north east regional extra | May 8 - 14, 2024
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May 8 - 14, 2024
Bringing the Kelly trials to life By CHLOE JAENICKE
VISITORS to Beechworth can now immerse themselves in history at the newly opened Beechworth Courthouse Kelly Trials Exhibition. The $1 million exhibition uses a combination of traditional museum displays, multi-media presentations, original artefacts and signage to explore not only Ned Kelly’s committal hearing, but also the 40 plus trials and hearing that took place during the Kelly outbreak of 1878-1880. The opening took place on Monday, April 29 and was attended by 40 invited guests, including Noeleen Lloyd - a descendant of Kelly Gang member Steve Hart and of Ellen Kelly. “It’s incredible, they have done the story proud,” she said. There were also many other guests who had close connections with the courthouse building. “Bob Simpson and Leo Nette from the community group Friends of the Courthouse, who originally saved the courthouse and opened it as a volunteer run museum in the 1990s, witnessed their tremendous legacy taking on a new lease of life,” Indigo Shire Council tourism manager, Susannah Doyle, said. Ms Doyle said the exhibition was created by the council’s tourism and museum team in conjunction with Convergence Design. “Council’s tourism and museum team developed the project scope and brief for curation through research and story development and design as well as a new website to support the exhibition,” she said.
◆ EXPLORING HISTORY: The exhibition allows visitors to explore the history of both the Kelly trials and the courthouse at Beechworth.
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