Photos of The Betty Brown Historical Centre

image of museum space showing historical displays and blurred people moving through the space.

It’s a real accolade for the Shire of West Arthur that its new museum has been acknowledged in the Australian Museums and Galleries Association’s Museums and Galleries National Awards (MAGNA).

I’m happy to have been asked to photograph the Betty Brown Historical Centre museum before it opened, to provide images for the Shire and for Creative Spaces, the company that was brought in to create the display spaces, which are housed in the old Roads Board building in Darkan, as part of the West Arthur Health and Resource centre.

In photographing the space, I needed to capture the overall essence of the space as well as details of objects. Because some items are housed in protective perspex display boxes there was reflection on the clear surfaces. A polarising filter on the lens helped to cut out the reflections and show the contents clearly.

To show that the space has interactive features I used a friend as a model who interacted with the displays – scanning a QR code, opening a drawer, writing on a note to pin on the memorial board. To show that the space is used and welcoming I shot some images with a slow shutter speed to emphasise the displays with human figures moving about the space.

sewing accessories and fine crochet on display in Betty Brown Historical Centre. Photo by Caro Telfer
Sewing accessories and fine crochet on display in an acrylic case.

museum display of treadle sewing machine and interpretive panel
museum display of treadle sewing machine and interpretive panel

Museum visitor scanning QR code with smartphone. Photo by Caro Telfer.
Museum visitor scanning QR code with smartphone.

photo of cane basket containing spinning wheel accessories and spun wool. Photo by Caro Telfer.
A basket of spinning wheel accessories and spun wool.

Close up of information panels in the Betty Brown Historical Centre.
Close up of information panels.

Wide angle view of main room of historical centre showing polished wood floor, museum displays, and people blurred moving through the scene.
Slow shutter speed allows for the blurring of museum visitors in this image.

 

 

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