The Great Exhibitions and their Lost Indigenous Objects

伟大的展览及其失落的本土物品

• 批准号: IN240100030
• 负责人: Prof Gaye Sculthorpe
• 金额: $ 56.98万
• 依托单位: Deakin University
• 依托单位国家: 澳大利亚
• 项目类别: Discovery Indigenous
• 财政年份: 2024
• 资助国家: 澳大利亚
• 起止时间: 2024-01-01 至 2027-12-31
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://dataportal.arc.gov.au/RGS/Web/Grants/IN240100030
• 关键词: Great; Exhibitions; their; Lost; Indigenous

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.

该项目将重新发现被送往海外参加19世纪和20世纪初的伟大展览的澳大利亚土著文物。这些物品充当了强大的文化、政治和经济展示形式，以及帝国和殖民投射的形式。它将挖掘与这些事件有关的土著人民的隐藏历史，以及许多遗失给澳大利亚的文物。通过社区对话的合作，该项目将把知识带回国内，并重新建立文物、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的关注，创造新的展览可能性，并影响国际博物馆实践。