our design
Our museum display’s approach is from a modern day perspective. To create an informative yet intriguing and simple modern museum we will have an individual display room for each area, which will centre on significant events and issues which have led to the cultural and social changes within the aboriginal community.
The topic that we have chosen as a group to focus on is the Stolen Generation. The Stolen Generation display is constructed to resemble the homes of Aboriginal communities. However, an Aboriginal mother is shown crying in solitude surrounded by trees painted in black and white to represent the home it used to be but is now empty and dull after the children were removed from their communities.
Striving to create personal links between the viewer and the Aboriginal communities affected by the policy we allow the viewer to feel like they are stepping into the personal lives and experiences of Aboriginals affected by the changing government policies towards them. The dark atmosphere and loneliness brings out sympathy and sadness from the viewer.
The interactive touch screen begins with a handprint across the screen representing the Red Ochre Handprints which is what Aborigines use to record someone’s presence and association with a site. The viewer will then enter the Aboriginal world where Aboriginals artworks will be displayed and incorporated are first hand retelling of stories behind the Stolen Generation, the pain, struggles and suffering of those affected and what they have endured.
On the adjacent wall, the renowned Rabbit-Proof Fence directed by Phillip Noyce will be playing, a journey on which three girls embark on after being forcibly removed from their home. This secondary source is mainly targeting younger children in order to aid them in grasping knowledge and understanding of the traumatizing impacts and consequences of the policies for Aboriginals.
In an opposite room, Prime Minister Kevin Rudd’s formal apology to the indigenous community will be shown. This primary source will link back to modern Australian society.
Also included within the interactive touch screen is a questionnaire compromising of questions related to the 2 clips shown Rabbit-Proof Fence and Kevin Rudd’s formal apology. They will ask the viewer on how they perceive the Stolen Generation as well as their perspectives of the major impacts towards the Aboriginal society and what Australia has done as an overall to improve our mistakes, past and present.
After a tour of our museum, we hope that viewers will leave with a deeper perceptive of the issues surrounding the Stolen Generation and the true representations on how the Aboriginal communities within Australia have been greatly impacted.
From this, we hope that more readers can understand the true representations of the events that occurred and the impact and the consequences that followed for the Aboriginal society.
The topic that we have chosen as a group to focus on is the Stolen Generation. The Stolen Generation display is constructed to resemble the homes of Aboriginal communities. However, an Aboriginal mother is shown crying in solitude surrounded by trees painted in black and white to represent the home it used to be but is now empty and dull after the children were removed from their communities.
Striving to create personal links between the viewer and the Aboriginal communities affected by the policy we allow the viewer to feel like they are stepping into the personal lives and experiences of Aboriginals affected by the changing government policies towards them. The dark atmosphere and loneliness brings out sympathy and sadness from the viewer.
The interactive touch screen begins with a handprint across the screen representing the Red Ochre Handprints which is what Aborigines use to record someone’s presence and association with a site. The viewer will then enter the Aboriginal world where Aboriginals artworks will be displayed and incorporated are first hand retelling of stories behind the Stolen Generation, the pain, struggles and suffering of those affected and what they have endured.
On the adjacent wall, the renowned Rabbit-Proof Fence directed by Phillip Noyce will be playing, a journey on which three girls embark on after being forcibly removed from their home. This secondary source is mainly targeting younger children in order to aid them in grasping knowledge and understanding of the traumatizing impacts and consequences of the policies for Aboriginals.
In an opposite room, Prime Minister Kevin Rudd’s formal apology to the indigenous community will be shown. This primary source will link back to modern Australian society.
Also included within the interactive touch screen is a questionnaire compromising of questions related to the 2 clips shown Rabbit-Proof Fence and Kevin Rudd’s formal apology. They will ask the viewer on how they perceive the Stolen Generation as well as their perspectives of the major impacts towards the Aboriginal society and what Australia has done as an overall to improve our mistakes, past and present.
After a tour of our museum, we hope that viewers will leave with a deeper perceptive of the issues surrounding the Stolen Generation and the true representations on how the Aboriginal communities within Australia have been greatly impacted.
From this, we hope that more readers can understand the true representations of the events that occurred and the impact and the consequences that followed for the Aboriginal society.