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Pamela Young:
"For myself coming here, and looking at the museum, the first
thing that I enter is the 'Edge of the Trees'. And I go there
and I stand next to those trees and they're all talking to
me. And I thought 'Wow ,this is fantastic', coz it's like
the spirits of the land that are welcoming me in.
Then I walk in the front doors of the Museum
of Sydney and I hear all these voices calling out to me, and
I thought 'Hey this is a place where I gotta be', considering
I'm a noisy person myself, but also that welcoming coming
in.
Then as you start - go in to the first visitor
service desk there, you look up at all these Aboriginal painting
there and for Gordon Siren, and that depicts about the first
invasion. And I think 'OK I'm going on a journey here'.
As I approach, going up the stairs, I see the
battle of Pemulwuy, and I thought 'ahh - this is great, to
see our mate there'. Then I go to Michael Riley's exhibit
there, that's a standard one there, but you see Eora - a day
in the life in Eora.
As we slowly go up the stairs a bit further
we come up to the Cadigal place. And to me, it's like walking
in there, and you have that little moment of peace in yourself,
because you're respecting the Cadigal people that once were
there on these lands. But also when you bring other people
on that journey, you're also inviting them into that world
of respect, where a lot of people are not fully aware of that".
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