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18 April 2026
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Strawberry Hill at Barmup
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Free (donations welcome)
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Free but tickets are required.
Museum of the Great Southern
First contact. First Fences. First Farms… Now learn the First Nations story of the historic Strawberry Hill at Barmup site in Albany – a place of immense cultural significance, disrupted by British colonisation. You’re invited to experience artworks created during Mapping Menang, a Menang community-led project presented by Community Arts Network and the National Trust of Western Australia, that uncovers deeply held stories of family, Country and connection that have endured despite the impacts of settlement.
Bringing together oral histories, intergenerational community knowledge and archival research, the artworks created during Mapping Menang reveal a layered past. The Menang people cared for and thrived on this land for countless generations before it became the first European farm in Western Australia. Mapping Menang highlights stories of survival and resistance, as well as the ways in which the settlers imposed their systems on this land, forever altering the landscape and lives of its Traditional Custodians.
The backdrop to the Mapping Menang experience at Strawberry Hill at Barmup will be a place that will have been transformed by major works, funded by the State Government, that will be completed in early 2026. Site infrastructure will be vastly improved, critical conservation work will have been completed on historic buildings that date back to the 1830s and there will be new landscaping that reflects the presence of the Menang people at this place for thousands of years.
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