Please enjoy the opening ceremony speeches of the official opening of the Abbey Museum Art Gallery and Cafe on February 1st 2025.
Time stamps and speakers:
00:00 Edith Cuffe, Chairperson, Abbey Museum Board
01:56 Lyndon Davis, Welcome to Country, Kabi Kabi
12:59 Ann Baillie, Abbey Museum Board, Chair of Gallery Committee
23:13 Julia Jackson, Art Historian
30:30 Philip Bacon AO, Trustee for Gordon Darling Foundation
36:45 The Honorable Andrew Powell MP, Minister for the Environment and Tourism and Minister for Science and Innovation.
The Art Gallery, Café, Shop and Reception extension to the Abbey Museum of Art & Archaeology was generously funded by the Queensland Government.
The exhibition Inspired Images: The Art of Faiths was further supported by Creative Australia through Plus1 and many individual donors.
Conservation of artworks was funded by the Copland Foundation.
Publication of the catalogue for the exhibition, Inspired Images: The Art of Faiths, was funded by the Gordon Darling Foundation.
The builders, ATG, generously donated various items for the extension.