Prison Heritage, public history and archaeology at Fannie Bay Gaol, Northern Australia

International Journal of Heritage Studies

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 45-63

  Dewar, Mickey ^a   Fredericksen, Clayton ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

Australia; Darwin; Gaol Museums; Prison Heritage; Public History And Archaeology; Visitor Numbers

Indexed keywords

EID: 24644470305     PISSN: 13527258     EISSN: 14703610     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/1352725022000056622     Document Type: Review

References (22)

1. This is reflected, for example, in papers published in Historic Environment, Vol. 14, No. 2, 1999, and by J.S. Kerr, Out of sight, out of mind. Australia's places of confinement, 1788-1988, Sydney: S.H. Ervin Gallery and National Trust of Australia, 1988.
2. For a discussion of this topic refer to J. Garton-Smith 'The prison wall: interpretation problems for prison museums', Open Museums Journal, Vol. 2, 2001, < http://www.amol.org.au/omj/volume2 >.
3. E.C. Casella, ' "Doing trade": a sexual economy of nineteenth-century Australian female convict prisons', World Archaeology, Vol. 32, No. 2, 2000, pp. 209-221.
4. The importance of ensuring public engagement and involvement with heritage places is discussed for other types of Australian heritage sites by G. Grimwade & B. Carter, 'Managing small heritage sites with interpretation and community involvement', International Journal of Heritage Studies, Vol. 6, No. 1, 2000, pp. 33-48.
5. M. Dewar, Inside-out: a social history of Fannie Bay Gaol, Darwin: Northern Territory University Press, 1999, provides a more detailed history of the years of the Gaol's operations.
6. B. James, 'Gaol closure is end of an era', The Star, 17 May 1979.
7. J.S. Kerr, Notes of conversation, Fannie Bay Gaol, 6 July 1995.
8. J.S. Kerr, Fannie Bay Gaol Precinct Conservation Management Plan, National Trust of Australia (NT), Darwin, November 1981.
9. See also P. Forrest, Fannie Bay Gaol after 1979: interim report on some future use alternatives for the former gaol site, National Trust of Australia (NT) for Department of Community Development of the Northern Territory Government, 14 December 1979, whose report also suggests this approach.
10. R. Knox, Telephone conversation with Mickey Dewar, 12 June 1996.
11. These are summarised by W. Tyler, 'Penology at the frontier: Fannie Bay Gaol 1883-1979', paper delivered to the Australian Historical Association Conference, Darwin, 2 July 1991, p. 6.
12. G.F. Ross & D. Carment, The Fannie Bay Gaol Museum: a comprehensive evaluation of tourist responses, Cairns: James Cook University of North Queensland, June 1990.
13. Troppo Architects, Fannie Bay Gaol: a structural history and data base, Produced for the Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory, December 1996, 2 vols.
14. Museums and Art Galleries Board annual report, 1990-91, Attendance Figures.
15. D. Young, Making crime pay. The evolution of convict tourism in Tasmania, Hobart: Tasmanian Historical Research Association, 1996.
16. J. Griffiths, 'Crimes and misdemeanours', Museums Journal, July 1999, p. 33.
17. D. Gardiner, 'Show & tell: Old Melbourne Gaol', 2, Unsavoury Histories, < http://amol.org.au/craft/omjournal/volume2/gardiner.asp >.
18. P.V. Addyman, 'Reconstruction as interpretation: the example of the Jorvik Viking Centre, York', in P. Gathercole & D. Lowenthal (eds), The politics of the past, London: Routledge, 1994, pp. 257-264.
19. S. Heal, 'The dig idea', Museums Journal, July 2001, p. 34.
20. P. Liddle, 'Going walk about', Museums Journal, July 2001, p. 35; but perhaps it depends on what is shown. See also an interesting theory on this by anthropologist Nick Saunders from London's University College (M. McDonald, 'Pieces of light', New Scientist, 28 October 2000, pp. 42-45), who, using examples of trench art collected from battlefields, argues that visitors are attracted to displays that are bright or shiny.
21. H. Swain, 'High street Londinium', Museum Practice, Iss. 17, Vol. 6, No. 2, 2001, p. 20.
22. C. Fredericksen, 'Unearthing Fannie Bay Gaol: archives and the archaeology of water management in Darwin's first purpose-built prison', The Beagle, Records of the Museums and Art Galleries of the Northern Territory, Vol. 15, 1999, p. 131.