Many gathered at the Tatura Irrigation and Wartime Camps Museum last month for a plaque unveiling and the official opening of its newest exhibition, Become What You Are!.
The plaque was in recognition of Mavis and Neil Grummitt, who donated the funding for the museum's Alcove Collages and the Camps Mural, which was completed earlier this year.
Mr Grummitt said he and his wife had always had an interest in the museum.
“Particularly to do with the camps area,” he said.
“It was put at a meeting that the alcoves should be decorated . . . it's an excellent concept.
“With the extension built to the museum it left this yellow wall that was often targeted for vandalism and graffiti . . . so the idea of the mural was put forward.
“It progresses in grey through to the colour.”
Mr Grummitt said the more you looked at it, the more you could reflect on the history of the area.
“I think the artist Jimmy Dvate has done a wonderful painting,” he said.
“The accuracy and the progression of the camp is wonderful.”
The exhibition opening included Australian historian professor Christina Twomey as a guest speaker.
Become What You Are! features artwork by Paul Mezulianik, who was a 19-year-old Austrian detainee and drew sketches when he was in internment, which were discovered shortly before his death in 2019.
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