cinema foyer

Tinytoreum

Gunna the Goanna’s inventions

Complete discreet heat

beaterThe workshop at

the dump

Tiny horseshoes for theEchidna Express mail

serviceThe platypus submarine

Gunna the Goanna’s inventions

Training planes andbaby bird bicycles

Gunna the Goanna’s inventions

Gunna the Goanna’s inventions

The new dawn chorus

Gunna the Goanna’s inventions

The Shaggy Gully honeybottling plant

Gunna the Goanna’s inventions

The bug boat

1. Draw your favourite invention.2. Choose and colour in your favourite

mouse character for the Paper Theatre.

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Activity area

3. Model train set – touch the objects on screen4. The Shaggy Gully Express – spin the wheel to start the

train and press the button to hear the whistle5. Gunna’s reading corner

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Gunna the Goanna’s inventions

‘Ram Jet’ Rabbit

The flying anthill

Slither Hither fake fur fashions

Beehive yourself palace

The ‘bite’ in shining armour

Mouse House Theatre

Gunna the Goanna’s inventions

The Shaggy Gully good mates’ bridge

Snappy happy hats machine

Smartboard activities

Miniature car

1. What it really is? 2. Memory game 3. Object all sorts

The Tinytoreum interactive whiteboard activities

What they really are!Actual sizes are shown as height (h) x

width (w) cm or height (h) x length (l) cm or diameter (d) cm

Slippers decorated with shells, made by the late Mavis Longbottom and Lola

Ryan, La Perouse NSW, 1986. Indigenous women have been making shell work like this for over a century. 4 (h) x 10.5 (l) cm. Purchased 1986.

86/1784-2

A Chinese puzzle ball consisting of nine balls carved from one piece of ivory (elephant tusk). Puzzle balls require

amazing skill to carve. First a solid ball is turned on a lathe, then holes are

drilled towards the centre and special L-shaped sharp tools are used to cut the innermost balls free. 5.8 (d) cm. Gift of

Miss Eadith Hill, 1950. A4262-41

A toy submarine based on the 1954 Walt Disney film of Jules Verne’s

classic science fiction novel 20,000 leagues under the sea, published in 1869. 10 (h) x 24 (l) cm. Purchased

1985. 85/2572-26

A netsuke (Japanese toggle), hand-carved from ivory, 1700–1900.

Japanese men traditionally wore toggles like these to secure pouches to

their belts. 3 (h) x 7 (l) cm. Gift of Alastair and Hedda Morrison,1996.

96/60/13Scale model of the New Zealand steam tug SS

Awarua, made by Harry F Allen in NSW, 1940–1947. The full sized tug was built in

Scotland in 1932 and steamed to New Zealand via the Suez Canal. Scale 1:14. 151

(h) x 283 (l) cm. Purchased 1948. H4940

Striped linen and straw hat, designed by Hermance, Paris, 1938 and worn by Heather Waddell of Moray Millinery, Sydney. 25.5 (d)

cm. Purchased 2005. 2005/114/9-3

Leg warmers and wrist bands made from fake fur and worn as part of an ensemble by Uchida

Sachiko in Tokyo’s Harajuku area in 2002. Wristbands 9.3 (h) x 10.5 cm (w) cm; leg warmers 60 (h) x

25 (w) cm. Purchased 2002. 2003/204/1

Toy rocket, made by Masudaya Co, Japan, probably in the early 60s after the US Apollo Moon

program was announced. 11 (h) x 39.6 (l) cm. Purchased 1985.

85/2573-6

Astrobunnykins, from the Bunnykins range of moulded bone china by Royal Doulton Tableware Ltd, England, 1983–1984. 10.5 (h)

x 5 (w) cm. Gift of Robert Walmsley, 1993. 93/338/43

Scale model of a Voisin biplane, designed by aviation pioneer

Gabriel Voisin, France, 1908. The model was built by Mr G O

Ingledew, NSW. Scale 1:12.34 (h) x 100 (l) cm. Purchased

1935. H3805

A watchmaker’s lathe made of brass and iron

. The drawer contains tiny tools for precision work. Maker unknown. 30 (h) x 25.5 (w) cm. Gift of L V Nunn,

1968. B1726 inside.

Scale model of a steam-powered fire engine

, typical of fire engines used in the late 19th century.Scale 1:5. 50 (h) x 60 (l) cm.. Purchased 1951. B1155

Morris Mini-Minor ‘Mini K’ car, made by Leyland Motor Corporation of

Australia in 1970. 135 (h) x 305.5 (l) cm. Purchased 1996. 96/370/1

Model of a cross-section of a cane sugar refinery. Gift of the Colonial Sugar Refining Company, 1947. 1240 (h) x 2730 (w) cm. H4866

Dolls house made by Frans Bosdyk for his wife Christine, between 1996 and 2006 in NSW. Christine died shortly

after it was completed. Furniture scale 1:10–1:12. House size 211 (h) x 138 (w)

cm. Purchased 2007. 2007/51/1

Children’s paper theatres were popular in the 1800s. This one was made by famed toy theatre designer Johann Ferdinand Schreiber in Germany 1880–1890. The theatre, characters and scenery were

produced on paper sheets, which could be cut out and mounted on card. 90 (h) x

81.3 (w) cm. Purchased 1981. A7746

Set of furniture made from beer cans by an elderly man and presented to the Museum in 1986. Centre chair 13.5 (h) x 8.2 (w) cm; table 6.5

(h) x 7.3 (w) cm. Gift of Rockdale Community Mobile Nursing Service, 1986. 86/232

Prize exhibition Balmoral button boots made by Padmore & Barnes, England, 1910. From the Joseph Box shoe collection. Joseph Box was a London shoemaker who began

collecting shoes in the late 1800s. He amassed a vast collection, which the Museum purchased in 1942 after Lengthy nogotiations. 13.2 (h) x 14.8 (l) cm. H5739-34.

Miniature or child’s wooden clogs made in France, late 1800s. 5.5 (h) x 12.7 (l) cm. From the Joseph Box shoe collection. Purchased 1942. H4448-1045.

Miniature mules (backless shoes) made in England for an exhibition or possibly a doll, 1870–1895. 6.1(h) x 10.2 (l) cm. From the Joseph Box shoe colleciton. Purchased 1942.

H4448-542

Model of the Sydney Harbour Bridge made of 9734 matchsticks and paddle-

pop sticks by Brian Sheehey, 1984–1985. Brian built the model to win a $100 bet that he couldn’t do it. 27 (h) x 80 (l) cm.

Purchased 1985. 85/1266

Matchbox cover and box of matches commemorating the opening of the Sydney Harbour Bridge in 1932

. Gift of Douglas and Jean Miller, 1983. P3389

Model of a knight seated on a horse, both in full 15th century German armour. The model was made for

the donor when she was a girl by Mr Paul Hardy, England, 1890. 94.5 (h)

x 70 (l) cm. Gift of Mrs Cippico, 1965. H7652

Scale model of a ship’s paddlewheel made in Germany, 1884. Scale 1:10. 45 (h) x 41 (w) cm. Purchased 1884. 8557

Display case of miniature horseshoes and blacksmith tools made by Mr F Ivory in Sydney in 1938.

The case includes 49 horseshoes of different types. Case 70 (h) x 52 (w) cm. Gift of Mr F Ivory, 1938. B627

Ants nest trinket box with silver ants, designed by Angiolo Logi, 1984, and made by Puzzle Pty Ltd, Australia, 1993. Nest 4 (h) x 10 (h) cm;

ants 1.5 (l) cm. Gift of Puzzle Pty Ltd, 2006. 2006/147/5

‘The Monkey Band’, porcelain ornaments made inGermany in the early 1800s. 13.5 (h) x 6 (w) cm.

Purchased 1949. A4217

Selection of Bunnykins, moulded bone china ornaments made by Royal Doulton Tableware Ltd, England, 1983–1984. Featuring the Oompah Band, the Collectors

Band, Lollipopman Bunnykins and Bunnykins Royal Family Princess Beatrice. 9 (h) x 4.8 (w) cm. Gift of Royal Doulton Australia Wholesale Pty Ltd, 1984. A10726; Gift

of Robert Walmsley, 1993. 93/338/95; 93/338/1; 93/338/73-74; 93/338/47-60; 93/338/64

Image credit: All images used are from the Powerhouse Museum

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Online resources

1. Tinytoreum exhibition page

2. Interview with Jackie French

3. Interview with Bruce Whatley

4. Sydney Morning Herald’s article on Tinytoreum