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This Month in GLAM – Volume XIV, Issue II, February 2024

Australia report

On tour

Know My Name at Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery

Wikimedia Australia continues its partnership with the National Gallery of Australia National Gallery in 2024 and 2025, including support for the Know My Name Regional touring exhibition. The first stop on the 'Making Women Count' tour was Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery. Wikimedia Australia's Events and Programs Coordinator, Alice Woods facilitated an edit-a-thon in the Gallery on Saturday 10 February 2024 with a group of locals keen to contribute to this national gender equity campaign in art.

In a lovely coincidence, Jan Randles a Paralympic gold medallist and a member of the Australian Paralympic History Project was visiting the gallery, and connected with our newest cohort of editors.

Post from Wikimedia Australia

Alice Woods facilitating the Know My Name edit-a-thon at Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery.
A group photo of some Know My Name editors.
Jane German and Dunja Rmandic, Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery organising team
Pru Mitchell and Paralympic athletics competitor Jan Randles at the Know my Name event at Mornington.

Alice Springs wartime heritage

Staff from the Alice Springs Public Library have successfully uploaded images from their Donald Dowling Collection to Wikimedia Commons. This collection, consisting of over 240 images, primarily relates to World War II in Alice Springs, Hermannsburg and Tennant Creek in the Northern Territory.

Read about the project.

Army camp in Alice Springs during World War II, photo taken from the top of ANZAC Hill (Untyeyetwelye/Atnelkentyarliweke)
March of Army personnel on Todd Street, Alice Springs, this is now the Todd Mall.
Truck and people
Henry Foote standing in front of a Camel.
Tony [Dowling] 1946, 3 years and 4 months
Wyndham mail plane [Crashed]