Louise Murray

Collection Manager, Research Archivist

Louise has over twenty-five years’ experience working in the cultural sector in curatorial and research roles, most recently in the role of research manager, First Peoples Collections, Museums and Collections Department at the University of Melbourne. She previously worked in the Indigenous Studies Unit on projects including the reporting of Aboriginal ancestral remains to the Victorian Aboriginal Heritage Council, and establishing protocols and procedures for the management of Indigenous cultural material in the University’s collections; she was also part of the team working on the Donald Thomson Collection review. Louise worked closely with collections incorporating Aboriginal cultural heritage material at the University of Melbourne, including the Donald Thomson Collection. Louise holds a Bachelor of Arts, Fine Art (Victorian College of the Arts), a Bachelor of Arts (Monash University), a Graduate Diploma Information Management, Archives (RMIT), a Master of Cultural Materials Conservation (Melbourne University).

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