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The first 20 years of the National Museum's formal life, from 1981 to 2000, was a dynamic period of museum-making, cultural policy formation and structural economic change in Australia. The interplay of these elements produced a complex institutional ecology that did much to shape development of the social history collection, in particular.
This paper analyses social history as museum theme and practice during this period. The paper contextualises the Carroll report's criticism of the National Historical Collection by discussing earlier policy manoeuvres around collection development.
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