Aboriginal History Art and Culture
Bunjilaka

The Aboriginal History of Communities from Victoria is proudly displayed throughout Bunjilaka, the Aboriginal Cultural Center at Melbourne Museum.

Showcasing aboriginal history, art and culture and displaying some wonderful aboriginal artifacts makes for a valuable and educational experience for all age groups, a very unique family getaways experience.






The name Bunjilaka is derived from the word Bunjil (Boon Wurring and Woi Wurrung language), the Creation Ancestor for most of Victoria's Aboriginal language groups and the word aka which means land or place.

This is truly a great Creation Place

The actual Aboriginal history center holds and displays Aboriginal Heritage items, Aboriginal Art, exhibition and performance spaces and private areas for the Aboriginal communities to meet.

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• Jumbanna where the main exhibitions, the traveling exhibitions and temporary displays are housed such as...

  Koorie Voices, Belonging to Country and Two Laws
  
  





• Wurreka consists of a 50 meter long zinc wall area leading to the artist's exhibition place.


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  Wominjeka where visitors are greeted, the ritual strengthening the traditional culture of welcoming people to the country.


• Birrarung meaning Yarra River is where the visitor can enjoy and begin to understand the different art forms from South Eastern Australia.

  Check out these leading Aboriginal Artists and their works.
  
  
  
  
  My dear friend Sheri from Coloring Pages for All Ages has some free X-Ray Art coloring designs for the littles, hop on over and check out her site it is crammed full of great art information.

• Milarri meaning outside, is an indigenous garden area planted with flora of significance to the Aboriginal people of south-eastern Australia.

  Rock platforms and water courses bring to life the specific atmosphere surrounding this indigenous culture.

• Kalaya is where performances and activities are held. Usually stunning dance and song and fascinating story telling.Wilam Liwik meaning song and Aboriginal history story telling.
  
  
  
  
  
• Wilam Liwik, the camp of the Elders and their Meeting Room

Aboriginal Designs (Design Source Books)...This title provides a rich source of ideas and inspiration for all craftspeople and artists. The designs can be used as stencil or embroidery patterns, stationery designs, furniture decoration, glass painting guides or whatever your imagination chooses. The designs can be photocopied, traced, coloured, adapted or used as inspiration for originating your own designs.	Aboriginal Victorians: A History Since 1800...Early settlers saw Victoria and its rolling grasslands as Australia felix happy south land a prize left for Englishmen by God. However, for its original inhabitants this country was home and life, not to be relinquished without a fierce struggle. Richard Broome tells the story of the impact of European ideas, guns, killer microbes and a pastoral economy on the networks of kinship, trade and cultures that various Aboriginal peoples of Victoria had developed over millennia.	The Oxford Companion to Aboriginal Art and Culture...This unique publication provides a wide-ranging reference to indigenous Australian art, covering documented archaeological traditions, art styles of the early contact period and the nineteenth century, and the development of the contemporary Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander artpractices.

The Original Australians: Stories of the Aboriginal People...This fascinating and intelligent volume tells the remarkable story of Australian Aboriginal history from its distant beginnings in the age of Dreamtime, through the first contact with Europeans and other outsiders, right up to the present day. "The Original Australians" offers stunning insights into the life and experiences of one of the world's oldest cultures.	Gunyah, Goondie and Wurley: The Aboriginal Architecture of Australia...When Europeans first reached Australian shores, an expedient and long-held belief developed that Australian Aboriginal people did not have houses or towns. Instead it was believed that they occupied temporary camps, sheltering in makeshift huts or lean-tos of grass and bark.	Rob Riley: An Aboriginal Leader's Quest for Justice...Widely regarded as one of the great Aboriginal leaders of the modern era, Rob Riley was at the centre of debates that have polarised views on race relations in Australia: national land rights, the treaty, deaths in custody, self-determination, the justice system, native title and the Stolen Generations. He tragically took his own life in 1996, weighed down by the unresolved traumas of his exposure to institutionalisation, segregation and racism, and his sense of betrayal by the Australian political system to deliver justice to Aboriginal people.

Spirit Country: Contemporary Australian Aboriginal Art...Jennifer Isaacs has been a close observer of the artistic renaissance across Aboriginal Australia since it began in the early 1970s. In Spirit Country she outlines the forces that propelled the movement's initial upsurge and seeks the sources of its continuing vitality in a compelling narrative complemented by sumptuous reproductions of the artists' work.	Dollar Dreaming: Inside the Aboriginal Art World...Aboriginal history of art, explores how the Aboriginal art movement, born of isolation and deprivation in one of the remotest and harshest places on earth, has in little more than 30 years become a newly minted coin in the international art market, with paintings being exhibited and collected in Paris, Los Angeles and New York.	Aboriginal Art (Art & Ideas S.)...For thousands of years Australian Aborigines have been making art. A manifestation of the creative forces of the Dreamtime, art is also a means of expressing individual and group identity. Howard Morphy surveys the great variety in Aboriginal art, showing the interrelationships between such diverse art forms as body painting, dance, the decoration of weapons and utensils, and painting on bark and canvas.

Open Daily: 10:00am-5:00pm

Closed Good Friday and Christmas Day

Admission to the Melbourne Museum

Adults: $8:00

Concession and Children: FREE

There is convenient underground parking at the Museum and also metered parking in the side streets surrounding.

For all parking information visit this Melbourne Museum Parking link

Address:

Bunjilaka Aboriginal Culture Centre

Melbourne Museum

11 Nicholson Street

Carlton, Victoria, 3053

Contact: 131102 or 03 8341 7777


By Car:

Check out My Maps here. Just click on the icon and follow the prompts...

By Public Transport:

• Tram 86 or 96 to the corner of Nicholson and gertrude Streets
• The Free City Circle Tram
• City loop train to Parliment Station
• Bus routes 250, 251 and 402 to Rathdowne Street. Then a short walk
• Free City of Melbourne Tourist shuttle Bus to stop no'4 (The Museum and Carlton Gardens)

A true and in depth study into Australian Indigenous Cultures and a respectful exploration into Aboriginal history.




For what's on at Bunjilaka explore the current exhibitions

Some other Aboriginal History links that may be of interest

Indigenous Art

My friend Sheri's X-Ray Art Coloring pages

Victorian Aborigines

Melbourne Museum's Bunjilaka, a must see and truly unique family getaway.

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