By Ange on 2 November, 2010
It’s springtime, and that means BUGS, SPIDERS, FLIES and all sorts of insects abound, and that (in turn) gets us thinking two things: More house work How do museums stop creepycrawlies? The education mob was provided with some answers to our second thought by Donna Wilks, a preventative technical officer who works for the conservation [...] Read more >
Posted in Objects | Tagged conservation, insects
By Ange on 21 October, 2010
We had some senior students in yesterday exploring veracity, omission and bias in primary sources, and ended up having an interesting discussion about the perception people have of reliability in relation to visual texts. Read more >
Posted in Inspiration, Objects | Tagged art, critical thinking, gold, internment, photographs, real, veracity
By Jess on 18 October, 2010
Not all convicts were on their best behaviour when they arrived in Australia. One form of punishment to try to keep the re-offenders in line was humiliation. Female convicts would have their heads shaved to rob them of their feminine dignity and male convicts were assigned to chain gangs wearing the parti-coloured ‘magpie’ uniform (picture). The intention [...] Read more >
Posted in Objects | Tagged convicts
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