HAND TOOL PRESERVATION ASSOCIATION OF AUSTRALIA

Aims

• Promote the preservation, study, documentation and understanding of hand tools and the skills employed in their use.
• Encourage interest in and better understanding of crafts and early industries in which hand tools were used.
• Discover, identify, classify, document, preserve & exhibit hand tools. In particular, special efforts are to be made regarding the documentation and preservation of Australian-made hand tools.
• Share this knowledge and understanding with other interested persons and museums, pioneer villages, the National Trust and similar institutions.
• Accomplish these aims in a spirit of good fellowship.