ABSTRACT
Mugga Mugga Cottage is in Canberra, the planned capital city of Australia, which in turn is located in the Australian Capital Territory, an enclave in the south east of New South Wales. Instruments, sheet music, the radio, and gramophone are visible displays, but visitors to the cottage engage with Mugga Mugga's musical history aurally as well. The music books of Georgiana McCrae and the James Goulding manuscript dating from the 1820s provide examples. Dislocation is also the sentiment expressed in the Irish music chosen to represent the arrival of the Curleys in the district. The music made in the two eras of occupation at Mugga Mugga conveys two different notions of Home: the waning pastoral pioneering era that Patrick was born into, with its cultural connections to Ireland and Scotland; and the modern urbanised era, in which his daughters lived as the city of Canberra took shape around them.
