About community projects

Images above from Snapshots of Remote Communities project.

The National Museum of Australia undertook a range of public outreach programs as part of its strategic priority to engage audiences beyond the Museum's Canberra site. This involves the various communities around Australia and encouraging their input into a range of issues and topics that result in online community-based exhibitions.

This list identifies the places around Australia that were involved in developing the variety of online community projects.

This series of short interviews and images are of real farmers from the Upper Murray region who work for themselves, some of whom may not get an income for a whole year. Farmers were interviewed from the following areas:

• Cudgewa, Victoria
• Walwa, Victoria
• North East Victoria
• Towong (near Corryong), Victoria
• Wooragee (near Beechworth), Victoria
• Everton Upper (near Wangaratta), Victoria
• Mudgegonga (near Myrtleford), Victoria
• Rand, New South Wales
• Stanley, Victoria

The Basin Bytes project is a series of community outreach initiatives in collaboration with the Murray-Darling Basin Commission. The Murray-Darling Basin ranges from Queensland to South Australia and includes three quarters of New South Wales and half of Victoria. The project involved the following areas:

• Wentworth, New South Wales (June 2004)
• Echuca, Victoria (March 2004)
• Goolwa, South Australia (March 2006)
• Toowoomba, Queensland (March 2006)

Our Museum team and hip hop artists went on the road for two months visiting seven locations in six states and territories recording rap songs with around 1600 young people from over 60 schools. They visited the following areas:

• Weipa, Queensland
• Katherine, Northern Territory
• Derby, Western Australia
• Geraldton, Western Australia
• Port Augusta, South Australia
• Swan Hill, Victoria
• Moree, New South Wales

The project was completed in October 2005.

Explore the questions: What is a community? How would you define your community? What do communities have in common? How much do communities across Australia vary? Students were asked to capture images of what they think is important about their community. The project involved the following areas:

• Boree Creek, New South Wales (October 2004)
• Cabramurra, New South Wales (October 2004)
• Corinella, New South Wales (October 2004)
• Enngonia, New South Wales (October 2004)
• Marra Creek, New South Wales (October 2004)
• Redpa, Tasmania (November 2004)
• Waratah, Tasmania (November 2004)
• White Cliffs, New South Wales (October 2004)
• Avoca, Tasmania (August 2005)
• Bruny Island, Tasmania (August 2005)
• Cape Barren Island, Tasmania (August 2005)
• Kempton, Tasmania (August 2005)
• Maydena, Tasmania (August 2005)
• Alcoota, Northern Territory (November 2005)
• Apungalindum Homeland Centre, Northern Territory (November 2005)
• Mt Allan, Northern Territory (November 2005)
• Mulga Bore, Northern Territory (Novemer 2005)
• Adelaide River, Northern Territory (June 2006)
• Douglas Daly, Northern Territory (June 2006)
• Dundee Beach, Northern Territory (June 2006)
• Laramba, Northern Territory (November 2005)
• Middle Point, Northern Territory (June 2006)

Each year the National Museum invites four different community groups or photographers to produce a photographic essay responding to the question, 'What is important and special about where you live?'

• The Narrows, Darwin (March 2005)
• Gap Youth Centre, Alice Springs (February 2005)
• Royal Flying Doctor Service, Alice Springs (September 2004)