Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Strategy

Queensland Museum’s Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Strategy represents an organisation-wide commitment to ensuring the vibrant living culture and history of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples’ stories, perspectives, and heritage are authentically represented, celebrated and shared.  

As Queensland’s state museum, it is our responsibility to help raise awareness of the social, political and historical issues affecting Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples.  In fostering and encouraging meaningful and respectful engagement in all we do and share, the Museum serves to promote the process of reframing our State’s shared history.  

Our Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Strategy underpins the Museum’s vision and purpose as a social anchor - building community awareness, and presenting authentic, inspiring stories that sets the scene in Queensland for reflection, healing and celebration.  The Strategy provides an overarching framework that defines how we will reframe our previous colonial relationship with Aboriginal peoples and Torres Strait Islander peoples into an active, reflective and progressive pathway forward.  

Our Strategy will facilitate mechanisms within and external to our museums to embed and celebrate the richness and diversity of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples and a culture that has lived on this Country for over 60,000 years.  

By actively and authentically engaging with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, valuing their knowledge and fostering inclusivity, our museums will serve as platforms for dialogue, healing, and cultural exchange within Queensland while actively supporting the amplification of their voices.

This amplification and embedding of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander voices may be challenging to hear and engage with, but we recognise it is a vital component in our integrity as Queensland’s Keeping Place of Ancestral Remains, Secret and Sacred Objects and cultural heritage materials.  

Through our Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Strategy, we commit to being self-reflective about the past and to changing our actions into the future. As a result, we aim to contribute to a more inclusive, equitable and positive legacy for generations to come. 

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Strategy