The new WA Museum Boola Bardip is due to open its doors on 21 November with Songlines: Tracking the Seven Sisters its first major exhibition.
Featuring more than 300 paintings and objects plus song, dance, photography and multimedia, Songlines shares the story of the Seven Sisters as they traverse the continent from Roebourne in Western Australia, through Martu and Ngaanyatjarra lands in the west, to the APY (Aṉangu Pitjantjatjara Yankunytjatjara) Lands in South Australia.
The exhibition is the culmination of more than five years of collaboration between Aboriginal communities and the National Museum of Australia (NMA) in Canberra.
Also opening at the WA Museum Boola Bardip will be a collection of artworks from Yiwarra Kuju: The Canning Stock Route.
The artworks share the story of the Canning Stock Route’s impact and the importance of the Country around it, expressed through Aboriginal voices and interpreted through Aboriginal eyes.
Minister for Culture and the Arts, David Templeman said both collections were coming to Western Australia as part of a special partnership between the WA Museum and the NMA that is now in its fifth year.
“Close to 70,000 people have entered the ballot to be among the first to visit the museum during the nine-day opening festival, and the first 9,500 successful tickets have been allocated,” Mr Templeman said.
“Work continues on allocating the remaining 47,500 tickets. For those who remain unsuccessful in the ballot, tickets will be available for subsequent weeks.”
