The Australian Women's Register

The Women’s and Children’s Health Network (WCHN) has a collection of historical artefacts which is managed by the WCHN History and Heritage Group. The WCHN History and Heritage Group aims to preserve, collect, collate, catalogue, store, display and interpret items of historical significance to the Women’s and Children’s Hospital and its predecessors the Adelaide Children’s Hospital, the Queen Victoria Hospital and associated institutions (eg. Estcourt House and the former Child and Youth Health Services) in order to preserve, value and make accessible to the wider community their history and the significance of their work with regard to advances in child, youth and women’s health care in South Australia and nationally. The WCHN History and Heritage Collection itself is mainly comprised of photographs of buildings, benefactors and staff, newsletters, nursing memorabilia, medical and surgical instruments (including an extensive range of obstetrical and gynaecological instruments), infant feeders, laboratory and X-ray equipment, toys and fundraising memorabilia.