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Exhibitions

The Berndt Museum of Anthropology has two types of exhibitions:

• The permanent installation in the Museum itself: Images of Aboriginal Australia.
  
  
• Travelling and special exhibitions.

Images of Aboriginal Australia

The permanent installation in the Berndt Museum consists 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 Gallery.

Current Travelling Exhibitions

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.

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 Anniversay Celebrations.

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.

Previous Exhibitions

Travelling and special exhibitions have been mounted from time to time.

2006

Koorah Coolingah (Children Long Ago)

This exhibition, which comprised two elements, 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..

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)