north east regional extra | April 27 - May 3, 2022
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April 27 - May 3, 2022
By CORAL COOKSLEY
A PASSION for history as a youngster has led Cameron Auty on an incredible journey from his studies, working in overseas museums, handling some of the world’s most treasured artefacts to being appointed as the manager of the Burke Museum and cultural heritage at Indigo Shire Council four years ago. With a grandfather who had a degree in history it’s not surprising that Cameron grew up with a love of the subject where he immersed himself in books and history movies. “My grandfather had a huge library of history books and every time I visited he would give me a box of them to take home to read which I really enjoyed,” he said. Cameron’s career took off after undertaking a postgraduate degree in museum studies at Deakin University following a degree in history at Melbourne University. While at Deakin, he travelled to Vieng Xai, the headquarters of the Laos communist party during the Vietnam War where an entire underground city had been built. “I went there in 2006 with a Deakin cultural heritage group and helped set it up as a museum and it had been the first time that visitors or tourists had been there,” he said. Cameron’s career since then has taken in volunteering at the Victoria Police Museum and working at Museums Victoria, National Gallery of Scotland, and the Tate Gallery - Britain’s leading museum of modern and contemporary art. Working in collections and logistics at Museums Victoria, he looked after a warehouse of extraordinary artefacts such as dinosaur replicas, media arts, old cars and anything in between that can be imagined.
Preserving our heritage and culture ◆ PRECIOUS MEMORIES: Burke Museum and cultural heritage manager Cameron Auty holding the exhibition catalogue from the Napoleon exhibition when he was the art courier at National Gallery of Scotland.
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