Museum/heritage moments

After reading this story from The Guardian, which I found on Global Museum, that talks about local museum funding and the importance of local museums; I thought about the museum/heritage moments of my life. The one that comes to mind first is obviously the Propert pink caravan as the museum moment of my 2007 visit to the National Museum. On my latest visit, perhaps due to much of the collection being stored during the refurbishment, my museum moment came from a touring exhibition from WA. The exhibition was Yirwarra Kuju: Canning Stock Route and consisted of paintings of artists living along the old stock route. If you get the opportunity to see it, go for it as it gives an interesting view of Indigenous history, life and art in a very remote landscape.

Locally my favourite object at the WA Museum is the buffalo who is part of the Museum's heritage collection. This is due to it being among the early museum exhibits still on display and the way the exhibition objects are displayed. The buffalo is an object that a lot of people remember on their visit, no matter what their age and it is fascinating to see an animal that big up close. Check it out next time you're in the museum.  In Maritime museum Shipwrecks Gallery its definintely the Batavia exhibition which I saw for the first time in primary school. The exhibition and story behind this shipwreck is interesting, blood thirsty and tragic and is an important part of WA's history. A book on the subject is
Hugh Edward's Islands of angry ghosts : murder, mayhem and mutiny : the story of The Batavia.

Unfortunately I can't find any images of these exhibitions to inspire you to visit, but here's one of the museum facade from the James Street in the cultural centre.

WA Museum

My question to you all in blogland is what are your museum/heritage moments?

Maybe you haven't had one yet so I encourage you to get out there and find out about something you already enjoy - there'll be a museum somewhere in the world for you.