How do museums represent history?

Topic: History, Studies of Society and Environment, Indigenous Studies, Media Studies
Type: Curriculum materials
Years: 9-12

Key curriculum links

Time, Continuity and Change; Culture; Natural and Social Systems; Investigation, Communication and Participation.

This unit investigates the way in which the National Museum of Australia has created representations of aspects of our past, and encourages students to critically analyse those representations.

The student activities included in this unit cover the following topics:

• Introductory activity: What are 'representations' of history?
• Case study one: Representing an incident in frontier contact history
• Case study two: Representing an incident in environmental history
• Conclusion

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