Cairns Museum
Heritage-listed nineteen-oh-seven building holding community stories of tropical coastal life.
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About this audio guide
This guide to the Cairns Museum, housed in the old School of Arts building, traces the coastline outside its doors back to the Yirrganydji, the saltwater people who fished these river mouths and islands long before the building went up in nineteen oh seven. You will hear how colonization reshaped that nation through the eighteen nineties, and where an unexpected trace of their name still surfaces today, in the sting of a jellyfish. It also touches on a current exhibition of Yirrganydji art inside the museum.
This audio guide was created using AI.
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