Collecting at the Crossroads: Anthropology, Art & Cultural Change (1939-85)

该项目将运用博物馆收藏实践、艺术和人类学方面的现有奖学金，更好地了解澳大利亚最重要但鲜为人知的土著艺术和文化收藏之一——伯恩特博物馆收藏。该项目将探索这些藏品的遗产，并与制作这些藏品的原住民后代合作，以新的方式欣赏它们的深度。以在澳大利亚内陆收集的材料为重点，我们将开发一种协作方式来询问收集的材料。该项目将通过制作在线资源和公开展览来庆祝这一独特的文化收藏，使土著社区和更广泛的澳大利亚公众受益。

This project will apply current scholarship on museum collecting practices, art and anthropology to produce a better understanding of one of Australia’s most significant, yet little known, collections of Aboriginal art and culture —the Berndt Museum collection. The project will explore the legacy of this collection and generate new ways of appreciating its depth in partnership with the descendants of the Aboriginal people who made it. Focusing on materials collected in inland Australia, we will develop a collaborative means of interrogating the collection. The project will benefit Aboriginal communities and the wider Australian public via the production of on-line resources and public exhibitions celebrating this unique cultural collection.