Today was wet, very wet, as the tail end of Debbie headed out to sea North of us. We headed in to Sydney on the bus and went to the Museum of Australia. It has a very good collection of Australian wildlife, stuffed not running about, and a very good section of Aborigine artifacts. We happened to meet one of the museum staff at the lunch table and heard about their collection, about the five members of staff of First Nation heritage and about the museum's involvement in returning items, in their collection and other collections in Europe, to First Nation collections in Australia and Tasmania.
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| Aborigine art - made from fishing nets washed up on their beaches |
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| Grave markers |
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| Ceremonial mask |
The museum also has the usual suspects - dinosaurs etc.
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| dem bones... |
After lunch at the museum, looking out over a wet and soggy Sydney.....
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| Soggy Sydney |
...we headed to the Queen Victoria Building, affectionately known as the QVB, to study the architecture and also a model shop that has a section devoted to trains.
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| Layout in the shop |
....and it seemed churlish not to buy something.
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| Australian Diesel Rail Car |
Thank you Kate.
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