My Exhibit: Swords

Hello, I'm Carl age 10 and this is one of my swords. I like playing games with my swords, it's fun. I play games, like I pretend I'm getting the bad people. My swords make me do weird things like I swing my hand around just like I would if I was swinging a sword. If I exhibited it in the museum I would put it in a glass case and have information about it on a wall.

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Inspirational Trees

By Ethan and Arian - Woodbury Boston Primary School

Our inspiration is a tree stump and it inspires us because its so big and old.
We would like to find how it came to be and what it would look like today if it was alive.
We've heard that there used to be a foresting settlement around the area in Torbay.
There even used to be a port and a railway track we would like to learn more
about that. We would like to exibit this in photo, pictures and movies.

Mia's Salmon Holes Exhibition Idea

Hi it's me, Mia from Katanning Senior High School.

The photo of my inspiration is of the Salmon Holes in Albany. I think that as Australians, we should be taking more care of our beautiful coastline. If I could exhibit this in any way, I would include ways for ordinary Australians to help out, more information on the wildlife that live along the coast, the different problems the world's oceans are facing and the different things that we can do to help keep our beautiful beaches.

The beaches of Australia are the most stunning in the world, so by putting up an exhibit like this, then we can learn how keep enjoying them!!!

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Kyle is Inspired by his Guitar

By Kyle Weaver

What inspires me is guitar because it can be loud and angry but it can also by quiet and peaceful.

I think its better to play guitar then to listen to it because it's so much fun and you actually get to do something instead of just listen.

I would exhibit my guitar by puting some pictures of people playing guitar surrounding the guitar and play some acoustic guitar CDs. As part of the exhibition I could include some guitar history. I could also put up some information about famous guitar legands and guitarists from Albany.

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Sailing Inspires Nathaniel!

Hi I am Nathaniel from Denmark SHS,

I think that I would like to find out more about Albany’s sailboats. As I'm a sailor I would like to find out more about the history of the sport of sailing in Albany.

It's the 100th year of the Princess Royal Sailing Club and I've been reading some of the history and
found it rather interesting! Especially the size of some of the fleets used and how it was a big sport it was for Albany.

I would like to exhibit it as a small boat in the Museum but it would not be practical so I'll probably end up exhibiting my project in pictures and movies.

Thanks,
Nathaniel

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Lucy's Inspiration

Hi, I'm Lucy M from Great Southern Grammar!

This picture isn't a photo that I took but it still provides inspiration and also this sort of clothing isn't easy to got hold of to take photos of.

I chose this picture because early 1900 clothing would be my idea for an exhibit. It inspires me because there would have been a lot of work and labour put into making these clothes and that shouldn't be forgotten.

Back then they didn't have machines to do the boring bits for them, so most of it was done by hand, I think maybe this could be the start of an idea for a exhibition. We could run a workshop of making and wearing olden style clothing.

Thanks,
Lucy!

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Commissioner for Children and Young People inspired by Indigenous Message Sticks

The Commissioner for Children and Young People Michelle Scott showed three hand made message sticks to the young people at the xhIBIT alBANY workshop. The message sticks were made by Noel Nannup and represented Indigenous and non-indigenous Australians coming together, sharing and valuing what is important.