With the money raised from the sale of the FCV lapel pins last year the Forests Commission Retired Personnel Association (FCRPA) engaged Mark Jesser, a professional photographer, from Wodonga.
We recently had a two-day working bee at Beechworth with Leith McKenzie, Andrew Pook, Mark A Webster and myself pulling all the dusty items out of their display cases for the photographer to work his magic.
A total of some 380 museum quality images were taken of about 90 items.
We have created a site with “Victorian Collections” and begun to upload and describe each item so that information is searchable and freely accessible online. But it’s gunna take a while to get this step done.
The future of the museum at Beechworth is still under a cloud but at least this cataloguing project helps to preserve some of Victoria’s rich forest and bushfire heritage.
So, thanks to everyone who purchased the pins.
We hope to eventually get the Altona collection done too.
Victoria’s Forests & Bushfire Heritage 