Outreach events
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The Museum acknowledges the primacy of national audiences and strives to ensure that its range of exhibitions, programs and services are developed within a national framework. Outreach policy, February 2005 |
As part of its strategic priority to engage audiences beyond the Museum's Canberra site, the organisation undertook a range of public outreach programs.
A major commitment this year was to supply programming for Croc Festivals, a series of events toured nationally and managed by Indigenous Festivals Australia. Croc Festivals travelled to seven states and territories over two-and-a-half months and attracted more than 15,000 Indigenous and non-Indigenous young people from regional and remote locations. The tour started in Weipa, Queensland, then moved to Katherine in the Northern Territory; Derby and Geraldton in Western Australia; Port Augusta in South Australia and Swan Hill in Victoria; before finishing in Moree, New South Wales.
The Museum contracted hip-hop artists Morganics and Wire MC, and video artist Finton Mahony, to facilitate workshops for students who wrote and recorded their own songs and videos. Through these recordings the students were able to express their views about their community, their lives and aspirations and the challenges confronting them. The 14 tracks and seven music videos were developed as a package also containing a 25-page song booklet sent to all participating schools. Two tracks are being featured in the First Australians gallery's Our Community exhibition.
Following the success of online Basin Bytes projects in Echuca and Wentworth last year, the Museum has begun development of online exhibitions with communities in Toowoomba, Queensland and Goolwa, South Australia - at opposite ends of the Murray-Darling system.
The Museum is one of the few cultural institutions in the world to have a broadcast studio capable of producing broadcast-quality radio, television programs, video conference and webcasts. The Studio enabled the Museum's outreach activities this year to include several programs hosted in conjunction with the Australian Science Festival. These included three panel discussions, broadcast live on Radio National.
Outreach map
| Program | Place | State Territory Country |
| Basin Bytes | Goolwa | South Australia |
| Toowomba | Queensland | |
| Croc Festivals | Weipa | Queensland |
| Katherine | Northern Territory | |
| Derby | Western Australia | |
| Geraldton | Western Australia | |
| Port Augusta | South Australia | |
| Swan Hill | Victoria | |
| Moree | New South Wales | |
| Kuranda | Queensland | |
| Cairns | Queensland | |
| Yarrabah | Queensland | |
| Darwin | Northern Territory | |
| Songs and Stories | Wangaratta | Victoria |
| Wodonga | Victoria | |
| Albury | New South Wales | |
| Tumut | New South Wales | |
| Gundagai | New South Wales | |
| Kythera | Greece | |
| Looking Around | Gap Youth Centre, Alice Springs | Northern Territory |
| Royal Flying Doctor Service, Alice Springs | Northern Territory | |
| The Narrows, Darwin | Northern Territory | |
| Snapshots | Sydney | New South Wales |
| Boree Creek | New South Wales | |
| Enngonia | New South Wales | |
| Marra Creek | New South Wales | |
| White Cliffs | New South Wales | |
| Redpa | Tasmania | |
| Waratah | Tasmania | |
| Launceston | Tasmania | |
| Ross | Tasmania | |
| Alexandra | Victoria | |
| Talkback Classroom | Washington | USA |
| Te Papa | New Zealand | |
| Sydney | New South Wales | |
| Teaching History Fellowships | Brisbane | Queensland |
| Newcastle/ Central Coast |
New South Wales | |
| Professional Development for Teachers | Darwin | Northern Territory |
| Alice Springs | Northern Territory | |
| Brisbane | Queensland | |
| Gold Coast | Queensland | |
| Melbourne | Victoria | |
| Ballarat | Victoria | |
| Sydney | New South Wales | |
| Newcastle | New South Wales | |
| Conference Presentations | Melbourne | Victoria |
| Sydney | New South Wales | |
| Repatriation staff visited | London | United Kingdom |
| Leicester | United Kingdom | |
| Wellington | New Zealand | |
| Eden | New South Wales | |
| Sydney | New South Wales | |
| Baronga | New South Wales | |
| Hillston | New South Wales | |
| Alice Springs | Northern Territory | |
| Longreach | Queensland | |
| Mannum | South Australia | |
| Goreta | South Australia | |
| Innamincka | South Australia | |
| Repatriation has had close involvement with groups in | Sweden | |
| Bermagul | New South Wales | |
| Framlingham | Victoria | |
| Swan Hill | Victoria | |
| Broome | Western Australia | |
| Fitzroy Crossing | Western Australia | |
