• Menagerie: animals in Bendigo history

    26 Aug 16 - 12 Feb 17
Overview

Overview

Post Office Gallery
51-67 Pall Mall, View Street, BENDIGO VIC 3550
26 Aug 16 - 12 Feb 17
  • Monday
    10:00am - 5:00pm
    Tuesday
    10:00am - 5:00pm
    Wednesday
    10:00am - 5:00pm
    Thursday
    10:00am - 5:00pm
    Friday
    10:00am - 5:00pm
    Saturday
    10:00am - 5:00pm
    Sunday
    10:00am - 5:00pm
FREE

Animals feature prominently in the myriad social history stories of Bendigo and surrounds. Ancestral beings including Bunjil, in the form of an Eagle and Waa, the Crow, play an important role in local Dja Dja Wurrung dreaming stories and unique native species can be found in the surrounding Box-Ironbark forests. In the 1800s, European colonizers introduced an abundance of animals to the area with varied success, including hard hoofed varieties, monkeys and rabbits to name a few. Menagerie: animals in Bendigo history surveys relationships between humans and animals that have shaped the region observing the animal as guide, commodity, sustenance, nuisance, entertainment, companion and objet d’art.

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