A DISPLAY about the Kiewa Valley’s Aboriginal heritage has won a volunteer museum national acclaim.
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The First People of the Kiewa Valley and Bogong High Plains at Mount Beauty’s tourist centre saw the Kiewa Valley Historical Society lauded in the Museum and Galleries National Awards.
The organisation received the indigenous project or keeping place award in the under $20,000 category for the permanent showcase.
The society’s curator Karen Wykes said it recognised the display about the Dhudhuroa people which was launched in February last year.
“It’s a really great acknowledgement of our hard work and it’s an acknowledgement and recognition of the first people of the Kiewa Valley and Bogong High Plains which is why we wanted to do the exhibition,” Mrs Wykes said.
“It’s also good for a volunteer museum to get that recognition because some volunteer museums don’t get a good rap because people think they’re a bit amateurish.
“This is a pat on the back because if we were amateurish we would have even got short-listed and got this award.”
Mrs Wykes spent three years preparing for the exhibition which includes background information, photographs and artefacts such as axe heads and grinding stones.
A DVD featuring men forming stone tools and women doing basketmaking also features.