 | | 07/04/2015 00:00
Sur le blog Finding Femme
Sovereign Hill
My hometown has this amazing, giant, interactive, open air museum that most people think is a theme park (I've thought that in the past). It's a museum dedicated to life on the Victorian goldfields, specifically in Ballarat, during the period of the 1850s. This was a pretty radical time in Australian society. Indigenous people had their way of life savagely and irreversibly interrupted by European settlers who plundered the country for all sorts of resources. The discovery of gold caused a massive population influx to Ballarat, and a great boom of wealth and poverty. The goldfields were a hard place to live, and this museum captures the daily lives, the...
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