Audio on demand
Introduction to the Creating a Country gallery
Dr Kirsten Wehner, National Museum of Australia
Behind the Scenes – Landmarks series, 11 March 2009
Curator Kirsten Wehner outlines the themes of the new National Museum of Australia gallery, Creating a Country (now Landmarks). It will look broadly at the history of Australia since European colonisation of the continent in the late eighteenth century.
Behind the Scenes – Landmarks series
- Landmarks: behind the scenes with conservatorsAinslie Greiner, Carmela Mollica, Nicki Smith and Daniel Oakman
- The Melbourne Cup: 150 years of historyIsa Menzies, National Museum of Australia
- The Chinese in BendigoAnne-Marie Conde, National Museum of Australia
- Parliament for the peopleJennifer Wilson, National Museum of Australia
- Matthew Flinders in the Recherche ArchipelagoPip McNaught, National Museum of Australia
- The Sunshine harvesterLeah Bartsch, National Museum of Australia
- Creating a colony: the European settlement of Tasmania 1803–1853Anthea Gunn, National Museum of Australia
- Robe is not famous for robesJennifer Wilson, National Museum of Australia
- The ‘spirit of inquiry’ in Port MacquarieRoslyn Russell, National Museum of Australia
- Heavens above!Vince Ford, Hermann Wehner and Dr Kirsten Wehner
- ‘Never enough grass’ and Bowen DownsDr George Main, National Museum of Australia
- Introduction to the Creating a Country galleryDr Kirsten Wehner, National Museum of Australia
