art-history

Museum on mission to share Indigenous culture with the world

The University of Virginia's Kluge-Ruhe Aboriginal Art Collection includes hundreds of pieces from generations of Indigenous artists.

The museum's curator Henry Skerritt said it was his mission to share the stories and culture of Australia's first people with the world.

"The last time the planet saw this many extraordinary artists emerge in a 100-year period must have been Florence in the 15th century," he said.

"There really aren't moments in human history where the concentration of genius emerges like it has in Aboriginal Australian art in the last 100 years."