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The Immigration Museum: An Interpretation Audit

Posted in Cultural Tourism & Special Events, tagged , , , , , , on 20/10/2009 | Leave a Comment »

The following article is a partial component of my final essay in Cultural Interpretation Audit:
The name of the site speaks for itself—immigration. Any visitor, therefore, expects to see the stories of immigrant communities in Australia. The 2006 Census of the Australian Bureau of Statistics identified more than 270 ancestries of Australia’s population (ABS 2008). Ancestries [...]

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Writer’s Block

Posted in Cultural Tourism & Special Events, tagged , on 15/10/2009 | Leave a Comment »

Writing my final essay on Interpretation Audit for two heritage assets has taken me so long to complete. Tomorrow is supposed to be the due date, but an extension up to the 23rd has been given. What are the best practices in heritage interpretation? Books have piled up on the floor for my references. I [...]

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Salvador Dali- Liquid Desire

Posted in Cultural Tourism & Special Events, tagged , , , , , on 14/08/2009 | Leave a Comment »

Whoa! It takes a genius like Salvador Dali to come to Melbourne so that an art ignorant like me will be able to grasp what art is all about. I have seen the works of Picasso, but those abstract and cubism arts he created did not move me at all. Those exhibits of Van [...]

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