Editing Canning Stock Route (section)

===The Canning Stock Route Collection===
The [[National Museum of Australia]] acquired a significant collection of artworks and other material collected by the 60 artists who travelled along the Canning Stock Route on a six-week return to country trip in 2007 as part of the Canning Stock Route Project.<ref name="form" /> The Canning Stock Route collection includes over 100 works of art, 120 oral histories, historical research, social and cultural data, artists' biographies, 20,000 photographs and over 200 hours of film footage.<ref>[https://www.nma.gov.au/exhibitions/yiwarra-kuju-canning-stock-route/artworks/ Canning Stock Route collection], [[National Museum of Australia]], accessed 4 June 2011</ref>

One of the key aims of the Canning Stock Route Project was the development of a travelling exhibition. The National Museum of Australia committed to assisting Form to develop an exhibition.<ref>FORM: Canning Stock Route Project Prospectus, accessed 4 June 2011 from [http://www.form.net.au/aboriginal-development/canning-stock-route-project/vision FORM: Canning Stock Route Project – Vision] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110227185237/https://www.form.net.au/aboriginal-development/canning-stock-route-project/vision |date=27 February 2011 }}</ref> ''Yiwarra Kuju (One Road) – The Canning Stock Route'', a joint initiative between the National Museum of Australia and Form, was held at the museum from July 2010 to January 2011. The exhibition used works of art and stories to tell the story of the stock route's impact on Aboriginal people from an Aboriginal perspective.<ref>[http://www.nma.gov.au/exhibitions/yiwarra_kuju/ Yiwarra Kuju – The Canning Stock Route] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110612034855/http://www.nma.gov.au/exhibitions/yiwarra_kuju/ |date=12 June 2011 }}, [[National Museum of Australia]], accessed 4 June 2011.</ref> When it closed in January 2011, ''Yiwarra Kuju – The Canning Stock Route'' had been the most successful exhibition in the history of the Museum, with over 120,000 visitors.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.nma.gov.au/media/media_releases_by_year/2011/national_museum_exhibition_sets_new_record |title=National Museum exhibition sets new record, 27 January 2011 |access-date=20 December 2011 |archive-date=16 February 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150216150928/http://www.nma.gov.au/media/media_releases_by_year/2011/national_museum_exhibition_sets_new_record |url-status=dead }}</ref>