June 2008

Opened / December 2005
Floor Area / 500 m²
Awarded / Australian Zoos Association Large Scale Exhibits Award 2006

Located in a new building designed by Minifie Nixon Architects, the AWRC provides intense engagement with an injured animal’s journey from injury to rescue, treatment, recovery and release. Highly interactive displays teach visitors what to do with an injured animal, explain and demonstrate surgical techniques, explore the role of the laboratory and pathology in animal diagnosis and treatment, interpret necropsy and investigative biology and provide lessons in care, recovery, release and monitoring.

All photography by Dianna Snape
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Opened / August 2003
Floor Area / 300 m²

The Gallery of Medals forms part of the Shrine of Remembrance visitor centre designed by Ashton Raggatt McDougall Architects. The centre aims to teach visitors about the act of commemoration and the significance of the Shrine in contemporary Australian society. The Gallery introduces the visitor to the Centre, a 50 metre long presentation of 4000 medals representing the 400,000 Victorians who have served in war, a collection of original war medals and a poppy-filled floor trench. 

Photography by John Gollings
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Opened / December 2002
Floor Area / 3,000 m²
Awarded / Best New Tourism Venue in 2003 in the National Tourism Awards.

A multi-level maritime museum in a purpose built venue on the Fremantle waterfront, designed by Cox Howlett Bailey Woodland Architects, the WA Maritime Museum examines Western Australian seafaring heritage and contemporary maritime trade and culture. Individual galleries focus on Indian Ocean trading history and exploration, contemporary trade, defence, fishing, economics, leisure, Swan River and cultural diversity, highlighting the Museum’s collection of original watercraft. 

Photography by John Gollings
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Opened / August 2001
Floor Area / 1,200 m²

An interactive educational facility associated with CSIRO research laboratories, the Discovery exhibition demonstrates CSIRO research and projected improvements to Australian lives. Evocative and colourful interactive displays focus on key projects in Australian climate and air quality, sustainable energy production, dryland salinity, biodiversity, medical and communications technology, food production and gene technology.

Photography by John Gollings
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Opened / March 2000
Floor Area / 2,000 m²

An exhibition and corporate visitor centre, Ford Discovery showcases Ford Australia heritage with a wide range of historic and contemporary vehicles. Entertaining and educational displays explore automotive technology and link the vehicles to local and national history.

 
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Opened / May 1999
Floor Area / 1,700 m²

The redevelopment of the World War 2 Galleries in the Australian War Memorial Canberra forms an important element in the way Australia remembers and understands the experience and cost of the Second World War. The displays derive a unique character from the Memorial’s mission and collection. A strong philosophical and humanist viewpoint considers events and consequences in a manner that is accurate, empathetic, realistic and dignified.

Photography by John Gollings
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Opened / October 1998
Floor Area / 1,000 m²
Awarded / Design Institute of Australia, Major Interior Design, Victorian Design Awards, 1999 

The Immigration Museum documents the experience of immigration through personal immigrant stories of leavings, journeys and arrivals, and places emphasis on the social, political and human interest aspects of immigration. The museum makes use of the emotive aspects of memory and individual record to immerse the visitor in the experience of immigration via installations and contemporary displays.

Photography by John Gollings 
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