Anne Chapple's Blog – April 2012 Archive (5)

If you only ever attend one exhibition each year, make sure that the choice for 2012 is the WA Museum's Debt of Honour Exhibition currently showing at the WA Museum until early June.

The story told in this exhibition is fascinating and resonates on so many levels that just one visit probably is not enough.

Museums Australia (WA) hosted a curator's talk based on this exhibition on Thursday night and curators, Paul Bridges and Stephen Anstey gave all who attended…

Hello everyone

Just putting a call out there for some photos of the Perth Esplanade to accompany a great article on the Esplanade fro the next edition of "Musing".  Any photos recent or past would be very welcome!

Cheers

Anne

Just heard on the news last night that the Vic Govt was looking at axing 10% of jobs at Museum Victoria.

Why??

Because they "failed to take advantage of the Tutankhamun and the Golden Age of the Pharaohs exhibition"

What the......????

Anne

Spent the afternoon at the Immigration Museum today and didn't have enough time to see and do everything.

Very powerful exhibitions right throughout and some that were so simple yet really hit the spot.

Interesting that nearly all exhibitions provided paper and pens for people to add their comments or personal viewpoints to the subject on display.  In some cases these comments provided the most evocative thoughts.

Anne

Spent the afternoon at the Immigration Museum today and didn't have enough time to see and do everything.

Very powerful exhibitions right throughout and some that were so simple yet really hit the spot.

Interesting that nearly all exhibitions provided paper and pens for people to add their comments or personal viewpoints to the subject on display.  In some cases these comments provided the most evocative thoughts.

Anne