The Bunyip of Berkeley's Creek Sculpture
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The Bunyip of Berkeley's Creek Sculpture reviews
1 The State Library of Victoria is home to many monuments and sculptures, some of these are located in the front lawns and forecourt on Swanston Street, Melbourne. Two of these are fantastical sculptures from the Dromkeen Scholastic Collection of Children’s Literature Collection.
This one, the friendly monster lurking on the Southern side of the forecourt, is known as "The Bunyip of Berkeley's Creek" and is based on the 1973 children’s book The Bunyip of Berkeley’s Creek, by Jenny Wagner. The story is about a creature that rises out of the water with no prior knowledge of itself. “What am I? ” he asks and after a platypus tells him he’s a bunyip he goes on an adventure to find others like himself.
The State Library's Bunyip of Berkeley's Creek was sculpted by Ron Brooks and installed in the library on 17 October 2012, during the library’s children’s week. The bunyip is a large mythical creature from Australian Aboriginal mythology, said to lurk in swamps, billabongs, creeks, riverbeds, and waterholes.
The State Library of Victoria is a must-see landmark in Melbourne