Ned Kelly Discovery Hub
Client: Rural City of Wangaratta
Location: Glenrowan, VIC
Completed: 2023
Collaborators: Content Studio, Pidgeon Ward, The Pod, Show Works
Convergence’s curation and interpretive design for the Ned Kelly Discovery Hub provides a fresh and contemporary presentation of the context and events of the Glenrowan Siege within a purpose designed building. Both building and interpretive approach are suitably respectful to the site of the Glenrowan Siege, a place of State and National Heritage significance while providing an engaging interpretive design and narrative.
Convergence collaborated with architects Content Studio, graphic designers Pidgeon Ward and multimedia developers The Pod to bring this important reinterpretation to fruition. The hub immerses visitors in the detail and background of Ned Kelly’s last stand at the place where it happened.
A range of interpretive techniques focus on the context of the Kelly outbreak, the people involved and details and consequences of the Siege of Glenrowan, giving visibility to hostages, police, sympathisers and other observers.
