Abstract
Next year, the Australian National Maritime Museum’s replica of Captain Cook’s ship, HMS Endeavour, will circumnavigate Australia to commemorate 250 years of Cook landing on Australian shores. I was excited to visit the museum to hear their rationale behind this – something that I have heard very mixed responses to, and which I myself thought sounded inconsiderate (and ignorant) of Australia’s Indigenous history prior to my visit.
Highlights
NEW: Emerging scholars in Australian Indigenous Studies is a Student Journal from UTS ePRESS showcasing outstanding student works
Kevin said that the replica of Endeavour is symbolic of wrongful possession and dispossession, the museum is hoping to turn it into a point of constructive discussion and debate
I strongly agree with him that in telling the truth about our history, it is important to acknowledge what HMS Endeavour meant, and what it did, to Australia’s Indigenous communities. This site visit encouraged me to think about contemporary museums examining their objects through a lens of colonisation and invasion
Summary
NEW: Emerging scholars in Australian Indigenous Studies is a Student Journal from UTS ePRESS showcasing outstanding student works. Kevin said that the replica of Endeavour is symbolic of wrongful possession and dispossession, the museum is hoping to turn it into a point of constructive discussion and debate.
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