Sophie Price

Cultures & Histories

Queensland Museum Tropics

Sophie Price is the Senior Museum Development Officer for Central Queensland, part of the Queensland Museum’s Museum Development Officer (MDO) Program. Sophie is based at Queensland Museum Tropics in Townsville and is also an Adjunct Research Associate with James Cook University.

Sophie works primarily with communities, councils and collecting organisations across the Central Queensland region. Her work supports stakeholders to manage their collections, museums, and heritage sites, and explore the context and meaning behind regional and rural collections. In her role, Sophie is an active voice for accessibility, sustainability, and knowledge sharing between people and collections. She has a love of storytelling, and empowering regional communities to share their unique perspectives and stories.

Sophie priorities capacity building with the communities she works with, particularly in areas of First Nations engagement and recontextualising colonial collections and legacies in museums. Her practice looks specifically at the influence of colonisation on the formation and use of historic museum collections, and how decolonisation practices can reshape the way museums work with and for collections and communities.

Prior to becoming a Senior Museum Development Officer, Sophie was a curator of the First Nations and Social History collections at Queensland Museum Tropics (2019-2023). Her curatorial experience is exemplified by the curation of recent exhibitions, Connections across the Coral Sea, and the inaugural First Nations Foyer displays at Queensland Museum Tropics. Sophie’s curatorial practice prioritises community-led research and engagement.