The Great Exhibitions and their Lost Indigenous Objects

该项目将重新发现19世纪和20世纪初运往海外的大型展览的澳大利亚土著物品。这些物品是文化、政治和经济展示的有力形式，也是帝国和殖民主义投射的一种形式。它将挖掘与这些事件有关的土著居民的隐藏历史，以及澳大利亚丢失的许多物品。通过社区对话的协作工作，该项目将带回知识，重建文物、博物馆和土著人民之间的联系。在此过程中，它将使当代土著视角引起全球关注，产生新的展览可能性，并影响国际博物馆的实践。

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.