Western Australian Museum Annual Report 2003-2004

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56 Western Australian Museum–Albany The Curator led a tour and gave talk on the Aboriginal exhibitions to a group of American students on a summer course at Curtin University. She also spent time with an Albany Senior High School arts class and facilitated a discussion group on the historic stories of Albany. This resulted in an excellent play, written, produced and acted by the students. A well-attended public lecture,‘Western Australia’s Great Visitors’, was given by John Bannister, Australia’s foremost whale authority, in which he discussed the whales seen off Albany. The Curator gave a talk to about 50 members of the Albany Probus Club, ‘Museum World’, which was very well-received and has now been expanded to a weekly radio broadcast on the ABC called ‘Curator’s Corner’. The second in a series of self-guided walking trails marked by ceramics, in partnership with the Albany City Council, is nearing completion. Assistance and advice was given to many community groups during the year, including the Old Farm Property Advisory Committee, the National Trust, Albany Historical Society, Albany Maritime Heritage Association, Kalgan Progress Association, Albany Maritime Heritage Foundation, Celebrate Albany Committee, Edith Cowan Visual Arts Department and Whaleworld. EVENTS The Museum was picked as the secret location for the Spring Writers Festival poetry and yarn readings, and more than a hundred participants crowded into the schoolroom, to be kept in control by a very convincing nineteenth-century ‘school marm’. A small group of Nyoongar ladies met at the Museum with two members of the Anthropology Department (Ross Chadwick and Moya Smith) to make kangaroo skin cloaks for the presettlement exhibition. Information exchanged between the two groups proved very interesting and useful to all parties, and two cloaks were produced. About three hundred people attended the annual Major Lockyer re-enactment, run by a local community group in the Museum, and the participating soldiers, convicts and audience enjoyed the cannon and musket fire. The address by Joan Blight, a colonial historian, was well-received. ADMINISTRATION The Museum continued as the official ‘Albany Central’ weather station for the Bureau of Meteorology. All staff are now real weather buffs and report outstanding weather events to the media as they happen. All staff took part in fire training and evacuation exercises during the year and have current first aid certificates. In January, the Curator reduced her position from 1.0 FTE to 0.5 FTE for six months for health reasons and a 0.6 Education Officer was appointed to bring the Albany Museum in line with all the other sites. The arrangement has been very successful and it is hoped it will be possible to make it permanent. The Curator attended the launches of ‘Mulga to Mallee’ by the Premier, of a CD on the Bibbulmun Track, and of Mike Board’s video Remember the Horses. Planning commenced on the future directions of the Museum in the region. Ten people discussed projects which involve the Museum site and further discussions will be held by the Advisory Board. WESTERN AUSTRALIAN MUSEUM ANNUAL REPORT 2003–2004
57 Western Australian Museum–Geraldton The Western Australian Museum–Geraldton is located on the shore of the Batavia Coast Marina and houses the Dutch Shipwrecks and the Mid West galleries. The former traces the fate of the four known Dutch ships wrecked on the Western Australian coast between 1629 and 1726. The latter is concerned with the geology, flora, fauna, and cultural and economic development of the Mid West region. In particular the gallery explores the important role that Indigenous communities have played in shaping the economy, society and culture of the region. The Museum also hosts intra and interstate travelling exhibitions which are exhibited in the Travelling Exhibition Gallery. The Marra Aboriginal Corporation leases the Museum’s Aboriginal Gallery. This is a joint venture with the local Indigenous community. The Marra gallery promotes and sells local Indigenous art and craft and in the process enhances the various experiences of Museum visitors. CAPITAL WORKS Batavia Coast Marina Museum Jetty The Department of Planning and Infrastructure has approved detailed plans to build a Museum jetty in the Batavia Coats Marina. The Department has also agreed to issue the Museum with a seabed lease and a jetty licence. It is anticipated that a range of strategic partnerships involving private enterprise and local, state and Commonwealth agencies will assist in raising resources to build the jetty. When completed the jetty will provide a permanent berth for the replica of the Batavia longboat. It will also have the capacity to berth the Duyfken when it visits Geraldton. The jetty will adjoin the Museum and will provide an opportunity to interpret the longboat as well as provide berthing for other historic small craft. The ‘wedge building’ project Adjoining the Museum is the ‘wedge building’. Originally intended to be a coffee shop it was never completed. The decision has now been made to complete the internal fit-out of the building so that it can be used as an education centre and as a venue for functions. Given the location of the building beside the Batavia Coast Marina, the latter capability is expected to contribute to the Museum’s income. The fit-out is expected to be completed at the end of 2004. The project is being managed in house and is being funded through the Western Australian Museum– Geraldton’s trust funds. COMMUNITY PROJECTS The Batavia longboat replica project Work has now finished on the fit-out of the replica of the Batavia longboat. On 12 October 2003, Mr Wayne Collier, Chief Executive Officer of the Central West College of TAFE, officially handed over the boat to the care of the Batavia Coast Replica Boat Association, who represent the Geraldton Community. The boat was built after the Central West College of TAFE was given funding by the Department of Education and Training to run a 40-week course in wooden boat building. A wide range of other government, industry and community agencies and groups, including the Western Australian Museum–Geraldton, sponsored the project. The boat is moored in the Batavia Coast Marina adjacent to the Museum. A submission to the Australian National Maritime Museum in Sydney, which was prepared by the Museum, raised $3,000 for signage on the proposed Museum jetty for the interpretation of the longboat replica. Whaleboats in Geraldton The Museum continues to work with the Batavia Coast Replica Boat Association, the Mid West Gascoyne Area Consultative Committee, the Guardian Newspaper Group and local schools to explore ways to fund the construction of one or two 19th-century whaleboats. The project aims WESTERN AUSTRALIAN MUSEUM ANNUAL REPORT 2003–2004
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