Songlines Exhibition Created by Prof Kenderdine Wins Top Museum Award
The exhibition, "Songlines: Tracking the Seven Sisters", created by Prof. Sarah Kenderdine (Laboratory for Experimental Museology), and shown at the National Museum of Australia won the Museums & Galleries National Awards 2018 (MAGNA 2018), level 4, and was also selected as the National Winner.
Songlines takes visitors on a journey across the Australian desert in an Aboriginal-led exhibition about the epic Seven Sisters Dreaming. The exhibition includes artworks, a state-of-the-art digital dome and a vibrant art centre.
The exhibition was commended by the judges as: "a unique, ground breaking and complex cross cultural project that makes everything look simple - it has created a new genre of exhibition for today's generation. Clear about who its audiences are, how to reach them and talk to them - and what it wants to say! Strong involvement of Yuendumu community writing content, creating artwork and telling stories in language (with English sub titles). Innovative creating a game for visitors to interact with as well as AR Extensive touring, made possible by adapting resources to tour it themselves. Great use of innovative approaches to engagement (AR) and using the core theme of the show to expand out into other areas of indigenous culture and creativity to show resilience and adaptation".
A full list of MAGNA 2018 award winners can be found here. For more information about the exhibition, visit this website.