20/07/2024 - Hurstville Museum & Gallery

Visit Hurstville Museum & Gallery for an Open Day filled with activities for all ages! Touch and hold live Australian invertebrates, eat an edible insect at our tasting station, and much more!

ZOONOSES, our current Main Gallery exhibition, explores how we perceive certain animal hosts in the context of fear of their association to disease. Through drawing and lithography, artist Dr Nicola Hooper uses fairy-tale iconology and rhymes, and associated anthropomorphism to both discuss and educate about zoonotic viruses (animal diseases that cross-over to humans).

During this Open Day, visitors will be able to join at any time between 10.30am to 12.30pm to touch and hold live Australian invertebrates, including giant burrowing cockroaches, millipedes, snails, tarantulas and scorpions! Educators will show visitors how important invertebrates are in our environment in a fun and interactive way. 

For the brave ones, we will also have an edible insect tasting station between 10.30am and 12.30pm. An educator will be on hand to explain the health, nutritional and environmental benefits of edible insects, as well as how we have commercialised edible insect farming in Australia.

During the day we will have both an exhibition trail and a drop-in activity for the whole family. Come along and create your own insect hat to take home! 

Please RSVP for catering purposes. 

 

Saturday 20 July 2024

 

Address

Hurstville Museum & Gallery
14 MacMahon Street, Hurstville.

 

Time

10.00am - 4.00pm: Open Day
10.30am - 12.30pm: Live invertebrate station and edible insect tasting station

 

Cost

Free.

 

Bookings

Please RSVP for catering purposes. For bookings please call (02) 9330 6444 or click the button below to book online. 

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More information

For more information please contact Hurstville Museum & Gallery on (02) 9330 6444 or museumgallery@georgesriver.nsw.gov.au.

• Programs are fully supervised by qualified staff.
• No refunds for cancellations or missed bookings.
• Program swapping is not permitted.
• Online bookings incur booking fees and surcharges.

Acknowledgements: 
ZOONOSES is a touring exhibition of works by Dr Nicola Hooper presented by Logan Art Gallery, Logan City Council, in partnership with Museums & Galleries Queensland. This project has been assisted by the Australian Government’s Visions of Australia program, and is supported by the Queensland Government through Arts Queensland. Proudly sponsored by Haymes Paint.