![Museum education and public programs officer Angus Cawdell-Smith poses in front of the Man that never was, exhibition at the Riverina. Photograph by Les Smith. Museum education and public programs officer Angus Cawdell-Smith poses in front of the Man that never was, exhibition at the Riverina. Photograph by Les Smith.](/images/transform/v1/crop/frm/223552303/4c9f6629-7ee1-469f-a8fb-5e57e24b8b30.jpg/r0_0_4239_3021_w1200_h678_fmax.jpg)
The Museum of the Riverina has announced three new exhibitions for the summer which include the famous Bald Archy Prize.
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Angus Cawdell-Smith the Museum education and public programs officer, said that the exhibition is a real fan favourite with the public and has toured across regional NSW.
"The Baldy Archies is fun it's really accessible to the public and it makes people laugh," Mr Cawdell-Smith said.
"My favourite this year I think would be Scomopoly which has been a fan favourite as well."
The exhibition has been running for 26 years and after a four-year hiatus was relaunched in 2023.
Currently, entries are open to the next Baldy Archy Prize which closes on January 19.
Applicants can win $100,000 in prize money.
The museum is also set to feature an exhibition on Tom Castro a famous local who was involved in the longest court cases in British history.
Mr Castro a butcher who in 1865 claimed that he was the long lost heir of the Tichborne family's Hampshire estates.
"It's a huge piece of history... and people find it really interesting because it's such a unique story," Mr Cawdell-Smith said.
Another exhibition called Lazy Days in Wagga Wagga features colorised historic photos of locals going about their daily lives.
Mr Cawdell-Smith believes that the colourisation brings new life to the photos for visitors.
"It's a new look at those images and sort of really brings them to life in a new way," he said.