Join one of our passionate volunteer guides for a guided tour of ‘Great and Small’ in QAG. An Auslan interpreter will accompany this tour for d/Deaf visitors. Meet your guide at the QAG Melbourne Street information desk.

Animals have played a central part in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander culture and spiritual beliefs for over 60,000 years. Native fauna form an integral part of relationships with Country, in community and are a foundation of economies, identity and sustainability.

Over many millennia of co-existence animals have been central to survival as a food source, for First Nations people they are also absorbed into lore and culture as images of totemic power; and into the ancestral creation stories that link people, land and animals. ‘Great and small’ is a celebration of these connections.