{"id":13821,"date":"2025-10-30T14:30:45","date_gmt":"2025-10-30T06:30:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fass.nus.edu.sg\/hist\/?p=13821"},"modified":"2025-11-20T21:56:12","modified_gmt":"2025-11-20T13:56:12","slug":"walking-through-a-songline","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fass.nus.edu.sg\/hist\/2025\/10\/30\/walking-through-a-songline\/","title":{"rendered":"Walking Through a Songline"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/fass.nus.edu.sg\/hist\/songline\/\">Walking Through a Songline<\/a> is an immersive digital experience that introduces visitors to the Seven Sisters Songline, one of the foundational stories of Australian Aboriginal culture.<\/p>\n<p>Songlines map the routes taken by Ancestral beings as they travelled across Australia, creating the land and its people. Known also as Dreaming, these narratives are used by Aboriginal communities to hold and transmit important geographical and moral knowledge to new generations.<\/p>\n<p>Jointly organised by the Department of History and the National Museum of Australia, this Indigenous-led exhibition is a unique opportunity to experience ancient knowledge in an embodied way. The exhibition runs at NUS Library&#8217;s 360imx space at Central Library Level 4 from 21 November to 30 January 2026, on Monday to Friday at 1100-1400. <em>Walking Through a Songline <\/em>is suitable for all ages and open to the public, there is no admission fee. <a href=\"https:\/\/fass.nus.edu.sg\/hist\/songline\/\">See the exhibition microsite for more details on opening hours and for directions.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Singapore premiere of <em>Walking Through a Songline\u00a0<\/em>is supported by the Australian High Commission, Singapore.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/fass.nus.edu.sg\/hist\/songline\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-13863 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/fass.nus.edu.sg\/hist\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2025\/10\/NUS-WTAS-square-jpeg.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1080\" height=\"1080\" srcset=\"https:\/\/fass.nus.edu.sg\/hist\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2025\/10\/NUS-WTAS-square-jpeg.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/fass.nus.edu.sg\/hist\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2025\/10\/NUS-WTAS-square-jpeg-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/fass.nus.edu.sg\/hist\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2025\/10\/NUS-WTAS-square-jpeg-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/fass.nus.edu.sg\/hist\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2025\/10\/NUS-WTAS-square-jpeg-170x170.jpg 170w, https:\/\/fass.nus.edu.sg\/hist\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2025\/10\/NUS-WTAS-square-jpeg-768x768.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1080px) 100vw, 1080px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Walking Through a Songline is an immersive digital experience that introduces visitors to the Seven Sisters Songline, one of the foundational stories of Australian Aboriginal culture. 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Known also as Dreaming, these narratives are used by Aboriginal [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":41,"featured_media":13822,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"default","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"set","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13821","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fass.nus.edu.sg\/hist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13821","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fass.nus.edu.sg\/hist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fass.nus.edu.sg\/hist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fass.nus.edu.sg\/hist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/41"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fass.nus.edu.sg\/hist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13821"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/fass.nus.edu.sg\/hist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13821\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14003,"href":"https:\/\/fass.nus.edu.sg\/hist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13821\/revisions\/14003"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fass.nus.edu.sg\/hist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13822"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fass.nus.edu.sg\/hist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13821"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fass.nus.edu.sg\/hist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13821"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fass.nus.edu.sg\/hist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13821"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}