FRIENDS OF THE LAPEROUSE MUSEUM INC. HISTORY WEEK LECTURE EXPLORERS, MONUMENTS & TOURISTS by Associate Professor Richard White SUNDAY, 8TH SEPTEMBER 2013 1.30 – 3.00PM Laperouse Museum In September, 1825 the navigator and explorer Hyacinthe de Bougainville laid the foundation stone for the establishment of the Laperouse Monument. This fascinating lecture examines the ways in which sites associated with Australian exploration were marked out, commemorated and identified as tourist sites. The monument to Laperouse, inspired by Bougainville, is particularly important in its role as arguably Australia’s most significant historic monument during the second quarter of the nineteenth century. Explorers themselves had their own sense of historical tradition: they sought out the signs of their predecessors and commemorated them. So were explorers themselves Australia’s first ‘history tourists’? Join Friends of the Laperouse Museum during History Week on this 188th anniversary of Bougainville’s visit to Botany Bay. Richard White is Associate Professor at the University of Sydney, where he has taught Australian history and the history of travel and tourism since 1989. His publications include Inventing Australia, The Oxford Book of Australian Travel Writing, Cultural History in Australia, On Holidays: A History of Getting Away in Australia, Symbols of Australia and, most recently, Playing in the Bush: recreation and national parks in New South Wales. He was co-editor of the journal History Australia from 2009 to 2013. His work on the history of tourism to Australia’s past has led to an exhibition, ‘Touring the Past’, for the Macleay Museum, University of Sydney, from August 2013 to February 2014. Dr. William Land AM President Friends of the Laperouse Museum Inc. FOLM Members: Free Non members - Museum Entry: $5.50 $3.30 Conc. $13.20 Family Following the lecture – afternoon tea will be provided on the museum’s verandah. Gold coin donation would be appreciated. RSVP Essential / Further information: Greg Bond Ph: 9661 5431 / 0418 628730 greg.bond1@bigpond
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