該博物館是北昆士蘭博物館的擴建。它體現(xiàn)了北昆士蘭州的4個特點：文化,航海，自然發(fā)展的歷史和豐富的珊瑚。

博物館的中心是HMS潘朵拉，潘朵拉是一只在昆士蘭北端海面失事的著名船支，1790年，它被派遣去捉拿船長布萊的HMS贈禮的叛變者。到達后，潘朵拉船長埃德瓦德被告知，贈禮被9名叛變者掠走，島上其余的人被抓，帶上鐐銬，關在船上。但潘朵拉并不是一只關押犯人的船。埃德瓦德用一只囚籠(潘朵拉盒子)關押犯人。因為找不到目的地，埃德瓦德只好通過澳大利亞與新幾內(nèi)亞之間的因代沃海峽，返回英格蘭。該船于1791年8月29日撞到堤礁沉沒。

豎向布置

潘朵拉文物分幾個階段搜集，不能重建。積極搶救文物的過程，體現(xiàn)了再現(xiàn)歷史的理念。船體已按足尺寸復制，放在12m 高的展館內(nèi)，其余平面印在地板上。展館的屋面為連續(xù)三維曲面板，建在前人類洞穴，表現(xiàn)博物館主題。

建筑有一內(nèi)盒(潘朵拉盒子)，裝在破碎的盒子內(nèi)，象征遇難船。內(nèi)盒中有主題展館。寬敞的大廳內(nèi)有兒童展館和教育區(qū)、公共活動區(qū)和餐館。展館豎向布置在裙樓之上。館長室和倉庫在群樓之內(nèi)。

沿街立面有一過渡，和相鄰角落歷史建筑統(tǒng)一。色彩有助于吸引觀眾。博物館的材料和質(zhì)感，使人對歷史產(chǎn)生感觸。

（劉河譯）

This museum is an extension of the Queensland Museum and focuses upon four primary aspects of north Queensland history - indigenous culture, maritime history, natural history and coral collections.ts centrepiece is the HMS Pandora, the famous vessel shipwrecked off the far northern tip of Queensland. In 1790, the ship was sent to Tahiti to capture the mutineers from Captain Bligh‘s HMS Bounty. On arrival, the Pandora‘s Captain Edwards was informed that the Bounty was sailed away by nine mutineers; the remainder on the island were captured and put in irons on Pandora. Since Pandora was not designed to be a prison ship, Edwards had a cage (known as Pandora‘s Box) built to hold the prisoners. Having tried in vain to find Fletcher Christian, Edwards began the return journey to England via the Endeavour Straight between Australia and New Guinea, but struck the Barrier Reef and sank on 29 August 1791.Pandora relics are being collected in stages and are insufficient to reconstruct the vessel, but the active process of salvage gives meaning to the concept of a ‘living museum‘.The bow of the vessel has been replicated at full scale and is housed in a 12 metre high gallery with the remainder of the plan imprinted across the gallery floor.This gallery is roofed by a continuous three-dimensional curved ‘sheet‘ which carries down over the building podium onto struts, the structure a parody of rigging, inverted hulls and sails, as well as discernible metaphor for the indigenous ‘lean-to‘ or the ribbed cage of prehistoric creatures - recalling the main themes of the museum.The building contrasts an internal box (a ‘Pandora‘s box‘) encased in ‘broken‘ forms evocative of shipwreck.The internal box houses the main themed galleries, the more exuberant spaces accommodating children‘s‘ gallery and education areas, public facilities and café.The galleries are elevated above a podium containing the curatorial and storage areas, which can be glimpsed through narrow slots from the wharf side of the museum.On the street side, the elevation is graduated from it‘s ‘deconstructed‘ end through a series of transitions, to unify at the other end with an abutting historic corner building. Colours perform an important role in attracting visitation, used selectively against raw materials, and textures are introduced to induce a tactile as well as visual response to history through the museum.

位置圖

(圖3)立面圖(圖4)剖面圖

首層平面

外觀

與周圍環(huán)境的關系