Indigenous Australia: Enduring Civilisation

Considering its culture dates back around 55,000 years, we don't get many chances to learn more about indigenous Australia. This exhibition will use objects from the British Museum's collection to tell its story, focusing on complex spiritual relationships with the natural world and the intimate knowledge of the country's unique and diverse environments. The exhibits often originate from the earliest contact between indigenous Australians and outsiders in locations which are now major Australian cities, and the history of collecting these objects is represented, as well as contemporary indigenous responses to them.