Aboriginal massacre exhibitions – Australian Frontier Conflicts

Port Lincoln’s bloody past explored in new frontier wars exhibition

jane2024-12-09T11:44:58+11:00December 8th, 2024|

Read the story by Emma Pedler and Amelia Costigan on Port Lincoln's violent history on ABC Eyre Peninsula, Saturday 24 August 2024: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-08-24/port-lincoln-exhibition-frontier-wars-settlers-aboriginal-people/104257966?utm_campaign=abc_news_web&utm_content=mail&utm_medium=content_shared&utm_source=abc_news_web A map of conflicts that happened in South Australia, available on this website, can be viewed here: Frontier Conflicts Map – South Australia Other information about [...]

Colonisation seen through eyes of First Nations–’Unsettled’ to open at Sydney’s Australian Museum

jane2021-05-27T15:27:45+10:00May 19th, 2021|

Initially meant to be a response to the 250th anniversary of Captain James Cook's mapping of the east coast of Australia, Unsettled presents instead the truth of Australian history from the perspectives of First Peoples. The free exhibition, to open on 22 May 2021, tells what happened to First Nations [...]

Black Day, Sun Rises, Blood Runs Exhibition

jane2017-12-05T06:42:24+11:00November 16th, 2017|

A new multimedia presentation, about Aboriginal massacres in Victoria, has opened as part of the First Peoples permanent exhibition at the Bunjilaka Aboriginal Cultural Centre, Melbourne Museum, Victoria, Australia. A review of the new installation, Black Day, Sun Rises, Blood Runs, a film and multimedia project, is in Arts Review, 16 November [...]

‘White-washed’ history of Indigenous massacres subject of new Melbourne exhibition

jane2017-12-05T07:09:22+11:00November 14th, 2017|

A new exhibition of Aboriginal massacres that occurred in Victoria has opened as part of the permanent First Peoples exhibition at the Bunjilaka Aboriginal Cultural Centre, Melbourne Museum, Victoria, Australia. Black Day, Sun Rises, Blood Runs is a multimedia presentation, as well as a film, of this terrible period in [...]