Return visit to the National Museum of Australia today to see the galleries I didn't manage when I went last month. It is a very modern looking building with a large map of the whole of Australia that you can walk around/over.
This is supposed to be snake that runs through the museum, part of a Dreamtime story.
There was a small exhibition on the home front in Australia during the First World War, which I found interesting because of my own research on Scotland. As well as all the Mothering online research that I have been doing whilst here, I have also found time to submit a proposal for a paper for a conference on women on the home front - looking specifically at the suffrage movement at that time. So it was nice to see a familiar face amongst the exhibits.
Not my favourite Pankhurst (Sylvia) but definitely preferable to Christobel in my admittedly biased opinion.
There was also an exhibition of feminism in the 70s in Australia, with Germaine Greer's coat, which she had made herself. Very nice.
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