❓ The Minister for Culture and the Arts provides an update on the donation of sporting memorabilia to the WA Museum, highlighting the significance of the collection and the need for the new museum building. The Minister also acknowledges a $250,000 grant from the gaming community trust.
AnsweredQoN 143Legislative Assembly
QuestionView source ↗
WESTERN AUSTRALIAN MUSEUM — SPORTING
MEMORABILIA
143. Ms E. EVANGEL to the
Minister for Culture and the Arts:
Can the minister please update the house on what has happened
to the donation of a unique collection of sporting memorabilia to the Western
Australian Museum?
MEMORABILIA
143. Ms E. EVANGEL to the
Minister for Culture and the Arts:
Can the minister please update the house on what has happened
to the donation of a unique collection of sporting memorabilia to the Western
Australian Museum?
AnswerView source ↗
I thank the member for the question.
I was pleased to be at an event at
the Western Australian Museum last Friday with the Minister for Sport and
Recreation. It was another good example of the arts and sport coming together.
It was a fairly small but significant event in that 2 500 items of sporting
memorabilia from Western Australia were donated to the Western Australian
Museum for perpetual care, exhibition and conservation. Also present at the
event were Western Australian cricketing legends Mike Hussey and Graham McKenzie,
a hero of the Minister for Sport and Recreation from a previous era of cricket.
Mike Hussey donated his winning batting gloves, two cricket bats and helmet to
the collection. There were also items from Graham McKenzie, including one of
his baggy green caps from the 1961 tour of England, if I remember rightly. It
is wonderful that those items are now in the collection of the Western
Australian Museum. This collection had previously been housed at Challenge
Stadium and managed by VenuesWest. It now joins a number of other significant
items in the sporting arena held by the WA Museum, most notably, I think it
would be fair to say, the America's Cup–winning yacht, Australia II , which is on display at the
Western Australian Maritime Museum in Fremantle. The collection includes a very
diverse range of items representing sports that have been embraced by Western
Australians over the past century, including cricket, football, tennis,
swimming, hockey, cycling, horse racing, pacing and motorbike racing. Another
of the items was a complete outfit worn by the tennis champion Margaret Court,
including a prized pair of Dunlop Volley tennis shoes.
There is no better institution in Western Australia to house,
preserve and display these items in appropriate locations and for appropriate
occasions than the Western Australian Museum. The Museum has one significant
deficiency at the moment, and that is an adequate building in which to display
these items and the 4.5 million other items that relate to our natural history,
including significant biological items, significant items from the Dutch
shipwrecks from exploration in the 1600s and so on. That is why we are building
the new $428 million Western Australian Museum. The planning and design work is
well underway. It is on time, and the construction aspect of the project is due
to be completed in 2019, with the Museum to be opened to the public in early
2020. This project is very important for Western Australia. The sporting
collection that has been donated to the Museum will help to bear out the
importance of the Western Australian Museum as an appropriate venue in which to
reflect the life and history of all aspects of Western Australia. I also note
that a grant of $250 000 was provided to the Museum by the gaming community
trust, which I understand comes from uncollected winnings from the casino, to
assist in preserving and presenting this collection.
I was pleased to be at an event at
the Western Australian Museum last Friday with the Minister for Sport and
Recreation. It was another good example of the arts and sport coming together.
It was a fairly small but significant event in that 2 500 items of sporting
memorabilia from Western Australia were donated to the Western Australian
Museum for perpetual care, exhibition and conservation. Also present at the
event were Western Australian cricketing legends Mike Hussey and Graham McKenzie,
a hero of the Minister for Sport and Recreation from a previous era of cricket.
Mike Hussey donated his winning batting gloves, two cricket bats and helmet to
the collection. There were also items from Graham McKenzie, including one of
his baggy green caps from the 1961 tour of England, if I remember rightly. It
is wonderful that those items are now in the collection of the Western
Australian Museum. This collection had previously been housed at Challenge
Stadium and managed by VenuesWest. It now joins a number of other significant
items in the sporting arena held by the WA Museum, most notably, I think it
would be fair to say, the America's Cup–winning yacht, Australia II , which is on display at the
Western Australian Maritime Museum in Fremantle. The collection includes a very
diverse range of items representing sports that have been embraced by Western
Australians over the past century, including cricket, football, tennis,
swimming, hockey, cycling, horse racing, pacing and motorbike racing. Another
of the items was a complete outfit worn by the tennis champion Margaret Court,
including a prized pair of Dunlop Volley tennis shoes.
There is no better institution in Western Australia to house,
preserve and display these items in appropriate locations and for appropriate
occasions than the Western Australian Museum. The Museum has one significant
deficiency at the moment, and that is an adequate building in which to display
these items and the 4.5 million other items that relate to our natural history,
including significant biological items, significant items from the Dutch
shipwrecks from exploration in the 1600s and so on. That is why we are building
the new $428 million Western Australian Museum. The planning and design work is
well underway. It is on time, and the construction aspect of the project is due
to be completed in 2019, with the Museum to be opened to the public in early
2020. This project is very important for Western Australia. The sporting
collection that has been donated to the Museum will help to bear out the
importance of the Western Australian Museum as an appropriate venue in which to
reflect the life and history of all aspects of Western Australia. I also note
that a grant of $250 000 was provided to the Museum by the gaming community
trust, which I understand comes from uncollected winnings from the casino, to
assist in preserving and presenting this collection.
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