Welcome to Deep Time, the digital experience accompanying Shaped by the Sea, an exhibition that invites us to a fuller understanding of this ancient continent. 

Framed through land, water and sky, Deep Time extends the exhibition’s insights with storytelling, artistic commissions, interviews and poetry, sharing stories of how Australia has been shaped by the sea. 

Within the heart of the exhibition sits Dhaŋaŋ Dhukarr by The Mulka Project. This installation represents a philosophical recentering the museum’s permanent exhibition space. With more than 40 Aboriginal and Torres Strait language regions represented throughout Shaped by the Sea, the exhibition offers a glimpse of remarkable knowledge of country preserved over millennia. Pre-existing protocols, networks, and relationships between First Nations Australian communities has guided the consultation, selection, and placement of an exceptional range of objects, materials, and knowledge.