Museums Listings

Cover of Museums Listings
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Amala Groom: Cosmic Body of remembrance
Feature
Hannah Donnelly

Published 01 June 2019
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imagineNATIVE at 20
Feature
Pauline Clague in conversation with Jason Ryle

Published 01 June 2019
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Sydney Elders: Continuing Aboriginal Stories

State Library of NSW

Feature
Jonathan Jones

Published 01 June 2019
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Speaking back to colonial collections: Building living to Aboriginal archives
Feature
Kirsten Thorpe

Published 01 June 2019
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Unravelling the past: Barbed wire and campfire learnings
Feature
Ali Cobby Eckermann

Published 01 June 2019
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Dark Emu: Thank the Earth
Feature
Bruce Pascoe

Published 01 June 2019
PICA
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Deaths in custody: We've got to give it everything
Feature
Lorena Allum

Published 01 June 2019
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Indigenous storytelling: Deconstructing the archetype
Feature
Pauline Clague

Published 01 June 2019

Selected list of museums and art galleries around Australia.

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The Ownership of Cultural Meaning: Local Museums and Access
Feature
Shar Jones

According the the Australia Council figures in 1990 a number of people exceeding the entire population of Australia visited the 187 Australian Museums that employed paid staff in 1989/90 at a cost, for maintence, development and operations in excess of $13.00 per head of population, excluding any charges imposed on entry to museums or exhibitions. And what does $13.00 buy for the Museum going public?

Published March 1992
Background to the Project: Heritage Curricula and Multiculturalism (HC&M)
Feature
Amareswar Galla

Background to the National Agenda for a Multicultural Australia with the final report to be released by the Office of Multicultural Affairs OMA in mid 1992. See also the article by Helen Andreoni in this issue.

Published March 1992
Museums on the Edge
Editorial
Louise Dauth

Guest editor for Vol 12 No 1 Museums on the Edge. This edition was founded on a perception of a lack of any quantity of readily available material on the Australian and New Zealand experience of museums.

Published March 1992
Exhibiting Conflict - Who Dares?
Feature
Viv Szekeres

Museum exhibitions tend not to challenge visitors with critical perspectives, contradictory points of view or subject matter which is controversial. I would like to explore different ways that conflict might be included in exhibitions and used to further our understanding of the past.

Published March 1992
Testing the Meaning of Heritage
Review
Janet Maughan

Exhibition review The Heritage of Namatjira
Tandanya National Aboriginal Cultural Institute
Adelaide South Australia
November - December 1991
Curated by Angela Tidmarsh and JVS Megaw on behalf of the Flinders University of South Australia
Catalogue edited by Ruth Megaw.

Published March 1992
Independent Curators
Book Review
Elizabeth Cross

Book review A guide for the Employment of Independent Curators
by Alison Carroll
Published by the Art Museums Association of Australia 1991

Published March 1992
Ordinary Otherness
Review
Stephanie Radok

Exhibition review Unfamiliar territory: Second Adelaide Biennial of Australian Art 1992
Art Gallery of South Australia
28 February - 19 April 1992

Published March 1992
A Dialogue with Richard Grayson
Review
Fotis Kapetopoulos

Exhibition review An Interrupted Dialogue. One of the first international experimental art exhibitions to be shown outside Hungary since the end of World War 2. Grayson worked with Suzy Meszoly of the Soros Fine Art Documentation Centre of Budapest in 1988 during the time when changes were sweeping through Central Europe.

Published March 1992
Victoria Moves Towards Museum Accreditation
Feature
Roger Trudgeon

Accreditation is set to become one of the significant features of the Victorian museum scene in the 1990s. At a time when Victoria might be perceived as out for the count it may seem unlikely to be introducing major developments in the operation of the State's 400 Museums.

Published March 1992
Implementing Aboriginal and Multicultural Policy in the Museum Sector
Feature
Helen Andreoni

Helen Andreoni writes on matters which are addressed in the report commissioned by the Office of Multicultural Affairs (OMA) by Amareswar Galla (also in this edition of Artlink).

Published March 1992
To Have and To Hold: Art Museum Departments
Feature
Alison Carroll

One of the things which continues to fascinate me about museums is how, despite the vast amount of talk about displaying material culture, the often personal, often idiosyncratic, often haphazard decisions about departments are very rarely mentioned. Yet these decisions are central to much of the museum's collection, display, exhibitions and research programme.

Published March 1992
Heritage Collections not Museums
Feature
Daniel Thomas

In 1975 the Whitlam Government's Committee of Inquiry on Museums and National Collections (the Piggott Committee, after its chairman P H Piggott) unsuccessfully recommended setting up of a Museum's Commission.

Published March 1992
 
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