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Karen Schamberger deposited ‘Still Children of the Dragon’? A review of three Chinese Australian heritage museums in Victoria in the group
Museums on Humanities Commons 4 years, 7 months ago
The Museum of Chinese Australian History reopened on 29th August 2010 with newly refurbished exhibitions displaying Chinese Australian history and contemporary Chinese Australian identities. This article reviews the new exhibitions in comparison with the Gum San Heritage Centre at Ararat and the Golden Dragon Museum at Bendigo and specifically examines the way each museum represents being Chinese and being Australian. This will be shown by interrogating the historical representations, text and methods of display.