Isa Experience Gallery, Mount Isa, QLD Australia

When you first enter the gallery, you may think that this could be ‘yet another’ museum experience. At Isa Experience, however, the gallery lives, entertains and enthralls. From the fascinating insight into the mining industry development to the cultural diversity of Mount Isa shown in the theatrette movies, to the depictions of the quirkiness of daily life in the early days, the gallery is both vibrant and entertaining.

The stunning, award-winning, dual plasma screens mysteriously begin as you enter the exhibit space. Blending the Indigenous and white perspectives, it dramatically concludes with the didgeridoo ‘morphing’ into the modern lead stack that dominates the city skyline. The Isa Experience gallery gives an intimate and in-depth perspective to the development of a multi-cultural society that existed well before the term was coined.