The Great Exhibitions and their Lost Indigenous Objects

该项目将重新发现澳大利亚土著物品送往海外的十九世纪和二十世纪初的大型展览。这些物品是文化、政治和经济展示的有力形式，也是帝国和殖民投射的一种形式。它将挖掘与这些事件有关的土著人的隐藏历史，以及许多丢失给澳大利亚的物品。通过在社区对话中的合作，该项目将遣返知识，并重新建立对象，博物馆和土著人民之间的联系。通过这样做，它将使当代土著观点引起全球关注，产生新的展览可能性，并影响国际博物馆的做法。

This project will rediscover the Australian Indigenous objects sent overseas to the Great Exhibitions of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Such objects acted as powerful forms of cultural, political and economic display, and a form of imperial and colonial projection. It will excavate the hidden histories of Indigenous people involved in these events and the many objects lost to Australia. Through collaborative work at community dialogues, the project will repatriate knowledge and remake connections between objects, museums, and Indigenous people. In doing so, it will bring contemporary Indigenous perspectives to global attention, generate new exhibition possibilities and influence international museum practice.