Balga, Xanthorrhoea preissii
Surviving fire
West Lawn

Bark shield
Surviving conflict
Room 1

Painted log coffin
Surviving death
Room 24

Sidney Nolan (1917–1992),
‘All tastes like dust in the mouth / All strikes like iron in the mind’.
Surviving drought
Room 90

Rare water container made
of seaweed
Surviving journeys
Room 91