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The political discourse of the National Museum of Australia
History
First Australians is the Museum on the first two floors
Geography
Connection to place
Ngunnawal country
Canberra
Acton Peninsula
In sight of Parliment Building
Power
Architects
Ashton Raggatt McDougall
Robert Peck von Hartel Trethowan
Howard Raggatt
Indigenous community
The Ngunnawal
Government
Links
Daniel Libeskind’s Jewish
Museum in Berlin
Jewish Holocaust in the Second
World War, and the consequences of white settlement for Australian Aborigines.
Postmodern art
It is determinedly pluralist, offering many individual
stories and narratives rather than an overriding
authoritative metanarrative of ‘nationhood’.
Where a museum’s contents are not solely cultural ‘treasures’, there is also less need for the ‘museum as vault’ typology, and the contents of the NMA are decidedly mixed in this respect.