The National Museum of Australia has connections to Wagga Wagga through two current projects.
The first is the inclusion of Wagga Wagga within the permanent Landmarks Exhibition, whilst the second is by way of the Food Stories project, which features a local cook’s galley and the involvement of the kids from the Collingullie Public School in the Stephanie Alexander Kitchen Garden Foundation Program.
Cook’s Galley
Food Stories uses objects from the National Museum’s collection to share stories about productive places, food gardeners and farmers. Food Stories explores local food histories and cultures and features primary schools taking part in the Stephanie Alexander Kitchen Garden Foundation Program.
Landmarks: People and Places across Australia is a National Museum gallery exploring a broad history of Australia through stories of places and their peoples.
Every place shows us something about who we are and how we live in this land. Many generations of men, women and children have made their homes here.
They have established enterprises, grown communities and built cities. They have marked the country, its plants and animals, and been marked by them. Over time, they have created the places that define our lives today.
Landmarks considers 10 themes in Australian life, exploring how each has unfolded in particular places across the country. It looks at how people have engaged with landscapes, flora, fauna and technologies to develop distinctive Australian communities.
Landmarks offers an imaginative tour of the country – the opportunity to ‘visit’ different places, to explore how they have emerged, and to ask how, together, they create a history of Australia.
You can view these two projects by visiting the National Museum of Australia web site (here) or by clicking on the following links:
Landmarks – Wagga Wagga
Food Stories – Collingullie
Food Stories – Collingullie Public School
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