Framing of Wombat Forest: an audio visual exhibition

Volunteer-run Daylesford and District Historical Museum is hosting Framings of Wombat Forest – an audiovisual exhibition that showcases elements of the local landscape – a key story theme for the museum.

Situated in Victoria’s Central Highlands is Wombat Forest, where Dja Dja Wurrung, Wada Wurrung, and Wurundjeri lands meet. This 70,000-hectare stretch of bushland harbours the headwaters of seven major rivers and hosts over 550 species of native flora and fauna – many of them rare, and some which occur nowhere else on Earth.

The landscape has been mined, logged, grazed, burned, and battered by storms, yet it still grows – perhaps a little crooked in places, but loved and lived amongst by many.

Now, as they turn to face the gathering storm of climate change, they are confronted with some important questions: Where do they belong as humans in the forest system? How do they care for the places they love as they navigate the turbulence of climate upheaval? What has been lost, what is left, and where to from here?

You are invited to ponder those questions as you explore this exhibition landscape of varying perspectives – each face and voice another thread to stitch into the story of Wombat Forest.

Please bring your headphones.