The Queensland Museum Cobb+Co (formerly the Cobb+Co Museum)[citation needed] is at 27 Lindsay Street, Toowoomba, Queensland, Australia.[1] It is part of the Queensland Museum Network.
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| Established | 1987 |
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| Location | 27 Lindsay Street, Toowoomba |
| Coordinates | 27°33′19″S 151°57′53″E / 27.5554°S 151.9646°E |
| Type | History museum |
| Website | Queensland Museum Cobb+Co website |
History
editThe museum was originally established to house The Cobb & Co. Collection of W. R. F. Bolton[2] consisting of over thirty 19th century horse-drawn vehicles which he collected and had restored over a period of more than thirty years. This Collection also includes over one hundred artifacts, comprising saddles, machinery, tools, and items of domestic and occupational use.[3] The expansion of the museum over time, with the addition and consolidation of other collections, has led to the museum becoming internationally recognised as housing The National Carriage Collection.[4]
The Collection was originally on display in Toowoomba at the premises of Cobb & Co. Limited, Mr Bolton's road transport company, from 1965 until 1981. Jenny Cardell, Mr Bolton's daughter, and her husband, Adrian Cardell, purchased the Collection through their company Banks Pty. Ltd. in 1980.[5] They then entered into protracted negotiations with the Queensland Government to donate the Collection to the Queensland Museum on the condition that the Collection would be housed at Toowoomba in a purpose-built building.[6]
A formal Deed of Gift which provided that the museum would attempt to develop the Museum in the longer term as a specialized branch of the Queensland Museum in the Eastern Darling Downs area for the benefit of the people in the area from which the Collection was largely drawn[7] was finally entered into in 1982. The museum also gave its assurance that the Collection will be regarded as a memorial to Mr. W. R. F. Bolton and the pioneers of transportation in the State of Queensland and that, in the light of that objective, the museum will treat the necessity to preserve the Collection intact as its primary responsibility.[8]
See also
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References
edit- ^ "Cobb+Co Museum". Queensland Museum. Archived from the original on 25 May 2020. Retrieved 15 September 2021.
- ^ So designated in the Deed of Gift dated 30 June 1982.
- ^ The Inventory of the chattels included in the gift of The Cobb & Co. Collection of W.R. F. Bolton is set out in The Schedule to the Deed of Gift.
- ^ Queensland Museum Cobb+Co, Toowoomba.
- ^ Order of the Supreme Court of dated 25 July 1980, Originating Summons No. 391 of 1980; Hansard 17 September an answer to a Question upon Notice the Minister stated that the collection is now the legal property of Banks Pty. Ltd; Address by Sir Walter Campbell, Governor of Queensland, on 27 November 1990.
- ^ Hansard, 17 September 1980. In an answer to a Question upon Notice the Minister stated that the Queensland Museum recognises the desirability of maintaining the collection in Toowoomba or in the eastern Darling Downs generally … and that it is the intention of the Queensland Museum Board to use the Cobb & Co. Collection as the nucleus of a branch of the Queensland Museum concentrating on the horse-drawn era.
- ^ Deed of Gift dated 30 June 1982 at page 2.
- ^ Deed of Gift dated 30 June 1982 at pages 2 and 3.
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