Western Australian Museum Annual Report 2003-2004

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Science and Culture 26 Mark Salotti, Aquatic Zoology Technical Officer, databasing a marine invertebrate specimen. Emma O’Shaughnessy, Relocation Project Technical Officer, packing ceramics from the history collection in readiness for the move to Welshpool. Senior Curator Ric How releasing Northern Quolls on the Kimberley Islands. WESTERN AUSTRALIAN MUSEUM ANNUAL REPORT 2003–2004
27 Western Australian Museum– Science and Culture Closure of the Francis Street building focused Museum resources in 2003–04 on relocating exhibitions and collections to the Kew Street facility in Welshpool. Work on rewriting and redesigning the Aboriginal gallery Katta Djinoong: First Peoples of Western Australia was nearing completion at the end of the year. The new exhibition will open in the Hellenic Gallery in late in 2004. Work also began on curating and designing a new marine gallery at the Western Australian Museum–Albany which will replace, in part, the Marine Gallery in the Francis Street building. The appointment of technical officers to assist in the packing and stabilisation of collections is proving to be of great help in the relocation to Welshpool. New curators in the History Department (Stephen Anstey) and the Department of Terrestrial Vertebrates (Paul Doughty) were appointed in August and September 2003 respectively. ANTHROPOLOGY The Relocation Project dominated the activities of the Anthropology Department during the last year. Not only have staff been involved in preparation and repacking of collections for movement to Kew Street, they have also worked on relocating the Museum’s Aboriginal gallery, Katta Djinoong: First Peoples of Western Australia. One of the highlights of the project for this department was the successful ‘smoking’ ceremony conducted in the new collection and curatorial building at Welshpool by Mr Ken Colbung, member of the Western Australian Museum Aboriginal Advisory Committee. In May, Mr Colbung was the recipient of a Museum Award in recognition of his continued commitment to the work of the Museum over a period of more than thirty years. In addition to the relocation, it has been necessary to maintain ongoing programs such as the return of Indigenous Cultural Property, the Burrup Rock Art Monitoring Project and organising the activities of the Western Australian Museum Centre for Ancient Egyptian Studies (WAMCAES). Katta Djinoong The revised Katta Djinoong will be located in the Hellenic Gallery, a space originally opened as the first Art Gallery nearly 100 years ago. Thirty percent smaller in size than the Francis Street gallery, Katta Djinoong’s story has had to be compressed while at the same time ensuring that it maintains representation of the four broad regions identified in the original gallery. The focus of the gallery continues to be family, land and links between the past and present. Content has been updated to address contemporary issues of significance to Indigenous people in Western Australia. The Hellenic Gallery, with its early 1900s replica of the Parthenon Frieze, offers an interesting site in which to address issues such as contested heritage! In addition to the intellectual content of the gallery, relocation of Katta Djinoong has involved detailed conservation assessment and photographic recording of all objects, conservation treatment where necessary, and design of new supports for each artefact by members of the Museum’s Exhibition and Design team in conjunction with Conservation and Anthropology staff. The new gallery design more effectively highlights the artefacts than that of the original. Unique treasures, such as the 32,000-year-old shell beads, will be given the prominence they deserve, and the craftsmanship displayed in many of the artefacts will be accentuated. With the return to lending institutions and individuals of some artefacts included in the 1999 gallery, the department has been acquiring objects for the Museum’s collections that reflect particular issues in the gallery. During the last year a range of significant historical and contemporary material has been added WESTERN AUSTRALIAN MUSEUM ANNUAL REPORT 2003–2004
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