文档介绍：Landmarks: People and Places across Australia, a gallery bringing together over 1500 objects, explores the history of Australia since European settlement. OBJECT BIOGRAPHY Phar Lap’s Heart Foaled in New Zealand in 1926, the great chestnut Phar Lap was one of the most essful racehorses of the 1920s and 30s, and has since e a national icon. His mounted and preserved heart, weighing an astonishing kilograms, is one of the most popular exhibits at the National Museum of Australia. It is featured in Landmarks: People and Places across Australia, a gallery bringing together over 1500 objects, exploring the history of Australia since European settlement. Landmarks takes a place-based approach to exploring national history, and the heart will feature in an exhibit about Flemington racecourse. Every year, on the first Tuesday in November, Flemington es a site of munion as the nation pauses for the running of the Melbourne Cup. The exhibit examines how different technologies have allowed Australians to connect with a place that many have never visited in person, but which captures the national imagination heless. In this way, Flemington racecourse holds some parallels to the story of Phar Lap – while not everyone has seen the mounted hide in Melbourne, the skeleton in Wellington, or indeed the heart in Canberra, most Australians know the story of Phar La