Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory
The Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory ( MAGNT ) is located in the port of Darwin in the Northern Territory in Australia. It is the most important museum in the Northern Territory, located in the district of Fannie Bay Darwin and is under supervision of the Ministry of the Northern Territory, the Department of Natural Resources, Environment, The Arts and Sport. The museum is known for its extensive collection of specimens and collection of art of the Aborigines.
History
1964 enacted the Northern Territory Legislative Council in Darwin, a law on the establishment of this museum ..
The museum should be housed in the Old Town Hall in Darwin city center, but the cyclone Tracy, which raged from 24 to 25, 1974, destroyed the nearly completed renovated building. On September 10, 1981, the new museum was opened in its current location. Was expanded the museum in 1992 by the maritime history of the Northern Territory and in 1993 the museum was awarded his name today.
Museum offers
The museum displays Aboriginal art and fine art, craft artifacts, Southeast Asian and Oceanic art and crafts of the Pacific, marine archeology, history of the Northern Territory and Natural Sciences works.
A library houses the Museum, Peter Spillett Library, with 10,000 monographs, 1,000 periodicals, annual reports, maps and audiovisual materials.
The museum, which is located in a park with large trees and tropical palms, searching for a connection to its visitors, and so the park can be rented for private events celebrating at sunset or marriage celebrations.
The collection includes 30,000 works of art and artifacts. General and world known primarily for the prepared crocodile Sweetheart that attacked numerous fishing boats, the occupants of the boats, however, largely ignored.
A particularly important prize, the National Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Art Award is awarded annually since 1984 to artists of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples in the premises of the museum.