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Sanitising or celebrating the past? The Van Diemen's Land Memorial Folk Museum 1957-2007
In 1957 the Van Diemen's Land Memorial Folk Museum was opened in the Georgina townhouse of Narryna in Hobart, Tasmania. This was the first folk museum to be established in Australia. It spoke to the middle-class need to distance itself from the island's origins as a penal colony and to stress the contribution of the pioneer free settlers in forging a respectable society in the first half of the nineteenth century. This article describes how the rich colonial collection was exhibited and assesses visitor and museological reactions.
History
Publication title
ReCollections: Journal of the National Museum of AustraliaVolume
4Pagination
EJISSN
1833-1335Department/School
School of HumanitiesPublisher
National Museum of AustraliaPlace of publication
CanberraRepository Status
- Restricted