Pamela Young

Project Officer at the Museum of Sydney, walks through the exhibition spaces of MOS that present a complex mix of Aboriginal and British history on the site.

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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