Berndt Museum of Anthropology
Kalighat bazaar painting, 19th century
Exhibitions
The Berndt Museum of Anthropology mounts three types of exhibitions:•Temporary exhibitions.
• Permanent in-house exhibitions.
•Travelling and special exhibitions. See our current exhibition.
Previous Exhibitions
2012 Jimmy Pike’s Artlines: You call it desert, we used to live here.
This exhibition ran from 129 June to 15 December, 2012 in the Janet Holmes à Court Gallery at the Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery, the current temporary home of the Berndt Museum. During this period, the exhibition was visited by 4,547 visitors and 2,704 unique visitors via the Web (including 980 visitors to the Virtual Tour that was launched half way though the exhibition period).
2012 Relocate and Rediscover: Treasures of the Berndt Museum
This exhibition ran from 10 February to 2 June, 2012 in the Janet Holmes à Court Gallery at the Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery, the current temporary home of the Berndt Museum. During this period, the exhibition was visited by 6,609 visitors (including 528 First Year Anthropology students from the Discipline of Anthropology and Sociology) and 1,985 unique visitors via the Web (including 228 visitors to the Virtual Tour that was launched half way though the exhibition period).
Not bad for our first exhibition in the new environment!
2006 Koorah Coolingah (Children Long Ago)
This exhibition opened firstly at the Katanning Arts Centre on 24 February 2006; a second component opened on 27 February at the Western Australian Museum . Both closed on 12 March 2006.
The exhibition comprises two exhibitions , one at the Western Australian Museum of fifty works drawn from the Museum’s extensive collection of Nyungar South-West art ; the other comprising twenty works from the collection held by the Picker Art Gallery at Colgate University, Hamilton, New York State..
2005 On the Outskirts: Photographs of Allawah Gove Aboriginal Settlement, Perth
This exhibition was exhibited at the Cullity Gallery at The University of Western Australia from 2-10 May 2005 prior to travelling with Art on the Move throughout the South-West region of the state.
The exhibition comprises a selection of fifty photographs drawn from the Museum’s extensive collection of historic photographs.
2004 On Track: Contemporary Aboriginal art from Western Australia
This exhibition opened at the Western Australian Museum from 8 June to 29 June 2004. It is now travelling with Art on the Move throughout the state; in 2006 it commenced its interstate tour with sponsorship from Visions Australia.
Thirty-two works drawn from the Museum’s extensive collection of contemporary Western Australian Aboriginal art, were selected for this exhibition, which was commissioned by the Premier, the Hon. Geoff Gallop, as a key element of Western Australia’s 175th Anniversary Celebrations.
1999 Aboriginal artists of the South-West: Past and Present
This exhibition opened at the Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery, at The University of Western Australia, from 20 August to 19 December 1999. It is now travelling interstate with Art on the Move.
Approximately forty works, all drawn from the Museum’s extensive collection of contemporary South-West Aboriginal art, were selected by the guest curator, Sandra Hill, a local Aboriginal artist.
1996 The eternal flame : Buddhist bronzes from the Berndt Bequest. (Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery, University of Western Australia)
1995 Djalkiri Wanga: the land is my foundation : 50 years of Aboriginal art from Yirrkala, Northeast Arnhem Land. (Travelling exhibition, beginning at the Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery)
1992 Nyungar landscapes: Aboriginal artists of the South-West. (Travelling exhibition, beginning at the Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery)
1988 Innovative Aborignal art of Western Australia (Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery, University of Western Australia).
Images of Aboriginal Australia
This long-term ‘permanent’ installation in the Gallery of the Museum in the Social Sciences Building between 1988 and 2009 comprised of 22 cases containing Aboriginal objects and paintings from the Kimberley, Arnhem Land, the South-West, and the Western Desert.A guide to this display has been published as:
Stanton, John E., Images of Aboriginal Australia (Occasional Paper No. 2) (1988)
Highlights of this display can be seen in the Virtual Tour of the former Berndt Museum gallery.
