点评:Our second visit.
A series of buildings starts with a animated, twenty minute film outlining the Aboriginal history of the area, including its dreaming creatures and how the arrival of white settlers affected their lives. Nice positive spin imagining the future, working in unison etc. The museum proceeds to highlight people who came from or to Bourke, especially Henry Lawson and his support for the striking shearers. Other notables included Edward Dickens, the favoured son of Charles; Fred Hollows (who is buried here); Nancy Bird, Breaker Morant, Will Ogilvie, Charles Bean, Sidney Kidman and a cast of thousands.
There is notable focus on indigenous people who where prominent in the area following white settlement. Jimmy Barker, a self-educated son of a German pastoralist who left when he was 5 and Margaret Ellis, a Murawari women. He fought all his life against racism and was influential, along with Bill Ferguson and Pearl Gibbs in forming the Aboriginal Progressive Association. Ferguson was the first to highlight Australia Day as a day of mourning. Then there was Percy Hobson, a keen your high jumper who set all sorts of records and won Gold at the Perth Commonwealth Games ... this after being told not to let people know he was Aboriginal because it would hold him back and for a long time leaving Bourke on the Friday train, competing in Sydney over the weekend and returning Sunday night!
Good museum but take advantage of the two day pass as there is a lot to see and read and listen to and watch!
翻译:这是我们第二次参观。
一系列建筑以一部 20 分钟的动画电影开始,该电影概述了该地区的原住民历史,包括其梦幻生物以及白人定居者的到来如何影响他们的生活。对未来、齐心协力等进行了很好的积极想象。博物馆继续突出介绍来自或来到伯克的人们,尤其是亨利·劳森和他对罢工剪羊毛工的支持。其他著名人物包括查尔斯的宠儿爱德华·狄更斯;弗雷德·霍洛斯(埋葬在这里);南希·伯德、布雷克·莫兰特、威尔·奥格尔维、查尔斯·比恩、西德尼·基德曼和数千名演员。
特别关注的是白人定居后在该地区占有重要地位的土著人。吉米·巴克是一位自学成才的德国牧民的儿子,5 岁时离开;玛格丽特·埃利斯是一位穆拉瓦里妇女。他一生都在与种族主义作斗争,并与比尔·弗格森和珀尔·吉布斯一起组建了原住民进步协会,具有影响力。弗格森是第一个将澳大利亚国庆日定为哀悼日的人。然后是珀西·霍布森,他是一位热衷于跳高运动的人,曾创下各种纪录,并在珀斯英联邦运动会上获得金牌……此前,他被告知不要让别人知道他是土著人,因为这会阻碍他的发展,很长一段时间他都乘坐周五的火车离开伯克,周末在悉尼参加比赛,周日晚上返回!
博物馆不错,但要充分利用两天通票,因为有很多东西可以看、读、听和观看!