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Museums, libraries, galleries mount displays |
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As part of the 150th Anniversary Commemoration program, galleries and museums mounted a range of fascinating exhibitions on different aspects of the Burke and Wills story, in places ranging from Brisbane to Horsham. For the record, they are listed below. |
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Australia's Muslim Cameleers Exhibition |
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Cameleers assisted all major expeditions into Australia’s uncharted interior starting with the Burke and Wills expedition in 1860. Fascinating stories about the role they played in the exploration and settlement of Australia’s arid interior were told at this Exhibition at the Immigration Museum in 2010. |
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State Library of Victoria program |
Burke and Wills: Terra Incognita
This free Exhibition at the Cowen Gallery comprised contemporary portraits of Burke, Wills, and other officers, original documents including the last rough notes left in a buried cache by the dying explorers, and original objects used on the expedition, including the recently donated spirit level found at the Plant Camp site.
The Exhibition was part of the extensive program that the State Library mounted for the 150th anniversary.
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Burke & Wills: Castlemaine Connections |
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In 2010, the Castlemaine Art Gallery and Historical Museum mounted an Exhibition to celebrate the 150th Anniversary of the Burke & Wills Expedition. The display highlighted some original material held in the museum's archives. |
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Swan Hill Regional Art Gallery |
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In September 2010, the Swan Hill Regional Art Gallery mounted a display of art relating to the Expedition, including a collection on loan from the Royal Society of Victoria. |
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In August 2010, there was a Burke and Wills display in the Horsham branch library of the Wimmera Regional Library Corporation.
The display concentrated on the camels, as most of them ended up in the area at the Longerenong Homestead. |
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Queensland Museum: Last Days of Burke and Wills |
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During 2010, Queensland Museum South Bank held an exhibition focussing on the Plant Camp and the finds made there. |
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Even towns as far off the Expedition track as Warrnambool have a piece of the Burke and Wills action. |
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Art Exhibition in Broken Hill |
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The Albert Kersten Mining and Mineral Museum mounted an Exhibition for the 150th. In late November 2010, Broken Hill mayor Wincen Cuy officially opened the display of 22 paintings on loan from the Royal Society of Victoria, which funded the 1860 expedition through the centre of Australia. The Royal Society also lent the explorer silhouettes which travelled from Royal Park on 20 August to Broken Hill via Bendigo, Swan Hill and Balranald.
The paintings are by award-winning, selftaught Victorian artist Beverley Cornell, who gifted them to the Society in 2006. |
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