After being housebound for two days of torrential rain, we decided to drive to one of our favourite spots, Murwillumbah. I noticed in the local rag, The Echo, that the Tweed River Art Gallery has a special event, "Great Collections".
What a surprise! The Gallery is amazing, set in a huge building on top of the hill at Stokers Siding. From anywhere in the gallery, through long narrow windows there are views of the lush valley, an interesting setting for the exhibits.
Great Collections featured documents and curiosities dating from before Capt. Cook chartered the coastline in 1770 to more modern times, such as prints by Picasso.
We saw a Dutch atlas from 1666 that charts three quarters of Australia, death masks of outlaws sentenced to hang in colonial times, execution certificates and some amazing letters written by Captain Moonlight (bushranger) to his family and friends just before his hanging.
The oldest item on display was the Nuremburg Chronicle from 1493.
The Gallery also has a great collection of paintings, old and new.
Murwillumbah continues to amaze. On each visit we make a new discovery.
