East of M\u00e1laga<\/a>.\u00a0 She challenges us to take one trip EVERY month.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"I haven’t left town this month, but I have visited the National Museum which gave me plenty of opportunities to snap photos. Ours is a museum of social history.\u00a0 Neither the content nor the architecture is traditional, which is obvious even before arriving at the car park:\u00a0 the introduction to the building is this giant … <\/p>\n
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![\"Entrance](\"http:\/\/worth.id.au\/wish\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/entrance-nma.jpg?w=750\")
In the foyer there are great glass windows looking onto the lake, and an artsy window dressing which produces the best shadows. ![\"window_Nat](\"http:\/\/worth.id.au\/wish\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/window_nat-museum.jpg?w=682\")
As I moved up into the galleries, Eternity caught my eye.\u00a0 Arthur Stace famously wrote this single word in beautiful copperplate writing on the footpaths of Sydney between 1932 and 1967. ![\"Eternity](\"http:\/\/worth.id.au\/wish\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/eternity-nma-1.jpg?w=750\")
Stace described an experience in church which prompted him to write Eternity half a million times over 35 years:<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/soundslikewish.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/diprotodon-skeleton-nma-150x150.jpg\")
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One of the saddest sights in the museum was this gate, a reminder of times when some children were raised by institutions: ![\"Boys](\"http:\/\/worth.id.au\/wish\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/boys-home-nma.jpg?w=750\")
There were other objects like leg irons and old pistols that remind us of our darker colonial past:\u00a0 and a convict bi-colour ‘magpie’ uniform, designed to deter convicts from escaping.\u00a0 But imagine the situation if, in 1788 and later, the roles had been reversed, and it wasn’t the English arriving to claim this land for the crown, but the Aboriginals arriving to take the land from the whites.\u00a0 Gordon Syron, an indigenous artist painted that ‘what if’ scene in The Black Bastards are Coming<\/em>, 2006: ![\"Black](\"http:\/\/soundslikewish.files.wordpress.com\/2014\/09\/black-bastards_gordon-syron-nma.jpg?w=750\")
Out on the museum terrace, one of the best spots to get a quiet waterside coffee, I was contemplating eternity when a man and dog came past on a surfboard (lakeboard?). ![\"\"](\"https:\/\/soundslikewish.files.wordpress.com\/2014\/09\/man-dog-on-lakeboard.jpg?w=750\")
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