Orange Regional Museum reached its one-year milestone on the weekend, celebrating 36,000 visitors.
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Orange Mayor Reg Kidd said attendance had ranged from visiting the displays, engaging in learning programs or attending movie nights and floor talks.
“The numbers have been bolstered with the combination of the Orange Visitors Information Centre and the Groundstone Café in the same building,” he said.
Services committee chairman and councillor Kevin Duffy said more than 1500 students had been through the museum in a school group and participated in education programs.
“School students have come from as far as Parkes to participate in the programs,” Cr Duffy said.
“They often come here and spend the whole day in our cultural precinct – they come for a show in the Orange Civic Theatre, participate in a museum program then head to the Orange Regional Gallery and finish with a workshop and a story at Orange City Library.”
The Orange Regional Museum now has 714 objects in its permanent collection, 469 of those have been acquired since the museum opened on November 19 last year.
Eight temporary exhibitions have run.