On 22 February 2018, the Sunshine Coast Council concluded its celebration of the 50th Anniversary of the Naming of the Sunshine Coast by burying a historic time capsule. Ī time capsule on Canberra's City Hill was unveiled on 11 March 2013 to commemorate the city's centenary. A time capsule is also present on the grounds of Melbourne High school in Victoria. The capsule was opened in the year 2000 on an unspecified date, although the sculpture remains, there is no mention of the time capsule once buried there.Ī time capsule is also located at Nailsworth Primary School in South Australia, being planted in 2001 to be opened in 2025, this capsule was planted to replace the 1977 capsule opened the same year. The town of Cowra in central Western New South Wales contained a time capsule which was buried near a sculpture of an eagle in the park not far from the town's information center. A previous time capsule was buried in 1982 to celebrate the silver jubilee. In celebration of its golden jubilee, Epping Boys High School of Sydney buried a time capsule in the foyer of its library, in 2007, to be unearthed in the centenary year. Contemporary Ĭapsule in Crookwell, New South Wales, installed in 2001 Laid in 1994, it is set to be opened in 2094. The Parliament House of South Australia in Adelaide, South Australia features a time capsule celebrating the Centenary of Women's Suffrage in South Australia. Ann Throssell, the wife of the Commissioner of Crown Lands and local MP George Throssell, a bottle containing two copies of the Northam Advertiser newspaper and several coins was laid in a cavity beneath the foundation stone. This is the first known instance of a time capsule in Western Australia, and in Australia.Īlso in Western Australia, in celebration of the laying of the foundation stone of the Northam Railway Institute on 28 July 1897, laid by Mrs. The local press reported the event and mentioned here since ' Röntgen rays tubes, and a description of the process, together with specimen photographs', donated by X-ray pioneer William John Hancock were included in the cache. Several items of importance were placed in a 'leaden box', sealed and deposited in a cavity beneath the foundation stone. On 29 September 1896, when the Perth Observatory foundation was laid, the occasion was attended by Sir John Forrest and other notable dignitaries. An active list of Time Capsules is maintained by the NotForgotten Digital Preservation Library.īy country Australia Historical The register of The International Time Capsule Society estimates there are between 10,000 and 15,000 time capsules worldwide. ( June 2017) ( Learn how and when to remove this template message) Please help improve this article if you can. Also, many of the time capsules need more sources. The specific problem is: The tables need better formatting and should be merged/combined with Timeline of time capsules. This article may require cleanup to meet Wikipedia's quality standards.

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