In the can, if you can
While you are here now please walk the Museums Rainbow Serpent path through the dinosaur, aboriginal, pioneer and hippy eras of this piece of earth we now call Nimbin. Possibly the last refuge of the hippy, this is a volunteer run community venture and is struggling to pay its ever increasing rent, so donate […]
Web site changes
The Nimbin Museum web site has changed to a different method of displaying the contents.
SUMMER SOLSTICE CELEBRATIONS
This celebration of the longest day is also to acknowledge the Museums ongoing contribution to the community.This place has stood by our mob through thick and thin over many years. The Museum has helped to raise awareness of many Aboriginal issues.
Nimbin alive but under surveillance
Benny Zable won’t have to paint his famous Nimbin murals black because the villages unique Museum is to stay open with a new lessee Elspeth Jones. “I’m just representing an extended family, or so it feels.
The Restricted Premises Act
It looks like the Nimbin Museums days are numbered as ’1984′ arrives in the tiny rebel village in the form of a 1943 law, created during the world war 2 for out of control army parties.
MUSEUM TO BE DUST FREE AT LAST
After a meeting with the Museum’s landlord in Sydney , curator Michael Balderstone is optimistic for the future of the unique tourist attraction.
To the Presiding Judge
I began my life in Nimbin over 20 years ago when I rented the Museum shopfront as a second hand, antique shop. Dealing of illegal drugs was a small issue then in the village, but even then a divisive one.
Hard for you to picture
We built the stage in the backyard for just that reason. The last time we had a fundraiser there, for the aboriginal communities access road, the police completely disrupted the day by harassing an elder before he went on stage.
Museum Explained
Values, culture and behaviour are the building blocks of civilization. Its underlying values make, or define a culture. The upside of drugs is that they change consciousness. A change of consciousness brings a change of values. Dominant culture makes some drugs illegal because they change the user’s outlook. Dominant culture fears a change of outlook […]