Melbourne Exhibition

What I found most interesting about the Melbourne Exhibition was the wayfinding techniques used throughout. Rather than having an explicit path to guide visitors, the exhibition space was multidirectional. This encourages the public to make their own way around the space based on personal interests.

Interactive screens, wall plates, immersive environments such as multiple screens, timelines, signs, costumes, statues and maps were all part of the media used to tell various stories. However, in terms of perspective, I found that the story of pre white settlement was predominantly told from the white settlers’ perspective. In this way, the Museum hardly dealt with the difficult and tragic story of indigenous land being forcibly taken. Because of this I felt marginally disappointed by the exhibition and much preferred Bunjilaka’s First Peoples exhibition downstairs.

 

George

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