Koorie Heritage Trust
Indigenous cultural centre holding over sixty thousand items, from art to family history archives.
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About this audio guide
This guide to the Koorie Heritage Trust in Melbourne traces its founding to 1985, when Gunditjmara man Jim Berg and lawyers Ron Castan and Ron Merkel sued the University of Melbourne and the Museum of Victoria to bring Aboriginal cultural items back into community hands. You'll hear how the Trust moved between addresses for decades before settling in this building at Federation Square, and about a fight in 2017 over the building's own future. Look for the canoe-shaped table and the chevron ceiling echoing the Birrarung as you walk through.
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