Introduction

Museums and engagement in Queensland: Critical contributions to the field

Authors

  • Jessica Stroja Griffith University
  • Jayne Persian University of Southern Queensland

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.1017/qre.2018.23

Keywords:

Introduction

Abstract

Introduction

Author Biographies

  • Jessica Stroja, Griffith University

    Jessica Stroja is currently completing a PhD at Griffith University, where her thesis focuses on experiences of conflict and migration, particularly displaced persons following World War II. Her First-Class Honours research looked at Australian responses to the Finnish Winter War. She maintains a strong interest in museums, local history and their relevance within the surrounding landscape, and has taught at both Bond University and Griffith University. She is also the Resident Historian at Historic Ormiston House, an historic home in the Redlands region, where she works with the community to provide beneficial research outcomes for both the historic home and its visitors.

  • Jayne Persian, University of Southern Queensland

    Jayne Persian is a historian of twentieth-century Australian and international history at the University of Southern Queensland. Her publications include Beautiful Balts: From Displaced Persons to New Australians (NewSouth Publishing, 2017). She is Co-Chief Investigator on an Australian Research Council Discovery project entitled ‘Displacement and Resettlement: Russian and Russian-speaking Jewish displaced persons arriving in Australia via the “China” route in the wake of the Second World War’ (2016–19).

References

Alex Marsden, ‘National director’s introduction’, in Museums Australia Incorporated (ed.), Museums Galleries Australia: Annual report 2017 (Melbourne: Museums Australia, 2017), 6.

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Raymond Evans, A History of Queensland (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007), 268–9.

Department of the Environment and Energy, ‘Australia’s World Heritage list’, Australian Government, http://www.environment.gov.au/heritage/places/world-heritage-list; Department of the Environment and Energy, ‘Australian heritage database: Search results’, Australian Government, 1 http://www.environment.gov.au/cgi-bin/ahdb/search.pl?mode=search_results;state=QLD;list_code=CHL;legal_status=35, accessed 1 June 2018; Department of the Environment and Energy, ‘Australia’s national heritage list’, Australian Government, http://www.environment.gov.au/heritage/places/national-heritage-list; Queensland Heritage

Register, ‘Heritage register search results’, Queensland Government, https://environment.ehp.qld.gov.au/heritage-register/results, accessed 20 January 2016; Heritage Explorer, ‘Heritage explorer results’, Queensland Government, 2018, https://environment.ehp.qld.gov.au/heritage-register/explorer/results, accessed 4 June 2018.

Some of these organisations are national bodies that represent all states and territories in Australia, including Queensland, while others are solely Queensland based. See Museums & Galleries Queensland, ‘About us’, http://www.magsq.com.au/cms/page.asp?ID=5001, accessed 5 June 2018; Museums Australia, ‘Community museums’, https://www.museumsaustralia.org.au/community-museums; The Performing Arts Heritage Network, ‘Home’, https://www.pahn.org.au, accessed 5 June 2018; Historic Houses Association of Australia Limited, ‘Who we are’, http://www.hha.net.au/home, accessed 5 June 2018; Brisbane’s Living Heritage Network, ‘About us’, https://blhn.org/about-us, accessed 5 June 2018.

Graham Black, The Engaging Museum: Developing Museums for Visitor Involvement (London: Routledge, 2005), 7.

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Published

2018-12-01

Issue

Vol. 25 No. 2 (2018)

Section

Museums and Engagement in Queensland: Critical Contributions to the Field

How to Cite

Stroja, J., & Persian, . J. (2018). Introduction: Museums and engagement in Queensland: Critical contributions to the field. Queensland Review, 25(2), 187-190. https://doi.org/10.1017/qre.2018.23