Indigenous Australia exhibition at the British Museum is insider activism at its best

Penny Edmonds

Indigenous Australia exhibition at the British Museum is insider activism at its best

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Abstract

The British Museum is about to open its doors to the first ever major exhibition in Britain devoted to the history of Indigenous Australia. Enduring Civilisation will showcase more than 170 startling and mostly never previously exhibited Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander objects, largely from the British Museum’s collections. The exhibition is curated by Gaye Sculthorpe, the British Museum’s Curator of Oceania. Sculthorpe is herself of Tasmanian Aboriginal descent.

Original language	English
Media of output	Magazine Article
Publisher	The Conversation (Aust.)
Number of pages	9
Place of Publication	Melbourne
Publication status	Published - 22 Apr 2015
Externally published	Yes

Keywords

Australia -- History
Indigenous peoples
Colonialism
History wars
Visual arts
Australian culture
Elgin Marbles
Indigenous art
Aboriginal Australians
Torres Strait Islanders

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