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Digging up the Past: Unearthing a 50-year Time Capsule  at Liverpool Regional Museum

  • 3 Sep 2022
  • 10:00
  • 11 Sep 2022
  • 16:00
  • Liverpool Regional Museum 462 Hume Highway, Cnr Congressional Dr Liverpool NSW 2170


Exhibition: Unearthing a 50-year Time Capsule

Don't miss this display at Liverpool Regional Museum 

Have you ever wanted to create a time capsule? Have you ever made one, only to have it lost, forgotten about, opened too early or decompose in the wake of nature’s eroding forces? And what is the ideal length of time to bury a time capsule?

Time capsules are a unique, and somewhat mythologised approach, to ‘hands-on’ history. Created in the lexicon of the time machine, they are conceptually rich tools for thinking about material approaches to history-making. Unearthing a time-capsule inexorably draws the past into public consciousness and can inspire reflections on history and change in a participatory public sphere. We invite you to come along to Liverpool Regional Museum to view a recently opened time capsule which lay hiding in wait for 50 years.


This year, Liverpool Regional Museum excavated a 50-year time capsule. To the heritage team’s astonishment, the time capsule’s content was intact, safely encapsulated in a copper container designed by local TAFE students. The time capsule was buried in 1972 by Liverpool City Council and the Liverpool Chamber of Commerce and Industry.  Mostly letters to the future, the time capsule was a carefully curated, and in many ways boldly optimistic, attempt to commemorate a century of local government in Liverpool (1872 – 1972). Engraved on the time capsule were instructions that it be opened on the 150th anniversary of local government in 2022. The time capsule was excavated this year and the museum team is contacting community members to open envelopes addressed to them found inside.

Event Organiser: Liverpool Regional Museum

Cost:  Free

Event contact:   liverpoolregionalmuseum@liverpool.nsw.gov.au 

02 8711 7126

Event Website: https://mylibrary.liverpool.nsw.gov.au/My-Library/liverpool-regional-museum 

Photo credit: Image 1 - Liverpool Regional Museum / Image 2 - Liverpool Regional Museum collection. Photo (c) Vienna Studios Liverpool. 

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State Library of New South Wales

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