The Berndt Museum will be closed to all external requests for access to the Collection (Archives, Objects, Photos and Audio-Visual) between 1 July 2014 and 6 January 2015. Museum staff are instituting protocols to enhance access to the Collection as part of ongoing preparations toward the opening of a new Aboriginal Cultures Museum. We sincerely apologise to community groups, researchers and the general public. We will attend to access requests as soon as we can after the six month closure.
Enquiries can be directed to: berndt.museum@uwa.edu.au
The Berndt Museum respects the inherent intellectual and moral rights of all artistic creators, and makes every effort to contact the relevant copyright holders and and their communities before displaying or making artistic works available for third party reproduction. All requests for photographic images, whether of objects held by the Museum or historical images, must be made on the prescribed form, which is available for download from http://www.berndt.uwa.edu.au/generic.lasso?token_value=access&menu=2
The Berndt Museum, with permission from the appropriate communities, holds some secret-sacred objects. Strict conditions apply to the custody of and access to these objects. Secret-sacred objects are not displayed in the public gallery of the Museum. The objects displayed there are not secret for their region of origin. The Museum will remove any object from display if a qualified Aboriginal elder asks.
The Berndt Museum holds extensive collections of Australian Aboriginal Art and Aboriginal cultural materials, as well as collections from Melanesia, Asia and South-East Asia. Many of these collections can be viewed from the virtual museum.
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