PHOTO: The Wungunja Cultural Centre the former Trangie Scout Hall, first opened on 3 May 1934 but is now a digital champion.
The Trangie Local Aboriginal Land Council’s Wungunja Cultural Centre is one of four NSW Aboriginal cultural centres and keeping places that will lead the way as cultural collection digital champions thanks to an $800,000 Creative Capital investment by the NSW Government.
This is a second phase of the First Nations Digitisation Project, after a successful first year, further funding has been approved to continue the project for another two years, allowing the cultural collections to be carefully audited, catalogued and digitised by local, Aboriginal-led teams.
The Wungunja Cultural Centre, will receive $100,000, which will enable them to employ another part-time digital officer, as well as a school-based trainee one day per week…