TOURISM in Tatura is set to take-off, with the re-opening of the Tatura Irrigation and Wartime Camps Museum and the official opening of the new Tatura Museum Exhibition Gallery taking place on Sunday.
Standing on Tatura’s main road for more than 130 years, the museum accommodates a historically significant collection combining three main themes: the history of irrigation in the Goulburn Valley, the local and family history of the Tatura district, and the history of seven World War II Prisoners of War and Internment Camps.
To house this important collection, seven months of improvement works have taken place on the interior of the building, extending the indoor area by 240 m2, allowing for more exhibition space.
The first exhibition to showcase at the new gallery is ‘The Migration and the Refugee: The Art of Erwin Fabian.’
In 1940, Erwin Fabian was deported to Australia alongside some 2000 other ‘enemy aliens’ to be interned at Camp 2 in Tatura. He was just 25 years old.
Today, Erwin Fabian is one of Australia’s most significant modern artists, with a decades-long career as a sculptor and painter. The selected artworks currently showing at Tatura span Fabian’s time in internment through to more recent years and features artworks never before shown to the public.
The Tatura Irrigation and Wartime Camps Museum and Tatura Museum Exhibition Gallery are open from 1pm until 3pm, Monday to Friday and then from 2pm until 4pm on the weekend. For more information, visit www.taturamuseum.org.au or call 5824 2111.
