The role of Queensland Museum collections in producing knowledge of Aboriginal people from Federation to the present day

该项目将调查昆士兰博物馆自19世纪末以来关于土著人民的知识生产。重点将放在物质文化收藏在土著文化解释中不断变化的作用。APAI将在国家建设的背景下分析物质文化收藏，并将调查这些收藏对土著社区的变化意义和当代相关性。该项目将产生一系列研究成果，可用于设计新的展览，揭示博物馆藏品发展过程中跨文化互动的真正复杂性。

The project will investigate the production of knowledge about Aboriginal peoples by the Queensland Museum since the late nineteenth century. The focus will be on the changing role of material culture collections in the construal of Aboriginality. The APAI will analyse material culture collection in the context of nation building and will investigate both the changing meanings and the contemporary relevance of such collections to Aboriginal communities. The project will produce a body of research that can be used in the design of new exhibitions that will reveal the true complexity of cross-cultural interactions in the development of the Museum's collections.