Peppin Heritage Centre
Interpreting the history of pastoral colonialism.
We recently provided multimedia elements for the newly opened museum at the Peppin Heritage Centre in Deniliquin, New South Wales.
As part of the nineteenth century pastoral colonisation of Australia, squatters and settlers spread across the country of what is now western New South Wales, with vast woollen armies of sheep, essentially invading and dwelling on Country that Wamba Wamba and Perrepa Perrepa people had lived on and cared for for millennia.
As the lands were settled and built upon, extractive fortunes were made, and Deniliquin grew to be a town of outsized wealth unmatched today. George Peppin arrived in Australia in 1850, and in 1858 acquired the Wanganella Station, nearby to Deniliquin, and began breeding Merino sheep. The Peppin Heritage Centre's museum explores the legacy of this pastoral history, and its transformative effects on the land and its original custodians.
Art Processors provided two multimedia elements for the Peppin Heritage Centre's museum. The first is a twelve minute projected film that tells a sweeping history of place, from the first squatters and conquests of the 1840s, through more than a century of Deniliquin's settled history.
The second element features touchscreen interactives that examine the records of both the town and the school that used to occupy the space of the heritage centre. These were placed on the small desks in the space of the old classroom, and include a gallery of objects found under the floorboards (and literally beneath the feet of visitors).
These elements nestle in the elegant exhibition design, curation and implementation by Peter Tonkin and Christina Carayanides of 3-D Projects. The museum is now open to visitors.
