Curator talk - paradise parrot exhibition

["Sandra Henderson" <>]

Penny Olsen will be giving a talk about the exhibition she's curated.  The Visitor Centre, for any not familiar with the NLA, is straight through the foyer, past the cloakroom, and is the area between the glass doors and the entry to the main reading room. 

Mr Gilbert's Beautiful Parakeet - curator Walk and Talk
Wednesday, July 25, 2007 12:30 pm - 1:30 pm
Visitor Centre
Free
This display, curated by Dr Penny Olsen of the School of Botany and Zoology at the Australian National University, focuses on the, almost certainly extinct, paradise parrot as a symbol of all those birds and animals which have ceased to exist as they have been hunted for food, their feathers and fur, or had their habitat destroyed through human expansion. Visitors will have the opportunity to view some special items from the Library's collections such as the work of John Gould, Gregory Macalister Mathews and Gracius Broinowski and the watercolours of William Cooper, E.E. Gostelow and Neville Cayley.

The exhibition is in place until Sunday Oct 14.

Sandra Henderson
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